this is from an e-mail I get from http://www.metalupdate.com

OZZY OSBOURNE BAND
bassist Rob Nicholson (Rob Zombie) has replaced Jason Newsted (Flotsam
&
Jetsam, Metallica, Voivod)

PLACE OF SKULLS
the band has split with Wino as travel had become a burden - Victor,
Tim
and Dennis will continue on with Place of Skulls and Wino will focus on
The Hidden Hand

STRATOVARIUS
guitarist and self-proclaimed bandleader Timo Tolkki has announced that
the band is in crisis because his vision for the group has been
threatened
– in the wake of arguments that ended up in a fistfight, Tolkii is
speaking to individual band members about the future – lineup changes
are
expected

MONSTER MAGNET
drummer Robert "Bob" Pantella (Raging Slab) has replaced Michael
Wildwood

DISFEAR
Uffe Cederlund (Entombed) has joined the group as second touring
guitarist

CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN
drummer Mike Bartek (Sadis Euphoria) has been enlisted to sit behind
the
kit

PREMONITIONS OF WAR
the band has amicably parted ways with bassist Nick Hale - a
replacement
has been lined up, but has not been announced

IMAGIKA
Pat Toms (Punisher) has been added as second guitarist

LIVIDITY
bassist Chris Campbell has joined the fold

KAMELOT
the band will once again enlist German keyboardist Gunter Werno (Vanden
Plas) for the Mexico Tour and Piorno Rock Festival

NECROTIC DISGORGEMENT
this new band features former Regurgitation members Ben Deskins (g),
Tony
Tipton (g) and Jason T. (d) as well as Dislimb’s Rob Lesniak (b) and
former Clean Flesh / Erotic Incisions vocalist Joe Wolffe

RAVAGER
the Mexican band has called it quits due to personal differences

BLOOD OF TYRANTS RECORDS
this new label is an imprint of Happy Couples Never Last Records
designed
to focus exclusively on metal

MÖTLEY CRÜE
recently announced plans call for a reunion tour and possible album in
2004 – a movie based on the band's autobiography ‘The Dirt’ is
scheduled
for release in early 2005

DIMMU BORGIR
the songs “Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse” and “Eradication
Instincts
Defined” from ‘Death Cult Armageddon’ will be featured in the trailer
for
the upcoming Sony Pictures film “Hellboy” - the trailer will be
attached
to Tom Cruise's “The Last Samurai”

CONTROL DENIED
Hammerheart Records has released a statement that the company plans to
release the unfinished Control Denied album that was in the works when
Chuck Schuldiner died – Chuck’s mother, Jane Schuldiner, has countered
with the following statement: “The courts here in the US will decide
the
rights to that album and neither GH/HHR nor the Schuldiner family has
the
right to release any part of it until it is decided by a judge and jury
here in the US”

NEW SIGNINGS
Warner Brothers: Avenged Sevenfold
Regain Records: Danzig, Dark Funeral
Willowtip Records: Arsis
Listenable Records: The Amenta
Lion Music: House Of Shakira, Tears of Anger
BlackDoom Records: InDread Cold
Malevolent Records: Darkness Within
Black Market Activities: Psyopus
Season Of Mist: Blood Duster, Nattefrost, Council Of The Fallen

FINALLY, DEATH METAL MAKING IT'S WAY INTO THE MOVIES WHERE THEY REALLY BELONG. GOOD CHOICE ON PICKING DIMMYBOOGER TOO.....

Yeah that is awesome. What does it mean "attached to The Last Samarai"? The Motley Crue thing is pretty cool too. I don't really like them that much but I would totally see them if they toured again.

By the way Morkul, Dimmu is black metal, not death metal.

and to be really technical... they arent even black metal. more of a heavily black influenced gothic/thrash band... that would be something that describes them better, i suppose.

thegreatspaldino said:

I think the best description actually, is symphonic black, well their newer stuff at least.

yeah... but tr00pers completely dismiss dimmu and the first album of COF as any type of actual black metal even though they sound very black metal. tr00pers even dismiss XI Equillibrium by Emperor as actual black metal (the keyboards). its quite ridiculous really. but the tr00pers are black metal and they know whats black metal and whats not i guess.

Black metal is God Forbid. IX Eq. should just be classified as "awesome." End of story.

i've been listening to that off and on all week...
damn you and this brain sharing!!

god forbid is black hardcore.

DeOdiumMortis said:

that is their best album. Prometheus sucks!

thegreatspaldino said:

#1: It's IX Equilibrium.
#2: If you want to insult black metal elitists, call 'em either elitists or kvltists. "tr00pers" is just fuckin' retarded.

I_am_not_me said:


#1: no fucking shit. it was a typo that i didnt bother editing.
#2: they are tr00pers or nekrobobsledders to me. ya know... since they are all about being "true" and all they usually do at show is stand there with their arms crossed like a fucking bobsled, stiff as a board. hence why i call them tr00pers.

NECROTIC DISGORGEMENT
this new band features former Regurgitation members Ben Deskins (g),
Tony
Tipton (g) and Jason T. (d) as well as Dislimb’s Rob Lesniak (b) and
former Clean Flesh / Erotic Incisions vocalist Joe Wolffe


This is going to be fucking insane!! Joe wolffe was probably the best vocalist in death metal.