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-- NEWS --

WINDIR
the Norwegian band’s vocalist, Terje ”Valfar” Bakken, was found dead on
January 17 as the result of hypothermia - Terje was on his way to the
family cabin when he succumbed to cold weather and deep snow

DIMMU BORGIR
Nick Barker (Cradle Of Filth, Lock Up) has parted ways with the band –
the
official statement from Dimmu is as follows: “Nicholas has been removed
from the line up of Dimmu Borgir. A session drummer will be used in the
future. Don't waste your time speculating why, we have already moved
on.
See you on the road very soon!”

ENTOMBED
bassist Jörgen Sandström (Grave, The Project Hate, Krux, Vicious Art)
has
left the band – his replacement is Nico Engelstrand (Terra Firma)

SINGLE BULLET THEORY
Matt Thompson (King Diamond) will be playing drums on the new SBT disc
-
at the present time, it is unclear whether Matt will join SBT as a
full-fledged member

POWER OF OMENS
Derron Bell has replaced original drummer Alex Arellano – original
vocalist Chris Salinas has returned to the group - the band is
currently
writing new material

SHRINE OF SCARS
bass player Mike Francis has returned to the fold

SKID ROW
drummer Tim DiDuro has replaced Phil Varone

DROWNING POOL
Jason "Gong" Jones has been selected by the band as their new singer

TONY IOMMI
black-sabbath.com reports that Tony Iommi intends to release what's
commonly known as the "Eighth Star Bootleg” - this material was
recorded
back in 1996 for what was then to be Tony Iommi's first official solo
album – the recording features performances by: vocalist/bassist Glenn
Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), keyboardist Don Airey (Ozzy, Black
Sabbath, Deep Purple) and drummer Dave Holland (Judas Priest)

MAIDEN NEW YORK
Iron Maiden’s highly anticipated string of dates in New York City was
plagued by misfortune: last Saturday’s show was cut short after a fan
threw a beer which landed on the soundboard and Tuesday’s show was
cancelled due to an error in the confirmation of the venue between the
promoter and the venue

NEW SIGNINGS
Willowtip Records: Vulgar Pigeons
Osmose Productions: Hacavitz
Metal Age Productions: Avulsed
Galy Records: Infernal Majesty
Listenable Records: Textures
Sleaszy Rider Records: Kinetic
Displeased Records: Incriminated, Bazzah

-- HELP WANTED --

VOCALIST & BASSIST wanted - Brooklyn NY death band Black Adder seeks
vox
and bass - must be very versatile and can learn technical music -
please
have experience, good learning skills, great stage presence and ability
to
write killer music – influences: Morbid Angel, Cryptopsy, Candiria,
Dying
Fetus, Children Of Bodom – contact: Godbox34@aol.com

DRUMMER wanted – Sweden’s Immersed In Blood seeks drummer - currently
writing new material for next full length for Arctic Music/Frozen North
-
brutal death metal – contact: info@immersedinblood.net

GUITARIST wanted - melodic thrash/death metal band in the chicagoland
area
seeks lead guitarist – must be highly talented player w/ stage and
studio
experience – ages are 17-22 - contact: MusiclivsnAutumn@cs.com

BASSIST available – NYC bassist seeks to form an "Old School"
death/thrash
band in the true drunken spirit of Tankard, Pestilence, Thanatos,
Bloodfeast, Early Sepultura, Carnage, Dismember - band doesn’t have to
be
serious - drink, record some demos, drink, play some shows and drink –
contact: AsPredatorToPrey@aol.com

VOCALIST/DRUMMER available - seeking San Francisco / Bay Area musicians
to
start death metal band – drum influences: Nevermore, Dying Fetus, Arch
Enemy, Amon Amarth, Slayer, Cryptopsy – vox influences: Vader, Cannibal
Corpse, Death, SYL, Pantera, Morbid Angel, Animosity – contact:
greenironfist54@hotmail.com

-- FEATURES --

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewtbdm.html

Despite the fact that The Black Dahlia Murder have short hair, are
still
fairly young and cater heavily to a metalcore audience, it's clear that
death metal is their ultimate love. After their debut full-length
'Unhallowed', any other categorizations should be thrown out the
window.
Metal Update had a chat with vocalist Trevor Strnad about the recent
turmoil within the band, where they fall on the musical map and a whole
lot of metal.

. . .and in case you missed these recent features:

Probot
http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewprobot.html

Chimaira
http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewchimaira.html

2003: The Year In Metal
http://www.metalupdate.com/yir2003.html

-- REVIEWS --

- METAL JUDGMENT -
http://www.metaljudgment.com

Probot
(Abyss, Death, Hel)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/albums/probot_frames.html

Glass Casket 'We Are Gathered Here Today. . .'
(Abyss, Death, Hel)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/albums/gc_frames.html

The Quill 'Hooray! It's A Deathtrip'
(Requiem)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/quillhooray_frames.html

Scars of Tomorrow 'Rope Tied To The Trigger'
(Jotun)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/sot_frames.html

Helvis ''Reverence The Sacrifice'
(Slither)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/helvis_frames.html

Setherial 'Endtime Divine'
(Behemoth)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/setherial_frames.html

Greenleaf 'Secret Alphabets'
(Ember)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/greenleaf_frames.html

No Retreat 'Pray For Peace'
(Blind)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/noretreat_frames.html

School for Heroes 'Listen'
(Redwolff)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/sfh_frames.html

Leng Tch'e 'Man Made Predator'
(Sabbath)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/lengtche_frames.html

Kabbal 'Synthetically Revived'
(Lugubrious)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/kabbal_frames.html

Judas Priest 'Electric Eye' - DVD
(Death)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/priesteedvd_frames.html

Cradle of Filth 'Dusk And Her Embrace' - Classic
(Kefka X)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/classics/cofdusk_frames.html

Hypnotheticall - Demo
(Metal Militia)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/demos/hypno_frames.html

-- NEW RELEASES --

1/19 - Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
1/13 - Deceased - Rotten To The Core
1/19 - Marduk - Funeral Marches And Warsongs (DVD)
1/20 - Facebreaker - Bloodred Hell
1/26 - Blood Duster
1/26 - Axxis - Time Machine
1/26 - Dimmu Borgir /Old Man's Child - Sons of Satan...
1/26 - Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons
1/26 - Nile - In The Beginning
1/26 - Attacker - Soul Taker
1/26 - Farmer Boys - The Other Side
1/26 - The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings
1/26 - Watch Them Die
1/26 - Divine Empire - Nostradamus
1/26 - In The Eyes Of Death #4
1/26 - Macabre Minstrels - Morbid Campfire Songs
1/26 - Visual Rebellion (DVD)
1/26 - Dismember - Hate / Kill / Live (DVD)
1/27 - Force Of Evil
1/27 - Spiritus Mortis
1/27 - The Kiss Of Death
1/27 - Pig Destroyer - Splits
1/27 - Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
1/27 - Pyrexia - Cruelty Beyond Submission
1/27 - Fall Of The Bastards - Dusk Of An Ancient Age
1/27 - Gorerotted - Only Tools And Corpses
1/27 - Shining Fury - Last Sunrise
1/27 - Symphorce - Twice Second
1/27 - Stampin' Ground - A New Darkness Upon Us
1/27 - Deathwitch - Violence, Blasphemy, Sodomy
1/27 - Dimension Zero - Penetrations From The Lost World
1/27 - Organic Infest - The Way To Temptation
1/27 - Vesania - Firefrost Arcanum
1/27 - Pyrexia - Cruelty Beyond Submission
1/27 - Bayside - Sirens And Condolences
1/27 - Hanoi Rocks - Twelve Shots On The Rocks
1/27 - Premonitions of War - Left In Kowloon
1/27 - Secret Heroes - Loose, High & Free
1/27 - Hammerfall - One Crimson Night
1/27 - Immolation - Bringing Down The World (DVD)
1/27 - Monsters Of Metal Vol. 1 (DVD)
1/27 - Relapse Records - Contamination Festival (DVD)
1/30 - Elite - Kampen
1/31 - Tyranny - Bleak Vistae
1/31 - Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express
2/02 - Probot
2/02 - Edguy - King Of Fools
2/02 - Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
2/02 - Veneficum - Enigma Prognosis
2/03 - Gadget - Remote
2/04 - Leviathan - The Tentacles Of Whorror
2/06 - Atomizer - The Only Weapon Of Choice
2/09 - Destiny - Future Of The Past
2/09 - Raunchy - Confusion Bay
2/09 - Decapitated - Negation
2/09 - Morifade - Domi<>nation
2/09 - Nordic Metal - Tribute To Euronymous
2/10 - Byzantine
2/10 - Bang The Union - American Dream
2/10 - Thunderstone - The Burning
2/10 - Deathwitch - Violence, Blasphemy, Sodomy
2/10 - Damageplan - New Found Power
2/10 - Fragments Of Unbecoming – Skyward...
2/10 - Eidolon - Apostles Of Defiance
2/10 - Necronomicon- The Sacred Medicines
2/10 - Abaddon Incarnate - Nadir
2/10 - Mourning Beloveth - Dust
2/10 - Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
2/10 - Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi
2/10 - Crash Music - Death To An Extreme
2/13 - Necrophagia - Goblins Be Thine
2/14 - The Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace, Love...
2/16 - Hypocrisy - The Arrival
2/16 - Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby!
2/16 - Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
2/16 - Primal Fear - Metal Is Forever (single)
2/16 - Dokken - Dokken: Japan Live '95 (DVD)
2/17 - Three Inches Of Blood – Battlecry. . .
2/17 - Age Of Ruin - Black Sands Of The Hourglass
2/21 - To Elysium - Nightmare's Nest
2/21 - The Wounded - Atlantic

-- IN PRINT --

PIT MAGAZINE
http://www.pitmagazine.com/CurrentIssue.htm

issue #45 is out now featuring: Dimmu Borgir, The Crown, Arch Enemy,
Ackercocke, Dying Fetus, All Out War, Monstrosity, Sepsism, Sepultura,
Destruction, Morbid Angel, Pissing Razors, Zyklon

NEGURA MAGAZINE
http://www.negura.com

issue #4 is out now featuring: Primordial, The Kovenant, Tormentor,
Limbonic Art, Thunderbolt, Obtest, Aghora, Manes, Enid, Void of
Silence,
Trollech, Meridian, Ordo Draconis, Astray, Akerbeltz, Abyssic Hate,
Spite
Extreme Wing, free compilation CD

-- ON THE NET --

VAMPIRE MAGAZINE
http://www.vampire-magazine.com

new interviews: Akercocke, Amon Amarth, Anathema, Argath, Bathtub
Shitter,
Cage, Collision, Empty, Equinox, Invocator, Kekal, Lumsk, Messiah,
Nefas,
Nightward, Nocturnal, Opeth, Regurgitate, The Quill, Torture Killer,
Verderf, Vesania, Wolverine

PIVOTAL RAGE
http://www.pivotalrage.com

new interviews: Crotchduster, In Reverent Fear, Scarve, Avenged
Sevenfold,
3 Inches of Blood, Beautiful Creatures

TARTAREAN DESIRE
http://www.tartareandesire.com

new interviews: Impaled Nazarene, Musta Surma, Cadaveria, Terrorama,
Wuthering Heights

AURAL MUSIC
http://www.auralmusic.com

Aural Music, the new Mother Company for code666, Dreamcell11,
GoreGorecords and Amaranth Recordings, has launched its official
website

-- TOUR DATES --

(dates are subject to change - check local listings)

CONTAMINATION TOUR 2004
High On Fire, Zeke, Dysrhythmia, The End

3/12 Salt Lake City, UT
3/13 Denver, CO
3/15 Oklahoma City, OK
3/16 Austin, TX
3/17 Fort Worth, TX
3/18 Austin, TX (SXSW Showcase)
3/19 Houston, TX
3/20 San Antonio, TX
3/21 El Paso, TX
3/22 Albuquerque, NM (Dysrhythmia only)
3/23 Tucson, AZ
3/24 TBA
3/25 Hollywood, CA
3/26 San Diego, CA
3/27 Long Beach, CA
3/28 San Francisco, CA

CRISIS

2/20 San Francisco, CA
2/21 Ukiah, CA
2/22 Portland, OR
2/23 Seattle, WA
2/24 Eugene, OR
2/25 Arcata, CA
2/27 Salt Lake City, UT

GOD FORBID w/ WALLS OF JERICHO & BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED

2/25 Albany, NY
2/26 Danbury, CT
2/27 New York, NY
2/28 Farmingdale, NY
3/01 Cleveland, OH
3/02 Pittsburgh, PA
3/03 Baltimore, MD
3/04 Worcester, MA
3/05 Rochester, NY
3/06 Montreal, QB
3/08 Cleveland, OH

LIFE OF AGONY w/ FLAW & APARTMENT 26

1/30 Columbus, OH
1/31 Cincinnati, OH
2/02 Cleveland, OH
2/04 Grand Rapids, MI
2/05 Chicago, IL
2/06 Detroit, MI
2/07 Milwaukee, MN
2/08 Minneapolis, MN
2/10 Lincoln, NE
2/11 St. Louis, MO
2/13 Oklahoma City, OK
2/14 Dallas, TX (w/ Sevendust, Ill Nino)
2/25 San Antonio, TX (w/ Sevendust, Ill Nino)
2/17 Atlanta, GA
2/18 Fayetteville, NC
2/20 Norfolk, VA
2/21 Buffalo, NY (no Flaw)
2/22 Syracuse, NY (no Flaw)
2/23 Toronto, Canada
2/25 Orono, ME
2/27 Manchester, NH
2/28 Attleboro, MA

SIX FEET UNDER w/ FULL BLOWN CHAOS

1/31 High Point, NC
2/01 Woodbridge, VA
2/02 New York City, NY
2/03 Bucksport, ME
2/04 Hartford, CT
2/05 Virginia Beach, VA
2/06 Stroudsburg, PA (w/ Bile)
2/07 Towson, MD (w/ Reflux)
2/08 Niles, IN
2/09 Davenport, IA
2/10 Omaha, NE
2/11 Denver, CO
2/13 Dallas, TX
2/14 Houston, TX (w/ Reflux)
2/15 Little Rock, AR (w/ Reflux)
2/16 Memphis, TN (w/ Reflux)
2/17 Louisville, KY (w/ Reflux)
2/18 Roanoke, VA (w/ Reflux)
2/19 Atlanta, GA (w/ Reflux)

CLASSIC METAL FESTIVAL
http://www.metal-music-foundation.com
5/13 - 5/15 -- Lansing, IL

Deceased, Solitude Aeturnus, Hirax, Attacker, The Raff, Destructor,
Impaler, Premonition, Tyrant's Reign, Iron Cross, October 31, Magus
Beast,
Desecrator, Alchemy X, Suburban Funeral, Division, Ravensthorn, Wretch,
Black Widow, Leviathan, Celestial Dawn, Stonehenge

SUN N STEEL FESTIVAL
http://www.metalfest.com
3/06 - 3/07 -- Tampa, FL

Agent Steel, Arcadio, Black Widow, Body Count, Brutality, Chronozon,
Conquest, Dark Shift, Divine Empire, End Unseen, Equinox, Ion Sift,
Iron
Cross, Jag Panzer, John Oliva, Laceration, Left In Ashes, Macabre,
Metal
Militia, Meth Sessions, M.O.D., Neomortem, Noctuary, October 31,
Premonition, Premonitions Of War, Raven, Rob Rock, Seven Witches.
Severd
Existance, Sixt9, Skeleton Witch, Spearhead, Stone Vengeance, Tenebrae,
Testament, The Apostacy, The End, Thundercore, Tivium, Unholy Ghost,
Vital
Remains, Yeti

FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF TOUR DATES GO TO:

http://www.metalupdate.com/tour.html

-- SPONSORS --

EVIL EYE PRODUCTIONS
http://www.evileyesight.com

UNRESTRAINED!
http://www.unrestrainedmag.com

METAL BLADE RECORDS
http://www.metalblade.com

-- LINKS --

WINDIR
http://www.windir.no

DIMMU BORGIR
http://www.dimmu-borgir.com

ENTOMBED
http://www.entombed.com

SINGLE BULLET THEORY
http://www.singlebullettheory.net

POWER OF OMENS
http://www.powerofomens.com

SHRINE OF SCARS
http://www.shrineofscars.com

SKID ROW
http://www.skidrow.com

DROWNING POOL
http://www.drowningpool.com

TONY IOMMI
http://www.iommi.com

IRON MAIDEN
http://www.ironmaiden.com

VULGAR PIGEONS
http://www.vulgarpigeons.com

AVULSED
http://www.avulsed.com

INFERNAL MAJESTY
http://www.infernalmajesty.ca

TEXTURES
http://www.textures.nl

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