Metal Storm Magazine

Hell or High Water Tn Flood and Metal

MetalRecordingServices.com 75 Third St Maury City TN 38050 News Release w/ more photos available Contact: Steve Lott 901 405 4128 Recording Metal Greats in the Tennessee Flood Storm Hell or High Water www.MetalRecordingServices.com--Well, by now youve seen the Tennessee flooding on the national news. The weekend storm of the flooding was wild to put it mildly. Producer Gregg Frye had flown Glenn Barry recent x bass player from Kamelot up to do some tracks on Alan Frye's DethKiss Sonata debut release. Holy deluge metal fans ! The first night we pick Glenn up from the airport weather warnings are all over the news and radio, the NOAA forecast was basically duck and cover. The hail starting lightly around 11:30 pm followed by more rain than this Florida boy has seen with several hurricanes, it just dumped water. By Saturday morning the lightning was all too frequent and still too close. Producer Gregg and writer,guitarist Alan had called flooded in trying to find a way through. Around midday it was still just a little too lightning wild to fire up the gear and start without them. To take our minds of the short deadline, time and flight constraints had given the session from the start, becoming compounded by half a day gone, I get the crazy idea to do a sight seeing drive with Glenn, hey we've both seen hurricanes up close, we'd know when to turn back. I drove him by the gazelles, zebras, al paccas, and the herd with the great white buffalo on the back road behind a safari park. We didnt even make any ark jokes. The NOAA (US Govt Weather) advisories where getting worse, but we had taken our mind off the deadline. When we get back we waited about an hour to give producer Gregg Frye a bit longer to arrive. I had to say damn the lightning and fire up the gear regardless, and start without the producer, hey sometimes you just have to call it. Five hours later Alan had made it through the flood waters, Gregg was not far behind they had some frightening pictures of surrounding towns. The weather wasnt backing off either it was getting even windier and rougher with the clanging. By the time we shut down the session for the night we where swilling beer like madmen to stay calm. The road out front was stream with white water. You could hear limbs breaking, and howling wind, and an occasional object hitting the building. Gregg had a live gig to make early evening, Alan and his driver, a raven haired hottie chick who's name we just wont print right now, had left about 11:30'ish not ten minutes later the tornado sirens went off in Maury City. The recording studio is in an old brick church, so we filed into the dry baptismal. Just a few minutes later Alan is calling and saying law enforcement closed the roads home and turned them back. I told him the sirens are going off hurry, he laughed and said, "I can hear them we are in front of the building." I ran to unlock the doors ushered them to the baptismal re-barricaded the doors, and like a good headbanging gentleman grabbed a round of beers. They went wailing on for a while. When the sirens had stopped long enough to check the radar, we all got out and decided to watch the Iron Maiden documentary Flight 666 while we wound down a bit from the excitement. Lightning shook the building hard about 2 am the power went off the light from outside lit the inside. About two thirty sirens went off again, I checked multiple radar sights and we finished watching Maiden what a night. The next day went about the same, Gregg blocked from making it until evening, scary weather, and all the while Glenn rocked on like a knight of the realm. The tracks got done. They rocked. We all survived a little slice of metal history, and some great metal was made facing down the Great Tennessee Flood of 2010. Written by Steve Lott www.MetalRecordingServices.com

FEAR FACTORY Narrowly Escape Devastating Bus Fire

Northamptonshire, England: FEAR FACTORY in the early morning hours narrowly escaped fire that quickly engulfed their tour bus while in route to London. The fire reportedly stemmed from a back wheel tire before spreading throughout the double-decker coach. BBC News confirms the fire closed down two lanes of the southbound M1 as Northamptonshire fire officials battled the blaze.

FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares released the following comment moments ago: "We had just finished playing a sold out show in Sheffield and we were on our way to London. Everyone was asleep except for two of our crew. At about 3:30am the bus driver noticed smoke coming from the back right wheel. He stopped, jumped out and noticed a flame underneath the wheel well. He tried to extinguish it but the flames were too much. Everyone on the bus was woken up by one of our crew yelling 'Get everyone up and out of the bus.' Everyone grabbed their bags and ran off the bus. We stood on the side of the freeway going 'thank god we all made it out' until someone noticed our merchandise guy was still asleep on the bus. A good friend of ours ran back on the smoked-filled bus and got him out just minutes before the bus was completely in flames."

FEAR FACTORY are currently on tour in the UK continuing performances in support of their latest album, Mechanize. The band completed their most recent American tour on July 27th to a captivated audience in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The following evening the band departed from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport for an additional three weeks of dates in the UK and other various European festivals.

Cazares adds, "our eyes are burning and we were all coughing from the smoke. Some of us lost wallets, money, computers but that's not important compared to our lives. It only took about 20 to 30 minutes for the bus to be completely covered in flames. The fire trucks and the police finally arrived but it was too late to save anything on the bus. A coach bus picked us up and brought us safely to a nearby hotel. We found out only a short while ago that the trailer was saved where all our gear was. But the bus is just a metal frame on the side of the road."

ENTHRONED: Urgent Tour Update

Due to reasons beyond the band's control, Belgian black metallers ENTHRONED were forced to postpone the first two dates of their long anticipated North American tour. The trek, which will mark the band's first time on US/Canadian soil in nine years, was originally scheduled to kick off yesterday at Club Europa in Brooklyn, NY and hit Jaxx in Springfield, VA tonight. Both shows have been rescheduled for August 30 and September 1 respectively. The shows scheduled for Raleigh, NC and Atlanta, GA will go on as planned without ENTHRONED and feature only Australian black thrashers Deströyer 666 and California death metallers Pathology, who will provide support through the rest of the tour. ENTHRONED will join the tour properly on August 8 at the Brass Mug in Tampa, FL. Tickets for all shows are currently available via Enter The Vault: http://enterthevault.com.

ENTHRONED w/ Destroyer 666 and Pathology
Pentagrammaton World Tour 2010
8/06/2010 Volume 11 - Raleigh, NC w/ Estuary [no ENTHRONED]
8/07/2010 The Dunken Unicorn - Atlanta, GA [no ENTHRONED]
8/8/2010 The Brass Mug - Tampa, FL
8/10/2010 Walter's On Washington - Houston, TX
8/11/2010 Emo's - Austin, TX
8/12/2010 Club 101 - El Paso, TX
8/13/2010 Club Red - Tempe, AZ
8/14/2010 Ultra Violet - Los Angeles, CA
8/15/2010 Ramona Mainstage - Ramona, CA
8/17/2010 DNA Lounge - San Francisco, CA
8/18/2010 Satyricon - Portland, OR w/ Estuary
8/19/2010 Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
8/20/2010 Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC
8/21/2010 Red Room - Boise, ID
8/22/2010 Bar Deluxe - Salt Lake City, UT
8/23/2010 Marquis Theatre - Denver, CO
8/24/2010 Riot Room - Kansas City, MO
8/25/2010 Reggie's Rock Club - Chicago, IL w/ Cardiac Arrest
8/26/2010 Blondie's - Detroit, MI w/ Estuary, Cardiac Arrest
8/27/2010 The Opera House - Toronto, ON w/ Cardiac Arrest
8/28/2010 Katacombes - Montreal, QC w/ Cardiac Arrest
8/29/2010 Club Polaris /Hostile City Deathfest - Philadelphia, PA
8/30/2010 Europa - Brooklyn, NY
9/01/2010 Jaxx - Springfield, VA

http://www.enthroned.be
http://www.myspace.com/enthronedhorde

ACCEPT: TRACKLISTING FOR EXCLUSIVE MAIL-ORDER DIGI-PAK REVEALED

Nuclear Blast USA�s Webshop is now taking pre-orders for the exclusive North American mail-order digi-pak edition of ACCEPT�s Blood Of The Nations album. This exclusive release features the bonus track �Time Machine.�

The pre-order bundle includes an ACCEPT �Teutonic Terror� t-shirt and can be ordered here.

Tracklisting for the Blood Of The Nations digi-pak is:
01. Beat the Bastards
02. Teutonic Terror
03. The Abyss
04. Blood of the Nations
05. Shades of Death
06. Locked and Loaded
07. Time Machine (North American Bonus Track)
08. Kill the Pain
09. Rollin' Thunder
10. Pandemic
11. New World Comin'
12. No Shelter
13. Bucketful of Hate

Blood Of The Nations, ACCEPT�s twelfth full-length studio album recorded at Backstage Studio in England with famed producer Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Exodus, Opeth, Arch Enemy), will be released in North America on September 14th.

ACCEPT�s 2010 line-up (which features three on-going members) is: Wolf Hoffmann, guitar; Peter Baltes, bass; Stefan Schwarzmann, drums; Herman Frank, guitar; and Mark Tornillo on vocals.

View the video for �Teutonic Terror� � directed and produced by Dave Blass for Grid 41 - here. View the 2-minute behind-the-scenes video here.
Visit ACCEPT online at www.ACCEPTWORLDWIDE.com, www.myspace.com/accepttheband, and www.facebook.com/accepttheband

X-HERO nd BOMBSHELLS new Vinyl and CD releases

The EMMECIESSE MUSIC PUBLISHING and HEART OF STEEL RECORDS (Hard'n'Heavy Department) are proud to announce a publishing project that will see in the next summer, and will be called HEART OF STEEL 2020!
All bands with the sound and the look devoted to 80's heavy metal! The desire to bring the sounds that have made a celebrated musical genre, music that has passed unscathed generational fashions and trends so as to make immortal!
HEART OF STEEL 2020 is a project dedicated to "our" great singer RONNIE JAMES DIO, passed away recently.
The first releases will be published in limited edition 150 copies and hand numbered, in double format 7 inch vinyl + CD, to book !!

# We are excited to announce " One", the debut of all female bands called BOMBSHELLS,
is an pure rock�n'roll band, simple and straightforward and vocals that go from sexy and melodic .
BOMBSHELLS is a amazing live band, they has performed at festivals such as the 2010 A.N.L.COUNTDOWN, they have exalted the entire audience!
Three songs for your ears! They cite AC/DC, Kiss, Runaways, Joan Jett as influences.

Another great announce the release on Vinyl and CD (for the very first time!) of four obscure and really heavy songs recorded by italian cult metallers X-HERO originally out, only on Demotape, during 1993 .
the 7 inch vinyl contain two songs "Superstitious hot sea" and "Spacelab desolation", in the Cd version also two songs called "Damnation Underground" and "Feel the fire".
the artwork was designed by famous comics and cartoonist Massimo Perissinotto. A must for all collectors around the world!!...
http://heartofsteel.nlz.it

GWAR Lead Singer Back on FOX NEWS RED EYE Tonight For Kneecap-Splitting 12TH Tim

After his heavily-censored 11th appearance on the late-night gab-fest Red Eye, in which he compared the smell of Jessica Parker's twat to "that of a camel-cunt", GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus has been slated to appear once again as the shows "Interplanetary Correspondent", despite repeated calls from the Vatican to ban the long-dicked alien from appearing in public.
"Screw the Pope. He's old," quoth the warty front-thing. "I'm back where I belong, on top, well, a little left of the top, more like the side...ohhh...fuck it."

Catch Oderus and host Greg "Butterball" Gutfeld on Red Eye, at 3:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 3rd.

In other GWAR news, the Slave Pit, GWAR's pit of slaves, located in Richmond, Va. (because of the excellent crack and large art school), is busily preparing for the re-awakening of an ancient GWAR tradition, the GWAR-B-Que! Back in the early days of GWAR, the slaves used to throw parties in the Pit in the hopes of attracting helpless women. These parties grew in size and fury as other bands and insane artists got involved...but then just stopped happening...

But the GWAR-B-Q is back! On August 8th, 2010, at the Bike Lot in Richmond, Va.! Check www.gwarbq.com for full details, directions, and more.

Intergalactic shock-rockers GWAR are busy working on their brand-new album, GWAR's Bloody Pit of Horror, to be released this fall on Metal Blade Records.

SUFFOCATION: Headling Tour Announced!

New York based extreme metal legends SUFFOCATION will tour North America this Fall with prog-deathster THE FACELESS, deathcore merchants THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, tech-death meisters DECREPIT BIRTH, and Italy�s brutal/symphonic/avante garde horde FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE. The tour is being called the �The Decibel Defiance Tour 2010� and is being sponsored by Decibel Magazine and the Extreme Management Group. Tour dates to be announced shortly!

"SUFFOCATION is excited that Nuclear Blast, Decibel Magazine and Extreme Management Group have teamed up to deliver you the most heinous tour of the Fall,� commented the group. �This is one of the most brutal lineups for us ever including THE FACELESS, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, DECREPIT BIRTH, and FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE. We welcome you to come experience the devastating speed, mind-bending technicality, and relentless brutality of The Decibel Defiance Tour!�

�The Decibel Defiance Tour 2010�
SUFFOCATION, THE FACELESS, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, DECREPIT BIRTH, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE

View the video clip for the track �Cataclysmic Purification� at this location http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYSU4XGLpI. The footage was directed by David Brodsky (ARSIS, GOD FORBID, KATAKLYSM, SWASHBUCKLE) with animation by Tim Kellen.

For more info visit: www.myspace.com/Suffocation | www.Suffocation.us

BONDED BY BLOOD - "EXILED TO EARTH" NUMBER 1 MOST ADDED ALBUM ON CMJ L

BONDED BY BLOOD's new album, EXILED TO EARTH was officially added to
North American radio stations yesterday and has made an immediate
impact, becoming the number 1 most added record on this week's CMJ
Loud Rock chart. Over 79 commercial, college and specialty radio
stations added the Pomona thrashers' sophomore release this week with
a big surge of spins on the way leading into next week. Along with The
Guardian's "New Big Four" mention, BONDED BY BLOOD's standing as the
number 1 most added CMJ loud rock artist is another sign of great
things to come.

With one week to go before the August 10th North American release of
their sophomore album, EXILED TO EARTH, Pomona, CA's BONDED BY BLOOD
has teamed up with GuitarWorld.com to bring fans an exclusive "First
Listen" stream of the entire album. An intense thrill ride from start
to finish, EXILED TO EARTH's aggressive shred attack solidifies the
reputations of guitarists Alex Lee & Juan Juarez and makes
GuitarWorld.com the best and only place to experience the album until
its release.

Listen to GuitarWorld.com's "First Listen" of EXILED TO EARTH at
http://www.guitarworld.com/bonded_by_blood_exiled_to_earth

BONDED BY BLOOD - "EXILED TO EARTH" FULL ALBUM STREAM ON GUITARWORLD.C

With one week to go before the August 10th North American release of
their sophomore album, EXILED TO EARTH, Pomona, CA's BONDED BY BLOOD
has teamed up with GuitarWorld.com to bring fans an exclusive "First
Listen" stream of the entire album. An intense thrill ride from start
to finish, EXILED TO EARTH's aggressive shred attack solidifies the
reputations of guitarists Alex Lee & Juan Juarez and makes
GuitarWorld.com the best and only place to experience the album until
its release.

Listen to GuitarWorld.com's "First Listen" of EXILED TO EARTH at
http://www.guitarworld.com/bonded_by_blood_exiled_to_earth

SODOM To Release "IN WAR AND PIECES" November 23rd In North America On

German thrash legends SODOM are currently in the studio working on their new studio album entitled In War and Pieces. The album is being produced by Waldemar Sorychta, who has previously worked with Tiamat, Moonspell, Lacuna Coil and Sentenced, among many others.

SODOM released the long awaited DVD Lords of Depravity II on July 27.

Agent Orange, the classic 1989 album from SODOM, was re-released on May 18th via SPV/Steamhammer. The CD comes in a high-class digipak and includes a bonus disc. The extensive booklet contains rare photos and liner notes by bassist/vocalist Thomas Angelripper Such. The LP comes as a double gatefold album with printed inner sleeves and three bonus live tracks
CATCH SODOM LIVE
September 25th - Calgary, Alberta @ Noctis IV Metalfest