Thursday 21st October

Velvet Revolver, the band featuring Slash, Matt Sorum & Duff McKagen from Guns & Roses alongside ex Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, return to the UK for a new set of live shows in January. The dates currently confirmed for the tour are:

14th January 2005 - Glasgow SECC,
15th January 2005 - Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
16th January 2005 - Manchester MEN Arena
18th January 2005 - Birmingham NIA Academy
19th January 2005 - Cardiff International Arena
22nd January 2005 - London Carling Hammersmith Apollo

Gwen Stefani Goes Solo

Gwen Stefani, lead singer with No Doubt, is all set to release her debut solo album on November 22nd. Entitled 'Love Angel Music Baby' the album will be released through Interscope records. The album is said to feature contributions from the likes of Missy Elliot, Mary J Blige and the Eurythmics Dave Stewart.

Tuesday 19th October

Iron Maiden will be back on the road touring in Europe next summer with a series of Stadium and Festival headline shows.

The full routing is in the final stages but the first three shows are announced now as they go on sale very soon. These are the 50,000 capacity Parc Des Princes Stadium, Paris on June 25th , the 55,000 capacity Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg on July 9th and Hartwall Arena, Helsinki on July 6th. Support will be announced at a later date.

As manager Rod Smallwood explains; “The new double DVD, The Early Days, covers the period of the first four classic albums – Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind – and this gives us a fantastic opportunity to give the fans a set with lots of materiel from those great albums. Every time we announce a tour there's wide speculation among the fans as to which songs will be performed and it's always hard to please everyone as they all have their personal favorites but this time we're going to be including some songs which we haven't played for quite some time which I'm sure will get our fans very excited.

This tour round Europe will be the biggest we have ever done in terms of the number of fans we will play to so we want to make it very special. We are taking these first four albums and tours as the theme for the Production of the show and will be featuring some of the ideas incorporated in the early days of the band, particularly on The Beast on the Road Tour and the World Piece Tour. However everything will be state of the art on the technical side of screens, lights and PA. This is going to be huge and a unique treat for our fans….and anyone else!!!”

Says Bruce Dickinson, ”The Dance of Death Tour' was a very theatrical stage set and performance but this will be back to a full on Metal spectacular. We've always put everything, physically and mentally, into our stage shows and this will be no exception. People are back into REAL live music now and we want to make sure that the Maiden shows are never surpassed and an incredible experience for everyone there! It's going to be a lot fun.'

More dates will be being announced shortly as and when they are confirmed

Thunder Announce Christmas Show

Following the galloping success of the 2003 Thunder Xmas show, the CD, and the DVD, the band have once again arranged a semi-acoustic festive appearance. This years show will take place on Wednesday December 22nd at Nottingham's Rock City.  The show, like last year, will be semi-acoustic in style, complete with tables and chairs downstairs on the dance floor, for the first 150 people through the doors. Just like last year the show will feature some lovely guests, the music will be a mixture of Thunder "version excursions" and weird and wonderful covers, and also like last year, the show will be recorded (so bring your best singing voice). Also like last year, all who attend will be eligible to receive the limited edition Live CD of highlights of the show. Unlike last year, this CD will not be sold to anyone else, so it will be manufactured only for those who attend the show. Also unlike last year, in an attempt to satisfy everyone who isn't able to attend (poor souls), there will be a separate CD available for sale later, but this one will not contain the same tracklisting (we hope this makes everyone happy).

Tickets will be available by THURSDAY morning (21st OCTOBER) from only the following outlets:-

Rock City Box Office 0115 9588484 or online from www.rock-city.co.uk
SeeTickets: 0115 9129000 or online from www.seetickets.com

For full details of the event check out www.thunderonline.com

Nirvana Box Set

Nirvana have a box set collection of rare and previously unreleased tracks released on November 22nd. The set, which is titled 'With The Lights Out' will contain 81 tracks including 68 previously unreleased recordings - rehearsals, outtakes, Kurt's home demos, as well as a DVD which is confirmed to have unreleased band home movies, live footage, rehearsal footage and 20 full-length video performances. A 60-page booklet will also accompany the first editions of the release.
 

Quickies

Rammstein have announced three UK shows taking place in February next year. The dates are as follows:

Feb. 3rd 2005 - London Brixton Academy
Feb. 6th 2005 - Manchester MEN
Feb. 7, 2005 - Nottingham Arena

Antiproduct have the following shows lined up for November & December.

22nd Oct Railway, Winchester
26th Oct Liverpool Cavern Club
International Pop Overthrow Festival (acousti-mosh)
28th Oct York, Cert. 18 (acousti-mosh) 
29th Oct Sunderland KU Bar (acousti-mosh)
30th Oct Middlesborough, Libertys
31st Oct Hartlepool, Studio (acousti-mosh) 
3rd Nov Derby, Victoria Inn
4th Nov Doncaster Leopard
5th Nov Hull University
6th Nov Witchfest, Fairfield Halls, Croydon (acousti-mosh) .
7th Nov Witchfest, Fairfield Halls, Croydon Pyro Show.
17th Nov Birkenhead, Iron Door
18th Nov Cork, Cyprus Avenue, Ireland
19th Nov The High Stool, Limerick, Ireland
22nd Nov Newcastle Trillians
23rd Nov Surrey University
24th Nov St. Albans, Horn
25th Nov Worcester, Marr's Bar
29th Nov Lincoln Drill Hall
with The Damned
30th Nov Middlesborough Town Hall
2nd Dec Cleethorpes Winter Gardens

Judas Priest have once again pushed back the release date of their new album. The CD, the first to feature the returning Ron Halford is now scheduled to hit the shops on 31st January. The reason given for this delay is to make certain that everything is in place for the release of the new record i.e. marketing plans, interviews, video etc.

Following on from the story regarding the reunited Motley Crue touring the UK in June of next year, and other dates that have been mooted in the US, bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following statement on the band's official website. "It's nice to hear that fans, bands, promoters and agents would like to see a Motley Crue tour. But right now I know Vince is booking tons of live shows, Tommy is busy promoting a book and doing his reality show and Mick is in rehabilitation after surgery (Who knows when and if he would feel up to it even if there was a tour) It takes four guys to do it. It hasn't happened since 1999. All I know is all four of us haven't been in the same room in six years. In the world of Motley, id say 'don't hold your breath'
p.s. Props to whoever made the tour ad I saw on the net.
maybe someday..
Nikki"

Will the shows happen... who knows only time will tell!!

Monday 18th October

LA Sign To Escape

Founded in the early 80's with an average age of below 20, the band centred around vocalist/ bassist Jan Achmann and guitarist Lars Impgaard soon succeeded to become one of the hottest acts in their home country of Denmark. Even Pretty Maids frontman Ronnie Atkins for a short time was a member of LA and a first demo was produced by Skagarack bassist Morten Munch. Those demos resulted in a record deal with Teleag Records and the debut album "LA" finally was released in 1985. LA started to play live to support the release and new songs were demoed soon. Due to the breakdown of their label and other business affairs, the band disbanded from the scene in 1986 before the 2nd album was finished.
A massive amount of e-mails by fans through the internet requesting "LA" on CD got the band together again in 2003 and made them remaster their debut album. After several meetings, it became obvious that the old chemistry still was there. The 80's demos still had their charm and LA hit the famous Jailhouse Studios in Copenhagen to re-record those songs with well-known producer Tommy Hansen (Helloween, Pretty Maids, MSG (Gary Barden), Grand Illusion etc). Danish National TV2 picked up on the news of the now middle aged 80's rockers and LA was headlining the prime time news with the story of making the album and the CD to come. A deal with Escape Music followed shortly and here we go: the new album "Unfinished Business" will see the light on the on 06/12/2004.

The strictly limited edition of "Unfinished Business" will come along as 2-CD and exclusively include the "LA" album as bonus on the second disc. Even though the band's home base is Denmark, their sound can  be described as American typed hard rock and will please any fan of bands such as early Riot, early Virgin Steele, Leatherwolfe  and Driver.

The track listing for the albums will be as follows:  "Unfinished Business": Credit Card Lover, High On You,  Down The Cross,  Last Night,  News On the Loose, Point Of Uncontrol, Sweet Georgia Brown, Wheelchair 'N' Ragtime,  Gates To The Sky (Live) and  Hunted (Live)

"LA" (Bonus Disc): Gates To The Sky, Hunted,  20th Century, Second Dawn,  Times Coming Up,  Breakdown,  The Oldest World (Part 1),  Winners 'N' Sinners, and The End

LA are: Vocals & Bass: Jan Achmann, Guitars: Jens Impgaard, Guitars: Lars Impgaard, Drums: Henrik Rohde Jensen, Keys: Soren Impgaard.

Boysvoice Invite Friends, Press And Fans For Studio Session

Re-united German hard rockers Boysvoice are right in the middle of the recordings for their comeback album "Serenity" which will supposedly be released in Spring '05 on Escape Music. As a special gift to friends, press and fans, the Munich rockers will host an 'open door' studio report session on December 5th, 2004 (15.00-18.00 CET) at Sky Studio Taufkirchen, Germany (near Munich) for the recordings of the backing vocal choirs for the new song "All About You". All "backing singers" will get a honourable mention in the booklet of the coming CD! Band members Mani Gruber (v/ g), Jochen Mayer (b) and Peter Diezel (g) will be available for a meet & greet at the event as well as some other well-known musicians/ "choir members" coming from the German hard rock scene. We hope to see many of you there!
For more info and details then email info@germusica.com 

Casanova Signing Session Announced

Casanova's Michael Voss will appear at a signing session and meet & greet for fans as part of the "Melodic Rock Night" at the "Parkhaus" venue in Duisburg, Germany (not far from the Dutch border!) on 12th November. DJ Daniel Jung will host the event and as always play melodic stuff ranging from AOR to Melodic Metal. Also, there will be the chance to win some CD's by Casanova and The Ladder on the night. More info will be available soon on: www.melodicrockstation.de.

Casanova release a new album, entitled 'All Beauty Must Die' through Escape on October 25th

Release Date For Liesegang/White Announced

Bill Liesegang (g, ex-Nina Hagen) and Doogie White (v, ex-Rainbow, Malmsteen, Cornerstone) will release their album "Visual Surveillance Of Extremities" under the Banner Bill Liesegang/ Doogie White on Escape Music on January 24th, 2005. Fans of hard rock in the tradition of bands such as Rainbow should watch out for this gem which was mixed by Tommy Hansen!

Heartland Complete Recording For Their New Album

Classic British hard rockers Heartland have completed the recordings for their brand new album which is due to be released in February 2005. Steve Morris (g, ex-GillanN) and Chris Ousey (v, ex-Virginia Wolf) once again have delivered a brilliant recording full of catchy hooks and melodies. The yet untitled CD was produced by Steve Morris and mixed by Tommy Hansen.

Change Of Heart In The Studio

Change Of Heart who, during the last couple of years have established themselves as one of the leading AOR bands coming out of the UK, are currently working on their brand new album. The album is being produced by Heartland's Steve Morris alongside former FM vocalist Steve Overland and will be released at some point during 2005.

Escape Music Release Schedule

25th October 2004 -  Casanova (All Beauty Must Die)
15th November 2004 - The Ladder (Future Miracles)
6th December 2004 - LA (Unfinished Business)
24th January 2005 - Bill Liesegang/ Doogie White (Visual Surveillance Of Extremities)
February  2005 - Heartland  (t.b.a)

For further information on any of Escape's bands then you can check out www.escape-music.com

Z Records Sign Terrarosa

New York based band Terrarosa have recently signed a multi album deal with Z Records. The first fruits of the deal, a self-titled debut album will be available from November 17th.  The press release for the album describes Terrarosa as "a fusion of Giant , The Storm and It Bites resulting in a nail biting rollercoaster ride through some of the best AOR material recorded in recent years".

Terrarosa's advance promo actually arrived at Z's offices during late 2003 and was simply filed away and forgotten, thus proving that even the ears of A&R staff can be wrong sometimes. That is until the summer of 2004 when AOR legend Mark Mangold exchanged regular e mails with Mark Alger which resulted in a package containing once again Terrarosa The reaction this time was the complete opposite, in fact everyone at Z was completely blown away.

Ed Terry, from Terrarosa, made the following statement about the exciting forthcoming debut........

"Hi I’m Ed Terry and I`d like to say hello to everyone. I am very excited about my new solo project entitled Terrarosa..It will be released on Z records. In November. I would also like to thank Mark Mangold and Mark Alger for making it happen and believing in the project.
I am looking forward to touring with the band and the beginning of a long and prosperous relationship with Z. I can`t wait to get started."

MTM Update

Micheal Voss and Gary Barden have given a short track by track account of their upcoming Silver album entitled 'Addiction' due through MTM on October 25th

1.Never Let Me Go - a typical 89-ies ´killing joke´ riffing with a hammering bass guitar pattern. Rocks your socks off. Strange chords, Strange melodies but after two spins it ´never lets you go´. Fabulous opener.

2.Angeline - wonderful lead melody with incredible classic piano riffings by Donnie. Comes creeping into your ears like´ Christine´ off the first album. A groove monster like our mastering guru ´Doc Stickel´ mentioned.

3.I Saw - very evil, very dark. the ´sisters´ mood takes over. A kind of end fight scenario that leaves no room for relief or hope. Try to find a chorus.. It's not there, very innovating song structure.

4.Finish What You Started - the drum loops and the groove keep the beat alive and let you swing. The vocals seem to rap but are still in control. Fat beats with an astonishing power chorus. The bass line doesn't change within the track. Crazy piece of music

5.Why Did You Come Back - sad,sad tune. Reminds you of Queen's last painful tracks. It's like a fuge of Bach that never ends. No chorus just verses. Great screams like Gillan did it years ago.

6.Addiction - a song about drugs and the ruin of addicts. Wonderful lead breaks between Don and Tommy Denander. A bit like in the old Saga days.

7.This Is My Life - epic, big, bigger. What a song, what an arrangement, cannot find the right words. A masterpiece of loneliness. The best picture ever been drawn by ´silver´.

8.Leaving Tonight - a rocky version of ´pet shop boys´ lookalike with a tremendous mid break section and crying lead guitars. Ends with Donnie's fantastic prophet five soli.

9.Breathe - Bowie lives and Gary's got it. Wonderful tension being built up in 3,30. A classic radio single

10.You Are Mine - another groove killer with all the basic sounds coming from the eighties and been transferred to the new century. A disco floor burner like in the old Munich ´sugar shack´ times. Rock on , watch out for ´silver´ .Peace

Michael Vescera

Michael Vescera made a few brief comments below with regard to his upcoming Safe haven release due through MTM on October 18th

"I'm very excited to be able to work on this CD. It's a departure for me vocally from what I'm most known for, 'Metal'. In the vein of Journey, Foreigner, etc. it should surprise and excite my already die hard fans, and hopefully gain a large number of new ones. This CD will also show my appreciation for other styles of music. It will be great to work with Eric and the rest of SAFE HAVEN and create what we hope will be a masterpiece. I'm also excited to work with MTM on this CD and hope for great success with everyone involved."

Stormwitch Press Release

Below is the press release for the new Stormwitch album ,'Witchcraft' due through Nuclear Blast on November 15th

Stormwitch is one of the cult-bands of Heavy Metal and granted us such wonderful classics like "Walpurgis Night" (1984), "Tales Of Terror" (1985), "Stronger Than Heaven" (1986), "The Beauty And The Beast" (1988), "Eye Of The Storm" (1990) "War Of The Wizards" (1992) and „Shogun“ (1994). During their career the band went through different phases and were considered by their fans as the "Masters Of Black Romantic" which in their hearts they have always remained. With "Shogun" (1994} Stormwitch recorded their last album before the witch was buried.
But she wasn't granted peace. The band name kept wandering through the metal press pushed forward by the cover versions of WHITE SKULL ("Tears By The Firelight") and Hammerfall, ("Ravenlord"). The Swedish chart-breaker had singer Andy Mück appear as guest performer at the "Bang Your Head" 1998, further a high-quality best-of-compilation of the first three albums called "Priest Of Evil" was released, accompanied by interviews which even guaranteed the band some title-stories.
At that point, singer Andy Mück concentrated on the realization of a musical. He did recordings for it with guitarist and songwriter Martin Winkler (ex-Nightwolf). Having written the song "Dance With The Witches" for a faithful fan set the ball rolling and Andy thought about a new Stormwitch album for the first time. Martin and a few friends didn't give up and many songs were composed which easily took up to their old hymns. Soon, a fruitful line-up crystallized out of it in which the often quoted chemistry was right. Marc Oppold (ex-Tyrant) was first choice when picking a drummer, completed by by the two former Tyran's Pace musicians Alex Schmidt (keyboards) and Fabian Schwarz (guitar) as well as his brother Dominik Schwarz (bass). Martin Winkler recorded the songs in his own studio but for the final mix Achim Köhler (Primal Fear, Brainstorm) was chosen.
"Dance With The Witches“ was the first Stormwitch record after eight years, which documents all facets of Stormwitch in a very impressive manner and shows us what we have painfully missed during that period. Stormwitch did their first Live show at the Italian Badia Rocks Festival, followed by impressing shows at the Summer Breeze, Wacken Open Air and the legendary Bang Your Head club show.
Later the band started to concentrate on the songwriting for their ninth studio album, as well as looking for a new label, which was found in Nuclear Blast Records. Witchcraft has all typical Stormwitch trademarks again, a dark and romantic album with melodies only Stormwitch can write. Andy Mück is one of the few singers with a personal touch. He has always formed and dominated the sound of Stormwitch. Just listen to more emotional tracks like Fallen From God, the incredible title track Witchcraft or the beautiful ballad Sleeping beauty. On the other side there are straight headbangers like the opening hymn Sinister Child, Salome or the mystic Moonfleet. Stormwitch are more than back, Witchcraft shows once again that the band belongs to the top of the German Heavy Metal scene and that the impression cult is made for them!
The witch is alive!!!

Two of the dates for the upcoming Sebastian Bach UK tour, as reported earlier this month, are now known. The former Skid Row singer will be appearing at:

December 15th - Dudley JB's
December 16th - London Mean Fiddler

A third show on December 14th is supposed to take place, but no details yet are available on the venue, location etc.

The Wildhearts are releasing their first official UK live album - The Wildhearts Strike Back - on 25th October. The album (double album in fact) features blistering versions of established live favourites and more obscure b-sides recorded from several shows during the band's recent UK tour.

The full tracklist for the album is:

I Wanna Go Where The People Go, Greetings From Shitsville, Top Of The World, Vanilla Radio, Caffeine Bomb, O.C.D., Someone That Won't Let Me Go, Nita Nitro, Caprice, Girlfriend Clothes, Jonesing For Jones, Suckerpunch, Beautiful Thing You, Weekend 96, Turning American, My Baby Is A Headfuck, Loch Ness Interlude, Cheers, Nothing Ever Changes But The Shoes, Dangerlust, Love U Til I Don't and Don't Worry About Me

Prior to the bands December headline trek throughout the UK, Ginger has a series of acoustic dates lined up. The confirmed shows are shown below:

30th October - Nottingham Junktion 7
12th November - Preston Mill
13th November - Doncaster Leopard
14th November - Mansfield Mill
19th November - Bristol Bierkeller
26th November - Newcastle Archer
27th November - York Cert 18
28th November - Newport TJ's

Enuff Z Nuff have a new album available, which they have called '?'. Although only currently available as a Japanese import through Pony Canyon and soon to be released in American, the band have posted on their website that they will be undertaking a UK tour beginning on 3rd December. No confirmed dates for this tour are yet available. The album though contains the following tracks: Gorgeous, Home Tonight, Help, No Place Like Home, Harley, Hang On For Life, Man With A Woman, How Are You?, Joni Woni (Likes To Ride The Pony) and Stone Cold Crazy. As well as featuring Donnie, Chip, Monaco and Ricky the album also contains contributions from past Enuff Z Nuff alumni Vikki Fox and the late Derek Frigo.

HMV are reporting that the new System of A Down album, 'Hypnotized, is to be released on 17th January 2005. No details on track listing or artwork is available yet.

The new UK Rock Charts for W/C 17th October have been uploaded and can be found here. Also  reviews of the Whitesnake gig at Newcastle City Hall on October 8th and the Slayer/Slipknot show at Manchester MEN on October 6th are now available via this link

Thursday 14th October

Kings X To Release Live CD

Texan trio Kings X are to release their first ever live album through Inside Out Records on November 1st. Entitled 'Live All Over The Place' the album was recorded in the USA during 2003 and included on the two disc package is a short acoustic set from the band. Encapsulating the bands fifteen year career, from their 1988 debut up until last year's 'Black Like Sunday' release, the album will include the following tracks: Groove Machine, Dogman, Believe, Little Bit Of Soul, Complain, Over My Head (Electric), Manic Depression, Black Like Sunday, Finished, Screamer, Johnny, The Difference, (Thinking And Woundering) What I'm Gonna Do, Mr. Evil, Mississippi Moon, Goldilox, Everybody Knows A Little Bit, A Box, Talk To You (Electric), Visions, Cigarettes, Summerland, We Were Born To Be Loved, Moan Jam and Over My Head (Acoustic Bonus Track)

Quireboys Headline Tour

The Quireboys, who are currently on tour supporting Whitesnake in the UK return for a series of headline dates in February 2005. The shows so far confirmed are:

11th February - Milton Keynes, Woughton Centre
12th February - Sheffield, Corporation
13th February - Newcastle, Foundation
16th February - Bilston, Robin 2
17th February - Bristol, Fleece and Firkin
24th February - Crewe, Limelight
25th February - Glasgow, Cathouse
 

More shows will be announced in the near future.

Wednesday 13th October

Metal Hammer (www.metalhammer.co.uk) are reporting that the original line up of Motley Crue, featuring Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee & Mick Mars will be hitting the UK in June 2005 as part of their farewell tour. It will be the first time since the Monsters Of Rock Festival in 1991 that the band have played live together in this country. The dates on far mentioned are as follows:

June 14th 2005 – Glasgow SECC
June 15th 2005 - Manchester MEN
June 17th 2005 - Cardiff International Arena
June 18th 2005 - Birmingham NEC
June 19th 2005 - London Wembley Arena

Although the story has now spread around the internet, at this time their is no  confirmation on these dates available from any official Motley Crue source.
 

The Wildhearts  have revised their tour schedule for December the amended dates  are shown below

8th December - London Astoria
9th December - Manchester MDH
10th December - Glasgow Garage
11th December - Sheffield Leadmill
13th December - Cambridge Junction
14th December - Bristol Anson Rooms
15th December - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

Jesse Damon Talks About New Album

Jesse Damon recently took time out to run  through his new album "Nothin Else Matters" which was officially released in Europe on October 6th through Z Records

'What Your Doin' To Me' Contemporary hard rock track with raw guitars, and gritty vocals. This song is heavier than my previous Material, and fits somewhere between my Hand That Rocks CD, and Silent Rage's "Still Alive" album. This song is about all the cheats and cons of this world, and I let em' know that I know what their doin' to me!

'Messin' With My Head' Upbeat rock track with a slight modern punk edge, main hooks are slide guitar, and catchy chorus, good solid production. Hints of Blink 182 and Greenday. This song is about the cliché girl that prick teases, but says "lets just be friends," bull shit to that, she's messin' with my head!

'Good Life' Modern contemporary rock track with strong melodic vocals, interesting and different style arrangement with a hard rock edge, and a signature style Jesse Damon guitar solo. Rivals the likes of Velvet Revolver, and Evanescence. This song is about finally achieving the good life with the person you want,and never having to look back again.

'Don't You Know' Melodic rock track with a ballad style verse, and an explosive chorus, along with emotional vocals and blazing guitar solo makes this standout song a key fit for a soundtrack placement, ala Spiderman Soundtrack song "Hero." This song is about rivalry, and the kind of jealousy it can create!

'I Want You' Modern rock track with energy and enthusiasm, killer power chord guitars,
and addictive chorus, this is strong song, reminiscent of Sammy Hagar and a Y&T tune?
This song is about animal magnetism, lust, and going after it!

'Your My Reason For Livin' Dark melodic pop-rock track, written by Gene Simmons.
This laid back semi-ballad highlights Jesse's vocals, complimenting it's catchy arrangement, and features an acoustic guitar solo. This song is about a love story that wasn't meant to be!

'Fame That's Callin' Contemporary modern rock track with a melodic 3-part harmony style chorus. Has a flavour and contrast of style, sounding like Goo Goo Dolls meets Cheap Trick.
This song is about following your dreams of making it big as a rock star!

'Nothin Else Matters', Melodic rock track with a darker feel to it, and this one has a heavier verse with a very addictive chorus. This song is the title track of the album, and sends the message I'll do what ever it takes to reach my goal
but not with out the one I love!

'Where You Goin', Dark melodic pop ballad. This song is diverse in it's feel and arrangement and has a pink floyd quality to it.
Acoustically driven, with the bass as a major highlight!
This song is about asking the person you were with where are they going, why are they leaving!

'Rains With Fire' Electronic hard rock track that has some strange sound effects and has a very floating style chorus vocals.
Classic Silent Rage lead vocals style on the verses of this one. This song is about arriving in heaven, what you see, and what it feels like once your there!


You can find our review of Nothin Else Matters via this link and Jesse will be announcing some UK dates shortly during 2004.

Evanescence To Release Live DVD/CD

November 23rd sees the release of 'Anywhere But Home' from Evanescence. the two disc DVD/CD set features the  entire live set from the show at The Zenith in Paris, which was filmed and recorded in  5.1 Surround Sound.  In addition, the DVD includes the band's four music videos ("Bring Me To Life", "Going Under", "My Immortal," and "Everybody's Fool,"), an hour-long behind the scenes program and hidden surprises! The CD will also include the previously unreleased studio recording of "Missing".  The full track listing for the live show, which was directed by Hamish Hamilton, includes 'Haunted', 'Going Under', 'TTaking Over Me', 'Everybody's Fool', 'Thoughtles, 'My Last Breath', 'Farther Away', 'Breathe No More' , 'My Immortal' , 'Bring Me To Life', Tourniquet', 'Imaginary' and 'Whisper'.

Further information on the release can be found at www.evanescence.com.

Quickies

Arch Enemy have been confirmed to play a one off UK date at London The Forum on 17th December. Speaking on the band's website, guitarist Michael Amott comments, " We're really pleased to be able to play at a venue this size; it'll be probably the biggest show we've ever headlined outside of Japan! What's more, it finally means we'll have the chance to give you the full Arch Enemy lightshow - we've never been able to do that in the UK! We are also delighted to be able to confirm that this will be an all-ages show - no restrictions and none of the 'Over-18s only' bullshit that you get in too many of the London venues”.
But this is going to be a lot more than just another Arch Enemy gig......... this is the SWEDISH APOCALYPSE!! The band has got together with a few of their friends in order to give you a good clubbing with the heaviest, all-Swedish, contemporary metal bill imaginable – It is confirmed that bone-crushing metallers THE HAUNTED, along with renowned pioneers of the 'Gothenburg sound'; DARK TRANQUILLITY will be coming along for the (slay!) ride...OK, no more terrible Christmas puns - but having these 3 bands playing together on Friday December the 17th is gonna be a long way from being a Silent Night.... PURE FUCKING METAL? You can say that again!! "

Hawkwind hit the road for a series of UK shows during December culminating in a spectacular Christmas Party Event at London Astoria on 19th December. Full tour details are as follows:

4th December - Newcastle Opera House
9th December - Telford Oakengates Theatre
10th December - Swindon Oasis
17th December - Cambridge Corn Exchange
18th December - Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre
19th December - London Astoria

In Flames have a UK date confirmed and will be playing London Hammersmith Apollo on December 27th

Green Day, who recently released their new album 'American Idiot' have announced details of a major UK tour that takes place early into the New Year. The dates so far confirmed for the trek are:

23rd January - Birmingham NIA
24th January - London Brixton Academy
25th January - London Brixton Academy
27th January - Nottingham Arena
29th January - Manchester MEN
31st January - Dublin Point
2nd february - Plymouth Pavillion
3rd February - Cardiff Arena
5th February - Brighton Centre
6th February - London Hammersmith Apollo
7th February - London Hammersmith Apollo
8th February - Newcastle Arena
10th February - Glasgow SECC

A new review is up for the second part of the WASP rock opera The Neon God, check it out via this link

Just to let folks know we have very limited stocks left of the HardRockHouse T-Shirt pictured above. Once these have gone then we won't be getting anymore printed up with this design, so if you would like one then please let us know via email as quickly as possible.

Monday 11th October

Alter Bridge, the band featuring ex-members of Creed Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall alongside vocalist Myles Kennedy visit the UK for a short tour in November & December. The confirmed dates are as follows:

29th November - Manchster Academy 2
30th November - Glasgow Garage
1st December - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
3rd December - London Mean Fiddler

Helmet On Tour

Re-united rockers Helmet hit the UK for some live shows in December in support of their new album 'Size Matters'

2nd December - Manchester University
3rd December - Glasgow Garage
5th December - Birmingham Carling Academy 2

Hammerfall Confirmed For Bloodstock 2005

Hammerfall are the first act to be confirmed for the 2005 Bloodstock Festival which occurs on September 2nd in Derby. Guitarist Oscar Dronjak made the announcement via the band's official website and commented "This makes me feel especially happy, as I was pretty much solely responsible for us not making it to last year's festival (the motorcycle accident, remember?) This time, I promise you, there will be no cancellation."

The show marks what will be only the second live appearance of Hammerfall in the UK and in addition to this gig the band are also continuing to work on the new album which is currently scheduled for release in March 2005. Songs set for inclusion on the album include, Born To Rule, Hammer Of Justice, The Templar Flame, Take The Black, Fury Of The Wild, Secrets, Never Ever, Blood Bound, Imperial and Knights Of The 21st Century. Further information, including a studio diary can be found at www.hammerfall.net

Fear Factory/Shadows Fall Team Up For Tour

Fear Factory & Shadows Fall have teamed up for a UK tour in December. The two bands will be joined on the tour by Danish Modern Thrash metallers Mnemic who will open all shows:

December 9th - London Astoria
December 10th -Manchester Academy
December 11th - Glasgow Academy
December 12th - Nottingham Rock City
December 13th - Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Derek Sherinian

Former Dream Theater keyboardist Derek Sherinian releases his fourth solo album, entitled 'Mythology' through Inside Out records on November 8th. Alonsgide Sherinian the album features guest performances from the like of Zakk Wylde, John Sykes, Steve Stevens and Marco Mendoza.

Saturday 9th October

In the meantime to keep you going we have another new interview on line, this time with non other than Danny Vaughn, in which he talks about his past, the present and his future plans as well. The interview can be found by clicking on this link

Wednesday 6th October

The first new interview of the month, this time with Shaun Williamson, vocalist with King Karma, is now online and can be viewed via this link

Glenn Hughes / Chad Smith U.K. Tour Dates

As reported last month Glenn Hughes hits the UK for a series of shows during December, joining him on the tour is RHCP drummer  Chad Smith. To coincide with the release of "Soulfully Live In The City Of Angels" on CD and DVD Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) will be playing a string of dates in the U.K. The album and DVD feature versions of Purple classic’s "Mistreated", "You Keep On Movin’" and "Gettin’ Tighter" as well as Hughes / Thrall’s "First Step Of Love" plus "Seafull" and "Medusa" from Glenn’s Trapeze days and songs from last years "Songs In The Key Of Rock".

Far from simply guesting on the album and tour Chad Smith has been involved in the writing, arrangements and production of the releases and his enthusiasm and commitment has been pivotal in making this U.K. only tour a reality. Chad is looking forward to playing great shows in (by his standards) unusually intimate venues. He also drums throughout on the upcoming Glenn Hughes album "Soul Mover" (Released on Frontiers - in early 2005). Also appearing on the title track of Glenn’s new album is Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction / Red Hot Chili Peppers) and a video has been filmed filmed featuring the trio in the California desert. Navarro described "Soul Mover" as "It’s killer with a kind of harder Lenny Kravitz vibe to it" on his website.

Glenn, Chad and John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) recently recorded a phenomenal version of "Nights In White Satin". This amazing song features one of Glenn’s greatest ever vocals. Both this song and the track "Soul Mover" have been mixed by world famous engineer Jim Scott (Audioslave / Red Hot Chili Peppers).

Glenn has also recently appeared at the L.A. premiere of "We Will Rock You" along with Brian May, Roger Taylor of Queen and Steve Lukather of Toto.

Both Glenn and Chad are excited about the upcoming tour and releases and will be available for interview.

Tour Dates
3rd December - Dudley JB’s
4th December Bradford Rio’s
5th December - Sheffield Leadmill
7th December - Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
9th December - Norwich Waterfront
10th December - Northampton Roadmender
11th  December -Nottingham Rock City
13th December - London Mean Fiddler

Jeff Scott Soto Talks About New Album

Following the excellent press and fan responses after the release of "Lost In The Translation", Jeff Scott Soto speaks about the songs included on his brand new album :

Believe In Me - This 1 is about having someone you can truly trust in a world where it’s difficult to find. It’s also about letting your guard down with someone new after coming out of a bad relationship.

Soul Divine - This 1 is about not realizing what one has until it’s gone. Sometimes in life we take for granted how good things really are & stop working to make it grow, but once you lose it, you realize the grass is NEVER greener on the other side.

Drowning - This 1 is about being a very controlled, imprisoning relationship where the partner gives no room to walk or breathe.

If This Is The End - This is about a relationship that has inevitably come to an end, yet there seems to always be reason found not to completely close the book.

Lost In The Translation - This is about an offering to so many woman in society today just looking to have fun without commitment. The lyrics vow no need to worry about falling in love or getting attached. Pure fantasy.

Doin’ Time - This is about the sexuality & the love combined, the animalistic side of a loving relationship.

High Time - This is a subtle lyric about escaping the stranglehold of drugs. I wrote it about so many I’ve known & seen addicted to substances but finally broke free from it.

Beginning To End - This 1 was written as a tribute to all the men & woman who have recently left their loved ones for the call of duty. So many years I can only relate leaving home to tour with a band so the emotions in this are 1000 times harder when there’s a chance you may never see each other again.

On My Own - This is about not putting up with someone’s lies anymore, finally breaking away to live a normal life.

Find Our Way - This is about losing your way, your faith in life & love, about reaching for someone to help you come back to the innocence you once knew as a child when everything was easier & happier.

Sacred Eyes - This 1 is about escaping with your partner to another world, a paradise that only exists in dreams, a getaway from the dark realities we live everyday.

Dulce Lady - This 1 is another sexuality lyric that just gets to the point in what everyone wants every once in a while.

Downset To Release New Album

Californian act Downset, who blend rap, funk, hardcore, punk and metal into their music, are all set to release their new album, entitled 'Universal' through Hawino Records on October 25th. The band, which comprises vocalist Rey Oropexa, guitarist Brain Schwager, bassist Rico Villasenor and Chris Lee on drums will be playing UK shows at London Mean Fiddler on October 28th and Brighton Concorde 2 on December 19th in support of the album.

Tour Dates

San Franciscan Thrashers Death Angel play a UK at London Camden Underworld on 6th December

Fear Factory have a couple of UK dates lined up at Manchester University on December 10th and Nottingham Rock City on December 12th

The Wildhearts return to the UK for a December tour. Dates so far confirmed are:

9th December - Manchester University
10th December - Glasgow Garage
13th December - London Astoria
14th December - Bristol University
15th December - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

Three former members of Blaze Bayley's band have just confirmed that they have a new outfit put together and ready to go; The twin guitarists Steve Wray and John Slater plus bass player Rob Naylor in conjunction with frontman Harry Armstrong  and the former Vex Red and Kill II This drummer Ben Calvert have put together the band, which they have called Rise To Addiction. The band will make their debut at Dudley JB's on December 19, supporting German band Edguy. In the meantime Blaze himself, together with is new line-up, will play at the same venue the previous day headlining his annual Big Blaze Bash.
 

Electric Six have the following live dates lined up for November & December:

28th November - Hull University Hull
29th November -Rock City Nottingham
1st december - Manchester University Manchester
3rd December - Norwich U.E.A. Norwich FRI
4th December - Bristol University Bristol
6th December - University of London Union

Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan has the following solo live shows planned for November & December

21st November - Brighton The Old Market
22nd November - Birmingham Carling Academy 2
26th November - Glasgow Garage
28th November - Leeds The Cockpit
1st December - Bristol Fiddlers
2nd December - London The Forum

Therapy? have the following live shows lined up in support of their new album Never Apologize, Never Explain!

24th November - Norwich Waterfront
25th November - Manchester University
27th November - Aberdeen Moshulu
28th November - Glasgow Garage
29th November - Leeds The Cockpit
1st December - London Astoria
7th December - Belfast Mandela Hall

Veteran metallers Budgie hit the road for a comprehensive UK wide tour during November & December. The dates so far confirmed are shown below:

3rd November -  Wrexham Yales
4th November -  Ashton-u-Lyne The Witchwood
5th November -  Workington Carnegie Theatre
10th November - Leicester The Charlotte
11th November - Newcastle Trillians
12th November - Middlesbrough Liberty's
17th November - Crewe The Limelight
18th November - Dundee West Port Bar
19th November - Edinburgh The venue
20th November - Glasgow Renfrew Ferry
22nd November - Aberdeen Lemon Tree
23rd November - Rochdale The Transport Club
24th November - Sheffield The Boardwalk
25th November - Swindon The Queens Tap
26th November - Bristol Bierkeller
27th November - Rhyl Morville Hotel
1st December - Southsea South Parade Pier
2nd December - Oxford Zodiac
3rd December - Stratford - Upon Avon Cox's Yard
4th December - Brighton Concorde 2
7th December - London Camden Underworld
8th December - Dudley JBs
15th December - lfracombe The Phoenix

Tuesday 5th October

Former Push singer Martie Peters has already finished recording his debut solo album MPG “Martie Peters Group” the release for which is scheduled for January 31st worldwide. Peters will be performing a few shows together with Mike Tramp in Denmark during October.

The Greenhouze album which was originally scheduled for releaseduring November has now been pushed back and should be issued during mid January/February.

Shy have finished recording their new album “Sunset And Vine” and the band will be mastering the record this coming Wednesday in order that the album is ready to be released most probably in early February. The forthcoming MTM Compilation Volume 10 will  feature a new Shy track.

With the re-release of the self titled debut album Zeno  due in November, German guitarist Zeno Roth has already finished recording  his brand new album “Zenology II”  and the release will be parallel to the Japanese release date in January 2005 .

Also scheduled for early 2005: are albums from Seven Wishes with their new album “Destination: Alive”, Novak with “Forever Endeavour”, Brunorock with their album “Interaction” and the new Edge Of Forever record “Let The Demon Rock ‘N’ Roll”, which  is already recorded with only vocalist  Bob Harris to complete his parts by the end of October. This album, which is produced by Bobby Barth should be ready for a release in May 2005.

MTM's November release schedule features Zeno's self titled debut due on November 8th, the MTM Complilation Volume 10 due on November 15th and RPM which should hit the streets on November 22nd

Heartplay  Talk About "Where The Deadends Meet":

Kimmo Blom and Sakari Salli from the band Heartplay have just posted the following update via the MTM website with regards to their upcoming album release 'Where The Deadends Meet, which is due to hit the shops on October 11th

"The whole project started actually last year when our first album gained some attention. This brought us together after a few years silence. Sakari had already some musical ideas waiting for the right context. When the details concerning our deal were settled we started the pre-production in Sakari's studio. Basically we "jammed" the songs throwing ideas in and arranged them following our instincts and not being tied to some certain style or genre. This is the general idea behind Heartplay. We want to explore our musical ideas wherever it might lead us, take for example " Silhouettes". Recording itself went smoothly and was mainly a great fun. The songs really started to fly and we seemed to have a mutual understanding how each song should be played. Speedy Saarinen (our recording and mixing engineer) really did an excellent job given the time he had. There's plenty of emotional variety on this album, from a straight forward rock to deeper moods. Every song stands on its own and has certain edge. No fillers on this album!!! The title is about standing in the crossroad and being able to get another chance to start over again".

Nuclear Blast Forthcoming Releases

Nuclear Blast records have five albums due to released over the next month. First to be available on October 11th is the new album from Sonata Arctica, 'Reckoning Night' , that was previewed in last months news updates. Following this up at one week intervals are releases from Helltrain  (October 18th) with Route 666, the self titled album from My Early Mustang (October 25th) and one the same date Mystic Prophecy with 'Never-Ending'

Hot on the heels of these releases Nuclear Blast will issue the new album from New York legends Anthrax in November entitled 'The Greater Of Two Evils'. Recorded “live” in the studio over the course of two days, THE Greater Of Tow Evils stands out, as guitarist Scott Ian puts it, “As a raw, balls out, and in your face representation of how brutal this band is, was, and will always be.”

Covering their history from 1984 – 1990, Greater of Tow Evils is made up of fourteen classic Anthrax songs the fans demanded by way of the thousands of votes from all over the world received on the band’s official website, www.anthrax.com. Based on those votes, the band entered Avatar studios in NYC one cold and snowy weekend last winter and took a trip back in time to revisit songs from their formative releases Fistful Of Metal(1984), Spreading The Disease(1985), Among The Living(1987), State Of Euphoria(1988), and Persistence Of Time(1990).

“It was just the five of us in a room ripping. It was intense,” Ian continues, “like when we first wrote these songs and started playing them for the first time. Except now the songs have evolved after years of playing them live to where I wish they were when we first recorded them. Like good whisky, they’ve aged wonderfully. There’s so much energy on this record. Busting the tracks out live in two days was definitely the way to do it. What’s crazy is when I listen to it it’s like I’m listening to it from outside the band because it’s made up of all these old songs that we haven’t played much over the years and I really only know the studio versions so when I hear John singing them, it’s like I get to here it from your point of view if that makes any sense. And let me tell ya, John and Rob are killing on this.”

“Our fans have been so loyal over the years that we wanted to give them something special,” explains drummer Charlie Benante, “so we came up with the idea of letting them pick the songs for this album. Not to take away from our past, but ever since John has been in the band, people are always coming up to us and saying ‘I wish you would re-record this’ or ‘I would love to hear John sing that,’ so we did it and it came out great.”

A point that lead singer John Bush expounds upon, “When I joined Anthrax 12 years ago we wrote and recorded Sound Of White Noise. Although, at that time, we felt we were going to play a lot of those tunes live, there was still a giant catalog of older songs for me to learn. From that time until now I’ve embraced those older songs like they were children of my own. Taking nothing away from the original versions, because they definitely stand tall on their own, it felt like a good idea to give the fans the choice if they wanted to hear new versions of these songs and which songs they wanted to hear the most. This is not an attempt to relive the past, just an attempt to kick 'em out with the 21st century line-up of Anthrax.”

And kick ‘em out they do. Well known songs like “Caught In A Mosh,” “Madhouse,” and “Indians,” get the update as well as lesser know songs such as “Panic,” “Gung Ho,” and “Deathrider,” with the latter getting the biggest over-haul. Charlie Benante explains: “While we didn’t want to deviate too much from the original recordings, we didn’t want to be strapped to them either. There are a few changes here and there with “Deathrider” being the one that stands out the most. On our first album, Fistful Of Metal, that song is a blast from the beginning to the end, one speed, that’s it. On the new version it's still fast, but we pull-up a bit in the verses going to half-time, which makes it heavier and flow better. No one will be disappointed…Trust me.”

All the artwork for The Greater Of Two Evils was done by Shepard Fairey, the subterranean legend best known for his Andre The Giant inspired Obey graphics. “We wanted something different this time out,” says Benante who serves not only as drummer and songwriter but as the resident art director as well. “Our last two releases we used famed painter Alex Ross who did two unbelievable covers for us (2003’s critically acclaimed We’ve Come For You All and their live DVD/CD Music Of Mass Destruction which was released earlier this year.), and we wanted to go in a slightly different direction. The cover is very ‘flat,’ in a good way, and the colors are striking. It will work great as the cover, in posters, t-shirts, whatever, it's just a cool image.”

Anthrax hopes that The Greater Of Two Evils serves as a history lesson and a starting off point for the whole new generation of fans who were turned onto the band over the course of the last couple of years, something that was quite evident during their never-ending 2003-04 Music Of Mass Destruction World Tour. On that tour, which took them to virtually every continent on the planet including shows in Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary, the members of Anthrax were noticing that their crowds were being made up of kids who were not old enough to be around when the previously mentioned Among The Living was released some years ago. “Its weird,” says Benante, “when I talk to our fans I find myself amazed that we have made such an impact for all these years. When we first started we were kids with nothing to do who just wanted to play. The fact that we have been around for a generation and continue to play to thousands of kids all around the world 9 months out of the year, I would have never have believed it. I think this album brings it back full circle.

 

Monday 4th October

It appears as if Sebastian Bach, the former Skid Row frontman, will be hitting the UK for a series of shows in December. According to a posting on his website Bach will be in the UK to round out his European tour which also takes in Turkey & Spain. Three dates are currently penciled in for December 14th, 15th and 16th although no venue locations have yet been announced. Further details should be available later in the week.

Chimaira To Release DVD Collection

Chimaira, one of the bands at the forefront of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, are all set to release their debut DVD through Roadrunner Records on October 25th. The two disc set will feature  an all access, no-holds-barred feature length documentary (with optional band commentary), almost an hour of killer live performance footage captured around the world and all of the bands videos on disc one, whilst disc two will showcase the "This Present Darkness" EP. The EP contains seven remastered songs including two bonus tracks not available on the original release and additional liner notes from Mark Hunter, vocalist with the band.

Arch Enemy To Release EP

Arch Enemy will be releasing a new EP through Century Media on November 15th. Titled 'Dead Eyes See No Future' the release consists of live tracks and cover versions. The EP was initially a Japanese only release whilst the band were touring in that country. The new release will feature an extra live track in the shape of “Heart Of Darkness”, as well as the “We Will Rise” video. Guitarist Michael Amott comments with regard to the EP, " The decision to make this EP started to come about after we played a particularly intense, sold out show at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris in April, which we were taping. Most of the recording came out sounding great, so we thought we should give you guys the chance to own a slice of prime live Enemy, especially for all the people who haven't seen us play yet!! The inimitable Andy Sneap was on hand to do the actual live recording, and he also mixed the whole EP at his studio (where we did all the sessions for “Anthems...”). The cover songs on the EP - we had a real blast working out our take on these classic metal tunes, especially the Carcass song... I was expecting to find it kind of strange to play it with the AE guys, but I have to say they made an amazing job of it - in my not-so-humble opinion!! Being a huge fan of Megadeth, I must admit it’s a tough task to better the original there…we just did a very, very heavy version of the song. The Manowar track turned out unexpectedly brutal, this was always a favourite song of mine from my early “heavy metal daze”! I love the speed and intensity of this song – it sounds very Arch Enemy with lots of guitar shredding! So a fairly spur-of-the-moment idea actually turned into something good enough to let you guys get your teeth into it - enjoy!!"

Friday 1st October

Hopefully October will prove to be even better month. We currently have a few new interviews planned as well as the normal CD and Gig Reviews and the news updates so keep checking back to find out what is happening.

Finally as you will see above we have our very first HardRockHouse.com T-Shirt available. For those who have already ordered one then just to let you know they will be in the post early next week. For those of you thinking of ordering one, then please do so. This site takes a lot of time and money to keep updated and although we don't make a huge amount per shirt we do make a small profit. to help us keep going and as the advert says 'Every Little Helps'

Shy Update

Tony Mills has just posted an the following short update on the MTM website with regard to the bands upcoming new album due through MTM in early 2005.

"There are a variety of tempos on the album, but the ballad 'Where is the Love' is a real corker. I like it, I like it !!
'Soul Searchin' & 'Open Your Heart', are two classic AOR mid tempo trax, 'I Will Be Home' a down tempo moody track, 'Don't Jump The Gun', the anthemic track out of them all if there is one, 'First Love' a big harmony fast mover and the other trax are still being finalized."

The album is called “Sunset And Vine” and will be released January / February 2005. The new song taken from the "Sunset And Vine" will be released on the forthcoming MTM COMPILATION Volume 10 mid of November."

More Whitesnake Shows Added

Whitesnake have added some more shows to their UK tour, returning to these shores in November. The dates currently scheduled are:

24th November - Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
26th November - Derby Assembly Rooms
27th November - Southampton Guildhall
29th November - Manchester Carling Apollo
 

Georgia Satellites

Dan Baird & The Heart of the Georgia Satellites  featuring Keith Christopher on bass, drummer Mauro Magellan and guitarist Ken McMahan are hitting the UK for a series of dates in November & December. The following shows have so far been confirmed:

22nd November - London Dingwalls
23rd November - Cardiff The Point
24th November - Aberdeen Drummonds
25th November - Ross On Wye The Wye Knot Inn
27th November - Alloa The Funhouse
28th November - Dudley JB's
30th November - Glasgow Nice 'n' Sleazy's
01st December - Leeds New Roscoe
02nd December - Newcastle Trillians

Quickies

It looks like the Michael Schenker Group is heading to the UK for some shows in November. www.seetickets.com currently have tickets on sale for a show in Nottingham at Rock City on 23rd November. More news as we get it.

A new review is up for the self titled debut album from Bonrud, which can be found via this link

Cathedral are delighted to announce their position as main support act on the forthcoming HIM UK tour. Fresh from their major slot at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany and with the recent release of the Best Of Album - "Serpents Gold", vocalist Lee Dorrian had this to say; "Touring with HIM is really a great thing for us, we are really excited!" Following these dates the band will finalize writing work for their debut album for the Nuclear Blast label ;, tentatively titled 'Seeds Of Decay', which is slated for a Feb/March 2005 release.

3 Inches Of Blood have parted ways with both of their guitarists. The band, who release a new album entitled Advance & Vanquish later this month have released the following press statement with regard to the situation: "I'm sure you've all heard various gossip about the band over the past couple of months and until now we haven't said anything to clarify some of the stories. To confirm, Bobby Froese and Sunny Dhak are no longer part of the band. The two of them decided they could no longer commit to touring and needed to deal with some personal matters. Naturally, we were all quite shocked and disappointed by their decision, but after much discussion we understand why they needed to do this and we wish them the best.
We decided afterwards that we didn't want to call it a day, so we've recruited the guitar talents of Justin Hagberg from war-metalers, ALLFATHER, and Shane Clark who plays in TEN MILES WIDE and THE ALMIGHTY PUNCHDRUNK."

Sacred Heart, the UK  hard rock band based out of Camberley in Surrey are currently in the process of looking for a new drummer and bass player. Anyone interested in trying out for the positions should contact the band via info@sacredheartband.com

PowerQuest have been confirmed to support Dream Evil at London Camden Underworld on November 13th.