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To all Decapitated fans:

I would like to inform everyone interested in knowing about the status of the band that we are on indefinite hiatus for now. It is too early to continue or try to continue without Vitek and/or Covan at the moment.

Regarding Covan. He’s recovering now and needs all the time in the world to comeback to a normal life. So I want to wait for him, so we could both decide what the future will hold for Decapitated.

I definitely want to keep on playing and touring as it’s very important for me to keep on playing music. While we have this break with Decapitated, I’d like to mention that I’m open to explore options reg. joining or touring as a session player. Given the seriousness of the project I could work on dedicate as much time as possible to it.

I also want to express my respect for everyone who’s supported Vitek’s and Covan’s families since the accident on any kind of way.

Thank you so much!

Vogg

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I wish Coven a speedy recovery and Vitek will be with us forever. I totally understand where Vogg is coming from and I commend and honor his choices. I am sure Vogg will keep us up to speed with what ever projects he becomes involved with or does studio work for. He is nothing short of an amazing guitar player and I look forward to hearing more from him.

Best Regards,

Phil S. and VileMetalVids

Nuclear Blast Records has announced the signing of the Tasmanian technical death metal band Psycroptic. Nuclear Blast’s U.S. A&R representative Gerardo Martinez stated about the signing: “We are beyond excited to be working with one of the best technical death metal bands in the world right now! We feel the band will reach the status they deserve in a short period of time.”

The band added: “To say that all of us are excited to be working with Nuclear Blast is quite an understatement — we’re over the moon! Nuclear Blast has always been the pinnacle of labels within the metal realm, and to be signed with them is a huge honor for us…and to be the first Tasmanian band to ever be on the label is a pretty cool bonus as well. The artist roster is nothing short of amazing, and for us to be added to it…well, we couldn’t be happier!!”

In a recent interview with The Metal Forge, Psycroptic drummer Dave Haley stated about the group’s new material, “It’s still Psycroptic, but I think out songwriting has improved. It’s very catchy stuff, but still intense. Some stuff isn’t as technical, other stuff is. We have tried to make it varied but still sound like an album — not just a mish-mash of songs. We’re quite excited about it all!”

Psycroptic’s third full-length album, “Symbols of Failure”, was released in February 2006 via Neurotic Records. The follow-up of 2003’s “The Scepter of the Ancients” marks the recording debut of the band’s new vocalist Jason Peppiatt.

Metal Hammer writer Joel McIver reports that the new guitarist in Florida death metal legends Morbid Angel is none other than ZYKLON’s longtime axemeister Destructhor (a.k.a. Thor Anders Myhren).

Frontman David Vincent told Metal Hammer in a recent interview, “The hunt for another guitarist to play alongside Trey (Azagthoth, the band’s primary songwriter) was long and difficult. Man, I tell you, we had tapes sent to us from all over the world from guys who wanted to play in our band, and many of them were extremely talented — but Thor was the right choice for us. He’s a fantastic guitarist and fits right in with the band. Also, ZYKLON have supported Morbid Angel in the past, so the guys knew each other already.”

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Congrats to Destructhor (a.k.a. Thor Anders Myhren)! I am certain the new Morbid Angel material will not disappoint because I have been a fan of Zyklon’s music for many years and I agree that Thor fits perfectly.

Phil S.

Louisiana based experimental project “Psychometry” has hired the services of Suffocation drummer Mike Smith to perform and record on their upcoming Album “The Four Points”. Psychometry is an atmospheric, melodic metal band made up of professional musicians experienced in several different styles of music. The project ranges from symphonic, classical, electronic, as well as extreme underground metal.

Psychometry blends a wide variety of the world’s music and is formed as a collection of composers so as not to be placed into a specific genre of music.  Mike Smith states, “The change in musical direction from the norm of Death metal is a welcome one. It gives me the opportunity to retrain myself to play with the goal of appealing to listeners of multiple Genres”.

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Mike Smith is an awesome drummer and has been an inspiration for many metal drummers for many years.  I think this displays how serious he is about being a versatile musician and how important it is to be able to adapt to other sub genres (of course only when its by personal choice!).  I look forward to hearing Psychometry with Mike Smith drumming for them!

Phil S.

Romain Goulon joins Necrophagist as the official new drummer. The band and Romain look forward to working together on the new album. Meanwhile, check out a video of Romain playing to guitar tracks from the album “Epitaph” at Necrophagist’s official YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/NecrophagistOfficial

The band wants to thank ‘human metronome’ Marco Minnemann for playing drums on last year’s Summer Slaughter tour. It was an honor and a lot of fun playing with one of the world’s greatest drummers.

However, Marco Minnemann and Muhammed Suicmez decided to launch a whole new band. Commented Muhammed: “I am very excited about this, because jamming with Marco inspires me to come up with great ideas and I have a lot of respect for Marco as a composer. So forging a whole new style by mixing mine and his is something I can’t wait to do, because not only is Marco one of the best drummers in the world, he is a great guitarist also.”

Stay tuned for news updates about the writing process for Necrophagist’s new album as well as Marco and Muhammed’s new band.

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Marco is amazing, and this new guy Romain is also amazing. I cannot wait to hear the new album!

Phil S.

Hey Everyone!!!!

Sorry that im never on here but I been busy with music and band stuff.

I wanted to post this message for all the people making Morbid Angel guitarist tryout vids for youtube, etc.

First I wanna say THANX!!!!! to everyone taking any time to make some vid of them playing the songs!!!!!
Its amazing to see how people interpret things. Each person having an individual approach.

Its fun to watch :))))

The thing is that we need someone who can feel and notice that deep flow in the songs and the amount of attack needed. Seeing just how I really play the stuff such as in the Live Antwerp Vids of the songs I have here which have lots of closeups. There are certain patterns and positioning on the fretboard which is done with purpose. Lots of subtle dynamics, certain ways to grab chords and pick.

One thing for sure is that even though this is “Death Metal” its really more “Extreme Swing”. There is a flow and I think some people don’t quite identify with it.

Its not much to say, “besides this note its that note”. Such things wouldn’t take much to tweak but things such as how chords are grabbed, pressed, lifted, slide.., there are lots of subtle flow techniques here and that is something that would take too long to get out of the blue. With such things people either can relate with it or not. Some of it can be summed up as technique but i think it more moves into a place dealing with just how someone identifies with music and the flow of music in general. Not much of or in these songs is squared or boxed, they have a zig zag swing and they are banged, pushed though the guitar. I still haven’t a clue how to make tab that really shows how the songs are played.

Ha, David reminds me that I just don’t really play like other people. I never took lessons.

I’m a Freak, woot!!!!!!!

This style is Hardcore, it takes a thick pick and lots of attack, grabbing chords. Its madness I guess, I dunno. For me its just how it goes, ha.

We need someone who can realize that extra stuff in the songs, this feeling and flow, and that is what makes the Morbid Angel style.

Thanx again to everyone taking any time to make a vid.

Embrace and Best Success!!!!!

Trey

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Bulletin was posted directly from Trey’s personal MySpace profile on 4/10/2008.

Being a guitar player myself, I extend my utmost respect to Trey and his ability to execute shear guitar wizardry without ever taking lessons. Props!

Phil S.

Dear Carcasses!

Firstly, I’d like to thank all the people who have been posting comments and sending messages since we announced the reunion.

I can tell you that we feel very inspired by your enthusiasm and excitement for the shows this summer!

Also, special thanks to the lovely Kristelle for designing and maintaining the only official Carcass MySpace page!

Well… There is finally some news to report from the Carcass camp!

We got together last week and spent seven days straight rehearsing and preparing a set for the European festivals we have booked for the summer.

Jeff Walker (Bass, Vocals) and Bill Steer (Guitar, Vocals) flew in to the south of Sweden (where I live) and we got down to business!

The vibe was great during the week of rehearsals and a ’jolly good time’ was had by all!

The Carcass songs are still such amazing innovative pieces of music to me, challenging and rewarding to play.

For me personally it has been a very gratifying process to reconnect with Jeff Walker and Bill Steer again, on both a musical and personal level.

There were so many jokes and old anecdotes going around – I just basically spent the whole week laughing my ass off… Looks this reunion is good idea!

We don’t have a confirmed set list set in stone yet, but we rehearsed songs from all five Carcass albums, I am guessing it’s no surprise to you out there that we are building the set around a huge blood dripping chunk of ’Heartwork’ tunes!?

I was a huge fan of the band before I joined Carcass – so playing the songs from the first two albums ’Reek Of Putrefaction’ and ’Symphonies Of Sickness’ (that I did not perform/write on) is still a thrill for me.

Extreme Death/Grind master class!

Hearing Jeff and Bill trading vocals on ’Exhume To Consume’ again was INSANE! They both sung and played so great by the way.

Jeff’s vocals are so disturbingly hateful - it’s beautiful music to my ears… And Bill Steer is still the riff machine and SICK, outlandish lead player. These guys deliver goods.

Goose bump material!

Original drummer Ken Owen whom unfortunately can’t be a part of the reunion due to health reasons is replaced for the upcoming shows by Daniel (Erlandsson – Arch Enemy) who is killing the drum parts – no surprise there really!? Basically, it’s all coming together in perfect distorted harmony!

We will be getting together again in a few weeks to continue the rehearsals…

I’ll be doing my best to practice and memorize the 1,297 or so riffs and solo’s – I’ll have it all nailed come the first show June 6th, promise!

And finally, before we get swamped with “why aren’t you playing in my city/country???” messages - we are talking about doing more shows in other territories outside of Europe, if there is enough interest that is! Let’s see what happens over the next few weeks/months.

We’ll keep you updated on all confirmed shows here! Keep on rotting!

Carcass summer festivals 2008

Jun 6 2008 @ Sweden Rock Festival (Sweden)
Jun 20 2008 @ Hellfest (France)
Jun 27 2008 @ Tuska Open Air (Finland)
Jun 28 2008 @ Gods Of Metal Festival (Italy)
Jul 9 2008 @ Rockwave (Greece)
Aug 2 2008 @ Wacken Open Air (Germany)
Aug 16 2008 @ Brutal Assault Festival (Czech Republic)
Aug 29 2008 @ Hole In The Sky (Norway)

For more information and updates check:

www. myspace. com/carcass

Official Carcass merchandise

Montreal’s CRYPTOPSY has revealed that they have decided to postpone all future CRYPTOPSY performances and the release of the group’s forthcoming album, “The Unspoken King”, Drummer Flo Mounier had this to say:

“Due to the current circumstances of the fans being unable to comprehend our new material, we have decided to call it quits. It should be said, however, that this will probably not be permanent, but we shall see. For we, the band, feel that the fans deserve from us something that they can appreciate no matter how closed minded they may be, and as such we have failed to deliver such to them, it is our obligation to quit and reevaluate the situation and take stock of our lives. We did not wish to alienate our entire fan base, let alone do it before the album even hit the shelves, but alas that is exactly what we have done. As such we have decided that the best thing to do at the moment is to drop off the SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR and postpone the release of our new album “The Unspoken King”, possibly forever. We are very sorry if some of you were looking forward to seeing us on tour, but it must be said that as a band, the reaction we got from the leaked songs was not positive at all and it was felt that the same reaction would probably occur out on tour. Therefore, we have decided to not continue on with our current tour and album commitment. Again, we are sorry and want to thank ll the loyal fans for years of buying our stuff and going to see us live despite the line up changes we’ve had over the years!”

CRYPTOPSY’s last studio album, “Once Was Not”, was released in 2005 via Century Media Records and has sold 77,000 copies world wide.

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This is fake bullshit IMO. I have read this at many forums and most others think it’s fake too. So before you judge Cryptopsy by this bullshit/fake shit stirring make sure your right about it.

-Phil S.

Thats RIGHT! Origin has the recording and mixing done for their new album Antithesis! Expect some face melting guitar riffs/sweeps cause Origin is one of the craziest death metal bands to date!

Death Metal Hails, and 100% unending support for ORIGIN!!!

-Admin

“the album is done, mixed and all. I’m listening to it right now….! I want to boast, but I’ll keep it together and do it later instead.”

“Watershed” is the name of Opeth´s 9th studio observation. The album has just been mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren with M. Åkerfeldt. The album consist of 7 songs and the titles are as follows:

1. Coil
2. Heir Apparent
3. The Lotus Eater
4. Burden
5. Porcelain Heart
6. Hessian Peel
7. Hex Omega

All the songs have been written by M. Åkerfeldt apart from “Porcelain Heart” which was co-written with Fredrik Åkesson. One additonal track, “Derelict Herds” has also been recorded and this was written by Mikael Åkerfeldt and Per Wiberg. On top of this, 3 cover songs has been recorded. “Bridge of sighs” from Robin Trower´s 1974 Lp with the same title, “Den ständiga resan” (sung in Swedish) by Marie Fredriksson as well as the classic Alice in Chains song, “Would?”.

The album was recorded at Fascination street studios during November 1 and December 13. Some addtional recordings were done between January 3rd and 7th. Produced by Jens Bogren and Mikael Åkerfeldt and Opeth.

Says Mikael Åkerfeldt: “I´ve worked so hard with these songs for quite some time now, I´ve listened to ‘em a zillion times. I don’t hate them just yet! The album sounds great sonically and I think I can hear us evolving as the record plays on. It is taking us somewhere musically and I don’t know where. It’s very exciting to say the least! I can’t remember having enjoyed a recording this much ever before.”

The cover was (as usual) designed by Travis Smith in co-operation with Åkerfeldt. Release date is yet to be confirmed but Roadrunner worldwide will have it out sometime in the Springtime of this year.

Directly from his Mikael’s myspace blog! I can’t wait to hear this album! However, the release date has been pushed back to September 2008 so we will just have to wait…. ugh!

-Admin