Art the Cover for Horse The Band

HORSE the Band enlisted talented LA-based artist Billygoat (David Klein) to bring the ideas of "A Natural Death" to life. The art was constructed from a 6 foot long, mixed media diorama which was made out of wood. This diorama will be used as the cover and fold-out insert for the album. 

Everything from the intricate woodcutting to the smallest details was done painstakingly by hand. The piece tells a story in 6 panels that starts with creation and ends with a natural death, illustrating the themes of the record and tying the whole experience together.- Check out the new cover art for "A Natural Death"

The Charms Announce Tour

In an interesting twist, the band signed with Wicked Cool, Van Zandt's label, but left the label less than a year into the deal over a host of disputes. The future for the band is still bright. They have a new digital only release coming out on Red Car Records in the Fall and plan to release a new album in 2008 on a yet to be determined label.

8/02 - Positively 4th Street Troy, NY 
8/03 - 449 Room Trenton, NJ 
8/04 - Asbury Lanes Asbury Park, NJ
- more dates

Dying Fetus Replace Drummer

This lineup change will not have any effect on our tour plans, which will go ahead as scheduled. Trey gave us a fantastic audition, we have seen firsthand that he has the professionalism and dedication we would expect. 

We look forward to our next tour plans with great confidence - we feel the fans will agree that this change will be good for the band and our live performances. - At press time they have three dates confirmed.

Black Light Burns Extend Tour

Cruel Melody was originally going to be an esoteric, dirge-heavy solo project with a variety of singers, but as Borland started writing heavier material, he finally decided to take the reins behind the mike. It didn't hurt that he got inspiration not only from Lohner, who doubled as the album's producer, but Lohner's famous former employer.- more info and the dates are here

Athlete Set Release

The English quartet recorded the album during the summer of 2006 in their South London studio. The previous year and half was spent touring the world.

The first single off the new album will be "Hurricane."- More here including the tracklist

Rise to Addiction Confirm Euro Fests Appearances

The band make their first ever appearance in the Czech Republic on 4th August 2007 at the Motonalet Festival, Nikolcice, Czech Republic. Said to be the largest motor cycle festival in the country,Motonalet features an eclectic mix of the countries top artists. Rise to Addiction will be appearing on the main stage and are scheduled to perform at 2300 hrs.

Their performance at the Bloodstock Festival has been confirmed for the main stage at 1200hrs on 18th August 2007.- more on this story

Obituary Announce US Tour

The tour will be in immediate support of the band's new album, Xecutioner's Return, that is set to hit stores nationwide on 28th August. Candlelight Records, in cooperation with itunes, will release an advance single - the album track "Evil Ways," on 31st July. It will be the fans' first opportunity to hear the newly recorded material live.

The tour kicks off on September 11th in Springfield, VA and is set to conclude on October 6th in New Orleans at The Hangar. - grab the dates here

Desolate Ways Reunion

About theis change the guitarist Elizeu Hainzenreder says: "We are very satisfied with the return of Igo as Desolate Ways' drummer. We are a band which has the luck that all the members were are childhood friends, it makes us a real family. The concerts to promote Tearful will continue untill the end of the year, when we will concentrate on the new album."

The return of the former line-up can be checked in the 3-day festival River Rock, in 10, 11, and August 12th, where Desolate Ways will play with other 32 South-American rock/metal bands.- Samples of the new album are available here

Onesidezero Go short

Onsidezero is currently supporting their recently released Ulrich Wild (Static-X, Stabbing Westward, Taproot) produced sophomore album, which was released through Corporate Punishment Records. The album is the long awaited follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed 2001 debut "Is This Room Getting Smaller", which saw the group tour with the likes of Incubus, 311, Static-X, and Soulfly.- dates, dates, dates!

The Rascals Get Mono Again

The principals of Collectors’ Choice Music (CCM) spent years securing reissue rights to the Rascals’ Atlantic albums, and will release them on August 28, 2007. The Rascals LPs have been reissued on CD before, but not with the original mono mixes – which purists (including remastering engineer Bill Inglot) believe to outshine the stereo mixes. So with the first four albums – The Young Rascals, Collections, Groovin’ and Once upon a Dream – CCM includes the stereo versions back-to-back with the mono versions. (Yes, there’s a certain geek factor to that, and that’s what makes CCM great!) [back in those days stereo was an afterthought when they were doing the mixes, that's why the mono version of say Sgt Pepper's sounded so much better than the stereo version - ed] - all the info you'll need on these is right here

Mailbag: Intentional Glass Houses, Pissed Off, Dude, I Died Dude!

Dangling Participles Suck
Roger was scratching his head at the last Mailbag where we kind of, sort of, poked fun at someone for misspelling a word. Roger points out: How can you call someone out for misspelling something when you guys do it all the time? Although I do admit I laughed at your response. But was that a little hypocritical of you?

Response: Fair question Roger. The fact is that we intentionally include at least two typos or misspellings each and everyday. It started out a few years ago as kind of an inside joke with one of our readers that dubbed herself "Grammar Nazi" and would meticulously check every single article we published and send in scathing email everytime that she spotted a typo or misplaced comma etc. So we started feeding her errors until she gave up, but we have kept the tradition alive to annoy other grammar nazis out there. (they let us know too!) That's just ONE OF our versions of an Easter egg. There are a couple others but we can't let all the cats out of the bag, you'll have to spot them yourself. 

The Truth is Sometimes Politically Incorrect
Roberta also writes us about our last Mailbag, taking exception to our comments about Orange County and reasons for leaving it. She writes: I was very offended by your racist comments about [we removed the name of the language from her comments out of respect for the respectful people that speak it] and people peeing in your yard. 

Response: Sorry if you took offense at those comments but they can't be racist since they are the truth. Politically incorrect-yes. But a true assessment of the situation. Sadly, the yard urination was not an isolated thing but an almost daily epidemic and we never pointed a finger at a specific race or language. So how did you know what we were talking about? We took offense at the lack of respect that peeing in our yard showed. So what's worse? Pissing on someone or bitching about someone peeing on you? You may be offended but we were the victims of a much bigger offense. 

Death By Publicity Stunt?
Adam checks in to give us a opinion on the Stalaggh Vocalist Killed story from yesterday. He writes: That Stallaggh thing just doesn't ring true to me. The guy dies so the band use that as a chance to talk about the guy killing his mom? That smells of a publicity stunt to me and does this band even exist? 

Response: We didn't originate that story, so we can't tell you much about the validity. You should check with Blabbermouth about that. It's even harder because the band is anonymous and "rumored to consist of many top musicians from the Dutch and Belgian black metal / industrial scene," according to Encyclopaedia Metallum. We checked a couple places on the web for info about this death (including a tribute Myspace page which the owner logged into just today and the band's label Myspace page) and none of them confirmed it. So that about all we can tell you, but it looks like you may have made a good catch! - wanna respond?

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