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CHILDREN OF BODOM ENTERS STUDIO; BEGINS WORK ON NEW ALBUM CRITICALLY LAUDED FINNISH METAL BAND LOOKS TO CREATE “THE PERFECT STORM” WITH NEW RECORD

CHILDREN OF BODOM, the esteemed Finnish Heavy Metal band that features frontman and modern day guitar hero Alexi Laiho has entered Hollola, Finland’s Petrax Studios to begin work on its as-yet-untitled seventh studio album. COB has enlisted famed rock producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Monster Magnet) to oversee the new recording and will remain in the studio through late September. The new record will see release in early 2011.

“We’re very excited to let everyone hear what we’re creating with this new record,” said the band in a statement. “Everything you love about CHILDREN OF BODOM has been magnified tenfold and we’re pushing ourselves harder than ever before. Expect nothing less than “the perfect storm!”

Look out for them on the Berzerkus Tour this fall!

MONSTER MAGNET SPOTLIGHTED ON AOL NOISECREEP!

Check it all the buzz on the band's upcoming new album here!

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World renowned hard rock giants HIGH ON FIRE have announced a North American headlining tour. The massive fall expedition – dubbed the “Sanctioned Annihilation Tour” -- will feature support from Torche and Kylesa and is set to launch on September 27 at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA.
ON FIRE will perform amongst the featured acts at a host of high profile music festivals including Chicago’s Riot Fest, Nova Scotia’s Halifax Pop Explosion, Florida’s Ye Old Fest and Austin, TX’s Fun Fun Fun Fest.
ON FIRE has been chosen to participate as part of the 2011 Soundwave Festival. Billed as Australia’s “biggest metal and rock festival” and set to take place in late February and early March of next year, Soundwave will feature HIGH ON FIRE alongside such names as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Queens of the Stone Age, Social Distortion, Monster Magnet, Rob Zombie and more.
to tour in support of its critically lauded new album, Snakes for the Divine. The band’s debut release for E1 Music, and fifth full length album overall, Snakes for the Divine debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Hard Music Core Stores Chart and at #62 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart in its first week of release this past February. HIGH ON FIRE was recently called “one the best live bands you will ever see” by the Chicago Tribune, while the New York Times stated of the group, “it’s High on Fire’s moment — raise your flagons, please.” The band has already headlined North America once this year to rousing response and toured Europe as hand-picked support for Hall of Fame metal band Metallica.
Annihilation” headlining tour:
Torche, Kylesa)
Kylesa)
Great American Music Hall #
Glasshouse #
Orpheum Theatre #
The Launchpad #
Bluebird Theater #
Varsity Theatre #
Turner Hall Ballroom #
Rock Island Brewing Company #
Canopy Club #
Metro (* As part of the 2010 Riot Festival)
Bluebird #
Historic Southgate House #
Majestic Theatre #
Grog Shop #
Water Street #
Pearl Street #
The Paragon Theatre (* As part of the 2010 Halifax Pop Explosion)
Port City Music Hall #
Club Hell #
Middle East Downstairs #
Webster Hall #
Starlite Ballroom #
Cat's Cradle #
Common Ground (* As part of the 2010 Ye Old Fest)
Waterloo Park (* As part of the 2010 Fun Fun Fun Fest)

GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP TO RELEASE NEW EP “SEX VID SINGLES CLUB” THIS OCTOBER OUTRAGEOUS NYC BAND SET TO “CHANGE OPINIONS”, OFFER ALTERNATIVE TO “MAINSTREAM IDENTITY”

Polarizing NYC hardcore punk band GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP (also GFJD) will release its new EP Sex Vid Singles Club on October 12 via Shinebox Recordings.

Birthed in Brooklyn, “with no regard for potential audiences” and the intent of “doing everything on its own terms,” GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP has met to every response but indifference since the release of its debut EP Erotically Charged Dance Songs for the Desperate (2004). The debut showcased the band’s machine gun rat-a-tat fire of short, sharp songs delivered in a frantic, relentless style featuring “a very well hidden yet deeply intellectual core” and lead singer Marty Leopard’s vocals that “straddled the line between Johnny Rotten and a hyena.” The 5-track EP met with extremely positive reviews which often compared GFJD to fellow hardcore bands The Refused, The Blood Brothers and The Locust. The band quickly sold through the EP’s 2000 copy pressing.

In 2005, GFJD recorded its second EP, Blood: The Natural Lubricant (An Apocalyptic Adventure Beyond Sodom and Gomorrah) and released it on the UK label Captains of Industry. This was supported by a small tour of Britain, which initiated such a rousing response that the band was instantaneously invited to headline a stage at the 2006 installment of the UK’s famous Download Festival in Donington Park, a feat nearly unheard of for a “developing band” still in its infancy. By year’s end, the band’s live shows had taken on mythical status – sometimes before they had even happened - and the “Blood” EP sold through its 5000 copy pressing.

When GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP’s debut full length, The Politics of Cruelty was released in 2007, it was received to first-class acclaim; the rare example of a hardcore band receiving positive reviews in publications such as New Music Express, Q, The Guardian and Uncut as well as heavier rock publications such as Rock Sound, Terrorizer and Kerrang!. Instead of featuring the usual biographical material, advance copies of the album sent to the media contained a highly explicit fan letter to actor Johnny Depp, purported to be written by someone simply known as 'Brad'. This approach was in keeping with the band's previous promotional material, which have included bottles of amyl nitrite, surgical rubber gloves, condoms, explicit photographs and further explicit letters from 'Brad'. The album appeared in the NME Chart’s Top 10 throughout November of 2007 and that same month singer Marty Leopard was invited to take part in the NME's annual Christmas Pub Golf (highlights of the evening have subsequently appeared on the internet).

However, in keeping with the band’s anti-mainstream model and anti-marketing manner, the singer subsequently referred to NME and other British music journals as “the enemy,” and when asked to comment for a press blurb, he screamed, “We don’t want to be in fucking NME!” The band’s approach has been consistently unflinching; GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP particularly embraces acrid relationships with rock critics, prominently displaying negative reviews on its website (www.gayforjohnnydepp.com). The Politics of Cruelty received airplay on all the major UK rock radio stations (including Radio 1 Rock Show with Mike Davies, the BBC Rock Radio Show with Daniel P. Carter, Radio 1's One Music with Huw Stephens, the XFM programs Ian Camfield's Rock Show and XFM X-posure and the London-based, international radio station Total Rock) and quickly sold through its 7000 copy pressing.

Now, with a U.S. label home in place, GFJD prepares its stateside crusade and is ready to rock its home country to its very foundations. The October release of Sex Vid Singles Club will see each song on the burly EP accompanied by its own sleek music video and will be followed quickly by the band’s sophomore album, due for release in February, 2011.

The track listing for GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP’s Sex Vid Singles Club is as follows:

1.) Suckcess
2.) Hey Fucked Up! (Punk Rock Can't Exist in Countries with Good Social Services)
3.) Shh, Put the Shiv to My Throat
4.) You Have a Theory, I Have a Gun
5.) Belief in God is So Adorable
6.) She Said, "I Like This One"

GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP is the perfect symbiotic melding of GG Allin, Marquis De Sade, Quentin Crisp, Jeff Stryker and The Germs and their music clearly represents that point at which the nihilism and paranoia of the late 90’s / early 00’s consumer-driven milieu dissipates and gives way to post-recession, pan-international feelings of ‘hope’, ‘change’, and ‘more sex’ for everyone. Rare it is that the innovators and pioneers get recognized in their own time, yet GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP is changing opinions concerning sexual politics, censorship, public indecency, international relations, gender and religious divisions and the capacity for the human ear to accept music at deafening volume levels one by one. At this rate the sky’s the limit. Maybe not even that.

In addition to Marty Leopard, GFJD features Sid Jagger (guitar), Chelsea Piers as “The Hunter” (bass) and A’rab Diesel (drums).

THE FUCKING WRATH SIGNS TO TEE PEE RECORDS CALIFORNIA D-BEAT DEFENDERS TO ISSUE NEW EP THIS OCTOBER

Ferocious Montalvo, California hardcore crust / metal band THE FUCKING WRATH have signed to NYC’s Tee Pee Records. The merciless quartet, whose sound has been described as “an amalgamation of groups such as Discharge, Black Flag, The Melvins and “Kill 'Em All”-era Metallica”, will release the five song Terra Fire EP on October 19.

Delivering a sound-assault that mixes blistering distortion, nihilistic rage, scorching metallic power and fire-breathing vocals mixed with dangerously high levels of intensity, THE FUCKING WRATH do not mess around. Heavy, dark and fast, the band goes straight for the throat, displaying a killer instinct and that is downright frightening. The band formed in 2005, recorded its first album Season of Evil the week of 06.06.06 and embarked on two nationwide DIY tours alongside everyone from Tragedy to Blue Cheer to High on Fire, gaining an army of enthusiasts with each and every live performance. THE FUCKING WRATH now averages close to 150 shows per year with no sign of slowing down. The band will follow the upcoming Terra Fire EP with a full album of new material in 2011.

The track listing for THE FUCKING WRATH’s Terra Fire EP is as follows:

1.) Low Brow
2.) With the Fangs of GOD
3.) Don’t Look Back
4.) Blank Slate
5.) Hurricane

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