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- Iron Maiden tours Australia
- Iraqi Heavy Metal Band Asks for Help as They Fight to Survive
- Smashing Pumpkins’ Corgan believes in yesterday
… Plus Danzig & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Sep 21, 2007
Technical melodic death-metal band Arsis are in the studio working on their first album for Nuclear Blast. The disc tentatively titled We Are the Nightmare will be the follow-up to the Virginia Beach Virginia band’s 2006 album United in Regret.
Iron Maiden tours Australia
NEWS.com.au – Sep 22, 2007
Dickinson says next year’s tour – the band’s fourth visit to Australia and first since 1992 – should satisfy decades of badgering from fans wanting to hear Maiden’s hits live Down Under but doesn’t seek to replicate the Powerslave tour’s past glory. "We’re not trying to rewrite the tour. It won’t be Live After Death word for word. I won’t be wearing my jocks on the outside of my Spandex. "We’ll be re-creating the cool bits but the main thing is the music. "We don’t want to look like our own version of an Iron Maiden cover band" Dickinson says. There’s not much chance of that given the line-up in Maiden is almost the same as that which toured Australia on the back on their 1982 breakthrough album Number of the Beast which hit No… It won’t be Live After Death word for word. I won’t be wearing my jocks on the outside of my Spandex. "We’ll be re-creating the cool bits but the main thing is the music. "We don’t want to look like our own version of an Iron Maiden cover band" Dickinson says. There’s not much chance of that given the line-up in Maiden is almost the same as that which toured Australia on the back on their 1982 breakthrough album Number of the Beast which hit No. Beast was Dickinson’s first album with the British metal outfit and the band’s third.
Iraqi Heavy Metal Band Asks for Help as They Fight to Survive
Rolling Stone – Sep 21, 2007
Now new information has emerged about Acrassicauda Iraq’s only heavy-metal band and their fight to survive. The group which formed in 2001 and was influenced by Metallica Slayer and Slipknot almost immediately began receiving death threats from fundamentalists who called their music Satantic ? playing in public became almost impossible and even practicing was dangerous. Like approximately two million other Iraqis they fled their home country and became war refugees in Syria but as of ctober 10th their visas expire ? if they return home they will almost certainly die. Now the filmmakers who documented their struggle in the film are asking for help raising money to relocate the band someplace safer (they’re not disclosing where for fear of endangering the band further). For more information and instructions on how to donate check out the.
Smashing Pumpkins’ Corgan believes in yesterday
San Diego Union Tribune – Sep 21, 2007
Billy Corgan's band dormant since 2000 was revived earlier this year. But the chrome-domed leader of Smashing Pumpkins seemed to have death and a bygone era of rock 'n' roll on his mind – not just rebirth and celebration – during his revamped group's Wednesday night concert at SDSU's pen Air Theatre. He concluded the number with a rhetorical query for the enthusiastic multigenerational audience that filled the 4500-seat venue. “The question is” he yelled “are you ready to die for rock 'n' roll?”Had the concert ended then that question could be viewed as an affirmation of music-as-salvation a quality the Pumpkins' best songs easily achieved here. Instead the show took on a surreal tone as the band segued into a revved-up version of “n the Road Again” a 1968 rock-a-boogie hit by Woodstock veterans Canned Heat… ”ther parts of the concert also found Corgan looking back at various rock pioneers as befits an artist who has never made a secret of his musical influences and his undying passion for Black Sabbath Queen Cheap Trick and Led Zeppelin. During “Doomsday Clock” one of five songs performed from the uneven new Pumpkins' album “Zeitgeist” Corgan played a one-note guitar solo that almost prefectly evoked Pete Townshend's on The Who's 1967 classic “I Can See For Miles. But these tributes to the past were no surprise. The success of the Pumpkins' ongoing tour its first in seven years has much to do with the band's storied past and rich back catalog of songs such as “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” “Drown” and “1979” which accounted for three of Wednesday's highlights. The tour's success owes little to “Zeitgeist” a so-so album on which only Corgan and original Pumpkins drum dynamo Jimmy Chamberlin perform. Since no other former members of the band were invited to rejoin the tour features three hired hands: fleet-fingered guitarist Jeff Schroeder; bassist Ginger Reyes; and English-born keyboardist Lisa Harriton a seasoned jazz musician who has worked in the bands of saxophonist Ernie Watts and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen.