- Nice turnout for the Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral,
Pissing Razors, Incantation show. Hopefully some that attended that show will
start attending smaller, local shows. Also, a few shows have been posted on the
shows page.
- Many new
shows just added. Go to the shows page to check them
out.
- The Noctuary, Stormbringer, Exhausted Prayer,
A.R.C, Gutrot show at The
Catacombs was alot of fun. Next month, Rise is confirmed as one of the bands.
I want to see more people showing up for these shows. This is our only monthly
death/black metal show (not to mention it is all ages). Show your support by going
to the show and bringing a few friends with you.
- Cannibal
Corpse and Dark Funeral are now confirmed to make an appearance at Blue
Meannie Records for a CD signing on Tuesday April 23, from 3pm to 4pm.
- New pictures of me (Brian)
are up. Prepare to be horrified. Fortress
have been added to the links and bands
pages.
- Cannibal Corpse are having a CD signing
at Blue Meannie Records
on Tuesday April 23 from 3pm to 4pm. They will be playing that night at Brick
by Brick with Dark Funeral, Incantation and Pissing Razors.
Here
is a press release from Cattle Decapitation:
CATTLE
DECAPITATION joins the onslaught! http://www.cattledecapitation.com San Diego's
goreifying quintet CATTLE DECAPITATION, have signed to America's #1 Heavy Metal
Record label METAL BLADE RECORDS. Metal Blade has been in the forefront of groundbreaking
extreme music. Cattle Decapitation's sound will bring elements of older death/grind,
inbred with utterly impossible low vocals, while being stabbed by immense drumming.
Cattle Decapitation brings forth the ideas of vegetarianism with the utmost brutal
approach in expression, both musically and imagery.
When
the names Carcass, Napalm Death, Repulsion, Cannibal Corpse are said as
the
defining bands, Cattle Decapitation will be the next name on the list. Fans may
recognize drummer Dave Astor who formed The Locust, and former Cattle Decapitation
guitarist Gabe Serbian who now plays drums in The Locust. Showing their deep roots
in the underground extreme music scene, playing shows up and down the West Coast,
as well as releasing 2 full length albums on an indy label from San Diego. Singer
Travis Ryan had this to say about their addition to the Metal Blade roster:
"We're all very pleased about being on Metal
Blade. We have been fans
of bands of Metal Blade for
years now, so to finally to be on a roster that
has
hosted Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Rigor Mortis and
Cryptic Slaughter
is just fine with us! Being on Metal
Bladeis going to allow us to reach a
higher level of
exposure and ability to play in places and in front of crowds
that we wouldn't normally be able to, and that is
something we need right
now."
CATTLE DECAPITATION will head into Trident Studios
with Juan Urteaga and start to record their Metal Blade debut in early April.
Expect their release, "To Serve Man" in July 2002.
Upcoming Cattle Decapitation shows: Saturday,
March 30th
Phobia
Cattle Decapitation
Fetus Eaters
Gutrot
@ The Che Cafe
in La Jolla, Ca
8:00pm
$5
ALL AGES Visit
http://checafe.ucsd.edu/directions.html for
directions... Friday,
May 10th
Cattle Decapitation
Wrench
Sol Evil
Akeldama
&
Amordeum
@ Showcase Theater Corona
on corner of West 6th st.
and South
Main st.
$8.00
Doors open at 7:30
For directions:
http://www.showcasetheatre.com/locate.html
- The
Catacombs presents Noctuary,
Stormbringer, Exaunted
Prayer, Gutrot and A.R.C on Sunday, April 7, 7:30pm at Club Xanth. As you may
know, Catacombs is a monthly death/black metal show. Come out and support the
scene.
New Amon Amarth -"The Crusher"
review is up.
- The
show at Club Xanth on Sunday ruled! I actually got to see the whole show!
Thanks to the following for the great show and supporting the scene: Dave
(again for booking the show), Club Xanth, the bands (Defile, Downspell, Mortuus
Terror, Cattle Decapitation and Deeds of Flesh), Laura and Dave of Warface, Crazy
Mike, Jared, Ryan, Stephanie, Lauren, Bob, Tim, Armondo, Metalhead Mike, Claire,
Zach, Chris, Rob and everyone else who made it to the show.
A few things
that could have improved the show: Allow re-entry (I needed some fresh air
but going in that smoke chamber didn't seem to do it for me), and the hippies
that were selling the water were a bit annoying. Everything else was perfect.
- Sadly, Warface
are unable to play the show on Sunday at Club Xanth. They were unable to prepare
their temporary drummer in time for the show. Cattle Decapitation will be taking
their spot. The lineup for the show is now Deeds of Flesh, Cattle Decapitation,
Mortuus Terror, Downspell and Defile. See you there!
- Deeds
of Flesh, Warface, Mortuus Terror, Downspell and Defile are playing this Sunday
at Club Xanth. I hope to see you
all there. It will be $7 at the door and all ages are welcome, show starts at
7pm. Slayer has postponed the 4th & B show once again. Some broken links were
fixed on the links page.
In other news, the
site look has changed a little, also we have a new review
of Conqueror's "War Cult Supremacy" album.
- Black
Witchery and Crimson Moon reviews up. Thanks to Ryan
and Stephanie for the awesome reviews!
- Cattle
Decapitation's "Human Jerky" LP is finally available for mailorder on
enhanced CD! Digitally remastered with bonus live footage, downloadable desktops
and a link to the band's website, playable in any computer! Witness Human Jerky
tracks from the beef jerky mask shows! Experience superb, digitally remastered
CARNAGE!!!
Available through mailorder only for the next couple of months...
NOT YET AVAILABLE IN STORES!!!
Get it here:
Three
One G
*This is the band's first album originally issued on vinyl only.
This has nothing to do with the 2002 Metal Blade release, To Serve Man, due out
mid-2002.
- A
reviews page has been added, email
me if you would like to help with reviews. Hopefully the message board will
be up soon (Jared!).
- Press
release from Brick Bath: There's a lot of major things happening in the
BRICK BATH camp!
The debut album titled "I Won't Live the Lie"
on Pavement Records/Crash Music is now available in stores everywhere. If your
favorite record store doesn't have it, tell them to carry it!
BRICK BATH
charted at # 2 in the "Top 10 Indie CDs of 2001" list in the new issue
of BW&BK!
Please request Brick Bath on 105.3!
BRICK BATH will have
a surprise announcement to make soon!
Horns Up \m/
- I
plan on having reviews up on the site so people can have sone input on what to
buy when heading to your local metal store. Anyone interested in doing reviews
are encouraged to email me. In other
news, there are alot of concerts added to the shows
page. Also, I have updated my CD list.
I havent done this in awhile. If anyone is interested in doing some trading, be
sure to let me know.
- Scott
Ellis has left Warface due to reasons undisclosed. Warface are now in search for
a drummer. If you or someone you know may be interested, please contact
them
- Catacombs
at Club Xanth last night was awesome. I was only there for about an hour and 45
minutes, but it was an hour and 45 minutes that will live on forever. I would
like to thank the following people for their participation in making that small
ammount of time, so great: Dave (for booking such an epic show), Club Xanth, all
the bands (Eternal Unborn, Mortuus Terror, Abysmal Nocturne, Crematorium, Sumeria),
Ryan, Scott (greedy bastard), Jared, Spoto, Crazy Mike (thanks for the beer), Sharmaine (I didn't see you
but I think you went to the show), Armondo, Zach (see Sharmaine's comment), and
thanks to all the fans that showed up.
I would like eternal damnation to the
following: All the girls who gave me dirty looks, and AMPM for making me leave
the show early cause I had to work. Be sure to make it out to Catacombs next month,
Deeds of Flesh, Mortuus Terror, Warface and Downspell are going to be playing.
This show is a must! In other news, I will have album reviews up very soon.
- Paul Baloff,
frontman of the legendary 80's thrash metal band Exodus has passed away on February
2nd. He suffered a sever stroke and had to be pulled off of life support. Exodus
were a very influential band that came out of the bay area in the early 80's.
They had recently reformed and were on a tour (even had a show booked for Brick
by Brick in March). Paul's music will live on in the countless bands that Exodus
influenced.
- Sadly,
sdmetal.org is no more. This has inspired me to pick up the torch and bring alot
of it's elements to this site. A message board (my favorite place to rant) and
many other things will be added to this site over the next few months. Hopefully
Jared will participate in helping with this site. If anyone has any suggestions
for this site please email me. I would
like to thank Jared for how he has greatly helped the San Diego metal scene. Thanks
bro.
- Checked
out The Scene. I like it. Reminds me of the good ol' days at Soma. Warface is
playing on Sunday February 2nd at The Whisky in LA. Tickets are available from
Warface. Contact them here
to get tickets. If you can't get to LA check out The Catacombs at Club Xanth.
Bands playing that night are Mortuus Terror, Abysmal Nocturne, Crematorium, Sumeria,
and Eternal Unborn. For directions and more information check out the Club
Xanth website.
- The
New Years Evil show at Brick by Brick was great. I bashed my head into a speaker
and blah blah blah. Thanks to all who were concerned. You all rule.
- Here is an
email I recieved from Travis of Cattle Decapitation concerning their talks with
Metal Blade Records and the new album:
And here's a press release from
Metal Blade for your site. We're almost there... We're waiting to get the proposal
to Erik Rutan back and then we're going to iron everything out asap. They're looking
at a July 30th release
date. We're down for recording in Florida the first
two weeks of March.: Metal
Blade Records is currently in negotiations with the Southern
California kings
of brutal Death Grind CATTLE
DECAPITATION http://www.cattledecapitation.com/
. Cattle Decapitation
were originally formed as a side project from The Locust,
but have since then molded into a highly respected band in the underground scene.
Metal Blade is excited about Cattle Decapitation, having given America the starts
of such bands as Slayer, Corrosion of Conformity, GWAR, The Mentors, Dr. Know,
Cattle Decapitation are going to be the new name is extreme music.
Vocalist
Travis Ryan had this to say about the future with Metal Blade "To us it is an
honor to be chosen by a label that is responsible for such greats as Rigor Mortis,
Cryptic Slaughter, Cannibal Corpse and King Diamond as a theater to present to
the unfortunate public our brand of extreme
music".
Expect a full serving
of their upcoming album TO SERVE MAN, due out in mid 2002. Cattle Decapitation
will be touring throughout 2002 in build up
of their Metal Blade debut! DINNER
IS PREPARED.(From Metalblade.com) also,
we were in the Reader this week:
http://www.sdreader.com/ed/calendar/blurt/
- Sadly, Chuck
Schuldiner has passed away on December 13th at 4pm. He was mast known for his
work in Death and recently in Controll Denied. His style of technical death metal
had a huge influence on the metal scene. He will not be forgotten. Thanks for
your all that you have done for the metal scene. We will miss you.
- Great
turn-out for the Morbid Angel, Deicide, Zyklon, Soilent Green, Exhumed show! I
had a great time and it was real nice seeing everyone there.
- At
the show, Travis from Cattle Decapitation told me that the band has still not
signed with Metal Blade Records yet. They have some legal issues to iron out first.
He informed me that they plan to start recording a new album mid 2002. They are
in talks with Erik Rutan (Ripping Corpse, Morbid Angel, Alas and has produced
the latest Krisiun and Pessimist releases), to produce their album.
- San
Diego power-groove/thrash metal band BRICK BATH has officially signed with Pavement/Crash
Music Inc. The bands debut album titled "I Won't Live The Lie" will be re-released
on Feb. 12th 2002 with a US/European tour to follow. They also have 2 songs featured
along with Rob Zombie on the new White Knuckles Extreme Sports DVD titled "Slednecks
Trilogy" which was released worldwide on Oct. 23rd through Image Entertainment.
BRICK BATH will be playing an all ages show at the Rock Ranch in San Berdo on
Nov. 30th with a San Diego show to follow before they embark on the first leg
of their US dates. For more info. please visit www.mp3.com/brickbath or www.crash-inc.com
Support local music!
- The
Enthroned show ruled, we could have used a few more heads there though.
- Band
members needed for a death/black metal band. Drummer must be able to play blast
beats and have double bass. Also, a vocalist/vocalist needed. Influences include
Morbid Angel, Vader, Thorns, Satyricon, Emperor and Vital Remains. I heard some
of the riffs and they sounded very technical and unique. Email
Zach, or call him at 619-741-5847.
- Don
from Under
the Stone emailed me awhle back to post this and I just forgot untill now:
Metal Drummer needed for original project, ages 19-27 preferably.
Influences:
At The Gates, The Haunted, Machine Head, Fear Factory, In
Flames,
Meshuggah,
Dimmu Borgir. Requirments:
Transportation, Money for room rent, Destructive double
bass
(blast
beats are a bonus), creative mind, DEDICATION. No addicts. email:
VUnderTheStoneV@aol.com - Crimson
Moon have not broken up! Nocturnal Overloard sent me an email saying how Crimson
Moon have recorded an album that will be an archive of all the music they
have done. This includes re-recordings of their demos and 3 unreleased songs.
Also be sure to check out Nocturnal Overloard's solo project
Nibiru. He tells me it is cold, atmospheric black metal.
- Sorry
for the lack of updates, My hard drive crashed. The site will be updated more
now.
- Travis
from Cattle Decapitation has posted
tour dates in the guestbook.
Be sure to check that out.
- I
have uploaded this site to a banner-free mirror site at www.sandiegometal.f2s.com.
Check it out.
- Club
Apocalypse is now dead. Venus has closed down.
- Be
sure to check out Club Apocalypse. It is a new metal club every thursday night
from 10pm to 2am. They will be playing death, black and viking metal. It is located
at Club Xanth, 4225 30th
St. San Diego. Call the info line at 619 584 2720.
- I
have finally posted a picture of myself. If you see me
at any shows, be sure to say hi.
- I
have done an interview
for SplatterTribe.com. It's not much but oh well.
- I've
heard that local band Ninth
Level have signed a 3 record deal
- I
know this isn't really news but Absu has a new album titled "Tara". If anyone
has heard it email me and let me know
how it sounds.
- In
San Fransisco, they are having the Thrash
of the Titans show. It benafits Chuck Billy of Testament who has cancer. Some
real classic bands will be playing. The show will be on August 11.
- According
to Kevin from Enraged,
The Firehouse in Oceanside will no longer have metal shows. Enraged are entering
the studio to record for upcomming Slayer and Metallica tributes. They will record
Black Magic and Master of Puppets.
- The
Enraged,
Rise, Sanctus
show at The Boulevard was great. I picked up Rise's new album Devine Aeternum,
very brutal.
- Be
sure to pick up the latest issue of Lacerated
Magazine. It's free, and its brutal.
- The
Monstrosity show was ok, I am not too impressed with their new vocalist. Mortuus
Terror put on a great show as allways. I talked with Travis of Cattle
Decapatation at the show, he said they are signing a record deal with Death
Vomit / Necropolis Records.
- The
Deeds of Flesh, Disgorge,
Mortuus Terror,
New Death Machine show was great. Local band Disgorge had an amazing performance.
- Morbid
Angel vocalist Steve Tucker will not be joining the group during their upcoming
US tour with Slayer, Pantera and Static-X or their European tour alongside Zyklon
and Cadaver Inc. due to personal and family problems and obligations. His replacement
for the tours is Jared Anderson of Hate Eternal who'll be taking over all bass
and vocal duties. - Earache.com
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