Here's the countdown to HMS's top 20 metal albums of 2007



Apologies if your favourite album isn't here, that's popular voting for ya.

-Duncan

ID: 17

2007-12-29

Yes, it's fucking well happening.

Mike Amott has finally spilled the beans: it's more than likely that Carcass will do a reunion tour. In an interview with Sweden's Close-Up magazine, Mike announced that he, Bill Steer, Jeff Walker and Arch Enemy drummer Daniel Erlandsson had met up to rehearse old Carcass material.


"It sounded really good and it was a lot of fun." said Amott. "We rehearsed pretty much the entire 'Heartwork' album."

For more info and interview exerpts click here.

Fucking yes.

-Duncan

ID: 15

2007-09-18

"In a stunning last-minute move, Walt Disney Properties have pressured promoter Live Nation into canceling Machine Head's performance tomorrow night at the House of Blues venue in Anaheim (on their Disneyland property). Citing violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics as the reason, the diversity-impaired corporation began pressuring the promoter on Saturday to cancel all upcoming heavy metal concerts, placing Machine Head under an internal "review process" that took 5 days before bothering to convey their alarming decision to the band late yesterday - less than 48 hours before their Black Tyranny Tour was to kick off at House of Blues Anaheim on Friday night.

While the enactment of this new blanket rule applies to all upcoming heavy metal shows at the House Of Blues Anaheim (with some metal bands having been banned from performing on name alone), Machine Head is the first band to actually have tickets go on sale, and remain on sale for 2 months, before intense pressure and vague threats of liability from the Corporation left the promoter with no choice but to remove the show from the venue.

As a result, Live Nation's Paul McGuigan did the honorable thing and incredibly, on one days notice, managed to salvage the tour's opening night by moving the first date of The Black Tyranny tour (featuring Machine Head, Arch Enemy, Throwdown, and Sanctity) to The Glass House in Pomona, CA (located at 200 W. Second Street). All existing tickets will be redeemable for entry at The Glass House, and all Will Call pickups will now be available for pickup at the new venue. Any fans unable to make the 70-mile trip to The Glass House as a result of this ridiculous turn of events will be able to have their money refunded in full. Strangely, all other Black Tyranny dates at House Of Blues venues on Disney property will remain unaffected.

On behalf of all four bands on the bill, Machine Head wish to extend their gratitude to promoter Paul McGuigan and Live Nation for finding an alternate venue for tomorrow night's show on such short notice.

[From MachineHead1.com]"

I always knew that Goofy was more metal than Rob Flynn.

-Duncan

ID: 14

2007-09-07

Avenged Sevenfold have released the tracklisting and album art for their upcoming self-titled piece of original and classic thrash metal! The album art is simply a black-on-white A7X logo, the bat/skull thing which truly reflects the dark abyss of their blackened souls, AND their truly devillish hard metal attack.

'Avenged Sevenfold' hits stores the day before Halloween (presumably so kids can play it while dressed up as their favourite member!) and, yes, they've taken another very deep stylistic shift. The tracklisting is:

01. Critical Acclaim
02. Almost Easy
03. Scream
04. Afterlife
05. Gunslinger
06. Unbound the Wild Ride
07. Brompton Cocktail
08. Lost
09. A Little Piece of Heaven
10. Dear God

Note that 'Scream' is not a cover of the In Flames song, but it will involve the lyrical themes of ice cream and things 'working for you'. Mmm, thrashy!

It's an extra dosage of eyeliner and redneck fun, and because vocalist M Shadows has taken off his ridiculously silver teeth (at least on the top ones), he's gonna sound even more inspiring this time around to all us aspiring vocalists who want to be just like him by using poor screams for several releases so we can get his hard edge voice. Despite sounding like an 8 year old girl on steroids, his voice clearly shows the manly anguish he's been through over the years, what with the California upbringing and successful band and all. I know I'll be queuing up in Underground Clothing to get my copy and a shirt, poster, wallet and wine stopper while I'm at it.

Women are better than you.

-Seth Shadows

ID: 13

2007-09-06

I've just finished off a new feature were you can rate albums/tabs/videos. Just go to any of them and try it out. You can rate them out of 10 and it gets the average rating for them based on how many votes there are.

Also, in the near future, you'll be able to add comments to any of the content pages.

-Zero948

ID: 12

2007-08-07

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