Detritus
Issue #348
Week of December 26, 2005
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Patrick Brower, Editor
patrickbrower@...

Sean P. Gahgan, Editor
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Tim Wadzinski, Owner
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Steve Shumake, Co-owner
vongoober@...
http://www.vongoober.com/

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-Quick, bite-sized issue this week. I guess everybody's off making New
Year's Eve plans... Have a good one! - Tim

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-Two New Bands Confirmed For Sweden Rock Festival 2006

Molly Hatchet (US)

Not that many of the classic southern rock bands of the seventies
exist. There are however a few classic names still going stronger than
ever. At the top, besides Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot and Allman
Brothers, we of course find Molly Hatchet. The band, that took its
name from axe murderess Abigail "Molly hatchet" of Salem, made their
debut in 1978. This self-titled album has now reached platinum status.
The band has existed under numerous constellations and is high up on
the list of bands with the most number of line-ups (there probably
isn't even any "original" line-up). These days, the band's legendary
guitar player, Dave Hlubek is back in the band. The sound has however
been consistent, which is easy to hear when comparing albums like
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (1979), THE DEED IS DONE (1984), DEVIL'S CANYON
(1996) and the latest effort WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW BRIDGE (2005).

Homepage: http://www.mollyhatchet.com/

From Behind (S/UK/US)

From Behind play blues based, hard rockin', beer-drenched rock'n'roll
with a metal touch for the great masses, hungry for twin-guitar based
songs, sung by one of Britain's leading rock vocalists; Nicky Moore.
Nicky's CV is as long and impressing as British rock itself. The
former Samson front man, by some referred to as "the fat guy who
replaced Bruce Dickinson," was in fact to large extent responsible for
making Samson the British metal legend it still is today, putting the
band to their highest chart positions during their career! After
Samson disbanded he became part of Mammoth, literally the heaviest of
all heavy metal bands, alongside John McCoy of Gillan fame.

With a voice dripping with soul and emotion, his reputation as a great
performer is up there with the likes of Paul Rodgers, Frankie Miller
and Van Morrison. Currently touring with his own blues band, he's
today as active as ever.

Manuel "Manny" Charlton, a living legend, who from the start untill
1989 was the guitar player, songwriter, producer, you name it, in one
of the seventies' biggest and loudest rock bands, Scottish Nazareth.
The band gave the world hits as "Love Hurts," "Razamanaz," "Hair Of
The Dog," "This Flight Tonight" etc. etc. etc. and is still considerd
as one of the giants from the early days of hard rock music. The
Spanish Scotsman, now residing in Dallas, Texas, will once again show
the rock audience his amazing guitar playing, songwriting skills, soul
dripping slide solos and heavy riffing. Expect no Mercy.

Andreas Grufstedt, Mikael Fässberg, Fredrik Borg and Carl-Michael
"Hilton" Hildesjö have kept a high profile on the south Swedish music
scene, playing with Jet Black Combo, Burning Engines and Merrygold to
name a few. Mikael and Andreas current occupation sees them backing
former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul DiAnno while on his 2005-2006 tour.

Homepage: http://www.from-behind.nu/

Download the entire song "Play Dirty":
http://www.from-behind.nu/Play%20Dirty.mp3

BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR:

DEEP PURPLE (UK) - Headliner
JOURNEY (US)
CELTIC FROST (CH)
W.A.S.P. (US)
KROKUS (CH)
JEFF HEALEY BAND (CAN)
STRYPER (US)
CACTUS (US)
GEORGE THOROGOOD & The Destroyers (US)
CATHEDRAL (UK)
MOLLY HATCHET (US)
DORO (D)
THE SWEET (UK)
EASY ACTION (S)
NEVERMORE (US)
METAL CHURCH (US)
FROM BEHIND (S/UK/US)
LORD BELIAL (S)
EVERGREY (S)
FIREWIND (GR/S)
JADED HEART (D)
RAISE HELL (S)
THE STORYTELLER (S)

More bands will be released soon!

The office is closed between 23 December and 2 January.

Information about Tickets at our homepage!

All information and a little more at: http://www.swedenrock.com/

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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-A Midwinter Night's Dream

The year of 2006 will start with a great night of doom and epic metal.
On January 14th, the Jaxx Night Club (Springfield, VA) will host A
Midwinter Night's Dream, a festival which will bring the following
bands:

- Todesbonden (headliner) - After the successful concert with Therion,
also at Jaxx Night Club, they were invited to play again, now as
headliners, and will be playing some songs from the EP STORMBRINGER
(Pale Moon Records) and new ones which will be released in the band's
full length, GHOST OF A CRESCENT MOON (Prophecy Productions), to be
released in 2006. Todesbonden is a celtic, medieval, world, doom metal
influenced band with soaring violins and operatic, experimental female
vocals with members from bands like: Autumn Tears, Ol Sonuf, Ephemeral
Sun, Nest, Aurora Borealis, ex-Rain Fell Within, ex-Garden Of Shadows,
and others. - http://www.todesbonden.com/

- Brave - An atmospheric melodic metal band with doom and progressive
influences topped with beautiful violins and ethereal female vocals.
The band has members from While Heaven Wept, As The Sea Parts and
ex-Forty Days Longing. - http://www.bravemusic.com/

- Withersoul - A dark powerful atmospheric doom and death metal
influenced band, with female and male extreme vocals. -
http://www.withersoul.com/

- Shroud Of Bereavement - Classical and folk influenced atmospheric
doom metal with an extremely moving combo of male death vocals and
operatic female vocals. - http://www.shroud-of-bereavement.com/

- Xeper - Sludgy progressive doom with a mystical sound reigning from
Baltimore, Maryland. - http://www.xeperband.com/

Schedule:

- 11-12 pm - Todesbonden (headliner)
- 10-11 pm - Brave
- 09-10 pm - Withersoul
- 08-09 pm - Shroud Of Bereavement
- 07-08 pm - Xeper

- Tickets can be ordered directly with Todesbonden through the e-mail
band@... -

Infos:

A Midwinter Night's Dream
Bands: Todesbonden, Brave, Withersoul, Shroud Of Bereavement and Xeper
Date: Sat. Jan 14th, 2006
Time: Doors open at 6pm
Venue: Jaxx Nightclub ( http://www.jaxxroxx.com/ )
Address: 6355 Rolling Road - West Springfield, VA - USA
Tickets: $10 - band@...

Pale Moon Records
http://www.palemoonrecords.com/
http://www.laurieannhaus.com/
+55 53 91236765

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-Happy Holidays From Penetrator

Cheers everybody! 2005 was a great year in music and Penetrator would
like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe and joyous holiday.

Have a very Happy New Year and may all of 2006 be a year filled with
killer concerts and thundering metal releases.

Penetrator have started to record their follow up CD to PENETRATOR
entitled VOO DOOM. 14 new songs! Original drummer Simon Zanderzand is
recording the drum tracks on the new CD at his studio, The Sound
Lounge.

Penetrator will perform at Metal Queen Management's Canadian Music
Week Festival Showcase on March 4, 2006. Details to be posted in
January at CMW website, http://www.cmw.net/ .

Metal Gods bless us everyone,

Penetrator
Official Website - http://www.penetratorpower.com/
Fan Site - http://www.myspace.com/penetrator

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-The Premiere Of The New Darzamat Album: TRANSKARPATIA!

http://www.darzamat.art.pl/
e-mail: darzamat@... or flauros@...

In December, 19th, 2005 the European premiere of the fifth Darzamat's
album TRANSKARPATIA took place. The CD containes over 50 minutes of
music and additionally an almost 20-minute report from the recording
session. TRANSKARPATIA was produced at Los Angered Recording in
Goeteborg/Sweden by Andy La Rocque -- the guitar player of the cult
band King Diamond, known from his work with such bands as Evergrey,
Ancient or Lord Belial. Album was released by Metal Mind Production (
http://www.metalopolis.pl/ ). At the begining of 2006 TRANSKARPATIA
will appear in Mexico (Gravis Records) and in Russia (CD Maximum) as
well.

On band's new website you can find three fragments ("The Burning
Times," "Vampiric Prose" and "Labyrinth Of Anxiety") taken from the
last album! In the download section there are also two video clips,
and other pieces in MP3 format coming from SEMIDEVILISH. You can also
have a look at updated photo section and you can express your opinion
in a brand new guest book.

Enjoy the music and the pictures!

TRANSKARPATIA program:

"Sanguinarius (Intro)"
"Vampiric Prose"
"Hallucinations"
"Inhumatus (Intro)"
"The Burning Times"
"Letter From Hell"
"Blackward"
"Recurring Yell"
"Araneum (Intro)"
"Labyrinth Of Anxiety"
"Virus"
"The Old Form Of Worship"
"Tempted By Rot"
"Tribute To..."
Studio Report

Darzamat crew:

Nera – female vocals
Flauros - male vocals
Chris – guitars
Spectre – keyboards
Bacchus – bass
Golem – drums

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-Betrayer Newsletter - Mass Radio Airplay

http://www.betrayer.ca/

Betrayer is pleased to announce that they will be working with Howard
Rosen Promotion Inc from California to promote songs from the SHADOWED
FORCE album on over 350 radio stations throughout Canada and the
United States.

Howard has over 35 years in the music industry and held top positions
at Casablanca Records, Elektra, Warner Bros. and A&M Records. He is
responsible for breaking such acts as Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament
and many others. He has also worked with many other acts which include
The Doors, Van Halen, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Phil
Collins and Aerosmith.

The radio campaign will last for a minimum of 6 weeks and will start
January 2006. Betrayer will be able to be heard daily on stations
across the continent. Many of Howard's artists have been placed in to
regular rotation long after the campaign period, so we want to urge
our fans and street team members to do what they can and request our
songs or call in when you hear them.

In the coming weeks we will be sending out an initial list of radio
stations that we will be submitted to. We will have a dedicated page
setup shortly with request line information and more details about
these stations.

For street team members who have access to any of these radio
stations, please contact us through the 'Private Message Forum' and
let us know.

Thanks again for all the support!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

January 22nd, 2006:
· The Black Maria
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

February 17th, 2006:
· Horseshoe Tavern w/ Helix
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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-Disaster CompleX has been selected as one of four finalists to play
on the Taste Of Chaos Tour in its area. The band members are asking
folks to cast a vote in their favor. For more on the band, see
http://www.DisasterCompleX.com/ and to vote visit
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?
fuseaction=advertiserProfile.contestvote&advertiseruserid=3814551&city
id=14
.

-Even Vast is working on new material. See http://www.even-vast.com/
for more.

-Brazilian thrash band Korzus has posted two versions of its video
track "Who Is Going?," recorded live in front of 15,000 people at the
QuitoFest. The 2.3 MB version is available at
http://www.dusktilldawn.com.br/korzus/KORZUSQF.mov , and the 5.7 MB
version is available at
http://www.dusktilldawn.com.br/korzus/KorzusQF.mov . Check out the
band's official site http://www.korzus.com.br/ for pictures, MP3s, and
more information, and also check out the MySpace site
http://www.myspace.com/korzus and the Fotolog site
http://www.fotolog.net/korzus .

-Lacuna Coil has finished all the recording for its new CD, KARMACODE,
which will be released early next year. Check out
http://www.lacunacoil.it/ for all the updates.

-According to on-line reports the personal trainer used by Vince Neil
on the VH1 reality show "Remaking: Vince Neil," Craig Titus, and his
wife, Kelly Ryan, were arrested last Friday in Massachusetts in
connection with the murder of a woman "whose body was found two weeks
ago in Ryan's burned-out luxury car abandoned off a remote desert
highway."

-MANIACAL RENDERINGS - CHAPTER 2 is the title set for Jon Oliva's
Pain's second album. The band's official Web site,
http://www.jonoliva.net/ , reports the band will enter the studio in
January to start the recordings. Check out the tour section for all of
the latest dates as well.

-Rivera/Bomma's I AM GOD is due out February 10, on Mausoleum Records
in Europe and Japan, and distributed through The End Records in the
US. See http://www.riverabomma.net/ for more.

-A week ago Michael Schenker posted at his site that he's had to
cancel his "Tales Of Rock 'n' Roll" tour of the US. He is now focusing
on releasing the new Michael Schenker Group album TALES OF ROCK 'N'
ROLL, preparing for a European tour in 2006, and "establish[ing] my
life in Germany." See http://www.michaelschenkerhimself.com/ for more.

-More on the story of Urban Breed leaving Tad Morose... The band will
begin aditioning singers after the holidays; any interested parties
should contact the band at tadmorose@.... You can read Breed's
and Christer "Krunt" Andersson's comments on the official Web site
http://www.tadmorose.com/ . Check out Breed's new band, Bloodbound, at
http://www.bloodbound.se/ .

Thanks to Juan Corral and Bill "Chicken Dance" Kotowski for help
gathering some of this information.

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