Janick Gers fell off the stage in a concert of Iron maiden in Germany during the encores and suffered several bruises and had to return to London. The doctors advised him to stay of for a week and the result was to cancel three shows. One in Essen (Germany), one is Sophia (Bulgaria) and one in Athens (Greece, unfortunately).
After more than four years of silence, following their split with Columbia, Corrosion Of Conformity are preparing their new album. The album will be titled "America's Volume Dealers" and is scheduled for a late September or early October release.
Line up changes in Black Label Society. Their drummer Phil Ondich has serious drinking problems according to the management of the band and he will not play in the tour and the next album of the band. He is replaced by Craig from label mates Crowbar. According to reports Phil and Zakk had a fight on stage and then Zakk fired the drummer, went to the tour bus, threw out all of Phil's belongings and return on stage with Craig to finish the set.
Exhumed have finished working on their new album which will be released in mid August. The title of the album is "Slaughter Cult" and according to the band it is the most straight-forward-in-your-face release of the band so far.
The son of Cher and Greg Alman asked as a birthday present Cannibal Corpse to play at his party and they did. Among the lucky (!) attendants were Cher, Cameron Diaz and several other celebrities. Oh I just love this kid ! In related news the band will release a live album in September titled "Live Cannibalism".
Review of the week:
ED GUY - Savage Poetry / AFM
Ed Guy have returned with another album and it's an album worth their talent and the reputation they have established for themselves so far. It's not an entirely new album since it is a re-recording of their first album. But the changes are so many that you can hardly recognize the old songs. They are re-recorded, re-arranged, re-produced, even re-written in some cases. The result is an album of German school Power Metal in the usual veins of Ed Guy that's simply impressive. What you'll find in the album is the usual bombastic metal of the band along with a couple of ballads and a ten minutes epic song with many changes in the rhythms. All the things that help Ed Guy become one of the best Power Metal bands around are present in the album. The excellent voice of Tobias, the double guitars and the groovy songs with the catchy refrains, that seem to stack in your mind. You know it's this kind of songs that you whisper alone wherever you are. Along with the album comes, as a bonus, the original recording of the album from 1995. If you listen to it you'll be surprised since it has very few things in common with the new recording. I don't think that someone will prefer it from the new recording, but it's there, more for historical reasons. Before we close the review we should mention the excellent production and the classic Ed Guy cover art, which are just completing the puzzle in the best possible way. If you are into Power Metal then the album is a must.
