News Quickies

*  Auckland extreme metal outfit, Scaphist, have posted their album, "Majestic Seal of Antiquity" for free download at the following location:  http://hotfile.com/dl/108157490/eefc88f/Scaphist_-_Majestic_Seal_of_Antiquity_(2011).zip.html

*  Legendary Brazilio-Americano metallers, Sepultura, have announce the name of their next album to be "Kairos".

*  Devin Townsend, while busy working on various rock-band projects and new albums, has covered Frank Sinatra's, "New York, New York" on a compilation called something like, "SIN-atra". Check out his version here: http://soundcloud.com/eagle-rock-entertainment/sin-atra-new-york-new-york
The album consists of various other metallers covering Sinatra tracks but this is the best I've heard (by far) so far..

*  Video games have long used music, and recently heavy metal to add to the atmosphere etc of play, but for the upcoming game "Homefront" math-metallers, Dillinger Escape Plan are covering "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy. It's hard to judge how this will turn out given the mixed results in the past with (awesome) Aphix Twin cover vs (average) Soundgarden cover.
ALSO, activity on twitter suggests that the Dillinger Escape plan front man, Greg Puciato, might collaberate with Devin Townsend on a song, that could very well re-define awesome. Puciato has previously guested on songs by Genghis Tron, Prong, Every Time I Die, Soulfly and Architects.

*  All girl band Kittie have finished writing new material.

*  You can download for free a compilation of underground industrial metal bands thanks to "Death to Music" & "Industrialized Metal Zine" here: http://www.archive.org/download/FEA_vol7_DTM064/FeaVol7-Dtm064.zip (it starts the download straight away)
Tracklist:
1 Nekrotech (Spain): My Own Reflection.
2 Pheromone (Russia): Synthetic Angel.
3 Digitalis Purpurea (Italy): Dust Devil.
4 Minim (Spain): I Never See You Cry.
5 Blood (Spain): Monsenor.
6 Humantonic (Belgium): Tetsuo.
7 The Bombs of Enduring Freedom (U.K): Stand Up Now (If You're Brave).
8 Bassookah (The Netherlands): Kathmandu.
9 Vuurhemel (USA): Shadow of My Death

*  A Storm of light, some apocalyptic metal band have their new song, "Collapse" available for free download here: http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/mp3/as0l_collapse_ss.mp3

*  A 23 year old by the name of Marc Hudon has been named as the new vocalist for Dragonforce.


*  The Metal Weekend for Christchurch, a fundraising event in support (100% of all money raised) of Christchurch has been announced: April 8th & 9th at the Rising Sun and 4.20 on K Rd will host Ak bands: Resporn, Incarnuim, Upraw, Slavegrind, Heathen Eyes, Crimson Rain, Kulus, Mutangent, Scaphist, Amachine D.I.C
The Facebook events page for this gig: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193964293970071