Source: Blabbermouth.net
FEAR FACTORY, PRONG (with Tony Campos of STATIC-X on bass) tour dates:
May 16 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
May 17 – Knitting Factory – Reno, NV
May 19 – Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA
May 20 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID
May 21 – Club Sound @ In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
May 22 – Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
May 24 – Pop’s – Sauget, IL
May 26 – The Machine Shop – Flint, MI
May 28 – Headliner’s Music Hall – Louisville, KY
May 29 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
May 30 – Alrosa Villa – Columbus, OH
Jun. 01 – The NorVa – Norfolk, VA
Jun. 02 – Jester’s Pup – Fayetteville, NC
Jun. 03 – Jaxx – W. Springfield, VA
Jun. 04 – The Palladium – Worcester, MA
Jun. 05 – Webster Theater – Hartford, CT
Jun. 06 – Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA
Source: Blabbermouth.net
FEAR FACTORY, WINDS OF PLAGUE, DIRGE WITHIN, PERIPHERY and, on select shows, DIVINE HERESY (the band featuring FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares) “Fear Campaign Tour 2010” tour dates:
Mar. 22 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee
Mar. 23 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre
Mar. 24 – Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
Mar. 26 – Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
Mar. 27 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit
Mar. 28 – Houston, TX – The Channel
Mar. 30 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
Mar. 31 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House Of Blues
Apr. 01 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
Apr. 02 – Knoxville, TN – Valarium
Apr. 03 – Little Rock, AR – The Village
Apr. 05 – Ft. Collins, CO – Aggie Theatre
Apr. 06 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theatre & Club
Apr. 11 – San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
Source: Ultimate Guitar
FEAR FACTORY guitarist DINO CAZARES talks about the new album and touches on some of the ongoing legal issues in a new interview – one of the more interesting reveals below:
“When Burt asked me to come back to the band, he actually asked me to come back to the band as a whole. That is, with also the other members as well [Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera]. But the other two turned it down because they didn’t want me back in the band.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
New Album title: ‘MECHANIZE’
European release date: 02.05.10 via AFM Records
U.S. release date: 02.09.10 via CandleLight Records
FEAR FACTORY 'MECHANIZE' Album Cover
“Mechanize” track listing:
01. Mechanize
02. Industrial Discipline
03. Fear Campaign
04. Powershifter
05. Christploitation
06. Oxidizer
07. Controlled Demolition
08. Designing The Enemy
09. Metallic Division
10. Final Exit
Read a track by track accounting of the entire album by Burton C. Bell HERE.
FEAR FACTORY lineup:
Burton C. Bell
Dino Cazares
Byron Stroud
Gene Hoglan
PyroMusic.net: With Dino having been out of the band for a number of years, were you expecting a lot of eye-rolling and uncertainty from people when you announced that the two of you were working together again?
Burton C. Bell: No, I didn’t expect any uncertainty, because Dino and I are the founders of Fear Factory and it was Dino’s sound, or Dino’s style that really created the sound of Fear Factory. So I didn’t expect any uncertainty, I just would have…. one of the experiences is that people have been very excited and very anxious what we have created for this new album.
PM.net: There’s been a lot of media coverage of the legal banter between the two camps. Has that all been settled now and are you on good terms with Raymond and Christian now?
Burton C. Bell: The legal issues the fans don’t need to worry about. All they need to know is that Fear Factory has not been stopped and we are touring. We have been touring, we have a new record coming out and whatever legal issues are going on the fans don’t need to know about it.
PM.net: Without trying to push the point, are you on good terms personally with those guys now?
Burton C. Bell: I am not on good terms with those guys, they fucked me over.
Source: Blabbermouth.net
New Album title: ‘MECHANIZE’
European release date: 02.05.10 via AFM Records
U.S. release date: 02.09.10 via CandleLight Records
FEAR FACTORY 'MECHANIZE' Album Cover
“Mechanize” track listing:
01. Mechanize
02. Industrial Discipline
03. Fear Campaign
04. Powershifter
05. Christploitation
06. Oxidizer
07. Controlled Demolition
08. Designing The Enemy
09. Metallic Division
10. Final Exit
Read a track by track accounting of the entire album by Burton C. Bell HERE.
FEAR FACTORY lineup:
Burton C. Bell
Dino Cazares
Byron Stroud
Gene Hoglan
Source: Blabbermouth.net
New track from the new band calling itself FEAR FACTORY — featuring original FF members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals) alongside bassist Byron Stroud (who played on the last two FEAR FACTORY albums in addition to touring and recording with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and ZIMMERS HOLE) and legendary drummer Gene Hoglan (DETHKLOK, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DARK ANGEL, DEATH, TESTAMENT).
In an ongoing California court battle over Superman, Judge Stephen Larson issued a ruling Wednesday that awards the family of the superhero’s co-creator, Jerry Siegel, rights to additional works, including the first two weeks of the daily Superman newspaper comicstrips, as well as portions of early Action Comics and Superman comicbooks.
This means the Siegels now control depictions of Superman’s origins from the planet Krypton, his parents Jor-L and Lora, Superman as the infant Kal-L, the launching of the infant Superman into space by his parents as Krypton explodes and his landing on Earth in a fiery crash.
After a court order reverted rights to the Siegels in 2008, they owned the basis of the Superman character, including his costume, his alter-ego as reporter Clark Kent, the feisty reporter Lois Lane, their jobs at the Daily Planet newspaper working for a gruff editor, and the love triangle among Clark/Superman and Lois.
But that didn’t give them the full Superman copyright because DC owns other important elements like Superman’s ability to fly, the term kryptonite, the Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White characters, Superman’s vision powers and expanded origins.
The confusion exists because Superman first appeared in 1938 in Action Comics No. 1, which was sold by Siegel and co-creator Joel Schuster to DC. Everything after that was a work-for-hire, owned by DC.
However, copyright law dictates that full ownership of Superman goes back to the Siegels in 2013. That will give them the chance to set up Superman pics, TV shows and other projects at another studio.
THRALL WORLD is extremely curious as to how the Siegels will approach the future of SUPERMAN. There can be little doubt that Superman is completely misunderstood in todays world of “bad-ass-fukk-all” anti-heroes who seem to have a a gradually easier time of killing in the name of modern justice. And misunderstood applies to anyone who thinks Superman is “boring” or too “goody two-shoes”.
Superman remains the elusive dream of the perfect hero and a hero we choose to hold onto for clarity in our imperfect Thrall World. Now more than ever before we need Superman and we anxiously await his return.
In a decision announced Wednesday, U.S. Judge District Court Judge Stephen G. Larson found that the license fees the studio paid to corporate sibling DC Comics didn’t represent “sweetheart” deals as they weren’t below fair market value. That means the heirs will be able seek profits only from DC Comics — which earned $13.6 million from Warner Bros. for the 2006 release of “Superman Returns” — rather than from Warner Bros. as well.
Beyond that…
The judge, who conducted a 10-day bench trial, also noted that Warner Bros. chairman Alan Horn had testified that he hopes to make another “Superman” movie but added that the property wasn’t under development at the studio, that no script had been written and that the earliest another “Superman” pic could be released would be in 2012.
[Attorney Marc] Toberoff [who represents heirs Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel Larson] also asserted in a written statement that the Siegel heirs and the heirs of co-creator Joe Shuster will own the entire Superman copyright in 2013.
It’s not clear what the copyright and licensing future is for DC Comics which is a bit out of left field. If we had to guess? No new movie until post copyright turnover.
JUN 12 Dublin (Ireland) O2 Arena w/Whitesnake and Journey
JUN 14 Derby (UK) Download festival w/special guests Whitesnake
DEF LEPPARD, POISON, CHEAP TRICK tour dates:
JUN 23 Camden, NJ (US) Susquehana Bank Center
JUN 25 Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US) Blossom Music Center
JUN 26 Darien Center, NY (US) Darien Lake Perf. Arts Center
JUN 28 Scranton, PA (US) Toyota Pavilion
JUN 30 Mansfield, MA (US) Comcast Center
JUL 01 Holmdel, NJ (US) PNC Bank Arts Center
JUL 03 Saratoga, NY (US) Saratoga Perf. Arts Center
JUL 04 Toronto, ON (Canada) Molson Amphitheatre
JUL 07 Hartford, CT (US) Meadows Music Theatre
JUL 08 Wantagh, NY (US) Nikon at Jones Beach
JUL 10 Burgettstown, PA (US) Post-Gazette Pavilion
JUL 11 Virginia Beach, VA (US) Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
JUL 12 Bristow, VA (US) Nissan Pavilion
JUL 15 Cincinnati, OH (US) Riverbend Music Center
JUL 17 Tinley Park, IL (US) 1st Midw. Bank Amphitheatre
JUL 18 Milwaukee, WI (US) Marcus Amphitheater
JUL 20 Maryland Heights, MO (US) Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
JUL 21 Kansas City, MO (US) Sprint Center
JUL 23 Noblesville, IN (US) Verizon Wireless Music Center
JUL 24 Clarkston, MI (US) DTE Energy Music Theatre
AUG 07 Raleigh, NC (US) Time Warner Pavilion
AUG 08 Charlotte, NC (US) Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
AUG 10 Nashville, TN (US) Sommet Center
AUG 11 Birmingham, AL (US) Verizon Wireless Music Center
AUG 13 West Palm Beach, FL (US) Cruzan Amphitheatre
AUG 14 Tampa, FL (US) Ford Amphitheatre
AUG 15 Atlanta, GA (US) Lakewood Amphitheatre
AUG 18 New Orleans, LA (US) New Orleans Arena
AUG 19 Houston, TX (US) C. Woods Mitchell Pavilion
AUG 21 Dallas, TX (US) Superpages.com Center
AUG 22 Tulsa, OK (US) BOK Center
AUG 24 Englewood, CO (US) Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
AUG 25 Salt Lake City, UT (US) USANA Amphitheatre
AUG 28 Albuquerque, NM (US) Journal Pavilion
AUG 29 Phoenix, AZ (US) Cricket Wireless Pavilion
AUG 30 Irvine, CA (US) Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
SEP 02 Mountain View, CA (US) Shoreline Amphitheatre
SEP 03 Sacramento, CA (US) Sleep Train Amphitheatre
SEP 05 Las Vegas, NV (US) MGM Grand Garden Arena
SEP 06 San Bernardino, CA (US) San Manuel Amphitheater
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