CONTROL DENIED Frontman To Perform 'Fragile' Material With Costa Rica's GRECCO

CONTROL DENIED vocalist Tim Aymar will join the Costa Rican group GRECCO on stage on March 5 in San Pedro, Costa Rica to perform CONTROL DENIED's debut album, "The Fragile Art Of Existence", as a tribute to late DEATH/CONTROL DENIED mastermind Chuck Schuldiner. Also scheduled to appear on the bill are POSTMORTEM, SIGHT OF EMPTINESS and ADVENT OF BEDLAM.

Aymar mastered GRECCO's debut album, "The Feeling Of Not Being Alone", which was released last month.

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As previously reported, the family of Chuck Schuldiner is moving ahead with plans to complete and eventually release the long-awaited second CONTROL DENIED album.

Chuck — who died in December 2001 after a battle with pontine glioma, a rare type of brain tumor — began work on the CD, tentatively titled "When Machine And Man Collide", but never managed to finish the effort before his health quickly deteriorated in the months leading up to his tragic death. The remaining members of the group — bassist Steve DiGiorgio, vocalist Tim Aymar, guitarist Shannon Hamm, and drummer Richard Christy — subsequently announced their desire to complete the album and release it in Chuck's memory, but legal hassles between Schuldiner's family and Hammerheart Records (to whom Chuck was signed at the time of his death) put the entire project on hold. (Karmageddon Media — formerly Hammerheart Records — has since issued various incomplete demo recordings as two separate low-quality albums, "Zero Tolerance" and "Zero Tolerance II".)

Chuck's mother, Jane Schuldiner, previously stated about the unfinished recordings: "[Chuck's] last masterpiece deserves more than to be released as unfinished bits of rehearsal room recordings on CD, or to be grabbed for free on the Internet. It deserves to be finished by the rest of the band and to be released on a full-length album, titled: 'When Machine And Man Collide'."