OBITUARY To Release New Album In July
January 16, 2007OBITUARY frontman John Tardy has posted the following message on the group's official web site:
"The new DVD is out worldwide and we have been getting nothing but good e-mails from everyone and we really appreciate the suppport! I told [you] it was heavy!
"We had a great weekend of practice and have a new album just about finished. We have studio timed booked in March and we are working on having it ready for a release in mid-July!
"Along with the No Mercy Festivals in Tilburg, Holland and Antwerpen, Belgium, we will be playing the Los Angeles Murderfest version 3.0 March 24, 2007 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California!"
As previously reported, OBITUARY has posted its video for the song "On the Floor" at YouTube.com. The clip, which was shot on December 9, 2005 at the Masquerade in Ybor City, Florida with video producer Michael Sarna (MEGADETH's "Of Mice and Men"),can also be seen on the band's MySpace page. Also available at YouTube.com is a video clip of OBITUARY performing the CELTIC FROST cover "Circle of the Tyrants" in 1990 in Tilburg, the Netherlands with James Murphy (DEATH, TESTAMENT) on lead guitar. Check it out at this location.
OBITUARY's first-ever DVD, "Frozen Alive", was released in Europe on December 11 via Metal Mind Productions (it arrived in the U.S. today, January 16, through MVD Visual). The disc includes a seven-camera shoot of the Warsaw show plus the "Insane" video, the previously unreleased "On the Floor" video, interviews with Frank Watkins (bass),Trevor Peres (guitar),John (vocals) and Donald Tardy (drums),and three documentaries — the making of "Insane", the making of "Frozen In Time" album, and "Backstage In Poland". A video of OBITUARY performing the song "On the Floor", taken from the "Frozen Alive" DVD, has been posted online at YouTube.com.
OBITUARY's latest CD, "Frozen in Time", was released in July 2005 via Roadrunner Records. The group's first collection of new songs since 1997's "Back from the Dead" was self-produced by the band, with Mark Prator and Scott Burns engineering, and was mastered by Tom Morris at Morrisound.
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