OBITUARY: 'We Are Fired Up And Ready To Put Down Some Sick Songs That We Have Written!'
April 7, 2007OBITUARY frontman John Tardy has issued the following update:
"First off, thanks to all of you that showed up to the show in Los Angeles [at the Los Angeles Murderfest Version 3.0, which took place March 24-25 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California]! It was a great show and I was very suprised to see everyone going off hard even after watching a hundred bands before us! Thanks!
"We arrived in France yesterday and are getting ready for the first of three shows in Europe. Tomorrow we will be in Begium and the next day in Holland! Get your ass out to see us!
"When we get home we will start recording our new CD! We are fired up and ready to put down some sick songs that we have written!"
April 07 - Killer Festival - Chaulnes, France
April 08 - No Mercy Festival @ Hof Terloo - Antwerpen, Belgium
April 09 - No Mercy Festival @ 013 - Tilburg, Holland
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. on 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.
OBITUARY will tour Mexico and Australia in May.
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