KATAKLYSM: "Heaven's Venom"

Canadian extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have revealed the track listing for their new album Heaven’s Venom, which will be released on August 20th in Europe and August 24th in North America. The follow-up to 2008’s Prevail, was recorded by KATAKLYSM guitarist J-F Dagenais (Malevolent Creation, Misery Index) and was mixed by Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic, Dark Tranquillity).

Heaven’s Venom track listing:

1. A Soulless God

2. Determined (Vows of Vengeance)

3. Faith Made of Shrapnel

4. Push the Venom

5. Hail the Renegade

6. As the Walls Collapse

7. Numb & Intoxicated

8. At the Edge of the World

9. Suicide River

10. Blind Savior

Ozzfest 2010 will kick off on August 14 in San Bernardino (Ozzfest’s birthplace in 1996) and travel to Chicago, Illinois; Hartford, Connecticut; Camden, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts. Playing the Second Stage will be none other than Canada’s kings of northern hyperblast, KATAKLYSM.

Ozzfest 2010 Main Stage Acts

OZZY OSBOURNE

MÖTLEY CRÜE

HALFORD

DEVILDRIVER

NONPOINT

Ozzfest 2010 Second Stage Acts

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

DROWNING POOL

KINGDOM OF SORROW

KATAKLYSM

GOATWHORE

SKELETONWITCH

SAVIOURS

Ozzfest 2010 Dates

08/14/10 San Manuel Amphitheater – San Bernardino, CA

08/17/10 First Midwest Bank Amphitheater – Tinley Park (Chicago), IL

08/19/10 First Niagara Pavilion – Burgettstown (Pittsburgh), PA

08/21/10 Comcast Theater – Hartford, CT

08/22/10 Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ

08/24/10 Comcast Center – Mansfield (Boston), MA

For more information visit: www.myspace.com/Kataklysm

KATAKLYSM: "Heaven's Venom"

Canadian extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have unveiled the artwork (attached) for their new album Heaven’s Venom, which will be released on August 20th in Europe and August 24th in North America. The follow-up to 2008’s Prevail, was recorded by KATAKLYSM guitarist J-F Dagenais (Malevolent Creation, Misery Index) and was mixed by Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic, Dark Tranquillity).

Some tentative song titles appearing on the album include “Soul Made of Shrapnel”, “Blind Savior”, “Hail the Renegade” and “Push the Venom”.

Ozzfest 2010 will kick off on August 14 in San Bernardino (Ozzfest’s birthplace in 1996) and travel to Chicago, Illinois; Hartford, Connecticut; Camden, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts. Playing the Second Stage will be none other than Canada’s kings of northern hyperblast, KATAKLYSM.

Ozzfest 2010 Main Stage Acts

OZZY OSBOURNE

MÖTLEY CRÜE

HALFORD

DEVILDRIVER

NONPOINT

Ozzfest 2010 Second Stage Acts

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

DROWNING POOL

KINGDOM OF SORROW

KATAKLYSM

GOATWHORE

SKELETONWITCH

SAVIOURS

Ozzfest 2010 Dates

08/14/10 San Manuel Amphitheater – San Bernardino, CA

08/17/10 First Midwest Bank Amphitheater – Tinley Park (Chicago), IL

08/19/10 First Niagara Pavilion – Burgettstown (Pittsburgh), PA

08/21/10 Comcast Theater – Hartford, CT

08/22/10 Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ

08/24/10 Comcast Center – Mansfield (Boston), MA

For more information visit: www.myspace.com/Kataklysm

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All pics and words by HannTu

(except where noted)

For an introduction to what Bloodstock Open Air is all about, check out my preview of it here. Suffice it to say that BOA is the only proper UK outdoor metal festival that is devoted to true metal of all genres. This would be the first time I was making the trip up to the Midlands to cover this amazing festival.

Reaching there late Thursday night, we set up camp and went off to explore. BOA has one of the most random things I’d expect at a metal festival: a shisha tent! Armed with a 1.5 litre bottle of JD and two bongs of shisha, we spent the night there meeting weird and crazy people (Frida from Sweden, if you’re reading this, get in touch!). After a disgusting fry-up at the All-Day Breakfast bar, I went off to bed to catch some shut-eye before Friday’s bands. Good start to BOA!

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Kataklysm – Guitarist J-F (Jean-Francois Dagenais)

Interviewed on July 8^th, 2008 by EvilG

Questions by EvilG and Lord of the Wasteland

At the beginning of the 90’s a band emerged from Quebec, Canada with the often quoted goal of many a young band – “to be the heaviest and fastest band ever”! After pretty much attaining that goal, and maturing, they realized what would create longevity would be their song writing. Over the years the band’s sound evolved while still maintaining elements of their “northern hyperblast” along with more grooving and thrashy material.

Still unarguably an extreme metal band, Kataklysm unleashed their latest album PREVAIL in May of 2008. I spoke with the band’s guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais (or as he referred to himself as “J-F”) about the bands current Summer Slaughter tour which is making it’s way around North America. We also touched on the Montreal Québec scene which has spawned many a great metal band, selling out, his “love” of show-off guitar solos (ha), etc.

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