Entertainment conglomerate Disney has reportedly pressured a promoter to move a show featuring Machine Head, Throwdown and others due to concerns about “violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics.”

The bands issued a statement:

While the enactment of this new blanket rule applies to all upcoming heavy metal shows at the House Of Blues Anaheim (with some metal bands having been banned from performing on name alone), Machine Head is the first band to actually have tickets go on sale, and remain on sale for 2 months, before intense pressure and vague threats of liability from the Corporation left the promoter with no choice but to remove the show from the venue.

The show was eventually moved to an alternate location and will take place in Pomona rather than Anaheim. You can find the full statement here.
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Nodes of Ranvier and Life In Your Way will be touring together through September and part of October. Half the dates will feature Cry of the Afflicted and the other will include Oh, Sleeper.

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Jesu has posted a new song from their new rarities compilation, Pale Sketches. The 8 song album features unreleased Jesu material from 2000-2007 all of which was omitted from the band’s previous releases including Conqueror, Silver and Jesu.

Only 2000 copies of the album are available, and are being released through frontman Justin Broadrick’s own Avalanche label.

You can check out “The Playgrounds are Empty” on their myspace page.
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Jesu has posted a new song from their new rarities compilation, Pale Sketches. The 8 song album features unreleased Jesu material from 2000-2007 all of which was omitted from the band’s previous releases including Conqueror, Silver and Jesu.

Only 2000 copies of the album are available, and are being released through frontman Justin Broadrick’s own Avalanche label.

You can check out “The Playgrounds are Empty” on their myspace page.
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The Good Life, the other project from Cursive‘s Tim Kasher, has announced a series of tour dates supporting their new release. The record is titled Help Wanted Nights and is due out September 11, 2007. It is the follow-up to Album Of The Year which was released in 2004.

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