Issue 396

Soulfly

It may not yet be regarded as an important date, but there's every chance that August 17, 2006, will come to be known as one of the most important days in metal this decade. For it was on that Thursday that Soulfly held their tenth Annual D-Low Memorial Festival in Arizona, named after, and dedicated to, frontman Max Cavalera's stepson Dana Wells, who was killed in a car crash in 1996. Tickets were cheap - $1 a pop - and with a selection of guest musicians such as former drummer Roy Mayorga and ex-Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson, it was always going to be a night to remember. But no-one had expected this.

The Wrens
Meadowlands
Inertia

Record companies have a lot to answer for. It was record label wrangles that delayed the Stone Roses five years in releasing a follow-up album to their brilliant debut and, in the meantime, the lengthy legal battle seemed to suck the creative genius out of them. The Wrens have had their fair misfortune with record companies too, as you would expect of any band that has been bouncing around for over 15 years and only released three albums. After starting out life on Grass Records, which later took a corporate turn for the worse becoming Wind Up records (home of Creed and Evanescene), The Wrens were subsequently dropped from the roster when they didn't fall into line and take management's advice about how to make it big in radio-friendly land.

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