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THIS IS HELL: New Album Details Revealed
Long Island-based hardcore metal veterans THIS IS HELL will release their fourth studio album, "Black Mass", on October 11 via Rise Records. The follow-up to 2010's "Weight Of The World" was recorded earlier this summer at Killingsworth Studio in Valley Village, California with producer Tomas Costan...August 31, 2011
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CRAFT's 'Void' Cracks Swedish Top 10
"Void", the long-awaited new album from the Swedish black metal horde CRAFT, has entered the official chart in the band's home country at position No. 7. Diehards of CRAFT's vicious, orthodox black metal bombardment have been seething in anticipation of this album for years, their immensely praised/...August 17, 2011
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JOE STUMP Continuing Work On New Album
Guitar virtuoso Joe Stump (HOLYHELL, REIGN OF TERROR) is working on a new solo album, tentatively due early next year. According to Stump, "most of the guitars for [the follow-up to 2009's 'Virtuostic Vendetta'] are recorded. I spent some of May and most of June holed up tracking guitars in my home...August 14, 2011
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MORGOTH: Footage From Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival Available
Video footage of resurrected German death metallers MORGOTH performing on August 5, 2011 at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany can be viewed below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Body Count 02. Exit To Temptation 03. Travel 04. Resistance 05. Suffer Life 06. Under the Surface 07...August 10, 2011
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Surreal Overdose
Is there anyone that doesn't immediately think of three things when the subject of DECEASED is discussed? That trio would be thrash/death icon King Fowley, horror, and the ridiculous amount of supreme riffs. "Surreal Overdose", the first DECEASED studio album since 2005's "As the Weird Travel On", w...July 28, 2011
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The Forbidden Gates Beyond
BLACK SEPTEMBER's "The Forbidden Gates Beyond" is a USBM album that you need to hear; that is, if you like your black metal brawny, hooky, and death injected. You can call it blackened death metal, deathly black metal, or black/death metal, all that matters is that the collision happened and out cam...July 27, 2011
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BLACK COBRA Completes Work On Fourth Album
Bay Area's devastating duo BLACK COBRA has completed work on its fourth full-length album, "Invernal", for a fall release via Southern Lord Recordings. The follow-up to 2009's "Chronomega" was helmed over a week-and-a-half period by CONVERGE guitarist Kurt Ballou and his GodCity Studio in Salem, Mas...July 19, 2011
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ARMS OF THE SUN: Studio Footage Posted Online
ARMS OF THE SUN the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas-based band featuring Lance Harvill on vocals and guitar, and Ben Bunker (GRYN) on guitar and John Luke Hbert on drums will release its debut album on July 19. A two-and-a-half-minute video clip featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the al...July 15, 2011
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ARMS OF THE SUN To Release Debut Album This Month
ARMS OF THE SUN the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas-based band featuring Lance Harvill on vocals and guitar, and Ben Bunker (GRYN) on guitar and John Luke Hbert on drums will release its debut album on July 19. Bassist Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN) left ARMS OF THE SUN in February over "business and creative"...July 11, 2011
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SYMPHONY X: More 'Iconoclast' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed
"Iconoclast", the ninth studio album from North America's progressive metal masterminds SYMPHONY X, has registered the following first-week chart positions so far: Germany: #25 Switzerland: #29 Austria: #42 USA: #76 Japan: #76 Japan (overseas chart): #19 Canada: #105 U.K.: #167 "Iconoclast" sold mor...July 1, 2011
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SYMPHONY X's 'Iconoclast' Cracks U.S. Top 100
"Iconoclast", the ninth studio album from North America's progressive metal masterminds SYMPHONY X, sold more than 7,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 76 on The Billboard 200 chart. SYMPHONY X's previous CD, "Paradise Lost", opened with around 6,50...June 29, 2011
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MORGOTH: Footage From France's HELLFEST Posted Online
Video footage of resurrected German death metallers MORGOTH performing the song "White Gallery" on June 19, 2011 at Hellfest in Clisson, France can be viewed below (clip uploaded by Dave Ingham a.k.a. YouTube user "triptykon"). MORGOTH played two warm-up shows in its home country last month prior to...June 22, 2011
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Aphotic
The definition of a "class act", Chicago's NOVEMBERS DOOM hit stride with "The Pale Haunt Departure" and continued rolling right on through "Into Night's Requiem Infernal", picking up a more aggressive streak to go with their melancholic death 'n doom. Always concerned first with ensuring that each...June 20, 2011
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The Discovery
Go ahead and toss me in with what appears to be a tiny minority of journalists that don't think BORN OF OSIRIS' "The Discovery" is the greatest thing since moist towelettes. Given the obvious jump in compositional creativity, which I will readily admit approaches the awe-inspiring at times, it may b...June 20, 2011
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In Carbon Mysticism
One can appreciate the effort and the sense of adventure that some bands have taken in pushing black metal boundaries or at least testing the limits. However, embarking on a trip into murky, deep USBM waters on a moonless night without life jackets, flashlights, and an extra couple of oars is a very...June 20, 2011
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