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India's 'Most Extreme' Bands Team Up for RESURRECTION 5 Festival

Several of the "best, most brutal, and most extreme" bands from India will be teaming up for the Resurrection 5 festival, set to take place April 9 at the Razzberry Rhinoceros (inside Juhu Hotel) in Juhu Beach, India. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: COSMIC INFUSION (symphonic black me...

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Metal Black

In the age of digital recording and lost metal innocence, it's physically impossible for a band to suck as bad as VENOM did in their formative years, and still be so awesome. But that didn't stop Cronos from trying to recapture the filth, fury and unholy incompetence of the band's classic(k) early w...

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Don't Fear the Reaper

I'll be honest with you here; I was a little taken aback at Tue Madsen's crystal clear, thick 'n' rubbery sound mix the first time I heard WITCHERY's "Don't Fear the Reaper". By that I mean that I was expecting the rawer, bloodied thrash sounds of "Dead, Hot and Ready" or "Symphony for the Devil", ....

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THE CULT Frontman: 'It's Very Exciting Right Now'

THE CULT frontman Ian Astbury recently spoke to RollingStone.com about the group's upcoming nineteen-date cross-country tour, which is scheduled to kick off March 1 in San Francisco. "It's very exciting right now, because the rehearsals have been going so well and it's authentic," Astbury said. "I'm...

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NATIONAL NAPALM SYNDICATE: New Album Due In March

Poison Arrow Records has announced a worldwide licensing deal with Trinity Records. The first release under this agreement will be the new album from the Finnish speed/thrash metal pioneers NATIONAL NAPALM SYNDICATE, entitled "Resurrection of the Wicked". Due in March, "Resurrection of the Wicked" w...

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Ravenous Deathworship

Sometimes a record brings absolutely nothing new to the table, isn't technically impressive, and seems likely to be filed among the many metal albums that slip through the cracks each year. But the material enclosed will be delivered with such heart-stopping intensity and malevolent gusto, the band...

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LEATHERWOLF Complete Work On New Album

Vocalist Wade Black of the legendary Southern California metal stalwarts LEATHERWOLF (also ex-CRIMSON GLORY, SEVEN WITCHES) has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "We are finallizing label/distro on who will be in on up-and-comings for new year. Finally the new LEATHERWOLF record was jus...

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VENOM Frontman On New Album: I Wanted To Re-Create What Original Band Was All About

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com recently conducted an interview with VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the subject of the detractors, fans who believe the only "real" VENOM includes Mantas and Abaddon: Cronos: "Look, VENOM has over the years had so m...

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LEATHERWOLF's GEOFF GAYER To Perform With KATAGORY V at MONSTERS OF METAL Show

LEATHERWOLF guitarist/songwriter Geoff Gayer will be making a special appearance at the first annual "Monsters of Metal" show at Club Vegas in Salt Lake City, Utah this Saturday, December 10. Gayer will be performing a LEATHERWOLF song with KATAGORY V at the event, which will feature additional perf...

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ADRIFT Announce New Singer And Bass Player

ADRIFT, the heavy rock band featuring guitarist Jack Owen (ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE, currently in DEICIDE) and drummer Kevin Astl (ex-EPITAPH, RESURRECTION) have uploaded a new song, "The Calling", featuring the group's new vocalist Dean Pskowski (SYNAPSE). Check out the track at www.adrift.cc. ADRIFT hav...

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NATIONAL NAPALM SYNDICATE: New Album Samples Posted Online

Reunited Finnish speed/thrash metal pioneers NATIONAL NAPALM SYNDICATE will release their new album, entitled "Resurrection of the Wicked", in January 2006 via Poison Arrow Records. Two sample tracks from the CD — "Determination" and "Falling to Pieces" — have been posted online at the band's offici...

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LEEWAY Guitarist Joins Forces With Reunited DEPT. C

LEEWAY guitarist Mike Gibbons has joined forces with the reunited DEPT. C on their new EP, entitled "The Resurrection", due in January 2006. Commented the band: "For those that don't know who we are and where we come from, please read and learn. It was the late 1980s into the early 1990s, the scene...

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DISTURBED Guitarist: DIMEBAG Inspired Resurrection Of Guitar Solo

In a brand-new interview with The Flint Journal, DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan spoke about the group's resurrection of a time-honored tradition in rock — the guitar solo — while penning their latest album, "Ten Thousand Fists". "When we started writing, we went back to the basics of just kind of j...

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RUSH Drummer Pens Introduction To Collection Of Short Stories

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, RUSH drummer Neil Peart has written an introduction for "Landscapes", a new collection of short stories by author Kevin J. Anderson, to be published in spring 2006 by Five Star Press. Peart and Anderson have been friends since the publicatio...

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ROB HALFORD: RIPPER OWENS And I 'Have A Wonderful Musical And Professional Relationship'

Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an exclusive interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: When the title track to [HALFORD's] "Resurrection" came out, a lot of fans were going, "Damn, Rob is starting to sound like PRIE...