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Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem, A Klok Opera Original Score Soundtrack
By now, Nathan Explosion and his virtual comrades encompassing the fictitious death grinders DETHKLOK on Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse" has ridden about every metal cliché into the charred embers with every ounce of hilarity anyone this side of SPINAL TAP could've expected. Every cliché, that is, exce...January 12, 2014
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Volition
With the disbanding of THE MARS VOLTA, a void has been left that Canadian prog-core artists PROTEST THE HERO seem more than willing to claim. Instrumentally, PROTEST THE HERO is just about as mind-blowing as VOLTA and they represent the next evolutionary leap forged by THE FALL OF TROY, CHIODOS and...January 12, 2014
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SYMPHONY X Bassist To Play On New MINDMAZE Album
SYMPHONY X's Mike LePond will lay down the bass tracks on the forthcoming sophomore album "Back From The Edge", from the Pennsylvania-based melodic metal band MINDMAZE. The CD is tentatively due in September. Comments MINDMAZE: "It is with sadness that MindMaze announces the departure of our bassist...January 6, 2014
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Speaks To Holland's FaceCulture (Video)
Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget and drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. You can now watch the chat in two parts below. A brand new song from BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered...January 1, 2014
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The New First Daughter Of New York City Is A Metalhead
According to Teen Vogue, Chiara de Blasio, the 19-year-old college sophomore whose dad, Bill de Blasio, was elected mayor of New York City last month, is a metalhead. "Old-school metal, thrash metal, death metal, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal," she said about her music of choice. "In terms of...December 30, 2013
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DEGRADEAD: 'Scars Of Misery' Video Released
"Scars Of Misery", the new video from Stockholm, Sweden-based melodic death metallers DEGRADEAD, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's fourth album, "The Monster Within", which was released on August 23 via Metalville. The CD was recorded between January 14 and February 2 at Panic Roo...December 17, 2013
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CARCASS Guitarist BILL STEER 'Definitely' Wants To Make Another Studio Album
Niclas Müller-Hansen of Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Bill Steer of reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metalshrine: The album "Surgical Steel" has been out for a couple of months and you've had ti...December 15, 2013
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ALICE COOPER, KISS, VINCE NEIL, ROB ZOMBIE Raise Over $1 Million For Rock & Roll Academy
Rock 'n' roll fans were treated with a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a charity concert to raise money for music education. Alice Cooper, all of the members of KISS, Rob Zombie, EUROPE and dozens of other rock legends came together at THE Fundraiser in Las Vegas, Nevada and performed for thousands...December 13, 2013
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Retrospect
Symphonic metal has its enthusiasts and its haters. With so many practitioners of the form, there's been little much else to say that hasn't been said already. Then again, you have EPICA, a band that's heavier than the norm in this sanction and you just knew one day they were going to lay down somet...December 8, 2013
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Generation Nothing
I recently caught up with METAL CHURCH vocalist Ronny Munroe at the Rock Harvest II benefit festival on the outskirts of Baltimore. Munroe was in town as a special guest of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania's GHOST OF WAR where they banded together for a mini-set of METAL CHURCH classics and "Pierced by the...December 8, 2013
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Funeral Circle
Canadian doom sect FUNERAL CIRCLE are a well-read bunch who weave creeping, elegiac dirges featuring dark fantasy and arcane muses. The Necronomicon, Paganism, Lovecraft's sinister realm of Cthulhu and Conan the Barbarian's duke-outs against the snake cult of Set all figure into FUNERAL CIRCLE's bra...December 7, 2013
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AVATARIUM Singer: 'People Have This Preconception That Female Vocalists Only Use Opera-Styled Vocals In Metal'
Raymond Westland of The Midlands Rocks recently conducted an interview with AVATARIUM singer Jennie-Ann Smith. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Midlands Rocks: Can you start by telling how you become involved with AVATARIUM? Jennie-Ann Smith: AVATARIUM started out as a project fr...December 6, 2013
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: 'Raising Hell' Video Released
A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered on the November 18 edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter and will be released digitally on December 10. The bandmembers, who only released their latest album, "Temper Temper", in...November 27, 2013
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LOSTPROPHETS Singer Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Rape Baby
According to the BBC News, singer Ian Watkins of the Welsh rock band LOSTPROPHETS has pleaded guilty to 13 sexual offenses, including two of attempting to rape a baby. The 36-year-old musician admitted three counts of sexual assault involving children and six involving taking, making or possessing i...November 26, 2013
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Former MORBID ANGEL Frontman's WARFATHER: 'Queen' Song Available For Streaming
"My Queen Shall Not Be Mourned", a song from the death metal horde WARFATHER, can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below (courtesy of Decibel magazine). The new full-time project fronted by ex-MORBID ANGEL bassist/vocalist Steve Tucker, WARFATHER was initially announced in mid-2012, but has r...November 25, 2013
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