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OTEP SHAMAYA Says Illegal Music Downloading Affects Middle-Class Bands The Most
Lauren Wise of the Phoenix New Times recently conducted an interview with singer, poet, illustrator, author and activist Otep Shamaya. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Phoenix New Times: So while you were writing this graphic novel that turned into ["Hydra"], did you always have it i...April 18, 2013
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VICIOUS RUMORS: 'I Am The Gun' Video Released
"I Am The Gun", the new video from San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Electric Punishment", which will be released on April 29 in Europe and May 7 in U.S./Canada via Steamhammer/SPV. When VICIOUS RUMORS returned from a long,...April 18, 2013
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TOM ARAYA's Brother: 'SLAYER Needs JEFF HANNEMAN'
Mark Workman, a successful lighting designer and tour manager in the music business for thirty years and author of the recently published book "One For The Road: How To Be A Music Tour Manager", conducted an interview with SLAYER guitar tech Johnny Araya for the Road Crew Books web site. A couple of...April 18, 2013
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Death by Fire
One of the break-out acts featured on Earache Records' 2009 retro-metal sampler, "Heavy Metal Killers", Sweden's ENFORCER has successfully scurried up the ladder of heavy metal labels since: from Heavy Artillery Records - home to their first LP, 2008's "Into the Night" ? to the selfsame Earache for...April 14, 2013
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VICIOUS RUMORS: More 'Electric Punishment' Album Details Revealed
When San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS returned from a long, strenuous and immensely successful world tour in autumn 2011, the musicians — least of all band mastermind and main songwriter Geoff Thorpe — couldn't really see themselves mustering the energy to release a new studio album i...April 9, 2013
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MEGADETH Bassist: I've Always Investigated Other Genres Of Music For Inspiration
Jason McNamara of JapanSmash.com recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. JapanSmash.com: It's been well documented that many bands really had the door of success opened to them by visiting Japan back in the '70s and '80s....April 7, 2013
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WINTERSTORM Signs With NOISEART RECORDS
German power metallers WINTERSTORM have inked a deal with NoiseArt Records and Rock The Nation Booking. The band's new album is scheduled for release in early 2014. Comments the group: "Nearly three years have gone since the release of our first album, 'A Coming Storm', and since our first show. "Af...April 3, 2013
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DEGRADEAD To Release 'The Monster Within' In August
Stockholm, Sweden-based melodic death metallers DEGRADEAD, whose singer, Mikael Sehlin, recently joined fellow Swedes ENGEL as their new frontman, will release their fourth album, "The Monster Within", on August 23. The CD was recorded between January 14 and February 2 at Panic Room studios in Skara...March 19, 2013
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MACHINE HEAD Frontman Weighs In On SLAYER Drummer Drama
In a brand new interview with Metal Sucks, guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD was asked to weigh in on the contractual dispute that forced SLAYER's Dave Lombardo to sit out the band's recent appearance at the Soundwave festival in Australia. "Being in a ba...March 13, 2013
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PESTILENCE: 'Obsideo' Track Listing Revealed
"Obsideo", the seventh album from resurrected Dutch extreme metallers PESTILENCE, will be released later in the year through Candlelight Records. The CD was produced by PESTILENCE vocalist/guitarist Patrick Mameli and features ten new songs, including "Necromorph", "Saturation", "Soulrot", "Laniatus...March 11, 2013
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The Living Infinite
Double albums. In order to justify their being, they'd best be damned special. Otherwise, they're to be held in contempt as cash cow fodder. There are only so many double albums out there worth their salt and if BARONESS turned a few heads last year with "Yellow and Green", this year, SOILWORK just...March 10, 2013
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Spiritual Genocide
Thrash legends DESTRUCTION were veritably reborn in the early 2000s, yet 2005's "Inventor of Evil" made people care about them again. Since then, DESTRUCTION hasn't so much as turned to behold the decimation left in their vapor trails. They just keep rolling. Fortunately for DESTRUCTION, nobody thin...March 10, 2013
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Cassiopeia
Still one of Greek heavy metal's best kept secrets - and one gets the feeling they sort of like it that way - veteran metal warriors NIGHTFALL returned from semi-retirement in 2010 and now appear to be gathering career steam once again with the release of their ninth studio album, 2013's "Cassiopeia...March 10, 2013
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Scorn
PRIMITIVE MAN is a trio of Denver, Colorado residents otherwise known by the musical alias of CLINGING TO THE TREES OF A FOREST FIRE, and though this may understandably leave you asking why three dudes should bother recording as two, entirely different bands in parallel, well?you just have to listen...March 10, 2013
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On the Dawning of Light
NINE COVENS don't hold the keys to black metal's future; in fact, they operate largely within rather well established, even tediously familiar, genre artifices past and present. But in this age of infinite bands peddling semi-infinite repetition, this obscure musical ensemble possesses something of...March 10, 2013
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