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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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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE To Release 'Raising Hell' Next Month
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 22, 2013
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: New Song 'Raising Hell' Premieres On BBC Radio 1's 'Rock Show'
A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered on last night's (Monday, November 18) edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter. A low-quality rip of the track can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE fron...November 19, 2013
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OVERKILL's BLITZ Says Next Album Will Be 'A More Punchy Heavy Metal Record'
Steppin' Out's Brian Aberback recently conducted an interview with vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Steppin' Out: How is the new album coming along? Do you have a release date scheduled? Ellsworth: The maj...November 15, 2013
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: New Song 'Raising Hell' To Be Premiered On BBC Radio 1's 'Rock Show'
A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" will be premiered on the November 18 edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter. "Words cannot express how excited I am for the world to hear #RaisingHell," says BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Mat...November 15, 2013
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New Study Paints Psychological Portrait Of Heavy Metal Fans
A newly published study has found that fans of heavy metal music tend to have higher openness to experience, more negative attitudes toward authority, lower self-esteem, greater need for uniqueness and lower religiosity than those individuals with a preference for other musical genres. 219 women and...November 8, 2013
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Former MORBID ANGEL Frontman's WARFATHER To Release Debut Album In January
After months of secrecy spent in the crypts finalizing the details on their debut recordings, death metal horde WARFATHER finally declares its battle plans. The new full-time project fronted by ex-MORBID ANGEL bassist/vocalist Steve Tucker, WARFATHER was initially announced in mid-2012, but has rema...November 4, 2013
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The Migration
Houston's SCALE THE SUMMIT have steadily risen to the upper echelon of the prog ranks. Since their 2007 self-released debut "Monument", this band has worked as hard as anyone to enhance their craft and each step leading to their latest work, "The Migration" has taken them one step further along in t...November 3, 2013
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Locked & Loaded
New York rockers EVE TO ADAM appear be to on a mission, as much as THE CULT was in the late Eighties and early Nineties, to revamp not only themselves but the ethos of rock music itself. While the bands hardly mirror one another in sound, what they have in common is having morphed themselves ...November 3, 2013
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