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BLIND MELON: Tour Dates Announced

After reuniting last year with new singer Travis Warren, BLIND MELON hunkered down in the studio owned by guitarist Christopher Thorn and bassist Brad Smith and started writing and recording new material. The result is two albums' worth of new BLIND MELON music. Release dates haven't been set for th...

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NACHTMYSTIUM Announces West Coast Dates With SKELETONWITCH

U.S. psychedelic black metal heathens NACHTMYSTIUM will be dousing the West Coast with their volatile brew of mesmerizing, organically-blackened metal. Joining the savages will be Ohio's filthy thrash assassins SKELETONWITCH, making for a solid 11 dates of pirate-style boozing, belligerent tomfooler...

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PHILIP ANSELMO On The 'Path Of Right And Wrong, Good And Evil'

Andrew Parks of Decibel magazine (web site) recently traveled to the New Orleans home of DOWN/ex-PANTERA vocalist Philip Anselmo to interview DOWN about the group's mindset during the songwriting process for their new album, "III – Over the Under". A few select quotes from Anselmo follow: On his rec...

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NACHTMYSTIUM: 'Eulogy IV' To Be Reissued In Europe Via INVICTUS

U.S. psychedelic black metal heathens NACHTMYSTIUM have licensed their "Eulogy IV" opus to Invictus exclusively for the European market. Currently signed to Century Media in the USA and Candlelight in Europe, the band agreed a special license deal with Invictus for the currently out-of-print album....

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YAKUZA Unveils Another New Song

Chicago's forward-thinking experimetallers YAKUZA have posted another new track from the band's forthcoming release, "Transmutations", due out on Prosthetic Records August 7. The track, "Praying For Asteroids", is available alongside "Egocide", another track from "Transmutations" on the band's MySpa...

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MADBALL: New Audio Interview With FREDDY CRICIEN Available

A 20-minute audio interview with MADBALL frontman Freddy Cricien conducted on Friday, July 13 by "Démentièllement Vôtre" on Québec City's CKRL 89.1FM has been posted online at this location. Another new MADBALL track, entitled "We the People", was recently posted on the band's MySpace page. The song...

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NIKKI SIXX Launches 'The Heroin Diaries' With Press Conference, SIXX: A.M. Live Performance

Executives from MTV along with sister company Pocket Books (a division of Simon & Schuster) held a press conference Monday (July 16) in a new venue, Crash Mansion, in downtown Los Angeles to give the media and a few lucky fans a preview of Nikki Sixx's book and soundtrack CD, "The Heroin Diaries...

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BLUT AUS NORD: 'Odinist' Artwork Revealed

French extremists BLUT AUS NORD have posted the cover artwork for their new album, "Odinist", at this location. According to the group's record label, Candlelight Records, "this opus is considered by the band as a return to the feeling of their first creations. More epic, melodic and powerful!" A fe...

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Classic BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER Albums Focus Of Books In '33 1/3' Series

BLACK SABBATH's "Master of Reality" and SLAYER's "Reign in Blood" LPs will be the focus of the first two books about heavy metal albums in Continuum Books' popular 33 1/3 series. The 33 1/3 series documents some of the most important albums ever made. "After 50 books in the series on pop, rock, R&am...

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SKELETONWITCH: New Song Posted Online

Cleveland thrashers SKELETONWITCH have posted a brand new track, entitled "Upon Wings of Black", from the band's forthcoming full-length CD, "Beyond the Permafrost", on the Prosthetic Records MySpace page. Slated for an October 2 release through Prosthetic, "Beyond the Permafrost" will feature a han...

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MADBALL: Québec City Concert Photos Available

CKRL 89.1 FM metal radio show "Démentièllement Vôtre" has posted a number of live pictures of MADBALL taken on July 13, 2007 at l'Anti in Québec City, Canada. Check them out at this location. Another new MADBALL track, entitled "We the People", was recently posted on the band's MySpace page. The ...

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BYZANTINE Frontman Chimes In On He-Man

West Virginia's forward-thinking thrashers BYZANTINE are currently featured in Decibel magazine's online blog. Frontman OJ Ojeda chimes in on his take on the worst characters ever invented in the realm of He-Man and The Masters of The Universe. To check it out, head over to the Deciblog. BYZANTINE r...

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MADBALL: Another New Song Posted Online

Another new MADBALL track, entitled "We the People", has been posted on the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the New York City hardcore legends' upcoming album, "Infiltrate the System", due on August 21 in the U.S. on Ferret Music (in Europe on I Scream, in South America on Liberation, in Aus...

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NILE: Entire New Album Available For Streaming

MP3.com is streaming NILE's fifth studio album, "Ithyphallic", in its entirety for seven days prior to the album's North American street date of July 17 at this location. Engineered by Bob Moore and produced by Neil Kernon (CANNIBAL CORPSE, NEVERMORE, DEICIDE),the CD was recorded at Sound Lab Studi...

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AKERCOCKE To Guest On BRUCE DICKINSON's Radio Show This Friday

Controversial U.K. dark art practitioners AKERCOCKE will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Friday, July 13 (postponed from the originally announced July 6) during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the program live v...