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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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GUS G. Says 'FIREWIND Might Be On Hiatus For A While'
Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault recently conducted an interview with FIREWIND and OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Gus G.. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Assault: Recently, [FIREWIND] had a change in vocalist. Apollo Papathanasio, who has done the vocals on all of FIREWIND's...March 8, 2013
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BLACK VEIL BRIDES Fans Speak Out
Following some extremely informative studies into the fans of Skrillex, Ed Sheeran and ONE DIRECTION, trainee musicologist Josh Haddow of Noisey, Vice magazine's music channel, is back to continue his investigation into what types of people listen to particular types of music. This time he heads to...February 28, 2013
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GAMMA RAY's KAI HANSEN Interviewed On 'Metal Meltdown With Dr. Metal' (Audio)
"Metal Meltdown With Dr. Metal" show, which airs on Cleveland, Ohio's WRUW-FM 91.1, recently conducted an interview with GAMMA RAY frontman and UNISONIC guitarist Kai Hansen. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. On the state of metal: Hansen: "Metal is vital, man. Metal is li...February 27, 2013
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METALLICA: We Did Not Ask Military To Stop Using Our Music To Torture Prisoners
METALLICA has denied asking the U.S. military to stop using its music to psychologically torture prisoners of war. The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden recently opened up to Esquire magazine about the raid on the Al Qaeda leader's compound and the shots that took his life, as well as the persona...February 19, 2013
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