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NAPALM DEATH Guitarist Is Looking Forward To Playing China

Justin Donnelly of Australia's The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with NAPALM DEATH guitarist Mitch Harris. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's latest album, "Smear Campaign": "'Smear Campaign' did surprisingly well. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that stra...

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OBITUARY: New Audio Interview With JOHN TARDY Available

An audio interview OBITUARY frontman John Tardy conducted last month by Finland's Pommiradio has been posted at this location. OBITUARY's new album, "Xecutioner's Return", is available for streaming in full for a limited time on MP3.com. "Xecutioner's Return" (Candlelight) sold around 2,000 copies i...

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SINGLE BULLET THEORY: New Album Release Date Announced

Philadelphia-based metallers SINGLE BULLET THEORY will release its new album, "On Broken Wings", on October 9 via Crash Music Inc. The CD was recorded at SINGLE BULLET THEORY's own studio with help from Carlos Alverez (SHADOWDANCE) and was mixed by Eddy Garcia (PISSING RAZORS) at Krank Studios in El...

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Egyptian Artist Explains NILE's Non-Involvement In 'The Faceless' Project

Egyptian artist Nader Sadek — whose multimedia installation "The Faceless" opens tonight (Thursday, September 6) at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York's Chelsea district — has released the following statement explaining the non-involvement in the project of legendary death metallers NILE (whose...

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OBITUARY: Entire New Album Available For Streaming

OBITUARY's new album, "Xecutioner's Return", is available for streaming in full for a limited time on MP3.com. "Xecutioner's Return" (Candlelight) sold around 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan — slightly less than the 2,400 opening tally r...

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OVERTHROW: Classic Material To Be Reissued

NHR Records has announced the re-release of classic material from the Canadian thrash/death masters OVERTHROW. This release will contain the long-out-of-print 1990 debut CD "Within Suffering" (recorded by Tom Morris [MORBID ANGEL] and Scott Burns [SEPULTURA, OBITUARY, DEATH], and mixed by Scott Burn...

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ATREYU, SCORPIONS, HEAVEN AND HELL, QUEENSRŸCHE, OBITUARY First-Week Sales Revealed

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending September 2, 2007, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest hundred [except numbers over 20,000, which are rounded to the nearest thousand]; The Billboard 200 chart position inclu...

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OBITUARY Guitarist Says New Album Is 'More Energetic' Than 'Frozen In Time

Chad Bowar of About Heavy Metal recently conducted an interview with OBITUARY guitarist Trevor Peres. A few excerpts from the chat follow: About Heavy Metal: How did Ralph Santolla come to join the band as your new guitarist? Trevor Peres: "We've known Ralph for probably 20 years. He's from Tampa, a...

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KAM LEE: 'MASSACRE Will NOT Be Touring The U.S. And That Is FINAL!'

Former MASSACRE/DEATH frontman Kam Lee, who will be touring Europe this fall with both MASSACRE and his new band DENIAL FIEND, has issued the following statement in response to requests from fans for MASSACRE to do some U.S. dates: "MASSACRE will NOT be touring the U.S. and that is FINAL! "This has...

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Xecutioner's Return

Simple to the point of atavism, and crackling with more energy than the band's been able to muster up in at least a decade, "Xecutioner's Return" is pretty much exactly what OBITUARY fans were hoping it'd be. It's a bone-basic tour de force of old-school death metal infused with a bleeding organic g...

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RESURRECTION: New Songs Posted Online

Tampa death metallers and former Nuclear Blast recording artists RESURRECTION, who had moderate success with their debut album "Embalmed Existence" (1993),have made two songs from their upcoming "Ritual Slaughter" EP available online. The track "Coward" can be heard on the band's MySpace page, whil...

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HOLY MOSES: New Video Interview With SABINA CLASSEN Available

A video interview with HOLY MOSES frontwoman Sabina Classen conducted at the Jalometalli 2007 festival — which took place place August 17-18 at Club Teatria in Oulu, Finland — has been posted on YouTube. Watch the three-minute clip — which includes footage of the band's performance at the festival —...

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OBITUARY Frontman: I Am Totally Psyched And Ready To Get This Album Out!

Vocalist John Tardy of the Florida-based death metal legends OBITUARY has issued the following update: "With only a fews days until the release of our newest CD, 'Xecutioner's Return' (out August 28th),and we really want to thank all of the people that have helped us this far. Starting with Mark Pr...

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AVATAR: 'Schlacht' Track Listing Revealed

Swedish metal band AVATAR has finalized the track listing for its new album, "Schlacht", due on October 24 via Gain Records. The group started recording the follow-up to 2006's "Thoughts of No Tomorrow" in May. "Schlacht" track listing: 01. Schlacht 02. Wildflower 03. All Which is Black 04. 4 AM Bre...

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OBITUARY: Starting Over Again

FMQB recently conducted an interview with OBITUARY frontman John Tardy. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: FMQB: The album is called "Xecutioner's Return" and the original name of your band was XECUTIONER, so is the title supposed to be a nod to your past? Are you trying to say you're going...