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SIX FEET UNDER To Film Berlin Show For Upcoming Box Set

SIX FEET UNDER will be filming their March 16 concert in Berlin, Germany for an upcoming box set, to be released later this year. Two songs from the group's new CD, "13", will be included in the setlist. "13" is scheduled for release on March 22 via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Brin...

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HOWLING SYN Announce New Guitarist, Bassist

Canadian gothic metallers HOWLING SYN have issued the following update: "We now have a new member who will replace Gilbert [Riendeau, guitar]! Patryk has hung up his bass and will now concentrate on guitars. So the band now has a new bass player called Carlo Moscardini, who previously worked with LI...

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NILE Announce New Bassist

NILE have announced that "due to last-minute rehearsals with 19-year-old bass player Joe Payne, Karl and Dallas have decided that he will in fact be the bass player on the upcoming European dates starting next week," according to a posting on the group's official web site. "NILE and World Management...

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DARK FUNERAL To Enter Studio In Late May

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL will enter Dug Out studios in Uppsala, Sweden on May 23 with producer Daniel Bergstrand (IN FLAMES, MESHUGGAH, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD) to record their new album, due in late 2005 via Regain Records. The recording/mixing sessions for the follow-up to 2001's "Diabolis...

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CRISIS: 'Waking The Dead' To Receive 'Headbanger's Ball' Premiere

According to the CRISIS fan site FiresOfSorrow, CRISIS' video for the track "Waking the Dead" is slated to premiere on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" on Saturday, March 12. As previously reported, the video was filmed at the site of an abandoned women's hospital in the boiler and patient rooms late in J...

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NECROPHAGIST Cancel European Tour Dates

NECROPHAGIST guitarist/vocalist Muhammed Suicmez has posted the following message in the "Forum" section of the band's official web site: "Due to health problems that will prevent me from performing on stage or leaving Stuttgart, NECROPHAGIST is unfortunately forced to cancel our upcoming tours with...

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Former NILE Bassist Explains His Departure

Former NILE bassist Jon Vesano has issued a statement explaining his departure from the group. It reads as follows: "I'm sure you're probably getting a trickle of information on what is going on. "I have decided to depart NILE for several reasons being personal and business related. There were some...

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NILE Part Ways With Bassist

NILE have parted ways with bassist Jon Vesano. "He has decided that he will stay at his day job, which was not mutually compatable with NILE's touring commitments, and work on his DARK MOON project on weekends/spare time," NILE mainman Karl Sanders writes on the group's web site. "Jon has emphasized...

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VISCERAL BLEEDING: More European Tour Dates Announced

Swedish death metallers VISCERAL BLEEDING have lined up the following dates during the coming months: "Transcending The U.K." tour with NAILED, CONDEMMED: May 04 - Manchester, UK @ Star and Garter May 05 - Swansea, UK @ TBC May 06 - Birmingham, UK @ Edwards No.8 May 07 - Leeds, UK @ Joseph Wells .....

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'Extreme Metal II' Guide To Thrash/Black/Death Metal Due In April

A new book, "Extreme Metal II", is due for global publication in April 2005 by Omnibus Press. The author is Joel McIver, whose best-selling 2004 opus, "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica", was the first book to express in depth the disappointment that thousands of metal fans feel about the b...

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NILE Announce New Album Title

NILE guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders has issued the following update on the recording sessions for the group's new album: "We are now finished with the mixes on the new NILE album, entitled 'Annihilation of the Wicked'. We are extremely happy with the mixes Neil Kernon [producer] gave the new songs,...

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CRISIS Bassist Welcomes Addition To Family

Congratulations are in order for CRISIS bassist Gia Chuan Wang and his wife Grace on the birth of their baby daughter, Maxine. She was born on February 2 at around 7:30 p.m., weighing just under 7 pounds. CRISIS are scheduled to play at the Independence-D festival in Japan in March and are hard at w...

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BEHEMOTH: 'Conquer All' Video To Receive 'Headbanger's Ball' Premiere

BEHEMOTH's video for the track "Conquer All", taken from their latest album, "Demigod", will receive its "Headbanger's Ball" premiere this Saturday, February 5 at 10:00 p.m. EST on MTV2. Download the video at this location. The "Conquer All" clip was directed by Joanna Rechnio and "the whole filming...

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SHAITAN MAZAR: New Audio Samples Posted Online

SHAITAN MAZAR, the new band featuring former NILE members Chief Spires (bass, vocals) and John Ehlers (guitar),have posted audio samples from their recently completed full-length CD, "Catalyst of Amalgamation", at this location. Commented Chief: "We are very excited about the release of this CD. It...

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Altered Genesis

It's one thing for a guy like Tchort (ex-EMPEROR, GREEN CARNATION, CARPATHIAN FOREST) to be involved in so many different extreme music projects, it's quite another for every one of them to be quality acts. Such is the case with the man's rabid American-style (read: Floridian) death metal band, BLOO...