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DENIAL FIEND Featuring Ex-DEATH Members: New Band Photos, Music Posted Online

DENIAL FIEND, the new Florida-based band featuring former DEATH/MASSACRE members Kam Lee (vocals) and Terry Butler (bass; also in SIX FEET UNDER) alongside ex-NASTY SAVAGE drummer Curtis Beeson and former DOWN BY LAW guitarist Sam Williams, has posted several brand new photos on its official web sit...

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VIRGIN STEELE's GILCHRIEST Slams 'Fake' Drummers In Metal

The official VIRGIN STEELE web site has been updated with a new interview with frontman David DeFeis and drummer Frank Gilchriest. An excerpt from the chat follows: Q: What are your favourite moments on [the new VIRGIN STEELE album, "Visions of Eden"]? Favorite tracks? Are you satisfied with the way...

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Ex-FEAR FACTORY Guitarist To Host Birthday Bash In Hollywood

Former FEAR FACTORY/BRUJERIA and current ASESINO guitarist Dino Cazares will be hosting a special birthday bash this Saturday, September 2 at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood, California. Dino will reportedly be throwing special pinatas full of goodies at the show, which will feature performances by...

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Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

Anyone still crying about the 10 that "Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part I" got last week, please purchase another box of tissues before reading further. If it was possible to give this record an 11, I'd give it one — the first two "Keeper" albums are essential landmarks in heavy metal history, indispu...

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SACRIFICE: 'Soldiers Of Misfortune' Reissue With Bonus CD Now Available

Brazil's Marquee Records has just re-released the third album from legendary Canadian thrashers SACRIFICE, entitled "Soldiers of Misfortune". It comes as a double CD in a limited-edition hand-numbered slipcase and contains a massive booklet with liner notes by Laurent Ramadier, live pictures and per...

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HEATHEN Close To Signing With MASCOT RECORDS

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN are close to signing a deal with Mascot Records. As many fans will recall, HEATHEN were one of the most unique bands to rise from the Bay Area thrash explosion of the '80s/'90s, having released a groundbreaking debut album, "Breaking the Silence", in...

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DEF LEPPARD's VIVIAN CAMPBELL On Early Years

Gibson.com reports: From pioneering British metal band SWEET SAVAGE to DIO and WHITESNAKE to DEF LEPPARD today, Vivian Campbell rode rock 'n' roll from the violent streets of Belfast to L.A.'s Sunset Strip. Now, with "Yeah!", DEF LEPPARD's joyful tribute to their early influences, he comes full circ...

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AGANKAST To Cover ATOMKRAFT

Former ATOMKRAFT guitarist Rob Matthew, whose current responsibilities include managing the young British metal band AGANKAST, has issued the following update: "Twenty years ago ATOMKRAFT were four young lads from Newcastle. We rode on the coattails of our mates VENOM, gigging, writing and hanging o...

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Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam

Prison, anyone? Hey, just be glad that you're getting album number seven from one of Norway's finest black metal exports. Nicely textured and more varied than the average black metal release, "Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam" is another Satanic fist in the face of your god. With the inhuman Frost (SATYR...

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Chapter 1: Between the Bridges

It's a horribly inappropriate metaphor, given the eating and drinking habits of many in this scene, but aren't good old-school hardcore records kind of the audio equivalent of a bacon cheeseburger and a cheap cold beer? Sure, it's nice to see bands spreading their wings, getting all technical, meldi...

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PYRAMAZE To Film DVD At PROGPOWER USA VII Festival

Danish/American metallers PYRAMAZE, featuring ex-BALANCE OF POWER singer Lance King, will record a live DVD at this year's ProgPower USA VII festival, set to take place September 15-16 at Earthlink Live in Atlanta, Georgia. The band's setlist is expected to be "an equal mix of songs from both of the...

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DEF LEPPARD Become Members Of World's Oldest Football Club

Yorkshire Post Today reports that rock legends DEF LEPPARD have become members of the world's oldest soccer club — Sheffield FC. The band was presented with a team shirt (photo) and an early club photograph by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Coun Jackie Drayton, after pledging their support to their ho...

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INCANTANTION: 'Onward To Golgotha' Reissue To Include Free DVD

Relapse Records has set an October 31, 2006 release date for the reissue of INCANTANTION's "Onward to Golgotha" CD. Long heralded as one of the heaviest, sickest, and most uncompromising death metal bands in the world, New Jersey's INCANTATION has forged a legacy of brutality unmatched by any other...

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ANAL BLAST, NINETY MINUTE REFLEX To Headline TAMPA BAY GRINDCORE MASSACRE

Minnesota's ANAL BLAST, which is currently on the Bloody Holes of Summer tour, will hit Florida as part of the Tampa Bay Grindcore Massacre, set to take place August 19 at Tampa Bay's Legendary Brass Mug. The event, co-headlined by Florida's NINETY MINUTE REFLEX (full-length album due out winter 200...

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UNREST Replaces SAVAGE CIRCUS At Switzerland's METAL DAYZ Festival

UNREST has replaced SAVAGE CIRCUS on the billing of the Metal Dayz festival, set to take place August 4-6 at Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: Friday, August 4: 17.00-17.30 AEONBLACK (open air) 17.45-18.15 DARK DAY DUNGEON (indoors) 18.30-19.15 DREAMSIDE...