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PATHS OF POSSESSION: More 'The End Of The Hour' Details Revealed

PATHS OF POSSESSION, the Florida-based band fronted by CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, will release its third album, "The End of the Hour", on October 16 via Metal Blade Records. The CD was recorded at Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida and "is the logical prog...

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SOLEMNITY To Release New Album In February

Germany's SOLEMNITY has issued the following update: "The last months were a very chaotic time indeed. First of all, our SPINAL TAP-like search for a drummer which has ended as you already know. We have started recording then the first parts of our new album [tentatively titled 'Lords of the Damned'...

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PRIMORDIAL: Cover Artwork Of 'To The Nameless Dead' Digibook Revealed

Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL will release their sixth album, "To The Nameless Dead", in Europe on November 19 via Metal Blade Records. According to a press release, the group's second CD for Metal Blade "is a timeless statement and an ode to their forefathers which lives and breathes the anci...

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PRIMORDIAL: More 'To The Nameless Dead' Details Revealed

Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL will release their sixth album, "To The Nameless Dead", in Europe on November 19 via Metal Blade Records. According to a press release, the group's second CD for Metal Blade "is a timeless statement and an ode to their forefathers which lives and breathes the anci...

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Ex-ANCIENT Drummer Featured In POWERS THAT BE Live Clip; Video Available

Italian session drummer Diego "Grom" Meraviglia (ANCIENT, HORTUS ANIMAE, DOOMSWORD, HATE PROFILE) recently completed filming a live clip with Australian metal band POWERS THAT BE. Watch it below. POWERS THAT BE's "Collide" video was shot in Hollywood, California and is in the final phase of post-pro...

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PENTACLE Mainman Discusses 'Under The Black Cross' Release On IBEX MOON RECORDS

Wannes Gubbels (vocals/bass) of PENTACLE has released this statement about the band's upcoming release on Ibex Moon Records: "As was the case with its predecessor 'Ancient Death', our new album 'Under the Black Cross' is again a very honest and raw-sounding death metal offering. Don't expect somethi...

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Ex-ELEGY Singer IAN PARRY Films 'Forever Fast' Video

According to MelodicRock.com, former ELEGY frontman Ian Parry recently travelled to Turkey in the ancient city of Side around the Roman ruins to shoot a video for the song "Forever Fast" from his "Consortium Project IV: Children of Tomorrow" album. Parry is planning to take CONSORTIUM PROJECT on the...

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BRUCE DICKINSON: 'We Don't Want To Look Like Our Own Version Of An IRON MAIDEN Cover Band'

Jason Nahrung of Australia's The Courier-Mail recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On next year's Somewhere Back in Time world tour, which revisits the heavy metal grandeur of IRON MAIDEN's 1984-5 Powerslave tour: "We're not...

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New Zealand's AMIDST HAZE Putting Finishing Touches On Debut Album

AMIDST HAZE, the New Zealand-based progressive black/pagan metal band, is putting the finishing touches on its debut album, "A Dying Race". The Celtic-themed album is only awaiting completion of the last track "Ancient Dawn", the lyrics of which are being re-written to fit in with the theme that eme...

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MOTÖRHEAD, WHITESNAKE, SAXON, JUDAS PRIEST Featured On 'Rock S'Cool' Double CD And DVD

Steamhammer/SPV has set an October 8 European release date for "Rock S'Cool", a double CD and DVD containing material some of the label's biggest and most promising hard rock and heavy metal artists. The "Rock S'Cool - A Spanking Good Song Collection" double CD consists of 30 tracks with a total pla...

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ANCIENT RITES: North American Tour Cancelled

ANCIENT RITES mainman Gunther Theys has issued the following update: "ANCIENT RITES were approached to tour the USA/Canada during winter. We agreed on the terms. Many dates were booked. The word was spread. The band kept the dates free and prepared for the tour. "One day we received a mail from the...

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ARALLU To Enter Studio In December

Israel's "Mesopotamian black metal" band ARALLU will open for Norwegian black metallers MAYHEM show on September 29 in Tel Aviv. ARALLU will film the performance for its second DVD (the follow-up to 2003's "Visual Chaos Invasion"),tentatively due next year. ARALLU is scheduled to enter the studio i...

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SATHANAS: 'Crowned Infernal' Samples Available

U.S. black/death metallers SATHANAS have posted audio samples from their new album, "Crowned Infernal", on their MySpace page. Due later this month via Singapore's Pulverised Records, the CD features the following track listing: 01. Crowned Infernal 02. At Death's Command 03. Cast Into The Fire 04....

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CATAMENIA Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

Finnish melodic black metal act CATAMENIA has been confirmed for next year's edition of the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 4-8, 2008 in Tolmin, Slovenia. As previously reported, CATAMENIA will team up with Belgium's ANCIENT RITES for a U.S. tour beginning in late November. Also appearing...

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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...