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MASTODON Complete Work On New Album; Cover Artwork Posted Online

Atlanta's MASTODON have officially completed work on their third album, "Blood Mountain", due this fall via the band's new label, Warner Bros. The album's cover artwork was posted online on the band's official web site as an interactive puzzle, where the pieces must be dragged and dropped to create...

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Sacrifice

DEADSOIL are textbook metalcore. They can thrash it up, as on "Cross the Great Divide", or throw in clean singalong choruses, as on "Unspoken" and the melodic "These Stings". They can do the galloping AT THE GATES beat (see "True Belief") and they can do HATEBREED-style breakdowns. What they can't d...

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NOCTURNAL BREED Part Ways With PAINKILLER RECORDS

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED have posted the following message on their official web site: "We have decided to leave Painkiller Records because of major communication problems and the fact that they have broken the contract we had with them. Therefore we are now in the process of finding a ne...

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GODSMACK Frontman: We Support The Troops, Not The War

A.J. Hammer of CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna on Thursday, May 11. A transcript of the chat follows: Hammer: Well, here we go again. Another rock group embroiled in controversy over their music and the war in Iraq. But this time, it's not exactly wha...

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VH1's Metal Month To Feature All-New Series, Documentaries, Specials And Movies

From the rocking sounds of metal music and the stories behind the men and women who created them to the continued legacy that is rock and roll, VH1 debuts all-new series, documentaries, specials and movies this May that will leave you praying at the altar of rock. Premieres: "40 Greatest Metal Songs...

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MASTODON: Cover Of METALLICA's 'Orion' Posted Online

MASTODON's cover of METALLICA's "Orion", which was recorded for the recently released Kerrang! magazine tribute to the METALLICA album "Master of Puppets", has been posted online at www.myspace.com/mastodon. Also available at the same location are pictures and videos from the recording sessions for...

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Us Versus Them

Well, it's been a little while since militant hardcore bruisers GAT-ROT released the "Conflict" MCD in 2000. Newly signed to Rotten Records and about to release an inflammatory full-length called "Us Versus Them", time off has not translated into a mellowing with age. "Us Versus Them" is a varied ha...

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MASTODON Hope To Start Prog Revolution With 'Blood Mountain'

MTV.com is reporting that Atlanta-based metallers MASTODON are putting the finishing touches on their third album, "Blood Mountain", with Seattle-based producer Matt Bayles (ISIS, HORSE THE BAND). The CD will be mixed later in the month in New York by Rich Costey (AUDIOSLAVE, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE). A...

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Live Live in Paris

Is it finally time for the BACKYARD BABIES to conquer their last frontier? They've toured with AC/DC, SOCIAL DISTORTION and VELVET REVOLVER, and they pre-date THE HELLACOPTERS. They've collaborated in various side projects with everyone from members of ENTOMBED to MICHAEL friggin' MONROE. Yet here i...

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KISS: New 18" Sculptures Coming Soon!

One of the most prolific and popular touring bands in the history of rock music, KISS has agreed to conquer a smaller stage — the figure collectibles market. In a landmark licensing agreement with Signatures Network, KISS's exclusive licensing agency, rock's grandest ghouls will be rendered as premi...

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CONFESSOR Confirmed For Ohio's EMISSIONS FROM THE MONOLITH FESTIVAL

Reunited North Carolina-based progressive metallers CONFESSOR have been confirmed for the Emissions From The Monolith Festival #8, set to take place May 25-18 in Youngstown Ohio. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Thursday, May 25: STINKING LIZAVETA KYLESA GRAVES AT SEA CONIFER ROSETTA U...

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NOCTURNAL BREED: New Album, European Mini-Tour Postponed

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED have pushed back the projected release date of their follow-up to "The Tools of the Trade" (Holycaust Records) to September from the previously announced May. Entitled "Code of Conduct", the CD is "taking shape but there is still work to be done," the band write o...

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NAPALM DEATH Frontman Talks American Politics

Charlie Steffens of KNAC.COM recently conducted an interview with NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: KNAC.COM: I've read a lot of about your views, and I understand that the upcoming album will deal with religion and creationism. Greenway: "Yeah,...

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DEADSOIL: New Album Details Revealed

Germany's DEADSOIL have completed work on their new album, "Sacrifice", due on May 26 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and on May 29 in the rest of Europe via Lifeforce Records. The follow-up to 2004's "The Venom Divine" was recorded in January at Principal Studios (CALIBAN, WATERDOWN) in Senden...

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NOCTURNAL BREED To Team Up With DEMONIZER For European Mini-Tour

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED will be teaming up with DEMONIZER for a European mini-tour between May 25 and June 3. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. NOCTURNAL BREED are continuing work on their follow-up to "The Tools of the Trade" (Holycaust Records),tentatively due in May. Ent...