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Triumf

Scandinavian black metal horde CURSED 13 has some unfinished business. They could still use plenty of tightening up, but at least there's a dedication to chaos that prevails throughout their sinister album "Triumf" which will appeal to their longtime fans who have been waiting for a proper full-leng...

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Destiny of the Gods

The Detroit-based metal troupe COVEN from the mid-Eighties is not to be confused with the more notable Seattle thrashers of the same name arriving shortly after these guys. Having originally hung up their leathers in the early nineties after releasing one album, "Worship New Gods", the renamed COVEN...

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Funeral Circle

Canadian doom sect FUNERAL CIRCLE are a well-read bunch who weave creeping, elegiac dirges featuring dark fantasy and arcane muses. The Necronomicon, Paganism, Lovecraft's sinister realm of Cthulhu and Conan the Barbarian's duke-outs against the snake cult of Set all figure into FUNERAL CIRCLE's bra...

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Unblackened

Back in March of this year, Zakk Wylde and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY put together a special treat at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, a scaled-back, relaxed retrospective set filled with ten BLS songs, three from the PRIDE & GLORY days and four selections from Zakk's 1996 solo album, "Book of Shadows". "Unb...

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AVATARIUM Singer: 'People Have This Preconception That Female Vocalists Only Use Opera-Styled Vocals In Metal'

Raymond Westland of The Midlands Rocks recently conducted an interview with AVATARIUM singer Jennie-Ann Smith. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Midlands Rocks: Can you start by telling how you become involved with AVATARIUM? Jennie-Ann Smith: AVATARIUM started out as a project fr...

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INDIAN: New Song 'Rhetoric Of No' Available For Streaming

Chicago's favorite blackened doom nihilists INDIAN will release their long-awaited fifth full-length album, "From All Purity", via Relapse Records on CD/LP/digital in North America on January 21, 2014, Germany/Benelux/Finland on January 17, and in the rest of the world on January 20. The effort was...

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CANDLEMASS To Perform Entire 'Ancient Dreams' Album At ROADBURN Festival

Swedish doom metal legends CANDLEMASS to perform their "Ancients Dreams" album in its entirety at Mikael Åkerfeldt's (OPETH) 2014 curated Roadburn event on Friday, April 11 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. "Wow, just wow!" says Åkerfeldt. "I am friends with the entire band, and especial...

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LITA FORD Guests On 'Mohr Stories' Podcast (Audio)

'80s hard rock queen Lita Ford was interviewed on episode 206 of "Mohr Stories", the podcast hosted by actor, comedian and sports enthusiast Jay Mohr. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. Ford released a new live album, "The Bitch Is Back...Live", on November 5 in North America,...

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CHROME DIVISION Talks About 'Endless Nights' Single And Video

CHROME DIVISION — the Norwegian five-piece featuring DIMMU BORGIR frontman Shagrath (a.k.a. Stian Thoresen) on guitar — will release its fourth album, "Infernal Rock Eternal", on January 17, 2014 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2011's "3rd Round Knockout" was recorded at Dub Studio in Oslo with...

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LITA FORD Guests On 'The Women Of Metal' Radio Show (Audio)

'80s hard rock queen Lita Ford was interviewed on the November 28 edition of "The Women Of Metal" radio show with host Jayson Shell. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud widget below. Ford released a new live album, "The Bitch Is Back...Live", on November 5 in North America, on October...

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PARADISE LOST's GREG MACKINTOSH Interviewed By PLANET MUSIC VIENNA (Video)

Planet Music Vienna conducted an interview with guitarist Greg Mackintosh of British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST prior to the band's November 12 concert at Arena in Vienna, Austria. You can now watch the chat below. PARADISE LOST has just completed its 25th-anniversary "Tragic Illusion" tour...

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Sweden's VAMPIRE Signs With CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

Century Media Records has announced the signing of Swedish death metal act VAMPIRE. VAMPIRE was founded in 2011 by Hand Of Doom (vocals),Black String (guitars) and Command (bass). The band’s self-titled debut demo, released in September of the following year in different print runs, had a massive i...

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NAPALM CHRIST Signs With A389 RECORDINGS

A389 Recordings has announced the signing of Arkansas-based underlords NAPALM CHRIST. Formed in late 2010, NAPALM CHRIST unites a crew of longtime henchmen who have helped shape the Little Rock area extreme music scene over the past two or more decades. Since the early 1990s, the four horsemen who f...

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CANDLEMASS Bassist's AVATARIUM: 'Boneflower' Video Released

"Boneflower", the new video from AVATARIUM, the project led by Leif Edling, founding bassist and main songwriter of Swedish doom metal legends CANDLEMASS, can be seen below. The song is taken from AVATARIUM's self-titled debut album, which was released in Europe on November 1 via Nuclear Blast. In a...

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SAHG: Second 'Delusions Of Grandeur' Track-By-Track Breakdown (Video)

The second track-by-track breakdown of "Delusions Of Grandeur", the new album from the Norwegian psychedelic quartet SAHG — which specializes in doom-infused '70s rock — can be seen below. The CD was recorded at Duper studio in Bergen, Norway. "Delusions Of Grandeur" was released on October 25 via I...