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HIRAX: 'Thrash And Destroy' DVD/CD Details Revealed
California thrashers HIRAX will release their new live DVD, "Thrash and Destroy", on June 30 through Selfmadegod Records. The set features the band's entire 75-minute performance at the Keep It True Festival IX on November 3, 2007, in Dittigheim, Germany. The track listing is as follows: 01. El Dia...June 23, 2008
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GENGHIS TRON And NACHTMYSTIUM Interviewed In Bristol; Video Available
Ren Ackermann of the UK's Contraband Candy went to Bristol in May and caught up with one of this year's more unusual tour combinations metal experimentalists GENGHIS TRON and up-and-coming "psychedelic black metallers" NACHTMYSTIUM. Ackermann spoke to GENGHIS TRON about their dark, visceral music as...June 18, 2008
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NACHTMYSTIUM In-The-Studio Video Documentary; Part 1 Available
MetalKult.com has just posted part one of its seven-part in-the-studio documentary NACHTMYSTIUM: The Making of "Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1". For the past six years, Chicago's NACHTMYSTIUM have been producing some of the more forward-thinking U.S. black metal out there. So when founding guitaris...June 3, 2008
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NACHTMYSTIUM Assassinating All Preconceived Notions About Where It Belongs In Music
Bob Gendron of the Chicago Tribune reports: Akin to many kids raised by music-loving parents, NACHTMYSTIUM guitarist/vocalist Blake Judd fondly recalls raiding his folks' record collection and spending hours listening to PINK FLOYD albums in his bedroom. He'd gently place the phonograph needle on cl...June 3, 2008
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NACHTMYSTIUM Announces Tour Dates With BORIS And TORCHE
Chicago-area psychedelic black metal group NACHTMYSTIUM will join its similarly sonically expansive brethren in BORIS and TORCHE for a week-long run through parts of Canada and the U.S. The dates are as follows: July 12 - La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC July 13 - Babylon - Ottawa, ON July 14 - Lees Pal...May 16, 2008
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NACHTMYSTIUM: New Song Posted Online
Chicago-area psychedelic black metal group NACHTMYSTIUM has posted a new song titled "Assassins" on its MySpace page. The track comes off the band's new full-length album, "Assassins: Black Meddle Part I", which will be released on June 10 via Century Media Records in North America and June 23 throu...April 24, 2008
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HIRAX Hard At Work On 'El Rostro de la Muerte'
Following last year's release of HIRAX's highly acclaimed EP "Assassins Of War", the Long Beach thrashers have recorded six new songs with producer John Haddad for their upcoming album, "El Rostro de la Muerte". This will be the band's first full-length since the 2004 release "The New Age Of Terror"...April 16, 2008
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HIRAX To Perform At San Francisco's THE TIDALWAVE 11 Festival
Veteran California thrashers HIRAX will reportedly perform at The Tidalwave 11 festival, set to take place July 5-6 at McLaren Park in San Francisco, California. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: EXODUS HIRAX DTENTE PSYCHOSOMATIC PILLAGER ANCIENT AT BIRTH ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST According...March 30, 2008
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War Metal Battle Master
Chicago's champions of true metal and all things battle-scarred return with album number three, the righteously titled "War Metal Battle Master". What a perfect title to use in describing the essence of LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR. The new disc features everything you've come to the love about the grimy tr...March 24, 2008
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HIRAX: 1984 Demo To Be Released As Seven-Inch Single
After being on hiatus for a couple of years, Sweden's Stormbringer Records is back with another release lined up for 2008 — a seven-inch single from legendary U.S. thrashers HIRAX. This will contain the very first recording the band did, the classic 1984 demo recording. The seven-inch will be on col...March 12, 2008
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LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR: New Song Available For Download
"Horde of Undead Vengeance", the new track from the Chicago-based doomsters LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR, is available for download at this location. The song comes off the group's new album, "War Metal Battle Master", due on March 25 via Southern Lord Records. The CD includes a 20-page booklet featuring ar...March 8, 2008
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NACHTMYSTIUM: New Mini-CD To Be Released Before Upcoming Full-Length
"Worldfall", the new mini-CD from the Chicago-area psychedelic black metal group NACHTMYSTIUM, will be released as a precursor to the band's upcoming full-length, and will only be available direct from Century Media as well as iTunes. Then in June, NACHTMYSTIUM will release the massively anticipated...February 29, 2008
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LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR: 'War Metal Battle Master' Listening Party Announced
Southern Lord Records will premiere the new album from the Chicago-based doomsters LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR, entitled "War Metal Battle Master", at an exclusive pre-release listening party. The event will take place on March 18 at Kuma's Corner (2900 W. Belmont Avenue) in Chicago, Illinois at 10 p.m. Li...February 29, 2008
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Death Brigade
The Heavy Artillerylabel continues its winning streak, unearthing more American retro-thrash with heart, guts and spiked armbands galore. AVENGER OF BLOOD hail from Las Vegas, and their German-influenced thrash will satisfy anyone looking for that 1987 feeling they got from their old KREATOR and DES...February 24, 2008
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HIRAX To Release 'Thrash And Destroy' DVD
Veteran California thrashers HIRAX have issued the following update: "We have begun pre-production for the new HIRAX album, 'El Rostro de la Muerte'. Songtitles to date include 'Baptized By Fire', 'Death Militia', 'Battle Of The North', and re-recorded versions of 'Blind Faith' and 'Broken Neck'. "E...February 11, 2008
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