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Speed Kills… Again

Just in case you missed the whiff of stale beer in denim and heard the sound of creaking leathers, the Heavy Artillery label is reminding you with all the subtlety of a boot to a poseur's face that thrash is back. Rising up from the American underground (particularly in the Latino community, for som...

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'Get Thrashed' Director Says Thrash Is 'Back, And Bigger And Better'

D.X. Ferris of the Cleveland Scene recently conducted an interview with Rick Ernst, "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene. "Thrash was the perfect mix," explains Ernst. "Guy...

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MEGADETH: Complete 'Warchest' Box Set Details Revealed

MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine and Capitol/EMI have collaborated to create and deploy the ultimate MEGADETH box set: "Warchest". The 4-CD+DVD collection features more than six hours of digitally remastered content, hand-selected by Mustaine, including 30 audio and video tracks making their global release...

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SKINLAB: Live CD, DVD In The Works

Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of the San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update: "Today we start listen to the live CD recording from our show at The Metro June 3rd. We're set to start mixing next week. We'll be working our our longtime friend Juan Urteaga at Trident...

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DARZAMAT: 'Live Profanity' DVD Preview Available

Polish black/death metal band DARZAMAT will release its first-ever live DVD, entitled "Live Profanity (Visiting the Graves of Heretics)" (cover),in North America on August 28 via Metal Mind Productions (the DVD was released in Europe on July 30). The disc was recorded at the 21st edition of the Met...

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CIVILIZATION ONE: Debut Album To Receive Japanese Release

CIVILIZATION ONE will have its debut album, "Revolution Rising", released in Japan on September 26 via Spiritual Beast Records. This Japanese edition will include the bonus track "Out in the Rain". "Revolution Rising" was recently released in Europe, where it has received great praise from both fans...

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TRIVIUM: Video Footage From Bassist's METAL MILITIA Band Available

An EPK (Electronic Press Kit) from METAL MILITIA, the now-defunct Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based band which featured in its ranks current TRIVIUM bassist Paolo Gregoletto on bass and vocals, has been posted on YouTube. Watch the clip below. Formed in 1999, METAL MILITIA was catapulted onto the nation...

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ENTOMBED Frontman: 'All The Biggest Leaders In The World Have Been Mentally Ill'

ENTOMBED vocalist L.G. Petrov, in the first of two interviews, recently spoke to Lucem Fero's Welsh interviewer Anthony Morgan. Topics of discussion included circumstances surrounding the delay of latest album "Serpent Saints", NAPALM DEATH, the welcomed return to raw aggression and how the internal...

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SEVERE TORTURE On New Album: 'The End Result Literally Blew Us Away'

Dutch death metal brutalizers SEVERE TORTURE have issued the following update: "September 10th has been set as the European release date for our brand new album 'Sworn Vengeance'. This will mark our second release on Earache Records and further release dates will follow soon for North America and th...

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Short Sharp Shock

There sure are a lot of youngster picking up ye olde thrash gauntlet and going the old school route. Considering Earache's grand slam in picking up the mighty MUNICIPAL WASTE it should come as no surprise that England's thrash punkers SSS have also found a home on the storied label. The strain of th...

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Thrash Is Back!

British weekly music magazine NME has jumped aboard the thrash resurgence and openly declared that "thrash is back" in this week's issue. Reaching out to a more mainstream market, the NME delves into the upcoming artists exploding out of the genre and describes thrash as "a style of music that makes...

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SKINLAB Frontman: 'We've Been Writing Some Sick Music'

Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of the San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update: "We've been laying low since returning home from The Face of Aggression Tour, getting right down to business in the studio writing the new album!! We've been writing some sick fuckin musi...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION Frontwoman: 'With Every Album We Try To Do Something Different'

FMQB recently conducted an interview with WITHIN TEMPTATION vocalist Sharon Den Adel. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: FMQB: You recently finished the Hottest Chicks In Metal Tour with LACUNA COIL, which was your first visit to the U.S. How did it go? Sharon: Very well. I was very surprise...

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'Thrash Metal' Book Cover Posted Online

The front cover to the upcoming book "Thrash Metal", featuring a previously unseen live shot of Cliff Burton and James Hetfield of METALLICA in their club days, has been posted at www.zondabooks.com. Details on the Zonda Books site also include a full listing of all bands included. Due on September...

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Save Yourself

NORA is celebrating its 10th anniversary and "Save Yourself" is the first album I've heard. It is not all that surprising though when you consider the sheer number of Trustkill-type hardcore/metalcore bands that have been saturating the scene for years now. However, on "Save Yourself" (and presumabl...