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FACEBREAKER Confirmed For Germany's PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival
FACEBREAKER has been confirmed for this year's Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 7-9, 2008 in Bad Berka, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BEHEMOTH BOLT THROWER DEADBORN DEFLORATION DISMEMBER ENDSTILLE FACEBREAKER GENERAL SURGERY HAIL OF BULLETS IMPALED NAZA...February 25, 2008
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Metal Blade Records 25th Anniversary
In a world of mergers, acquisitions, and corporate rape, Metal Blade Records continues to stand tall as a label with credibility, independence, and a truly customer-oriented staff. One can debate some of the albums they've released over the years, but one could say that about most labels. That the l...February 24, 2008
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DISMEMBER, KOLDBRANN, TYRANT Confirmed For Germany's PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival
DISMEMBER, KOLDBRANN, TYRANT and IMPERIOUS MALEVOLENCE have been confirmed for this year's Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 7-9, 2008 in Bad Berka, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BEHEMOTH BOLT THROWER DEADBORN DEFLORATION DISMEMBER ENDSTILLE GENERAL SURG...February 9, 2008
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PUNGENT STENCH Drummer Says Frontman's 'Jealousy' Caused Band's Split
Drummer Alex Wank (a.k.a. Rector Stench, Mr. Stench, Sex Slave) of the long-running Austrian extreme metallers PUNGENT STENCH has released the following statement: "It has come to an very sudden and sad end between me and Cochino [guitarist/vocalist Martin Schirenc] and due to an email conversation...August 22, 2007
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Battle Lords
Go ahead and dwell on the fact that Rhode Island's GODLESS RISING includes in its ranks two members of the original VITAL REMAINS lineup (vocalist Jeff Gruslin and lead guitarist Paul Flynn) that contributed to the "Let Us Pray" album. Take a few minutes. Now get past it because aside from the fact...July 15, 2007
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Horna/Behexen
At the risk of including overly used terms like "sick" and "necro" to describe this split release, there are honestly no better terms to use to describe this Finnish black metal behemoth. Fret not though, I'm saving "kvlt" to use in the next review of a worthy black metal release. But seriously folk...May 31, 2007
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Treatise on the Abyss
Billed as the "Satanic elite of Louisiana," Baton Rouge's CATHOLICON have been leaving paths of scorched earth since 1994. "Treatise on the Abyss" is the band's third full-length album and follow up to the whirlwind of lost souls that is "The Death Throes of Christianity". Those yet to discover CATH...May 1, 2007
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Usurper
Relatively slow, angular, sludgy hardcore from Arkansas, influenced by MESHUGGAH and dipped into the black tar phlegm of prime EYEHATEGOD for that rancid touch of Southern malevolence gone bad. Listening to "Usurper" is like a slow-motion car crash — plenty of jagged bits and shards of glass, seethi...March 10, 2007
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Eschaton
Sometimes a band can tweak the conventions of their chosen genre, not so much reinventing anything as just approaching things in a slightly different way, and by doing so they can set benchmarks for lesser mortals to follow. ENTOMBED's "Clandestine" comes to mind — on the surface, it was a slightly...February 4, 2007
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Olidous Operettas
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Well THE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINERS have been flattering the hell out of CARCASS and continue to do just that on their Relapse debut, "Olidous Operettas". Hey, at least they admit to it. Besides, they do a fine job of mimicking that classic goregrind...January 15, 2007
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WINTERTHRALL To Release Debut Album Next Month
Drummer Rob Alaniz (NOCTUARY, RISE, EVILDEAD) of the the Orange County, California-based doom/death metal band WINTERTHRALL has posted the following message on the group's web site: "Firstly, our friend Jeremy Peto has unfortunately decided to leave the band in order to concentrate on his music full...November 18, 2006
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Subliminal Genocide
It seemed a tad strange to find that the new 71-minute full-length from Malefic's XASTHUR was being released on Hydra Head. That is, until one considers that the lo-fi black metal atmospheres and dread-drenched trance of "Subliminal Genocide" is the kind of expansive, heady, and off-the-beaten path...October 2, 2006
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INCANTANTION: 'Onward To Golgotha' Reissue To Include Free DVD
Relapse Records has set an October 31, 2006 release date for the reissue of INCANTANTION's "Onward to Golgotha" CD. Long heralded as one of the heaviest, sickest, and most uncompromising death metal bands in the world, New Jersey's INCANTATION has forged a legacy of brutality unmatched by any other...August 9, 2006
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II
If you have not yet been exposed to the "Cruel Tanked Fucking Warfare" of Swedish black metallers BLODULV, then this re-release is a good place to start. (The album was original released by Total Holocaust Records and limited to 1,000 copies). Taking a BURZUM-esque style and twisting into their own...July 10, 2006
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Now, Diabolical
Is SATYRICON true black metal or have those deep roots been abandoned for more accessible fare? Has Satyr sold his soul to the devil for commercial gain? Give me a break. You heard it when "Volcano" was released in 2002 and you'll undoubtedly hear it with the release of "Now, Diabolical". The new al...June 5, 2006
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