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The Fans Have Spoken: SLAYER Comes Out On Top In Readers' Polls

Having won their first-ever Grammy Award last month — "Best Metal Performance" for the track "Eyes of the Insane" — thrash icons SLAYER have just picked up a handful of even more awards, and these are from the fans. Revolver magazine's 2007 "Readers' Poll" singled out SLAYER's Kerry King and Jeff Ha...

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TESTAMENT, KREATOR, ROTTING CHRIST Confirmed For Finland's JALOMETALLI Festival

TESTAMENT, KREATOR, ROTTING CHRIST and GRAVE have been confirmed for the Jalometalli festival, set to take place August 17-18 at Club Teatria in Oulu, Finland. The festival billing is shaping upas follows (in alphabetical order): ALTARIA AMORAL BURNING POINT DOMINATION BLACK ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW...

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SLAYER, MASTODON, CULT OF LUNA To Play Denmark's ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

According to Clonemetal.dk, SLAYER, MASTODON, PELICAN and CULT OF LUNA will play this year's Roskilde Festival, set to take place July 5-8 in Roskilde, Denmark. Also scheduled to appear at the event are RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and THE WHO, among others. Coming off a 24-date North...

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SLAYER, MASTODON Confirmed For Poland's MYSTIC FESTIVAL

SLAYER and MASTODON have been confirmed for the Mystic Festival, set to take place June 5 at Spodek in Katowice, Poland. A flyer for the concert can be viewed at this location. Coming off a 24-date North American headlining tour and their first-ever Grammy win, SLAYER will head off to Australia for...

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An Oral History of DECIBEL Magazine

RockCritics.com has published "An Oral History of Decibel Magazine," penned by Steven Ward. An excerpt from the article follows: "In my humble opinion, Decibel is the best American music magazine published today. It just so happens that Decibel covers the world of extreme metal, carrying features an...

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You are the Lamb

Canada's Goodfellow Records has consistently unearthed the kind of bands that scrape, crawl, and destroy in fine sludge and hardcore fashion. Add Seattle's IAMTHETHORN to that list. Debut EP "You Are the Lamb" is 23 minutes of EYEHATEGOD-style angry sludge and doom, in this case with the boys pissed...

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ROTTING CORPSE Confirmed For Texas' DONNAPALOOZA METALFEST

Reunited '80s thrash band ROTTING CORPSE — whose original lineup included SOLITUDE AETURNUS founder John Perez and former DEATH touring guitarist/roadie Walter Trachsler — has been confirmed for the Donnapalooza Metalfest, set to take place Saturday, April 28 at the Lone Star Country Club in Coppell...

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CKY Frontman Says SLAYER Is A 'Bullsh*t' Band Who 'Always Followed Trends'

In the "Ask CKY" section of CKY's official web site, CKY guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller was asked by a fan for his opinion on the "baffling" fact that SLAYER frontman Tom Araya can be a "devout Christian" and still write/sing SLAYER's songs which regularly bash religion. "SLAYER is bullshit," Deron...

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LOW TWELVE Hard At Work On New Material

Bloomington, Illinois-based metallers LOW TWELVE have been hard at work recording new material for a variety of upcoming projects. The band has been recording a new CD themselves in Illinois along with the help of engineer Nathan Kurtz. This falls fresh on the heels of their Rotting Corpse Records r...

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WITH BLOOD COMES CLEANSING Signs With VICTORY RECORDS

Victory Records has announced the signing of Albany, Georgia's WITH BLOOD COMES CLEANSING. Commented guitarist Jeremy Sims: "We are excited about joining the Victory team. We feel that they believe in our music and will push us to a market that we were previously unable to reach. It is an honor to b...

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NEURAXIS: New Live Video Available

Montreal, Quebec's NEURAXIS has started an online tour diary documenting the band's experiences on their current trek across Europe. The Domination Tour 2007, featuring ROTTING CHRIST, MALEVOLENT CREATION, INCANTATION, NEURAXIS, and others, began on February 14 and will run until March 4. The tour d...

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GOATWHORE: Live Video Posted Online

A video of GOATWHORE performing the track "The Serpent That Enslaves What Is Worshipped From Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun" at Magic City Music Hall in Binghamton, NY last November during the band's tour with CELTIC FROST has been posted online at the Underground Video Television web site. GOATW...

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SLAYER's KING Says GRAMMY-Winning Track is 'One Of The Poorest Representations Of Us' On New CD

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King recently told Sean Piccoli of Sun-Sentinel.com that the group's song "Eyes of the Insane" — for which it recently won a Grammy in the "Best Metal Performance" category — is "one of the poorest representations of us on the record," meaning SLAYER's 11th studio album, "Chri...

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VADER Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARD FESTIVAL

Veteran Polish death metallers VADER have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Rock Hard Festival, set to take place May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH ARMORED SAINT AXEL RUDI PELL BULLET CATARACT DARK FUNE...

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MORTIIS To Release Remix Album 'Some Kind Of Heroin'

Industrial goth enigma MORTIIS is set to release a remix album, titled "Some Kind of Heroin", reworking material from "The Grudge", on April 16 via Earache Records. For much of MORTIIS' career, the striking visual aspect combined with his rapid musical evolution has become a subject of much urban le...