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THE FUNERAL PYRE Completes Work On New Album
Los Angeles-based black metal band THE FUNERAL PYRE has completed work on its new album, "Vultures At Dawn", for a late spring release via Prosthetic Records. The follow-up to 2008's "Wounds" was recorded by Adam Campbell at Awkward Studios, mixed by Ryan Butler (LANDMINE MARATHON, MISERY INDEX, PHO...March 29, 2010
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Majesty and Decay
IMMOLATION spawned from the same fertile New York death metal scene of the late '80s that graced us with everyone from CANNIBAL CORPSE and SUFFOCATION to INCANTATION. Like the latter band, IMMOLATION followed a different and distinct muse all their own from the beginning. They've cleaved to a path o...March 28, 2010
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God's Spreading Cancer
When this album originally came out, in 2007, HEADHUNTER D.C. (no, I don't know what the D.C. stands for, but I've got five bucks on "Dead Christ" based on their song titles alone) had already been a band for two decades. Aside from a briefly-available release on the disastrous World War III label a...March 28, 2010
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Obliteration Ritual
Here is another example of an album title that could not be more fitting to the music. On "Obliteration Ritual", Toronto's NUCLEARHAMMER conducts an exercise in front to back morbid black/death ritualizing that seeks first to decimate and only after to offer some form of understanding of the bleak r...March 22, 2010
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Crypt Born & Tethered to Ruin
The spirit of INCANTATION's "Onward to Golgotha" lives on in the empty cavity that once contained the souls of VASAELETH's members on "Crypt Born & Tethered to Ruin". Continuing an underground trend — the term used in anything but the derogatory sense here — that has seen a host of bands across...March 22, 2010
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KARMA TO BURN To Release 'Appalachian Incantation' In May
Resurrected Morgantown, West Virginia instrumental metal pioneers KARMA TO BURN will release their fourth album, "Appalachian Incantation", on May 11 via Napalm Records. The group's first studio CD in eight years was produced by ex-KYUSS bassist Scott Reeder and contains eight instrumentals chronolo...March 16, 2010
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CARDIAC ARREST Signs To IBEX MOON RECORDS
Ibex Moon Records has announced the signing of Chicago's CARDIAC ARREST. The band's third full-length album, "Haven For The Insane", was recorded in the winter of 2008/2009 at Kai Kauffman's Polymorph Media Studio and is scheduled for release on May 25. Commented the group in a statement, "We are hu...March 4, 2010
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Arcana Doctrina
Call it old-school, call it true, call it pure, call it whatever the fuck floats your boat, just don't call DIAMANTHIAN and expect anything but the same blood-soaked and brutal death metal that had us all hailing the unholy one over a decade ago. This British trio is among a younger sect of purists...February 25, 2010
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World Without God
Another round of kudos to Relapse is in order for unearthing more classic late '80s/early '90s death metal, packaging it up nicely, and releasing it to a new generation of extremists. After last year's excellent NIRVANA 2002 package ("Recordings 89-91") comes a reissue of CONVULSE's 1992 release "Wo...February 23, 2010
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Beyond the Cursed Tombs
"Death metal the ancient way" is the mantra; "the essence of 1991" the musical vision. The band to which such phrases refer is Dallas' DECREPITAPH and the album under review is "Beyond the Cursed Tombs", a worthy follow up to Razorback debut "Condemned Cathedral", itself an old school death metal re...February 23, 2010
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NIRVANA 2002 Confirmed For MARYLAND DEATHFEST
Swedish death metal outfit NIRVANA 2002 (a.k.a. N2002),the highly underrated yet influential band which only released a series of demos and splits during their existence through the late '80s and early '90s, has been confirmed this year's Maryland Deathfest, set to take place May 28-30, 2010 at Son...February 22, 2010
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MALEVOLENT CREATION Pulls Out Of MARYLAND DEATHFEST
Due to "conflicts with their upcoming recording schedule," Florida extreme-metal veterans MALEVOLENT CREATION have cancelled their appearance at this year's Maryland Deathfest, set to take place May 28-30, 2010 at Sonar in Baltimore. Their replacement will be announced sometime next week. 16 has als...February 18, 2010
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DOOM, CATTLE DECAPITATION, INCANTATION Confirmed For Czech Republic's OBSCENE EXTREME
DOOM, CATTLE DECAPITATION, INCANTATION, WARBRINGER and PUTRESCENCE are among the confirmed bands for the Obscene Extreme 2010 festival, set to take place July 15-17, 2010 in Trutnov, Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ABLACH ATTACK OF THE MAD AXEMAN AVULSED BLOODY PHOENIX...February 16, 2010
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VALKYRJA Confirmed For Holland's STONEHENGE Festival
Swedish black metallers VALKYRJA have been confirmed for the Stonehenge "underground metal festival," set to take place Saturday, July 31, 2010 at De Buze in Steenwijk, The Netherlands. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ACROSTICHON CARACH ANGREN CATTLE DECAPITATION GENERAL SURGERY GOROD...February 3, 2010
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INCANTATION: Quality Tilburg Footage Available
Quality fan-filmed video footage of INCANTATION's January 18, 2010 performance at The Little Devil in Tilburg, The Netherlands can be viewed below (courtesy of "letthedeathmetalflow"). (Note: The first clip is mislabeled "2009".) INCANTATION will return to the stage at Urbana, Illinois' Canopy Club...January 31, 2010
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