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Former EMPEROR Frontman Putting Finishing Touches On New Solo Album

Former EMPEROR vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn has set "angL" as the title of his second solo album, tentatively due mid-spring via Candlelight Records. The follow-up to 2006's "The Adversary" is "in its final completion stages now," according to a Candlelight press release. "The Adversary" entered the No...

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ULVER Tribute Album Available For Free Download

Russian underground production team Aspherical Asphyxia has just released an international tribute to ULVER called "My Own Wolf: A New Approach". The nearly three-hour long set, which commemorates ULVER's 15th anniversary, is being released in two ways: The first is the free Internet release, availa...

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ULVER Frontman To Join ÆTHENOR At ROADBURN 2008

ULVER vocalist Kristoffer Rygg will join ÆTHENOR as a special guest for the band's appearance at Holland's Roadburn Festival 2008. It will be Rygg's first live appearance in over a decade. ÆTHENOR is a trio of musicians residing in Geneva (Vincent De Roguin, SHORA),New York (Stephen O’Malley, SUNN...

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DREAM THEATER, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MEGADETH, SOULFLY Members Reveal Favorite Albums Of 2007

Members of DREAM THEATER, OPETH, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MEGADETH, SOULFLY and 3 INCHES OF BLOOD are among the Roadrunner Records artists whose favorite albums of 2007 have been posted on the Roadrunner web site at this location. A few musicians' selections can be found below. Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER...

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TRIBES OF CAIN: New Album Out Now

Swiss black/death metallers TRIBES OF CAIN have released their third album, "Retaliation", the extreme metal label Fastbeast Entertainment. According to a press release, the 12-track record offers 60 minutes of "gloomy midtempo parts, mighty highspeed blasts and deviant melodies . . . a unique symbi...

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STAROFASH Featuring PECCATUM's IHRIEL: New CD To Be Released Through CANDLELIGHT

Mnemosyne Productions, the company owned/operated by partners Ihsahn (EMPEROR frontman) and wife Ihriel (real name: Heidi S. Tveitan; PECCATUM) since 2003, has struck up a deal with UK's Candlelight Records for the release of the new album by Ihriel's STAROFASH solo project. Entitled "The Thread", t...

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ULVER: Video Interview With GARM Available

MetalKult.com has posted a 21-clip question-and-answer video interview with vocalist Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg from progressive Norwegian black metal group ULVER. The video was shot on September 20 in New York City, when Garm came to the States to promote his band's latest release, "Shadows of the Sun"...

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Shadows of the Sun

Do we really need to do the whole introduction to ULVER's storied history, from its black metal beginnings and the vicissitudes that followed, as well as vocalist Garm's transcendent artistry? Pick any number of reviews and you will surely start with an opening paragraph that serves as a mini-biogra...

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MANES Recording New EP

MANES, the Norwegian band featuring members of THIRD AND THE MORTAL, ATROX and CHTON, has issued the following update: "Well, we've actually started a little recording now. We have no planned releasedate or much more to share about this, apart from the fact that it isn't for a new album. An EP maybe...

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ULVER Tribute Album To Arrive In December

Russian underground production team Aspherical Asphyxia is putting the finishing touches on an international tribute to ULVER called "My Own Wolf: A New Approach". The CD, which will commemorate ULVER's 15th anniversary, will be released in two ways: The first is the Internet release on December 25,...

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ULVER Mainman Reveals Future Plans

Pitchfork recently conducted an interview with ULVER mainman Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Pitchfork: You're still occasionally associated with black metal, though your sound's been shifting incrementally, and now significantly, since 1992. Does the association b...

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'Black Metal' Graphic Novel Creators Interviewed

The Washington Post's Express recently spoke to the creators of "Black Metal", a new graphic novel from author Rick Spears and artist Chuck BB. "Black Metal", published by Oni Press, is filled with funny sight gags and clever tributes to the music genre that inspired the comic, all told in the sort...

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Prominence and Demise

It has been around three years since Norway's WINDS released its third album, "The Imaginary Direction of Time". That may seem like a long duration between albums, but if you've immersed yourself in the act's lush, classically infused compositions, then you understand that this is a band for which t...

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Exclusive: A Conversation With WINDS' ANDY WINTER And CARL AUGUST TIDEMANN

By: Scott Alisoglu The music of Norway's WINDS is not something that is easily classified. What one can say about it though is that it is magnificently composed and breathtaking in its delivery. Challenging, yet often soothing, melodic, yet unconventional, WINDS' combination of classical music, prog...

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ULVER: New Album Release Date Announced

Norwegian experimental act ULVER has issued the following update: "Many of you have been waiting for sound, and we are sorry for the silence. We needed to be alone, without the hustle and bustle of the living. We are uncomfortable with the world, the industry and our place. We have been working, slu...