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POLARIZATION Signs With MEDIASKARE RECORDS

Los Angeles-based instrumental progressive metal trio POLARIZATION has inked a deal with Mediaskare Records. The band's debut album, "Chasing The Light", will be released in the spring. The brainchild of guitarist and songwriter Prashant Mathias, POLARIZATION came together a year and a half ago when...

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RAGE Guitarist Talks About Making Of '21' In New Interview

On March 5, Metal Discovery conducted an interview with guitarist Victor Smolski of German power metallers RAGE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Discovery: What came first — the song title "Twenty One", which is obviously about the gambling kind of thing or the album title "21...

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NITROGODS: 'Zombietrain' Video Released

"Zombietrain", the new video from NITROGODS — the German rock and roll band featuring guitarist Henny Wolter (THUNDERHEAD, PRIMAL FEAR, SINNER),drummer Klaus Sperling (FREEDOM CALL, PRIMAL FEAR) and bassist/vocalist Claus "Oimel" Larcher — can be seen below. The clip was produced by the Australian...

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SMILE EMPTY SOUL Signs With eOne Music

Los Angeles-based rock trio SMILE EMPTY SOUL has signed a worldwide deal with eOne Music. The band's follow-up to 2010's "More Anxiety", entitled "3's", is scheduled for release on May 22. "We are very excited to be working with eOne on this record," says SMILE EMPTY SOUL lead guitarist and vocalist...

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Legendary Cult Album From Norway's VOMIT Available Via Misantrof Antirecords

Norway's blackened death metallers VOMIT have released their cult album, "Still Rotting", in Misantrof Antirecords's historical music archives to celebrate the anti-label's fifth anniversary. "Still Rotting" consists of rehearsals and demo recordings from the late '80s that had previously only been...

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CORONER: Pro-Shot Performance Footage From Last Year's HELLFEST

Professionally filmed video footage of the reunited Swiss thrash trio CORONER performing at last year's Hellfest, which took place June 17-19, 2011 in Clisson, France can be seen below. Also available is a video interview with guitarist Tommy Vetterli (a.k.a. Tommy T. Baron) conducted by Riff-Mag.co...

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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Bassist To Release TRIOSCAPES Debut

TRIOSCAPES, the new project featuring bassist Dan Briggs (BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME),will release its debut album, "Separate Realities", on May 8 (one day earlier internationally) via Metal Blade Records. TRIOSCAPES started in the summer of 2011 when bassist Briggs contacted Walter Fancourt (tenor...

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RICHIE KOTZEN Shows How He Developed His Signature Left-Hand Legato Technique (Video)

In the three-and-a-half-minute YouTube clip below, guitar virtuoso and singer/songwriter Richie Kotzen (formerly of POISON and MR. BIG) personally answers a Facebook fan site question on how he developed his signature left-hand legato technique. Kotzen has booked three nights at the Iridium in New Y...

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UFOMAMMUT: New 'Oro - Opus Primum' Video Teaser Posted Online

In anticipation of their forthcoming release, "Oro: Opus Primum", and the follow-up, "Oro: Opus Alter", Italy's supernatural doom sorcerers UFOMAMMUT have released another video trailer as an early indicator of what to expect from these monolithic new recordings. The footage was filmed during the re...

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AURA NOIR: New Songs Available For Streaming

Norwegian black/thrash butchers AURA NOIR are preparing to deliver their fifth full-length contribution to the extreme metal underworld this month. Appropriately bearing the title "Out To Die", the album unloads eight hell-bent songs in the crushing fashion fans should rightfully and ravenously expe...

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Brazilian All-Female Thrash Metal Trio NERVOSA Releases First Video

"Masked Betrayer", the first video from the São Paulo, Brazil-based all-female thrash metal trio NERVOSA, can be seen below. According to a press release, NERVOSA's music "has strong influences from classic old-school thrash metal bands, such as SLAYER, SEPULTURA and EXODUS, perfectly mixed with ori...

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THERAPY? Drummer's Borken Finger Forces Concert Postponements

Irish rockers THERAPY? have been forced to postpone their Dublin and Cork shows — originally scheduled for this coming weekend — after drummer Neil Cooper "had an accident" and broke his finger (actually the knuckle on his "snare" hand middle finger). After a visit to a specialist, he has been advis...

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Defender, Redeemist

BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH is an inducer of earthquakes. You will feel the earth shift beneath your feet on this sucker. Don't cast aspersions about the "self-released" tag either. New kids, unknowns, or otherwise, "Defender, Redeemist" does more than hold its own against the commercially established and...

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II

With all the rumble of a tank column and a whole lot of smoke billowing locomotive power, BLACK PYRAMID's "II" should sit well with fans of HIGH ON FIRE and MASTODON on the one hand and the doom-decided on the other. That other hand reveals the mammoth and tasty riffs of vocalist Andy Beresky who .....

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Legendary Rock Guitarist RONNIE MONTROSE Dead At 64

Legendary American rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose died earlier today (Saturday, March 3) after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 64 years old. Montrose's official web site has been updated with the following message: "A few months ago, we held a surprise party for Ronnie Montrose's 64t...