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GOD FORBID Complete New Video: Photos Available

GOD FORBID will kick off the New Year in true heavy metal fashion on tour as direct support to ANTHRAX, with SWORN ENEMY and MANNTIS in the support slots. The trek, which runs from January 6 through January 21, will lead them across the U.S. and immediately into a national headlining run. The group...

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'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 U.S. and Canadian alternative metal, emocore, hardcore, math metal, metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands. In the mid-'90s, in the wake of grunge...

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MISERY INDEX To Record New Album In January

MISERY INDEX, the Baltimore, Maryland-based band featuring Jason Netherton (bass/vocals, ex-DYING FETUS) and Sparky Voyles (guitar, ex-DYING FETUS, M.O.D.),recently entered the studio to record a couple of tracks for a split seven-inch single, tentatively due early next year. The band are also cont...

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Unraveled

Wholly outside of any trend in metal, yet influential to many more famous musicians, CONFESSOR make good on their recent reformation with this weighty slab of downtrodden, progressive, cathartic doom bleakness. Serpentine rhythms, hair-raising vocals full of dissonant melody and soul-sobbing misery,...

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Disciple of the Heinous Path

Far from any reinvention of the wheel, SARGEIST's "Disciple of the Heinous Path" is a good example of well-written, old school, Norwegian-inspired black metal that just happens to be played by Finns. Morbid guitar melodies and primitive riff tones abound, and a natural drum sound, Torog's strained c...

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Finnish Metal Musicians To Take Part In DIMEBAG BEYOND FOREVER Tour

A dozen or so Finnish metal musicians will be taking part in the "Dimebag Beyond Forever Tour", set to kick off in early December. A posting at the trek's official web site, www.dimetour.com, reads as follows: "Once again it is the time to raise our hands and salute our fallen brother Dimebag Darrel...

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MISERY INDEX Members To Team Up For Christmas Homecoming Show

ALL WILL FALL, featuring current MISERY INDEX drummer Adam Jarvis, and CAST THE STONE, who feature in their ranks MISERY INDEX guitarist Mark Kloeppel, will be teaming up for a special homecoming Christmas show at the Creepy Crawl in St. Louis, MO on December 23. ALL WILL FALL are currently working...

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DARK FUNERAL Confirmed For METALBÅTEN Metal Cruise

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Metalbåten festival, set to take place March 23-24, 2006 on Silja Line. Other bands confirmed to appear at the festival include RAGE, FREEDOM CALL, DISMEMBER and HELLFUELED. Silja Line is the leading passenger sh...

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GOD FORBID: 'Out Of Misery' EP Reissue Details Revealed

We Put Out Records will reissue GOD FORBID's first official recording, the "Out of Misery" EP (originally released in 1998),December 6. The release will feature new album art along with five live bonus tracks, including a cover of SEPULTURA's "Propaganda". Check out audio samples at this location....

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ORGAN And DAATH To Team Up For U.K. Tour

Southern thrash/doom metallers ORGAN will be teaming up with progressive death metallers DAATH for a U.K. tour beginning in early December. Confirmed dates are as follows: Dec. 04 - Meltdown Festival, JB's - Dudley* Dec. 06 - The Roof - Llanelli, Wales Dec. 07 - Bar 44 - Guisborough Dec. 08 - The At...

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DARK FUNERAL: Japanese Edition Of 'Attera Totus Sanctus' To Feature Bonus Tracks

According to a posting on DARK FUNERAL's web site, the Japanese edition of the group's new album, "Attera Totus Sanctus" — due on December 21 via Soundholic Ltd. — will include two bonus tracks: "an instrumental version of the dark and extremely powerful 'Atrum Regina' and a newly recorded version o...

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WALLS OF JERICHO Frontwoman To Host Tomorrow's 'Headbanger's Ball'

WALLS OF JERICHO frontwoman Candace Kucsculain will be hosting MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" on Saturday, November 19, at 10:00 p.m. Guesting on tomorrow's program will be HASTE THE DAY. WALLS OF JERICHO are currently finishing up a headlining tour with THE BANNER, WITH HONOR, and MODERN LIFE IS WAR. T...

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GOD FORBID: 'Out Of Misery' Reissue To Include SEPULTURA Cover

According to MTV.com, We Put Out Records will reissue GOD FORBID's first official recording, the "Out of Misery" EP (originally released in 1998),December 6. The release will feature new album art along with five live bonus tracks, including a cover of SEPULTURA's "Propaganda". Check out audio samp...

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DARK FUNERAL: Swedish Dates Announced

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have lined up the following dates in their homecountry during February: Feb. 24 - Stockholm, SWE – Klubben Feb. 25 - Malmö, SWE – KB Feb. 26 - Göteborg, SWE – Kåren As previously reportd, DARK FUNERAL's new album, "Attera Totus Sanctus", entered the Swedish natio...

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Wet Animal

Nice name, eh? Formed in 1995 by TROUBLE guitarist Rick Wartell, the debut album from Chicago's WET ANIMAL now sees a 2005 release. Along with Shane Pasqualla (vocals/guitar),Jeff "Oly" Olson (drums),and Michael "Vito" Diprima (bass),the band has created a respectable hard rock album with cutting...