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HELLHOUND: 'Metal Psycho' Video Released

Japanese heavy metal maniacs HELLHOUND have posted a video for the song "Metal Psycho", shot at Crescendo in Tokyo on July 20, 2009. The song comes from off the band's second album, "Metal Fire From Hell", which was released in the U.S. and Europe earlier in 2009. The CD features "a high-energy, cla...

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FOR THE SUFFERING Completes Work On New Album

New Mexico's female-fronted band FOR THE SUFFERING has completed work on its new album, "Life Without A Cure". More information regarding the CD's release date and online availability will be released soon. FOR THE SUFFERING's self-titled debut was released on February 24 via Crash Music. According...

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MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER: New Video Interview Posted Online

MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER guitarist Kelly Scott Nunn was interviewed on October 31, 2009, when the band played at the Epic nightclub in Minneapolis, MN with ALL THAT REMAINS and LACUNA COIL. Watch the chat below. MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER's latest album, "III", was released in July via...

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THE RESURRECTION SORROW To Release Debut Full-Length

Holding for the right time to strike requires discipline. The heavy metal tank known as THE RESURRECTION SORROW has been idling for some time — ominously. All the while being shovel fed swamp water and coffin dirt, preparing its attack. Using stone-heavy handed riffing, barbaric percussive destructi...

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SAVIOURS Win San Francisco Bay Guardian 'Goldie' Award

Oakland, California metal band SAVIOURS was honored with a "Goldie Award" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian as part of the alt-weekly's 21st annual "Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery" awards. The Guardian gives the "Goldie Award" annually "to honor outstanding talent in the performing and visual...

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LAZARUS A.D. Added To ENSIFERUM Tour

Kenosha, Wisconsin-based thrashers LAZARUS A.D. have been added to ENSIFERUM's North American headlining tour as the replacement for EX DEO. This will mark LAZARUS A.D.'s first tour in the U.S. since playing Japan's Loud Park festival in October and will be followed by even more dates with Polish de...

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Esoteric

In the "it's a small world" department, Sweden's SKYFIRE take a good portion of the European metal scene, stuff it into a blender, and serve the results up extra smooth on the aptly-named "Esoteric". Equal parts melodic death metal, neo-classical, prog, black, and power metal (depending on everyone'...

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Strange Cousins From The West

Took a while for me to get into this one, and that threw me for a loop after the last coupla slabs of immediate, delectable, relentlessly-catchy CLUTCH stoner swamp groove. "Strange Cousins From the West" is an altogether slinkier beast, taut and sparse, with a lot of sinewy funk and dirt-floor blue...

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The Chair in the Doorway

Please do not be one of those people that immediately shout "Cult of Personality!" when the subject of LIVING COLOUR is broached. Yes, it's a great song, a classic even, but just like MOTÖRHEAD has done far more in its career than "Ace of Spades", so has LIVING COLOUR crafted more than just the afor...

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Rites of the Pentagram

As uttered at the end of "Decibel Ritual" by Mike Abominator (he of the Armageddon Vomits and Misanthropic Diatribes) "We are GRAVEHILL, we are death fucking metal!" By golly, they sure as heck are, albeit the thrashy old school variety, taking cues from a variety of sources, whether it is MASTER, D...

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MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER Guitarist Interviewed On 'Ryan's Rock Show'

Ryan's Rock Show recently conducted an interview with MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER guitarist Kelly Scott Nunn. During the chat, which can be viewed below. Nunn discusses HE IS LEGEND vocalist Schuylar Croom filling in for Dallas Taylor, teaming up with WWE, and dirty pranks from the road. For mo...

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SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Frontman Interviewed On Australia's 'Short.Fast.Loud'; Audio Available

A brand new audio interview with vocalist Mike Muir of the long-running Venice Beach, California thrash/punk band SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, conducted earlier this week by Stu Harvey of the "Short.Fast.Loud" show on the Australian radio station Triple J, has been posted online at this location. (Note: The...

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Drummer BOBBY JARZOMBEK Teams Up With PLATINUM SAMPLES

Platinum Samples has posted a promotional video (see below) of drummer Bobby Jarzombek (HALFORD, RIOT, FATES WARNING, SEBASTIAN BACH) playing "Platinum Samples Joe Barresi Evil Drums for BFD" on a Yamaha DTXtreme III Special electronic drumkit. "Bobby Jarzombek Metal Grooves MIDI Pack", co-produced...

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HAIL THE VILLAIN Signs With ROADRUNNER RECORDS

Roadrunner Records has announced the signing of Canadian rock band HAIL THE VILLAIN. The group's debut album, "Population: Declining", will be released globally in March 2010 outside Canada. With soothingly coarse vocals and infectious melodies, HAIL THE VILLAIN prove their worth on songs such as th...

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DANKO JONES' Tour With THE DAMNED Cancelled

DANKO JONES' previously announced U.S. tour with THE DAMNED has been cancelled due to the fact that THE DAMNED "never managed to resolve their visa issues." The Canadian trio states, "This does, unfortunately, not only force us to miss out on all of our shows with them but also forces the cancellati...