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KOSMOS Signs With MULLIGORE PRODUCTION

French one-man black metal project KOSMOS has inked a deal with the Canadian underground label Mulligore Production. The project's "From Innocence to Perversity" CD will be reissued in digipack format on January 5, 2013. The album was mixed and mastered by Naja Atra at the Dithering studios. The art...

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NIDINGR: New Song Available For Streaming

"Vim Patior", a brand new song from Norwegian black metal conjurers NIDINGR, can be streamed below. The track comes off the band's third album, "Greatest Of Deceivers", which will be released in North America on November 20 via Indie Recordings. The CD was recorded at Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION's Cover Of 'Apologize' Available For Streaming

WITHIN TEMPTATION's cover version of the ONE REPUBLIC track "Apologize", which was premiered on the Q-Music web site, can now be streamed below. Ahead of WITHIN TEMPTATON's 15th-anniversary concert on November 13 at Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium, the band is revealing a unique cover every week on...

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CENTURY MEDIA To Reissue BORKNAGAR's 'Domain' And MAYHEM's 'Mysteriis' On Vinyl

To celebrate Black (Metal) Friday, Century Media Records will reissue two classic titles: BORKNAGAR's "The Olden Domain" and MAYHEM's "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas". Limited to 1,000 copies each, these titles will be available only at your local independent music store starting on Friday, November 23....

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QUEENSRŸCHE's LA TORRE: There Is 'Severe' Difference In Sound Between New Songs & Last Few CDs

The Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE is currently working on material for a new studio album for a tentative early 2013 release via an as-yet-undetermined record label. In a posting on his official Facebook page, La Torre — who is also a member of Florida melodic metallers CRIMSON GLORY...

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Legendary U.K. Crust Brigade HELLBASTARD To Release New Vinyl EP

Legendary U.K. thrash/crust/metal warriors HELLBASTARD are set to unearth six new tracks of sonic antagonism in the form of the fittingly titled "Sons Of Bitches" EP. Set for release on vinyl via PATAC Records, the effort includes a re-recorded version of 1988's "We Had Evidence" from the band's 198...

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A Knight in York

Jaws around the world hit the floor with a collective thud many solstices ago when Ritchie Blackmore organized a band of Medieval-minded (and clad) minstrels with his wife, Candice Night. Potshots ringing along the line of "D&D dweebs" have trailed BLACKMORE'S NIGHT ever since and yet if you sto...

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Devour All You See

Philadelphia is considered a hot hub for metal, a sector particularly fond of anything that moves at hyperspeed. Hence it should be no surprise native sons FISTHAMMER embrace this ideology. However, there are a number of external variables to their principal death-tech scheme that it's tempting to t...

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Grand Gesture of Defiance

Here's a Danish doom act whose notable claim to fame thus far is a thematically savvy concept album about World War I, "Sinews of Anguish". Likely this is your first visitation to ALTAR OF OBLIVION as they have reaped a cult audience with a cultish enunciator helming their basics-minded doom and pow...

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THE BURNING CROWS To Enter Studio In The Spring

U.K. rockers THE BURNING CROWS will enter Rockfield Studios in Wales in the spring to record their debut album for a May 4, 2013 release. Funding for the CD is being aided by the PledgeMusic.com project, which encourages fans to contribute funds to the recording of albums and the artists themselves...

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UNEARTH: Pro-Shot Footage Of China Concert

Professionally filmed video footage of UNEARTH's October 13 concert at SD Livehouse in Guangzhou, China can be seen below. UNEARTH is currently taking part in a co-headlining tour with technical metal comrades BORN OF OSIRIS. This is UNEARTH's first full U.S. tour since appearing on select All Stars...

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WINTERSUN's 'Time I' Lands On BILLBOARD Chart

"Time I", the long-awaited new album from Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN, sold nearly 4,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States to land at position No. 109 on The Billboard 200 chart. According to WINTERSUN mainman Jari Mäenpää, there are several reasons why the band's new eff...

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WINTERSUN: Quality Video Footage Of Helsinki Concert

Quality video footage of WINTERSUN's sold-out October 13 concert at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland can be seen at this location. A few of the clips are available below. WINTERSUN's long-awaited new album, "Time I", has registered the following first-week chart positions: Finland: #2 Germany: #21 Austr...

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BLACK SABBATH: Australian Tour To Be Announced Tomorrow?

According to Faster Louder, a BLACK SABBATH Australian tour announcement on Halloween seems imminent as a mysterious video posted by promoters Live Nation Wednesday morning (Australian time) suggests that the reunited band could be announcing a tour. The seven-second video (which has since been remo...

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SHINING: First Part Of New Audio Interview With NIKLAS KVARFORTH

The first part of a new audio interview with SHINING founder and frontman Niklas Kvarforth can be streamed using the SoundCloud player below. SHINING will continue its highly successful collaboration with KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque's Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden, Both the SHININ...