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DARK TRANQUILLITY's MIKAEL STANNE On AT THE GATES' TOMAS LINDBERG: 'Without Him, There Would Be No Gothenburg Death Metal Scene'

In a new interview with Chile's PowerOfMetal.cl, DARK TRANQUILLITY and THE HALO EFECT frontman Mikael Stanne spoke about the recent passing of AT THE GATES vocalist Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg. Asked what Lindberg meant to the metal scene in Gothenburg, Sweden, Stanne said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH...

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Collapse Of Pattern, Reverence Of Dust

If you have ever felt your sanity and lust for life being slowly clawed away by the rough edges of the world's stultifying insanity, CULT BURIAL may have an album to sell you. A record that focuses on notions of erosion — "…of structures, of certainty, of meaning" — the UK band's third album is horr...

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Trapped

Summer is here and the time is right for fistfights on the dancefloor. Diehard brutes from Edinburgh, Scotland, HAMMER get straight to the point. Purposefully filling the gaps between metal subgenres, the songs take large servings of death metal, both brutal and melodic, and nails them to a muscular...

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Death Etiquette

Going righteously berserk at the exact point where thrash and death metal meet, ATOMIC WITCH are the living embodiment of face-ripping metal insanity. The band's debut album "Crypt of Sleepless Malice" snuck out in 2022, causing mild ripples of positive disgust among those in the know. Three years o...

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Celebrate 40 Years Of GWAR With 'Live From The Hellmouth' Streaming Exclusively On VEEPS

This year marks the 40th anniversary of your alien overlords in GWAR, pioneers of shock rock who have redefined live performance with their over-the-top theatrics, grotesque costumes, and unapologetic depravity. What better way to celebrate four decades of intergalactic filth, fury, and fluid than b...

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Former MUSHROOMHEAD Vocalist WAYLON REAVIS's A KILLER'S CONFESSION Announces 'Victim 2' Album

Hot off the heels of the "Machines Vs Monsters" tour with STATIC-X, GWAR and DOPE, A KILLER'S CONFESSION, the band led by former MUSHROOMHEAD vocalist Waylon Reavis, released the third single, "Facts", from its new upcoming album "Victim 2", due out September 19 via MNRK Heavy. To kick off the relea...

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Hesitating Lights

There are definitely too few hours in a day to fully appreciate all the great things that are happening in underground metal, but we can always try. FLOATING are a duo from Uppsala, Sweden, with a sound that brings together the dark, post-punk clangor of FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM and their dusty ilk, w...

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CARCASS Announces September/October 2025 North American Tour

British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS will embark on a North American tour in September. Support on select dates will come from BRUJERIA, NECROT, HEDONIST, SPIRITWORLD, NAILS and MONGREL. Tour dates: With BRUJERIA and SPIRITWORLD: Sep. 16 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Sep. 17 - Asheville, NC - Eulogy...

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Destination Extinction

With perfect timing, HAGGUS may have just created the optimum soundtrack for a summer of civil unrest. Exponents of "mincecore" — a filthy, DIY strain of grindcore, first created by the legendary AGATHOCLES in early '90s Belgium — these balaclava-wearing anarchists have made their position on the cu...

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DANKO JONES Announces 12th Studio Album 'Leo Rising'

Toronto's hardest‑working power trio DANKO JONES roars back with "Leo Rising", an eleven-track masterclass in sweat-soaked, no-nonsense rock 'n' roll. The album — produced to red‑hot perfection by long‑time collaborator Eric Ratz — lands on November 21, 2025 via Perception, a division of Reigning Ph...

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DAVE MUSTAINE On METALLICA: 'I Wrote A Lot Of Their Music That Made Them'

During a three-hour interview with Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, and host of the Shawn Ryan Show, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine spoke about his brief stint as a member of METALLICA in the early 1980s. Asked how he ended up joining METALLICA, Dave responded (as transcribed by BLA...

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Over the last couple of decades, it has become increasingly hard to be enigmatic. Now that every band has to share the details of their daily itinerary, their dinner and their inside leg measurements, mystique and intrigue are decidedly out of fashion. Fortunately, VILDHJARTA have never played the c...

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The S**t Ov God

Emboldened by the white-hot charisma of their leader, BEHEMOTH have steadily become the world's favorite Satanic metal band. And no, GHOST don't count. It was almost inevitable that Nergal and his comrades would get to this point. Since the release of the 2004's transformational "Demigod", BEHEMOTH...

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Rose Thorn Necklace

As every good goth knows, much joy can be derived from miserable music. GHOST BATH have never truly conformed to any particular subgenre tag, but there have certainly been a few consistent elements in the North Dakota crew's sound, from a woozy, post-black metal sheen that was always too dark to be...

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Thunderball

One inescapable fact about the wonderful and frightening musical world of the MELVINS, is that you can absolutely, definitely shove your expectations up your pipe. Instinctively disinclined to do the obvious, to repeat themselves, or to kowtow to others' notion of what this amorphous and legendary b...