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PROJECT: FAILING FLESH's GUTIERREZ 'Mixing' Business With Pleasure

Mike DiCicco of The Connection Newspapers reports: The town of Vienna [Virginia] is known for certain businesses, such as restaurants, salons, the 17 banks that line Maple Avenue, the specialty shops on Church Street. But a different kind of business is being carried out underground — in the basemen...

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Lebanon's Heavy Metal Musicians Discuss Censorship

Susannah Tarbush of Lebanon's Ya Libnan reports: Heavy metal music has come in for harassment and censorship over in Lebanon at various times over the years because of its alleged satanic links. (Similar moves against heavy metal and its fans have been seen in Egypt and Morocco). Moe Hamzeh, leader...

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'Metal: The Definitive Guide' Book Due In April

Garry Sharpe-Young's next book, a 608-page, 600,000-word treatise simply titled "Metal: The Definitive Guide", will be published in the U.S. on April 28 by Backbeat Books. Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST provided the foreword. He wrote, in part, "From its beginnings out of Birmingham, England in the lat...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING On Early Musical Inspirations: 'To Me, It Was All About VENOM'

Aaron Beck of The Columbus Dispatch recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. The question-and-answer session follows: The Columbus Dispatch: How went the recording of the first album, "Christ Illusion", in five years? Kerry King: We'd played together for a few years before w...

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San Francisco's JETBOY Reunites After 15 Years

15 years ago, San Francisco rockers JETBOY had a breakup that left many fans wondering if they'd ever see the group return to action again. But in 2005, the band was asked to headline a one-off show for the "Hollywood Rocks" audio companion box set release party at the Key Club in Los Angeles. With...

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Gran Poder

In a glaring departure from Southern Lord's usual….oh wait…forget it, this is definitive Southern Lord style doom 'n' drone. "Gran Poder" by Spain's ORTHODOX is the kind of buzzing, droning, and mind expanding doom that The Lord continues to seek out and unleash upon the pockets of star gazer and ca...

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Former PULSE ULTRA Guitarist Mixing Debut Solo Album

Former PULSE ULTRA guitarist Dominic Cifarelli is in the final mixing stage of his debut solo album, a semi-instrumental guitar masterpiece based on a story he created, and the first part of an ongoing series dubbed "The Chronicles of Israfel". According to a press release, "This is a story about a...

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VENOM Frontman Talks About Guitarist Change

Steve Saks of LivingForMetal.com recently conducted an interview with VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant. A few excerpts from the chat follow: LivingForMetal.com: So what can we all expect from VENOM in 2007 after such a successful 2006? Do VENOM already have any plans confirmed? Cronos: We've had...

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This Is Your Pig's Portrait

It's usually a bad sign when a band insists on peculiar spelling or punctuation to "properly" display their name. It's the_Network. if you're keeping track, and they're hardcore to the core, complete with ironic song titles, maudlin testimonials to love of friends and scene in the thanks list, and s...

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VENOM Parts Ways With Guitarist, Announces Replacement

British black metal pioneers VENOM have parted ways with guitarist Mykvs (a.k.a. Mike Hickey; ex-CARCASS, CATHEDRAL). "Personal unavoidable commitments in the U.S. have forced Mykvs to announce that he cannot commit 100% to VENOM's 2007 schedule," the band writes in a statement. A new guitarist by t...

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GORGOROTH Frontman Calls For More Church Burnings; Police To Investigate

According to the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende, the police in Bergen, Norway have launched an investigation into recent statements made by GORGOROTH frontman Gaahl regarding a spate of church burnings that took place in Norway in the early Nineties. In an interview that some consider to be the...

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SLAYER Frontman On Writing Songs About 'Humanity's Demons And Humanity's Devils'

Paul Gargano of Maximum Ink recently conducted an interview with SLAYER frontman Tom Araya. An excerpt from the chat follows: Maximum Ink: Is it fair to say that SLAYER have become a lot more political in recent years? Tom Araya: It comes across that way, but it's not. There are more social ...

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NAILWOUNDS Singer Charged For Sex With Girl He Met On MySpace.com

Eric Litke of The Sheboygan Press reports: The 20-year-old lead singer of a Milwaukee-area metal band was charged Friday (Jan. 19) with felony sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old Kewaskum girl after arranging the encounter on MySpace.com. The girl had snuck out of her parents'...

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FIVE STAR PRISON CELL To Release New Album In March

Australian tech metallers FIVE STAR PRISON CELL will release their new album, "Slaves of Virgo", on March 5 via Faultline Records. Commented the band: "We know, we know, we fucking know! It has been a long time coming — we've been sitting on this egg for nearly seven months now, so as you can imagin...

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SAXON Manager Checks In

SAXON's manager Thomas Jensen has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "After a hectic week I would like to keep you posted on the latest activities of the band. It might be too much information but I'll try to keep it short. "Thursday: Biff [Byford, vocals] and Charlie [Ba...