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Instinct

I'd always heard EKTOMORF were SOULFLY rip-offs, but I reserved judgment until I could actually hear one of the band's albums. Having now heard "Instinct", I must say that the word on the street is pretty damn accurate. Cloning SEPULTURA or SOULFLY may not be a bad thing if you're a fan of either ba...

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HATE PROFILE To Release Debut Album In November

HATE PROFILE, the new "cold, eerie and chaotic" black metal project featuring Amon 418 (HORTUS ANIMAE, OPPOSITE SIDES) and GroM (ANCIENT, HORTUS ANIMAE),will release their debut album, "The Khaos Hatefile", in November. However, the identity of the label that will release the album won't be reveale...

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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist: 'I've Rocked The World, And The World’s Rocked Me'

Pennsylvania's Fly Magazine recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On the group's three-decade history: "It's all a bit of a blur, but combined, it's all a damn good memory. I say to my mother, 'I just want you to know, mu...

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Lions in this Game

Christ, this is one tough ass hardcore CD! With all the teeth spittin' and rib-crackin' hardcore going on here, how appropriate that this Los Angeles band is named DONNYBROOK and the Michael Bukowski cover art depicts an all-out hockey brawl. The skull and bloody hockey sticks that serve as cross bo...

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¡El Sombrero!

Texas loud, Texas proud, pissing on genre boundaries and creating some shit-kicking boot metal in the process, HOGNOSE wield some riffs that are half Seventies boogie, half overdriven stoner metal, and kinds of a good time. Though the metal boogie is paramount, HOGNOSE manage to diversify things a b...

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GOD AMONG INSECTS Working On Another Piece Of 'Downtuned, Old-School' Death Metal

GOD AMONG INSECTS, the Swedish "old-school" death metal band featuring vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula (DARK FUNERAL),guitarist Lord K (a.k.a. Kenth Philipson) (THE PROJECT HATE),bassist Tomas Elofsson (SANCTIFICATION) and drummer Tobias Gustafsson (VOMITORY),have posted the following update on t...

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Former KITTIE Bassist JENNIFER ARROYO: 'Deep Down I'm Pretty Damn Girlie'

Former KITTIE bassist Jennifer Arroyo recently spoke to NorthJersey.com about SUICIDE CITY (formerly RODEK),her new band also featuring BIOHAZARD guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei. "Between Billy and I, we've seen so much [stuff] in this industry and in ways it translates into the music," Arroyo s...

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Former AMORPHIS Singer Officially Joins MANNHAI

Former AMORPHIS and current AJATTARA singer Pasi Koskinen has officially joined MANNHAI as the group's new vocalist. "This was a collective decision, and it has been clear for us since we hit the stage together for the first time in Berlin last April," MANNHAI write on their web site. "A natural sol...

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Lowest of the Low (Re-issue)

First of all, if you've not experienced the hardcore kick in the face that is TERROR's "One with the Underdogs", go buy the damn thing now! Give thanks that bands like TERROR continue to play real hardcore — violent and uncompromising, blue collar and true. Thanks to the good folks at Trustkill, you...

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HENRY ROLLINS Targets BUSH Administration

Punk rock icon Henry Rollins recently appeared on the Australian TV show "Lateline" to discuss his political views. Several excerpts from the interview follow: On combining writing and acting with spoken-word tours which blend self-deprecating comedy with acidic attacks on the U.S. administration: "...

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ENTOMBED To Make Exclusive U.K. Appearance At DAMNATION FESTIVAL

Swedish metal legends ENTOMBED will make an exclusive U.K. appearance at the first-ever Damnation Festival on October 16, 2005 at Jilly's Rockworld, Manchester. The death 'n' roll titans will headline the newly sponsored Terrorizer Stage as the U.K.'s leading extreme metal magazine and finest U.K.-f...

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GAMMA RAY Complete Work On 'Majestic'

German power metallers GAMMA RAY have completed work on their new album, "Majestic", at Hansen Studios in Hamburg, Germany. Mastering duties were handled at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finnland by Mikko Karmila and Kai Hansen. The follow-up to 2001's "No World Order" includes 11 tracks which repres...

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EDGUY Hard At Work On New EP

German melodic metallers EDGUY are hard at work on their new EP, "Superheroes", tentatively due in September via Nuclear Blast Records. Producing the effort is Sascha Paeth (KAMELOT, AINA, RHAPSODY) at the Gate Studio in Wolfsburg. Apart from the mid-tempo title track none of the featured songs will...

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Touched By the Crimson King

You pretty much can't go wrong with Jon Schaffer or Hansi Kürsch. The ICED EARTH guitarist and BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist are masters of their chosen callings, and two of traditional metal's leading lights, so when they get together, the results are bound to be pretty stellar. Schaffer's precision trip...

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The Perfect Moment

Expecting another metalcore outfit plundering Swedish riffs and singing like canaries in the chorus? Think again — behind this enigmatic artwork lies one mindfucker of a hybridized, mutated metal masterpiece! LOSA twist and turn psychotically as this CD (one album-length movement, reportedly played...