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BISON Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Metal Blade Records has announce the signing of Vancouver Canada's BISON. Born of the ashes of seminal Vancouver skate-thrash band S.T.R.E.E.T.S., BISON's riffs "are colossal and flow like a mighty river into a sea of fuzzed out shredding," according to a press release. "Their message is punk rock a...
June 21, 2008
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GIRLSCHOOL Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Veteran British all-female hard rock band GIRLSCHOOL has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: 3 INCHES OF BLOOD AIRBOURNE ALESTORM AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN...
June 20, 2008
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PRIMITIVE GRAVEN IMAGE Guitarist Slams KERRY KING For Finding TRIVIUM Inspirational

Guitarist Luke "Ljosalfur" Lehane of the UK black metallers PRIMITIVE GRAVEN IMAGE has slammed SLAYER guitarist Kerry King for citing TRIVIUM guitarists Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu as inspirational during a recent interview. Speaking to UK's Total Guitar magazine, King stated about TRIVIUM who wil...
June 20, 2008
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EVILE Pulls Out Of France's HELLFEST

UK thrashers EVILE have been forced to cancel their appearance this afternoon (Friday, June 20) at the Hellfest in Clisson, France "due to transport issues beyond their control," according to a statement released by the group. "The band apoligise to anyone heading out there to see them and hope that...
June 20, 2008
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TAPROOT: 'Our Long Road Home' Pushed Back To September

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based hard rock quartet TAPROOT has announced a September 16 release date for its highly anticipated new album "Our Long Road Home". The album TAPROOT's first since 2005's "Blue-Sky Research" will be released through Velvet Hammer, the label founded by the management company of t...
June 19, 2008
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NIGHTSHADE Announces New Members

Guitarist/founder Rick Scythe of Chicago's USURPER has issued the following update on his NIGHTSHADE project: "NIGHTSHADE would like to announce the two newest members of the band: On bass we have Norty the Quad City maniac from the bands SHALLOW GRAVE/SATANIC SYMPHONY. On drums we have Timadeus a d...
June 18, 2008
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THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE: New Album Release Date Announced

THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE, the Swedish death metal/grindcore band featuring members of RIBSPREADER, TAEDEAT, and KNIFE IN CHRIST, will release its second album, "Tank Gasmask Ammo", on July 18 via the Singapore-based Pulverised Records. Two songs from the CD are now being streamed on the band's My...
June 18, 2008
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DARKANE Drummer Issues New Album Update

Drummer Peter Wildoer of the Swedish thrashers DARKANE has issued the following update: "I'm currently in the studio mixing the new DARKANE CD named 'Demonic Art'. I spent the whole first day experimenting with the bass drum and snare drum. There are so many possibilities when mixing in a computer t...
June 18, 2008
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CATTLE DECAPITATION To Enter Studio In August

San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION have issued the following update: "We're taking a short break from writing our next album to come out and adorn California in GORE!!! A couple notable shows are gonna be our first show in YEARS at the old Covered Wagon building, now called Annie's Soci...
June 17, 2008
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'Swedish Death Metal' Book Expanded Edition Due In July

INSISION/TYRANT bassist Daniel Ekeroth's acclaimed history "Swedish Death Metal" will be available this July in revised and expanded edition from new U.S. publisher Bazillion Points. The ultimate insider's account of the rise of the Scandinavian metal scene, the book boasts over 450 pages, over 500...
June 16, 2008
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ARTILLERY: 'One Foot In The Grave' DVD Preview Available

A preview of the first DVD from reactivated Danish thrashers ARTILLERY, entitled "One Foot in the Grave, The Other One in the Trash", is available below. Poland's Metal Mind Productions will release "One Foot in the Grave, The Other One in the Trash" on June 16 in Europe and August 5 in the USA (via...
June 16, 2008
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New 'Swedish Death Metal' Book On The Way

According to Voices From The Darkside, another book focusing on the early Swedish death metal scene called "Encyclopedia of Svensk Ddsmetall" (Encyclopedia of Swedish Death Metal) will be released in the coming weeks. Author Nicola Costantini began working on the book at the end of 2005 and has chos...
June 14, 2008
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JUDAS PRIEST On The Prophecies Of Nostradamus, Band's Rise To Greatness

MTV's Headbanger's Blog has posted the third and final segment of its three-part video interview with British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST. Gathered at the bar of The Bourgeois Pig, a restaurant in New Yorks East Village, singer Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing talk more...
June 13, 2008
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UNDER THE GRAVE Announces New Drummer

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based death metal band UNDER THE GRAVE has announced the addition of drummer Alexis Serres to the group's ranks. "Alexis is a technician of metal with a classical jazz background," the band writes on its web site. "He is bringing his sharp and dynamic style to the already po...
June 13, 2008
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ARTILLERY: New Performance Footage Posted Online

Fan-filmed video footage of the reactivated Danish thrashers ARTILLERY's May 30 concert in Sysseltinget, Denmaark can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "torbenhl"). Poland's Metal Mind Productions will release the first DVD from ARTILLERY, entitled "One Foot in the Grave, The Other One...
June 12, 2008