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ISOLE: New Album Title Announced

Swedish doom metal band ISOLE has completed the work on its new album, "Bliss of Solitude", at the group's own Studio Apocalypse for a January 2008 release via Napalm Records. According to a press release, "ISOLE makes use of clean vocals, slo-mo grooves, and melodies in the minor keys. Fans of CAND...

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New DIMEBAG Limited-Edition Figure Coming In December

KnuckleBonz has announced plans to release a new limited-edition Dimebag Darrell Rock Iconz figure (photo). A December ship date has been announced. Dime is created from the "Far Beyond Driven" era with his tobacco Dean guitar, the cammo shorts and all the tatts are in full effect! Pre-orders, at a...

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Forever Defiant

Chances are, if you've seen a touring metal band hit Cleveland, Ohio any time in the last coupla years, you've seen these guys open for them. SOULLESS are "that band" for northern Ohio — the scrappy, hard-working, consistently impressive local act that always seems to be a day late when it comes to...

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BIGELF: 'Hex' To Receive U.S. Release

Psychedelic rock act BIGELF has set an October 30 North American release date for its cult, underground album "Hex". Recorded in 2003, "Hex" will now be available domestically for the first time ever via the Custard label. Flaunting a sound that interfuses all the best elements from the late '60s /...

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EVANESCENCE: More Tour Details Revealed

EVANESCENCE will embark on a headlining tour of Mexico and the United States later this month. The trek comes on the heels of the band's Family Values stint over the summer. "I am excited to be headlining our own tour this fall," frontwoman Amy Lee said. "While Family Values tour was fun, it will be...

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's 'Renegades of Funk' Comes Alive, Courtesy of LA POP ART

Los Angeles Pop Art has just released an exclusive poster in conjunction with one of the biggest rock groups in recent history, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. LA Pop Art has created posters using one of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's most popular hits "Renegades of Funk". The poster, which sizes out at 16 x...

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ALL ENDS To Release Full-Length Debut In November

ALL ENDS, the new Swedish band featuring Emma Gelotte (sister of IN FLAMES guitarist Björn Gelotte) and Tinna Karlsdotter on vocals, Fredrik Johansson (DIMENSION ZERO, IN FLAMES' "The Jester Race" album) and Peter Mårdklint (EMBRACED, TENEBRE) on guitar, along with Josef Skanås on drums, will releas...

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In These Veins

If the new ENTOMBED left you flat, and you're looking for "death and roll" (really, is there a dumber name for a subgenre?) with plenty of speedy punk beats, out-of-left-field melodies, and seemingly boundless energy, then your new favorite band has just delivered your album of the year. HEARSE has...

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Colors

There may have been a few folks that just knew the future would be bright for BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME upon the release of 2003's "The Silent Circus", but who among you would have thought that phenomenal albums like "Alaska" and now "Colors" would have been on the way? That "Alaska" was not even .....

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Flame the Whisper

There's always room for more fun, simple, self-referential hard rock in the world, and that's why a band like MATADORS can get a pass for pretty much regurgitating their favorite QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, URGE OVERKILL and HELLACOPTERS records and swaggering a little in sweaty leather pants while the...

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Road of Bones

A confession: even if I wanted to, I don't think it'd be physically possible for me to give a bad rating to a band featuring an ex-member of AGONY COLUMN. Stuart "Bat Lord" Laurence was part of that criminally underrated Texas band of the late 1980s, whose freaked-out peckerwood dirt holler goth/thr...

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ATREYU's ALEX VARKATZAS Explains Vocal Change On New CD

Orange County, California's ATREYU constantly wants to grow musically with each new record. Many of their fans have noticed a change in the vocals from Alex Varkatzas on the group's latest CD, "Lead Sails Paper Anchor". In the new behind-the-scenes video, Alex explains the new direction he took and...

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THE LAW Signs With METALCENTRAL RECORDS

THE LAW, the Swedish thrash metal band featuring VOMITORY guitarist Peter Östlund, has inked a deal with Metal Central Records. The group's already completed debut album is scheduled for release in early 2008. According to a press release, "THE LAW got great reviews for the demo 'Dudes of Darkness'...

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ARCH ENEMY Frontwoman Checks In From MACHINE HEAD Tour

ARCH ENEMY vocalist Angela Gossow has issued the following update from the Black Tyranny Tour, also featuring MACHINE HEAD, THROWDOWN and SANCTITY: "This tour rocks! "The last couple of shows have been a blast! We finally got all our crew together and the chemistry in the band is great. It's pure jo...

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Isolate

Norway's CIRCUS MAXIMUS exploded onto the scene in 2005 with one of the year's best progressive metal albums in "The 1st Chapter". The disc stunned as much for its members' talents as for its incredibly infectious melodies. Taking cues from the obvious juggernauts of the genre (DREAM THEATER, etc.),...