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INCANATION Issues Post-European Tour Update

INCANATION mainman John McEntee has issued the following update: "Well, the first leg of our two-month European has come to a end. For sure, the Northern Assassin Tour was a great success! "I was told before we left that the Scandinavian scene wasn't too strong. Well, I can't speak for other tours,...

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NECROPHOBIC, ENSIFERUM, EISREGEN: Photos From HELLFLAME Festival Available

Photos of NECROPHOBIC, ENSIFERUM and EISREGEN taken at the Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell — which was held this past Saturday, September 22 in Lichtenfels, Germany — have been posted at Metalpics.ch. Acting on the the local police's recommendation to cancel the event, the city authoriti...

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EXTERMINANCE To Release Free EP

Cumberland, Maryland-based grindcore/metal act EXTERMINANCE will release an EP, "The Entity of Eternity", on Octoebr 12 in the form of a digital-only release that can be downloaded for free from the Open Grave Records web site. The EP features four brand new tracks and a remake of a track from the E...

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VICIOUS ART: More Dates With DEATH BREATH Announced

VICIOUS ART — the Swedish death/thrash metal band featuring former DARK FUNERAL members Matias Mäkelä and Robert Lundin, along with Jörgen Sandström (THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED, GRAVE) on bass — will support DEATH BREATH (the Swedish old-school death metal project featuring former ENTOMBED drumme...

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UNDER THE GRAVE: Two New Songs Posted Online

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based teenage death metal fury UNDER THE GRAVE has posted two songs from its forthcoming CD, "Until Death Takes Us All", on the band's MySpace page. The album was produced, engineered and mastered by Jef Fortin from ANONYMOUS, and the result is "a very solid and modern-sound...

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DEMONICAL To Support DENIAL OF GOD In Europe

DEMONICAL, the new Swedish death metal band featuring past and present members from CENTINEX, GRAVE, REGURGITATE, INTERMENT, AMARAN, WORLD BELOW and DELLAMORTE, will support Danish black horror metal act DENIAL OF GOD on its nine-date "Horrors of the Unlight" tour starting November 9 in Berlin, Germ...

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MEMORY GARDEN Parts Ways With Bassist, Seeks Replacement

MEMORY GARDEN, the Sweden-based band featuring former ABSKTRAKT ALGEBRA guitarist Simon Johansson, has issued the following update: "Due to lack of time, Ken Johansson [bass] has decided to leave the band. There are no hard feelings between any of us and we wish him all the best and would also like...

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THE PROJECT HATE: Full-Length Version Of 'Damnation' Song Available For Download

A full-length version of the new THE PROJECT HATE song "And Damnation Is Forced Upon The Weak" has been made available for download at this location. THE PROJECT HATE has just released its new album, "In Hora Mortis Nostræ", via StormVox Records, the label owned by Swedish actor Peter Stormare. The...

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WHITE LION, GRAVE DIGGER, TANKARD Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

WHITE LION, GRAVE DIGGER, TANKARD and AGE OF EVIL are the first confirmed bands for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take palce June 27-28 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. WHITE LION was removed from the opening slot of the POISON / RATT co-headlining summer tour due to a threat o...

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VICIOUS ART: 'Pick Up This Sick Child' E-Card Available

An e-card for the second full-length album from VICIOUS ART — the Swedish death/thrash metal band featuring former DARK FUNERAL members Matias Mäkelä and Robert Lundin, along with Jörgen Sandström (THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED, GRAVE) on bass — has been made available at this location. Due in Scand...

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Riders of the Plague

I think it is safe to say that Tampa's THE ABSENCE surprised the hell out of a lot of people (myself included) with a decidedly non-Floridian brand of death metal annihilation on "From Your Grave". The style heard is perfectly executed Swedish melodic death that somehow comes with an identity of its...

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Unholy

Nasty, gnarly, ragged, and jagged, "Unholy" by Sweden's MY OWN GRAVE is the sound of vintage Swedish death metal (i.e. bullshit-free and burnt to a crisp). Hardly inventive, but oh so well played, the only attribute worth bitching about is the short running time: 16 minutes (five songs),but that's...

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MACABRE, PHOBIA Confirmed For MARYLAND DEATHFEST

MACABRE, PHOBIA, COPREMESIS and DECRYPT have been confirmed for next year's Maryland Deathfest, set to take place May 23-25 at the Sonar in Baltimore. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AFGRUND (Sweden) BEHOLD…THE ARCTOPUS (New York) COFFINS (Japan) COPREMESIS (New York) DEFEATED SANITY...

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DOWNLORD Parts Ways With OPEN GRAVE RECORDS

DOWNLORD, the English, American and Danish metallers based in Copenhagen, Denmark (featuring ex-members of BOLT THROWER, INIQUITY and SACRIFICIAL),have parted ways with Open Grave Records. The band commented, "It was time. The contract was almost up, and we wanted to go it alone. We felt we'd done...

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THE PROJECT HATE, VOMITORY, Ex-ENTOMBED Members Join Forces In TORTURE DIVISION

Guitarist Lord K. Philipson (THE PROJECT HATE, GOD AMONG INSECTS, ex-LEUKEMIA),bassist/vocalist Jörgen Sandström (VICIOUS ART, THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED, GRAVE) and drummer Tobias "Tobben" Gustafsson (VOMITORY) have joined forces in a new band called TORTURE DIVISION. According to Philipson, "T...