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Video: REED MULLIN, KARL AGELL Rehearsing CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's 'Blind' Album For KATHERINE LUDWIG Benefit Concert

Karl Agell, who sang on the classic CORROSION OF CONFORMITY (C.O.C.) album "Blind" (1991),and founding C.O.C. member Reed Mullin (drums) will perform the entire original version of the "Blind" LP on Sunday, November 9 at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. The concert is a benefit for K...

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NAPALM DEATH Guitarist MITCH HARRIS To Sit Out Upcoming Shows

British/American grindcore legends NAPALM DEATH have released the following statement: "Due to illness within his family, we would like to announce that [guitarist] Mitch Harris will, unfortunately, not be performing with us for the near future. We stress that this is not a permanent arrangement, al...

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NAPALM DEATH And VOIVOD To Join Forces For North American 'Through Space And Grind' Tour

NAPALM DEATH and VOIVOD will join forces for a North American tour, aptly dubbed "Through Space And Grind", in January/February. Said NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway: "As a celebration of both the unconventional and more straight-out methods of musical attack, I think this tour lineup r...

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REED MULLIN, KARL AGELL To Perform CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's Entire 'Blind' Album At KATHERINE LUDWIG Benefit Concert

Karl Agell, who sang on the classic CORROSION OF CONFORMITY (C.O.C.) album "Blind" (1991),and founding C.O.C. member Reed Mullin (drums) perform the entire original version of the "Blind" LP on Sunday, November 9 at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. The concert is a benefit for Kather...

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Ex-METALLICA Bassist JASON NEWSTED Is No Longer On Facebook, Twitter Or Any Other Social Networking Site

According to a posting on NewstedHeavyMetal.com, former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted is "not on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or any other social networking website as of September 15, 2014 & and has no affiliation with any such impostor sites using his name or...

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Former METAL MANIACS Magazine Editor KATHERINE LUDWIG Is Battling Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma; How You Can Help

Katherine Ludwig, former editor of the long-running heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs, is battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which has spread in pockets throughout her body. A Facebook page has been launched to "relieve some of the burden to ease costs that go along with all of the guts and glory tha...

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VOIVOD's SNAKE Talks To 'Do You Know Jack?' At HEAVY MONTREAL Festival (Audio)

TJ Buggins of the "Do You Know Jack?" radio show on CJIM Montreal conducted an interview with vocalist Denis "Snake" Belanger of Canadian metal pioneers VOIVOD on August 9 at the Heavy Montreal festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud widget below. VOIV...

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VOIVOD Featuring New Bassist DOMINIC 'ROCKY' LAROCHE: Fan-Filmed Footage Of HEAVY MONTREAL Performance

Fan-filmed video footage of VOIVOD's August 9 performance at the Heavy Montreal festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada can be seen below. VOIVOD has tapped Dominic "Rocky" Laroche to play bass for the band following the departure of Jean-Yves Thériault (a.k.a. Blacky). Laroche, who has previously perf...

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VOIVOD Recruits Bassist DOMINIC 'ROCKY' LAROCHE Following Split With BLACKY; Video Of First Performance

Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD have tapped Dominic "Rocky" Laroche to play bass for the band following the departure of Jean-Yves Thériault (a.k.a. Blacky). Laroche, who has previously performed with blues musician Steve Hill, made his live debut with VOIVOD last night (Saturday, July 12) at Festi...

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VOIVOD Parts Ways With Bassist JEAN-YVES 'BLACKY' THÉRIAULT

**UPDATE**: VOIVOD has released the following statement regarding bassist Blacky's latest departure from the group: "It saddens us to announce that VOIVOD will no longer be performing live with Blacky. Jean-Yves has decided to leave the band for his own personal reasons. We wish him all the best. VO...

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VOIVOD's MICHEL 'AWAY' LANGEVIN Interviewed On Brazil's 'Wikimetal' (Audio)

Brazil's Wikimetal podcast recently conducted an interview with drummer Michel "Away" Langevin of Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. VOIVOD's new album, "Target Earth", sold around 1,500 copies in the United States in its first week of...

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ASSASSIN Anounces New Singer

German thrash metal veterans ASSASSIN have parted ways with vocalist Robert Gonella and have replaced him with Ingo "Crowzak" Bajonczak (LORD OF GIANT, SUPERSOMA, NEW DAMAGE). Comments ASSASSIN guitarist Michael Hoffmann: "We all were lying crippled on the floor, as, all of a sudden, this guy shows...

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THE OATH Calls It Quits

THE OATH, the band forged around the fizzing, feral chemistry between Swedish guitarist Linnéa Olsson and German vocalist Johanna Sadonis, has called it quits. In an e-mail sent out to THE OATH's Bandcamp fans earlier today, Linnéa wrote: "You're receiving this email because you at one point purchas...

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In a Mirror Darkly

German progressive thrashers MEKONG DELTA have long been one of the most intelligent metal acts on the planet and they seldom get their due. As the oft-referred "best-kept secret in the world" since the mid-Eighties, MEKONG DELTA has seen its ranks shifted and reassembled numerous times with bassist...

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Barishi

Hailing from the mountains of southern Vermont is BARISHI, a progressive metal crack unit looking to stir a few pots of convention with their decidedly unconventional debut album. BARISHI's hybrid music style lies somewhere between screamo, grunge, alt punk, psych and prog. Though hardly like any of...