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NEVERMORE: Photos From The Studio Posted Online

Photos from some of the early recording sessions for NEVERMORE's new album, "The Obsidian Conspiracy", can be viewed below. The drum tracks for "The Obsidian Conspiracy" were completed in the group's hometown of Seattle with producer (and SOILWORK guitarist) Peter Wichers (who previously worked with...

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SOIL 'Wanted To Move In More Of A Clean, Classic-Rock Style' For New Album Artwork

Stephen Jensen, the art director, photographer, and graphic designer and founder of F3 Studios in Crystal Lake, Illinois, created the cover artwork for "Picture Perfect", the new album from Chicago heavy rockers SOIL. Regarding how the design for the new CD was conceived, a posting on the F3 web sit...

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NEVERMORE's WILLIAMS Completes Drum Tracks For New Album

NEVERMORE's Van Williams has finished recording the drums for the band's new album, "The Obsidian Conspiracy", in the group's hometown of Seattle with producer (and SOILWORK guitarist) Peter Wichers (who previously worked with Warrel Dane on Dane's solo debut, "Praises to the War Machine"). The rest...

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GNAW THEIR TONGUES To Release New Album In September

Dutch black/experimental metal act GNAW THEIR TONGUES will release its new album, "All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity", on September 8 via Crucial Blast. Picking up where 2008's "An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood" left off, the new CD contains nine new tracks of "fearsome blackened orchestral cha...

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HEAVEN & HELL Schedules New York City Signing Session

HEAVEN & HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar),Ronnie James Dio (vocals),Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — will take part in a signing session and meet-and-greet on August 26, 2009 at Sam Ash in New York City (located on W. 48th Street) beginning at...

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TRISTANIA's ØSTEN BERGØY Welcomes Twins

TRISTANIA's male vocalist Østen Bergøy has issued the following update: "I am happy to inform you that: The 6th of August at 2 a.m. , my girlfriend Silje gave birth to our twins. A boy and a girl. "We are all well and right now we are recovering and trying to adjust to the new ...

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TO/DIE/FOR Frontman Checks In From The Studio

Finnish gothic metallers TO/DIE/FOR entered the studio on August 6 to begin recording their sixth album, tentatively due in early 2010. Vocalist Jape Perätalo writes on the band's MySpace page, "We have 11 songs at the moment. Personally I've never felt this relaxed at the studio. Finally we have so...

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NEVERMORE Guitarist Says New Material Is 'A Little Bit More Wide Open Musically'

The German edition of Metal Hammer magazine conducted an interview with NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The chat can now be viewed at this location. When asked if his instrumental solo album, "Zero O...

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It Hates You

I don't know if you've ever come across an ostrich, but those fuckers can be pretty goddamned mean when they want to be. I often go back to a time in my childhood when I, dared by a few older, distant cousins, took it upon myself to taunt a few of them from the other ...

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Grand Union

Funny that all this attention is paid to a blues band by the metal press by virtue of its label home when there are tons of other worthy blues artists out there to which Joe Metal Fan will never be exposed. But that's neither here nor there and has nothing to do with the merit ...

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Visions Revealed

Though not reaching stratospheric levels of metallic bliss like label mates DAGON ("Terraphobic"),on "Visions Revealed" BLOODLINE SEVERED make a strong Christian metalcore showing that is far more death/thrash than 'core. Unlike the failings of THE AUTUMN OFFERING's "Requiem", "Visions Revealed" is...

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NEVERMORE: First Footage From The Studio Posted Online

NEVERMORE's Van Williams entered a studio on August 7 in the band's hometown of Seattle with producer (and SOILWORK guitarist) Peter Wichers (who previously worked with NEVERMORE vocalist Warrel Dane on Dane's solo debut, "Praises to the War Machine") to begin recording the drums for the band's new...

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HEAVEN & HELL Kicks Off North American Tour In Vancouver; Setlist Revealed

HEAVEN & HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar),Ronnie James Dio (vocals),Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — kicked off its North American tour last night (Friday, August 7) at UBC Thunderbird Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group's s...

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DISAVOWED Pulls Out Of Switzerland's MOUNTAINS OF DEATH Festival

Dutch brutal death metallers DISAVOWED have canceled their appearance at the ninth edition of Switzerland's most extreme metal festival, Mountains Of Death — set to take place August 21-22, 2009 in Muotathal, Switzerland — as they are once again left without a drummer. The final billing for the fest...

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ANTHRAX Guitarist: I'd Been Waiting Four Years To Have JOHN BUSH Back In The Ranks

In the first installment of the Kerrang! Awards 2009 podcast, Simon Young takes you behind the scenes at what the U.K. magazine calls the "biggest and best rock 'n' roll awards show on the planet" and speaks to this year's hosts SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor and ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian. Watch t...