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EXODUS Guitarist Remembers PAUL BALOFF

It was a little over five years ago — on January 31, 2002 — that EXODUS frontman Paul Baloff suffered a major stroke and was brought to Highland General Hospital in Northern California, where he remained in a coma until he was declared brain dead. On February 2, his doctors shut off his life support...

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Buried Alive

I don't know about you, but I'm still bummed at the demise of the mighty SENTENCED. It is hard to believe that the band started way back in 1989 and turned from a more traditional death metal act into the melodic, rocking, and suicide-obsessed juggernaut that they became, particularly on later album...

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TESTAMENT, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SADUS Confirmed For CALIFORNIA METAL FEST

TESTAMENT, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SADUS and NECROPHAGIST are among the confirmed bands for the California Metal Fest, set to take place March 31 – April 1 at the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday, March 31: TESTAMENT FLOTSAM AND JET...

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RUNEMAGICK: Split CD With OCEAN CHIEF Detailed

Aftermath Music will release "The Northern Lights" OCEAN CHIEF / RUNEMAGICK split CD, strictly limited to 500 handnumbered digipack copies. The CD is expected late February or early March. The track listing is as follows: 01. OCEAN CHIEF – "Gathering Souls" 02. RUNEMAGICK - "Bound in Magick Haze" 03...

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AEROSMITH Frontman To Speak For Peace

On February 5, AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler will be participating in a campaign to establish a United States Department of Peace. Tyler will be speaking as part of a lobbying effort hosted by the Peace Alliance, "a nonpartisan citizen organization advocating for legislation that supports a cultur...

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INHUME: New Album Samples Available

Dutch grindcore act INHUME will releasing its third album, "Chaos Dissection Order", soon via Osmose Productions. The track listing is as follows: 01. Superior Existence 02. Plague Injected 03. Oppressing The Weak 04. Chaos Dissection Order 05. Retaliate 06. Severely Deteriorated Flesh 07. Dismal 08...

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Buried Alive

So this is it, the final farewell to a band that called it quits voluntarily after evolving from barren death metal artisans and English manglers ("Rot to Dead"! "Desperationed Future"!) in the late 1980s to a sleek, melancholy hit-making machine (in their native Finland, anyway). While some would p...

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Inside the Machine

A CANOROUS QUINTET was one of those names you saw everywhere in the 1990's, even if their albums (in the USA, anyway) remained scarce imports and they never made the impact of contemporaries like DARK TRANQUILLITY or IN FLAMES. After disbanding in 1998, with various members appearing in AMON AMARTH,...

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WAYLANDER: Video Footage From Recording Studio Available

A short video report taken during the recording sessions for long-running Irish folk metal act WAYLANDER's upcoming third album, "Honour Amongst Chaos", has been posted online at YouTube.com. The CD is being recorded at Heathen Dream studios in Lurgan, Northern Ireland and is tentatively scheduled f...

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TESTAMENT: Feeling The Fire

TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson and new drummer Nick Barker (ex-DIMMU BORGIR, CRADLE OF FILTH) are currently in Northern California locked down in the studio beginning to lay the foundation for the group's new album. Peterson states, "It's feeling pretty good so far... Nick's playing has sparked s...

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HIGH ON FIRE: In-Studio Feature To Run On MP3.com

Starting Tuesday, January 30, HIGH ON FIRE will be featured on MP3.com. The feature will be a video podcast of an in-studio interview with HIGH ON FIRE guitarist Matt Pike. Pike talks about five great metal records that he feels should be staples in any collection as well as HIGH ON FIRE's recent ti...

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LIGHT THIS CITY To Shoot Video In Los Angeles

Bay Area thrashers LIGHT THIS CITY will film their first video Feb. 1-2 in Los Angeles, Calif. with acclaimed video director Darren Doane (UNEARTH, ALL THAT REMAINS, DARKEST HOUR). The clip will be for the track "The Unwelcome Savior" off the band's latest CD, "Facing the Thousand", which came out i...

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PAPA ROACH Extends Tour, Ponders Acoustic Recordings

Launch Radio Networks reports: PAPA ROACH has extended its current North American tour, with a newly confirmed batch of dates finishing up on March 4 in Clifton Park, New York. The trek begins on January 23 in Eugene, Oregon and will take in a number of Canadian gigs before swinging back down into t...

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NAPALM DEATH Planning Back-To-Basics, Old-School U.K. Tour

NAPALM DEATH bassist Shane Embury has posted the following message on the band's MySpace page: "[I'm] In Finland enjoying what so far has been a killer tour and we still have so many shows and places to look forward to. [It's] fucking cold, though. "Anyway, we have the idea for sometime now to hopef...

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DOKKEN To Release 'Live 1981 From Conception' CD/DVD In March

DOKKEN will issue a live CD, entitled "Dokken Live 1981 from Conception", on March 13 via Rhino Records. "I think the DVD is coming out at the same time, but will find out for sure by Friday," the group's frontman, Don Dokken, writes on their MySpace page. "The videos on the DVD are 'Breaking the .....