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MADDER MORTEM Announce Release Date For 'Desiderata'

Peaceville Records has set a March 27 European release date for the new album from Norway's MADDER MORTEM, entitled "Desiderata". The CD will be accompanied by a video for the album's opening track, "My Name Is Silence". MADDER MORTEM recorded "Desiderata" at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden and...

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MORBID ANGEL's Classic 'Altars Of Madness' Album To Receive DualDisc Release

Earache Records will release a DualDisc format version of the landmark death metal album "Altars of Madness" by MORBID ANGEL on March 13, 2006. Considered by many to be a defining moment in the genre, "Altars of Madness" was first released in 1989 and is still held in reverence by the majority of de...

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DESTYNATION Complete Work On New Album

Swedish heavy metal band DESTYNATION (formerly ETERNIA) have completed work on their new album, "Rising Up", tentatively due in April via Greece's Sonic Age Records. The band, who hail from Ornskoldsvik in the northern parts of Sweden, have been spreading their message and music since 1997. Their de...

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NONPOINT To Release Spanish EP

NONPOINT have announced plans to release a new EP sung completely in Spanish. The outing is expected to feature a series of new Spanish tracks as well as select, previously released NONPOINT songs re-recorded in Spanish. Further details of the 2006 release will be made available soon. NONPOINT will...

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DANZIG Guitarist To Perform With DECONSTRUCT At NAMM

DECONSTRUCT, the Northern California band which features current DANZIG guitarist Joe Fraulob, will be performing at the NAMM show this weekend in Anaheim, California. DECONSTRUCT are scheduled to play Friday night, January 20 at EMG Pickups' 30th anniversary party, along with THE MERCY CLINIC (DAMA...

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Erased from the Memory of Man

"The common denominator of the universe is not harmony; it's chaos, hostility, and murder. The quote taken from Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man" that is listed in the liner notes of WATCHMAKER's "Erased from the Memory of Man" CD explains a lot about the grindcore razor fight that awaits the listener....

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ENSLAVED Announce New Album Title

Norwegian extreme metallers ENSLAVED have set "Ruun" as the title of their new album, tentatively due on May 8 via Tabu. The recordings for the follow-up to the band's Norwegian Grammy- and Alarm award-winning album "Isa" (2004) began a week ago at Amper Studio in Oslo, Norway and the band "already...

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ENSLAVED: In Recording Mode

Norwegian extreme metallers ENSLAVED are currently at Amper Studio recording the follow-up to their Norwegian Grammy- and Alarm award-winning album "Isa" (2004). Despite "some misplaced amps, stolen guitars and a small fire," everything is going "smoothly" in the studio, according to a press release...

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KAYO DOT: New Tour Dates Announced

KAYO DOT, the Boston, Massachusetts-based "avant-metal" project featuring former members of the now-defunct MAUDLIN OF THE WELL, return to the road this January, hot on the heels of a seven-week U.S. tour this past fall. The band will be on the road a lot this year in support of their sophomore albu...

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CLAWFINGER: European Support Acts Announced

CLAWFINGER frontman Zak Tell has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "We have yet to rehearse or decide which songs we will be playing [on the upcoming European headlining tour] but obviously we'll be playing quite a few from the new album ['Hate Yourself with Style'], at l...

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CRONIAN: BORKNAGAR Side-Project Complete Work On Debut Album

CRONIAN (formerly ION),the Norwegian/Swedish project featuring BORKNAGAR members Oystein G. Brun (guitars and programming) and Vintersorg (vocals and programming),have posted the following message on their official web site: "Well, after a month of intense work we are happy to announce that the pr...

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SEVENDUST: More U.S. Tour Dates Announced

SEVENDUST are gearing up to embark on their own headlining tour in 2006. After taking a much-deserved break for the holidays (except for one show in Orlando, FL at the House of Blues on New Year's Eve),the band will criss-cross the U.S. starting January 18 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at Revolution in sup...

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Venganza

Mexico's HACAVITZ was birthed from RAVAGER (an earlier incarnation of which was called DOMAIN),a band that released a couple of albums on Osmose. DOMAIN/RAVAGER founder/vocalist/guitarist Antimo Buonnano charged forth, releasing a self-titled 7" on Osmore before infecting the earth with "Venganza"....

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It's Official: DIMMU BORGIR Is The Home Of SANTA CLAUS

Reuters has issued the following report: Santa Claus may live in Iceland — at least if the efficiency of his helpers is a guide — in what may help the island's drive to win hearts and tourism from Arctic rivals claiming Santa and his reindeer. Only Reykjavik replied when Reuters bureaus in all eight...

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W.A.S.P.: U.S., European Tour Dates Announced

W.A.S.P. have announced a number of U.S. dates in early 2006, to be followed by European summer festival appearances and a full European tour. The dates so far are as follows: Feb. 24 - FL @ TBA Feb. 25 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre Feb. 26 - Atlanta, GA @ TBA Feb. 28 ...