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SUMMON Concert Sparks Brawl Between Band Members

Following a "devastatingly killer" performance in front of a packed audience at Detroit's Club 2500, members of Michigan's "satanic beer metal cult" SUMMON certainly lived up to their intense reputation as a fistfight broke out between founder and bassist Necromodeus and frontman Xaphan. The bloody...
July 6, 2006
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Demos 2002&2004

More a collector's item than a release, this split EP pulls together five impressive demo tracks from two of Canada's meanest exports on one cool-looking clear CD. All five songs (the first three from pummeling tech-grind maniacs ION DISSONANCE, the last two from the more death-inflected, no less vi...
July 3, 2006
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NOCTURNAL BREED Invite Fans To Design Cover Of Next Album

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED are inviting fans to design the cover art for their next album, "Fields of Rot", due later in the year via an as-yet-undetermined label. "If your art is chosen, you can win some great prizes!" reads a posting on the group's web site. More information is available...
June 30, 2006
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TOMMY LEE Talks With KIIS FM: Audio Available

Tommy Lee was on with Ryan Seacrest of KIIS FM in Los Angeles to promote his new CBS show "Rock Star: Supernova". The MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer talked about his new band's lineup and music they've been recording; he denied going on a date with ex-wife Heather Locklear; he addressed the rumors that he and...
June 29, 2006
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Lebanese Metallers OATH TO VANQUISH Complete Work On Debut Album

Lebanese extreme metallers OATH TO VANQUISH have completed work on their debut album, Applied Schizophrenic Science", due on July 25 via Grindethic Records. The album cover artwork has been posted at this location. "Applied Schizophrenic Science" was mixed and mastered by Colin Davis (VILE) at Imper...
June 29, 2006
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MOTÖRHEAD, HELLOWEEN, URIAH HEEP Titles To Be Re-Released On CD/DVD

Classic titles from MOTÖRHEAD and HELLOWEEN are among the seminal rock albums being released July 31 in a special CD/DVD format by Castle Music, in association with Sanctuary Records. In a new initiative for Castle Music, each album comes packaged with an informative booklet and a "sister" DVD; prov...
June 27, 2006
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A Higher Form of Killing

Nashville, Tennessee was never known as a hotbed of metal insanity. In fact, when a thrash band came from the country music capitol of the world in the mid-1980s, their hometown was the most novel thing about them. "The band that turned Nashville into thrashville!" read the magazine ads for INTRUDER...
June 26, 2006
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TERRORIZER Announce Release Date For New Album 'Darker Days Ahead'

Reunited grindcore pioneers TERRORIZER will release their highly anticipated second album, "Darker Days Ahead", on August 22 via Century Media Records. With an aggression and ferocity until then unheard the band took the scene by storm with the 1989 release of their highly acclaimed and genre-defini...
June 23, 2006
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SLASH Shoots Down GUNS N' ROSES Reunion Rumors

Former GUNS N' ROSES/current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash has shot down endless months of rumors that he will rejoin Axl Rose in the band he helped create. Stories had been rife that Slash, real name Saul Hudson, would play with the band at their recent New York shows. However, the guitarist told...
June 23, 2006
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NOCTURNAL BREED: New Song Posted Online

A brand new NOCTURNAL BREED track, entitled "Fields of Rot", has been posted online on the band's MySpace page. The song is the title cut of the Norwegian metallers' upcoming album, due later in the year via an as-yet-undetermined label. As previously reported, NOCTURNAL BREED recently parted ways w...
June 22, 2006
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MAX CAVALERA: 'I Wasn't Surprised' To Hear IGOR Left SEPULTURA

Former SEPULTURA/current SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera has commented on last week's announcement that his brother, drummer Igor Cavalera, had left SEPULTURA to pursue "other projects." The following is an excerpt from an interview Patrizia Mazzuoccolo of the Norwegian metal radio show "Tinitus" cond...
June 21, 2006
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NOCTURNAL BREED, DEMONIZER: Tour Dates Announced

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED will be teaming up with DEMONIZER for a European tour in October/November. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Oct. 27 - Innsbruck, AUT @ TBA Nov. 01 - Liège, BEL @ TBA Nov. 03 - Kuurne, BEL @ TBA Nov. 04 - Leeuwarden, NETH @ TBA Nov. 05 - Rotterdam, ...
June 21, 2006
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1349 Part Ways With Founding Guitarist TJALVE

1349 guitarist and founding member Tjalve (real name: André Kvebek) has left the Norwegian black metal act after nine years and three studio albums to focus on his other bands PANTHEON I and SARKOM. Commented Tjalve in a statement: "I will remember 1349 as the most diabolical, vicious and plague-rid...
June 15, 2006
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NOCTURNAL BREED Part Ways With PAINKILLER RECORDS

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED have posted the following message on their official web site: "We have decided to leave Painkiller Records because of major communication problems and the fact that they have broken the contract we had with them. Therefore we are now in the process of finding a ne...
June 14, 2006
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Exclusive: IGOR CAVALERA Talks About His Decision To Leave SEPULTURA

In the two days since drummer Igor Cavalera announced his departure from SEPULTURA, there has been a great deal of speculation regarding the reasons for his split with the group and his future plans. While some fans have theorized that Igor became disillusioned with playing heavy metal and wanted to...
June 14, 2006