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India's BANGALORE OPEN AIR Loses Money Due To 'Fake'-Ticket Controversy
According to Deccan Chronicle, around 600 people used fake tickets to attend Bangalore Open Air 2013, billed as Asia's biggest heavy metal festival. The July 6 event, which included performances by North American metallers ICED EARTH, the Swedish metal band DARK TRANQUILLITY, former EMPEROR frontman...July 19, 2013
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Video: SERJ TANKIAN, IHSAHN, DEVIN TOWNSEND Featured On Charity Single
Revolution Harmony, the brainchild of British music lecturer/journalist Ray Holroyd, has set a July 18 release date for its debut all-star charity single, "We Are". The official video for the song, which features vocals from Serj Tankian (SYSTEM OF A DOWN) and Ihsahn (EMPEROR),as well as guitar sol...July 18, 2013
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IHSAHN: Professionally Recorded Audio Of Entire ROADBURN Concert
Former EMPEROR frontman Ihsahn's April 21 performance at this year's edition of the Roadburn festival at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland was professionally recorded and can now be streamed using the audio player below. Ihsahn's debut solo album, "The Adversary", was re-released as a limited two-LP...July 17, 2013
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SLAYER, MERCYFUL FATE, VENOM Featured In 'Black Metal: Evolution Of The Cult' Book
"Black Metal: Evolution Of The Cult" by Dayal Patterson is a 600-page tome exploring the history and development of black metal from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. Due in November, the book will feature dozens of interviews with the most significant protagonists and a wealth o...July 16, 2013
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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist To Appear In 'Skate God' Movie
TWISTED SISTER guitarist Eddie Ojeda will appear in the upcoming movie "Skate God" as well as on the accompanying soundtrack. The "dark, dystopian, apocalyptic action film" stars Carter Jenkins ("Valentine's Day"),Esti Ginzburg ("Twelve"),Evan Ross ("Jeff Who Lives At Home"),Nathan Gamble ("The M...June 28, 2013
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ABORYM: 'Dirty' Video Released
"Dirty", the new video from Italo-Norwegian hard-industrial-electro extreme metallers ABORYM, can be seen below. Directed by Alberto Falcone, the clip features all three band members as well as actors, and, according to frontman and founder Fabban, the title of the track pretty much sums up the subj...June 19, 2013
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Audio: SERJ TANKIAN, IHSAHN, DEVIN TOWNSEND Featured On Charity Single
Revolution Harmony, the brainchild of British music lecturer/journalist Ray Holroyd, has set a July 18 release date for its debut all-star charity single, "We Are". The official lyric video for the song, which features vocals from Serj Tankian (SYSTEM OF A DOWN) and Ihsahn (EMPEROR),as well as guit...June 19, 2013
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Former TRISTANIA Singer VIBEKE STENE To Guest On GOD OF ATHEISTS Debut
GOD OF ATHEISTS, the Norwegian extreme metal project led by Asgeir Mickelson (SARKE, SPIRAL ARCHITECT, BORKNAGAR, TESTAMENT),has announced the addition of bassist Lars K. Norberg (SPIRAL ARCHITECT) and soprano Vibeke Stene (ex-TRISTANIA; pictured below) to the group's recording lineup. Mickelson st...June 10, 2013
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The Underground Resistance
As the entire Norwegian black metal brouhaha of the early 1990s fades deeper and deeper into history and myth, blurring the fine line between which incidents were horrifyingly true or imaginatively apocryphal, almost all of the bands either involved or born out of those events have likewise moved we...May 15, 2013
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EX DEO's MAURIZIO IACONO Interviewed In Hamburg (Video)
Metal-Trails.com conducted an interview with singer Maurizio Iacono (EX DEO, KATAKLYSM) on March 10 at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. EX DEO's sophomore album, "Caligvla", was released in August 2012 via Austria's Napalm Records. "Caligvla" was mixed by KATAKLYSM g...May 12, 2013
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ABORYM: Photos From 'Dirty' Video Shoot
Italo-Norwegian hard-industrial-electro extreme metallers ABORYM have posted a series of still photos taken during the filming of the band's new video, for the title track of their upcoming album, "Dirty". Directed by Alberto Falcone, the clip, which is currently being edited, will feature all three...May 7, 2013
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SERJ TANKIAN, IHSAHN, DEVIN TOWNSEND Featured On Charity Single
Revolution Harmony, the brainchild of British music lecturer/journalist Ray Holroyd, has set a July 18 release date for its debut all-star charity single, "We Are". The song features vocals from Serj Tankian (SYSTEM OF A DOWN) and Ihsahn (EMPEROR),as well as guitar solos by Devin Townsend. Composed...April 29, 2013
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Place of No Pity
Tasmanian devils? Cliche. However, it has to be said that this Aussie black-death metal hybrid from Hobart, Tasmania have their style down to such fierce revolutions one can safely assume it's something in the air of their native land. These days, RUINS has expanded beyond the principal duo of Alex...April 14, 2013
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TYPE O NEGATIVE Members 'Not Cooperating' In Telling Of PETER STEELE's Story
Jeff Wagner ("Mean Deviation: Four Decades Of Progressive Heavy Metal" book, former Metal Maniacs editor),is currently assembling his next book, "Soul On Fire - The Life And Music Of Peter Steele", about the late TYPE O NEGATIVE and CARNIVORE frontman who passed away on April 14, 2010 from heart fa...April 10, 2013
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PETER STEELE's Bass Guitar - A Talk With His Sisters CATHY And PAM RATAJCZYK
In February 2013, Jeff Wagner ("Mean Deviation: Four Decades Of Progressive Heavy Metal" book, former Metal Maniacs editor),author of the upcoming book "Soul On Fire - The Life And Music Of Peter Steele", spoke with Peter Steele's sisters, Cathy and Pam, about the do-it-yourself customizations of P...April 5, 2013