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WARBRINGER Back In Action With New Lineup

Southern California thrashers WARBRINGER built a reputation for themselves. They were part of every major tour around the globe for five years straight. In that time, it was miraculous that they found time to record four albums of unrelenting aggression. And then it all came to a screeching halt. "I...

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NIGHTRAGE: New Song 'Desperate Vows' Available For Streaming

Greek/Swedish melodic death metallers NIGHTRAGE will release their sixth studio album, "The Puritan", on April 24 via Despotz Records. "The Puritan" — described in a press release as "an uncompromising, eerie, dramatic and melodic death metal journey in its purest essence" — welcomes new NIGHTRAGE v...

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MESHUGGAH Awarded Swedish Songwriting Prize

Every year SKAP awards scholarships and prizes to celebrate Swedish creativity across all musical genres. The awards ceremony takes place in tandem with SKAP's annual spring party which is organized with the composers in mind and creativity as the main focus. In 2014, Swedish progressive metallers M...

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NIGHTRAGE To Release 'The Puritan' Album In April

Greek/Swedish melodic death metallers NIGHTRAGE will release their sixth studio album, "The Puritan", on April 24 via Despotz Records. The music video for the CD's first single, "Kiss Of A Sycophant", can be seen below. Says NIGHTRAGE guitarist and founding member Marios Iliopoulos: "'Kiss Of A Syco...

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SLASH, COREY TAYLOR, JOHN 5 Added To METALLICA Guitarist KIRK HAMMETT's FEAR FESTEVIL

Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR),Slash (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER) and John 5 (ROB ZOMBIE, MARILYN MANSON) will serve as panel participants at METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett's second edition of his Fear FestEvil horror and music convention, set to take place on April 10-12 in San Jose, Ca...

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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT To Welcome MESHUGGAH, AGNOSTIC FRONT To Second Annual FEAR FESTEVIL

Fear FestEvil curator, host, and lifelong horror enthusiast, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett (a.k.a. Kirk Von Hammett),knows not the meaning of mediocrity. For the second installment of his annual Fear FestEvil horror convention, he's dug deeper into his crypt for the makings of another spectacula...

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ENGEL: 'Salvation' Video Released

"Salvation", the new video from Swedish metallers ENGEL, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's fourth album, "Raven Kings", which will be released on November 28 via Gain Music Entertainment. The CD was produced by the band's founders Marcus Sunesson and Niclas Engelin (also of IN FLA...

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MESHUGGAH's MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM: 'We're Messing Around With New Ideas' For Next Studio Album

Nev Pearce of Australia's "Rabid Noise" podcast recently conducted an interview with guitarist Mårten Hagström of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. Asked what MESHUGGAH has been up to the last few months, Mårten said: "We've b...

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ENGEL To Release 'Raven Kings' Album In November

Swedish metallers ENGEL will release their fourth album, "Raven Kings", on November 28 via Gain Music Entertainment. The CD was produced by the band's founders Marcus Sunesson and Niclas Engelin (also of IN FLAMES) and was mixed by Jacob Hansen (VOLBEAT). The artwork was created by Joachim Luetke (A...

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MESHUGGAH: 'Do Not Look Down' Performance Clip From 'The Ophidian Trek' DVD

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the recording of their first EP, Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release a concert DVD / 2CD set and Blu-ray, "The Ophidian Trek", on September 30 via Nuclear Blast. With visual footage shot in the U.S. and Europe during "The Ophidian Trek"...

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MESHUGGAH: 'The Ophidian Trek' DVD Teaser

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the recording of their first EP, Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release a concert DVD / 2CD set and Blu-ray, "The Ophidian Trek", on September 30 via Nuclear Blast. With visual footage shot in the U.S. and Europe during "The Ophidian Trek"...

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W.A.S.P. Guitarist DOUGLAS BLAIR To Introduce SIGNAL2NOISE Project To Finnish Audiences

With the next W.A.S.P. release — tentatively titled "Golgotha" — and the band's subsequent tour slated for spring of 2015, Douglas Blair, the group's American lead guitarist, stands poised to finally introduce his long-mothballed "main" project, the aptly named power duo SIGNAL2NOISE, to Finnish aud...

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BUTCHER BABIES' CARLA HARVEY Is Looking Forward To Bringing Back 'Thrash Element' To Band's Music

Carla Harvey — one of BUTCHER BABIES' two dynamic frontwomen — spoke to the Fairfield City Champion about the band's upcoming second full-length release, the follow-up to last year's well-received debut, "Goliath". "This next album is really important to us," she said. "It's the album that really sa...

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BUTCHER BABIES' HEIDI SHEPHERD: 'We Have Something Coming Out In October'

Australia's Music Feeds recently conducted an interview with BUTCHER BABIES. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. BUTCHER BABIES has spent much of the summer writing and recording some of the material for its forthcoming second album with producer Logan Mader (FIVE FINGER DEATH...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN: BABYMETAL 'Sounds Like MESHUGGAH With Japanese Pop On Top Of It'

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman tells RollingStone.com that he is a huge fan of BABYMETAL, the offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and heavy metal. Takayoshi Ohmura, the guitarist in Friedman's own solo band, is a...