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BLEEDING GODS Signs With PUNISHMENT 18 RECORDS

BLEEDING GODS, the Dutch metal band featuring former and current members of ALTAR, SINISTER, HOUWITSER and SUPREME PAIN, has inked a deal with Punishment 18 Records. The group will enter Soundlodge Studio in Rhauderfehn, Gremany in September with producer Jörg Uken to begin recording its debut album...

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BEHEMOTH's NERGAL Is 'Thinking About' Recording Solo Album

Niclas Müller-Hansen of Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Adam "Nergal" Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metalshrine: With the new album, "The Satanist", you entered the Billboard chart at No 34....

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BEHEMOTH's NERGAL: 'Most Of The Music That Is Offered By So-Called Extreme Metal Bands Is Not Extreme'

Kim Kelly of The Quietus recently conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Adam "Nergal" Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On BEHEMOTH's tenth album, "The Satanist": Nergal: "You probably talk to artists every day that say, 'Yeah, thi...

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DARKANE: 'Mechanically Divine' Video Released

"Mechanically Divine", the new Sinemax Produktion-directed video from Swedish thrashers DARKANE, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's latest album, "The Sinister Supremacy", which was released in June 2013 via Massacre and Prosthetic. "The Sinister Supremacy" track listing: 01. Sound...

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CASTLE Preparing To Enter Studio

Following the successful release of their Prosthetic Records debut, "Blacklands", which earned the female-fronted doom trio a nomination for a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy equivalent) for "Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year," CASTLE will soon return to the studio to record a new album, with producer...

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COREY TAYLOR Talks To RockRevolt Magazine On Set Of 'Fear Clinic' Movie (Video)

Corey Taylor, vocalist and frontman for rock bands SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR, recently spoke to RockRevolt magazine on the set of the feature film "Fear Clinic" from Dry County Entertainment, founded by director Robert Green Hall (MTV's "Teen Wolf", "Laid To Rest", "Lightning Bug"),and Fear Chamber L...

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THE DEFILED: 'No Place Like Home' Video Released

"No Place Like Home", the new video from the London, U.K.-based modern metal mob THE DEFILED, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's second album, "Daggers", which was released on August 2, 2013 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The cover artwork was designed and executed by Scott Chalmers,...

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Das Seelenbrechen

One day when we're all dead and gone, future generations of music aficionados are going to have their hands full deciphering all of the varying threads of metal music in order to get to the core of who mattered and who merely participated. With each project he affixes his name to, Ihsahn proves to b...

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World of Evil

Allentown, Pennsylvania is not just the focal point of Billy Joel's catchy ode to Americana. It's a gritty town with gritty folk and therefore it should come as no surprise it's home to SINISTER REALM, a classic-themed heavy metal act that has quickly received international acclaim through three alb...

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OPETH Mainman On Next Album: 'It's A Metal Record And A Progressive Record And Something Else Too'

Guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH spoke to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's follow-up to 2011's "Heritage". "I have eight songs written and the direction is going straight into the territory of 'all ov...

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OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT On Next Album: It's Time To Go 'All In' With String Instrumentation

Guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH spoke to Decibel magazine about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's follow-up to 2011's "Heritage". "I have about six songs done and another two or three just started," he said, "plus a million ideas that...

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OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Honored At SKAP's Annual Ceremony

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. This year Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish pr...

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Triumf

Scandinavian black metal horde CURSED 13 has some unfinished business. They could still use plenty of tightening up, but at least there's a dedication to chaos that prevails throughout their sinister album "Triumf" which will appeal to their longtime fans who have been waiting for a proper full-leng...

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Funeral Circle

Canadian doom sect FUNERAL CIRCLE are a well-read bunch who weave creeping, elegiac dirges featuring dark fantasy and arcane muses. The Necronomicon, Paganism, Lovecraft's sinister realm of Cthulhu and Conan the Barbarian's duke-outs against the snake cult of Set all figure into FUNERAL CIRCLE's bra...

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SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR Frontman COREY TAYLOR To Star In 'Fear Clinic' Film

Corey Taylor, vocalist and frontman for rock bands SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR, has joined the cast of the feature film "Fear Clinic" from Dry County Entertainment, founded by director Robert Green Hall (MTV's "Teen Wolf", "Laid To Rest", "Lightning Bug"),and Fear Chamber LLC. "Fear Clinic" began as a...