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DYING HUMANITY: 'Abused' Video Released

"Abused", the new video from German melodic death metallers DYING HUMANITY, can be seen below. The clip was produced by Ambitious Films (EVOCATION, POWERWOLF, TERROR). "Abused" comes off DYING HUMANITY's third album, "Living On The Razor's Edge", which was released last year via Bastardized Recordin...

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GOTHMINISTER: 'Utopia' Trailer Released

Norwegian industrial/electronic metallers GOTHMINISTER have released a trailer for the upcoming concert film and concept album entitled "Utopia". Due next year via AFM Records, the set will include both newly recorded songs and a horror concert film with a running time of one hour and 20 minutes plu...

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MIKE PORTNOY Says His Former Bandmates In DREAM THEATER Have 'Done Some Irrefutable Damage'

Mike Portnoy says that it's highly improbably that he will ever rejoin DREAM THEATER because his former bandmates have "done some irrefutable damage behind the scenes." The drummer, who co-founded DREAM THEATER more than 20 years ago, abruptly quit the band in September 2010 while on tour with AVENG...

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ALESTORM Mainman's GLORYHAMMER: Debut Album Details Revealed

GLORYHAMMER, the "heroic fantasy power metal" project led by Christopher Bowes, the mastermind behind pirate metal sensation ALESTORM, with a desire to explore the more symphonic and epic side of metal, will release its debut album, "Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife", on March 29, 2013 via Napalm Reco...

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HELSTAR Taps SYMPHONY X Bassist For Upcoming Shows

Texas-based metal veterans HELSTAR have issued the following update: "It's been a few months since we've issued an update and there are several news items we'd like to share with you HEL-raisers on what to expect in 2013! "As many of you know, early in the new year we will set sail from Miami onboar...

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DEE SNIDER 'Rock & Roll Roast': Details Revealed

Get ready for a raucous night of comedy, charity and chaos. Revolver and Guitar World are proud to announce the second annual Rock & Roll Roast comedy series with honoree Dee Snider, lead singer of the legendary 1980s rock band TWISTED SISTER. The exclusive event will take place at The Grove in...

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DARK CONFESSIONS: 'Biohazard' Video Released

"Biohazard", the new video from Murcia, Spain-based extreme metallers DARK CONFESSIONS, can be seen below. The clip was produced by the bandmembers themselves, directed by Victor M. López and with the help of Henry Menacho. "Biohazard" comes off DARK CONFESSIONS' debut album, "Insanity", which was r...

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SOIL: New Audio Interview With TIM KING

RedBeard of ShipOMetal.co.uk conducted an interview with bassist Tim King of Chicago heavy rockers SOIL before the band's December 4 concert at the White Rabbit, Plymouth, United Kingdom. You can now listen to the chat below. SOIL recently launched an interactive pre-sale campaign on Kickstarter to...

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From the Vaults Vol. 1

One of the genuine greats of the metal underground is Georgian sludge hounds, KYLESA. In league with fellow mud-prog maestros MASTODON, BLACK TUSK and BARONESS, KYLESA often becomes the forgotten noisy brats of their sweltering scene. Frankly, that reeks since they're one of the most inventive, bomb...

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Temporal

It's hard for me not to interject a personal note whenever discussing ISIS, so humor me a minute, if you will. To me, this was never a "post metal" band, a stupid, supercilious term I've always objected to in the first place. ISIS was an empirical, cinematic symposium of darkness and light, a sterli...

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The Great Bear

What if K.E. Tsiolkovsky instead of Robert Goddard was revered worldwide as the grand wizard architect of the great space race from the 1950s and '60s? The cosmonauts land Vostok 3 and 4 on the moon ahead of Apollo 11. It's an alternate parallel universe perhaps only DC Comics and film producers Tim...

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Inner Monster Out

If you're not familiar with Brazil's SHADOWSIDE, the temptation upon greeting is to lump them in league with LACUNA COIL. A fireball frontwoman are about all they have in common. There are a few pop metal songs on SHADOWSIDE's third album, "Inner Monster Out", but there's little else to bridge this...

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EVOCATION: New Audio Interview With MARKO PALMÉN

Jorge Fretes of Spain's GoetiaMedia.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist Marko Palmén of Swedish death metallers EVOCATION. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. EVOCATION's fourth studio album, "Illusions Of Grandeur", was released in September via Century Media Re...

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QUEENSRŸCHE's LA TORRE Says 'People Are Shocked To Hear' 'Queen Of The Reich' Performed Well

The Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE has finished recording the drums for its new album at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Washington with producer James "Jimbo" Barton — the man who engineered and mixed the band's classic 1988 LP, "Operation: Mindcrime", and its 1990 follow-up, "Empir...

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GEOFF TATE Says QUEENSRŸCHE Split Is 'All About Money'

Ruben Mosqueda of Oregon Music News recently conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Oregon Music News: Since we last spoke, there was a falling out with QUEENSRŸCHE and you. There had been rumblings that things were "tense" within...