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The Last Sucker

So Alien Jourgensen is gonna ride off into the sunset with this one, huh? Putting his battle-scarred industrial metal franchise to bed as the turbulent Bush II years wind down makes both poetic and practical sense — after all, MINISTRY seems to hit a slump when Democrats come to power, although give...

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CANDLEMASS, ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY Members To Guest On New RETRO GRAVE CD

Jeff "Oly" Olson (TROUBLE, RETRO GRAVE) has tapped Vincent Wojno (TROUBLE, MACHINE HEAD, KREATOR, TESTAMENT) to produce and engineer the first two RETRO GRAVE albums. The debut CD, now simply titled "Run", is a re-arrangement of TROUBLE's "Run to the Light" (originally issued in 1987 via Metal Blade...

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HELLSAW: 'Phantasm' Due Out This Week

"Phantasm" the new album from black metallers HELLSAW, is due for release this week on the German Folter Records label. The nine-track album was produced by DARK FORTRESS' Victor Bullok and is the second full-length release from the Austrian band, whose debut, 2005's "Spiritual Twilight", was follow...

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MY DYING BRIDE Confirmed For Spain's ATARFE VEGA ROCK Festival

Legendary UK doom outfit MY DYING BRIDE has been confirmed for the Atarfe Vega Rock festival, set to take place December 1 at Coliseo Ciudad Atarfe in Atarfe, Granada, Spain. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BELLADONNA EXCITER GRAVE DIGGER KATATONIA LACRIMOSA LIZZY BORDEN MAYHEM MY DYI...

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KATATONIA Guitarist: 'We're Not An Energetic Power Metal Band'

In the Halloween issue of Metal Maniacs, KATATONIA guitarist Anders Nyström discusses the band's "Live Consternation" release and the perception of vocalist Jonas Renske as a "reluctant frontman." Excerpts follow. Metal Maniacs: Was there a point where you guys said, "Screw it, we got to get KATATON...

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HIM Interviewed By BAM MARGERA: Video Available

Bam Margera of MTV's "Jackass" and "Viva La Bam" fame recently conducted an interview for RecCenter.com with HIM members Ville Valo and Mige (a.k.a. Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen) about the group's latest album, "Venus Doom". Watch the three-minute clip below. HIM's new album, "Venus Doom", sold 38,0...

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THE FORESHADOWING: More New Music Posted Online

Italian gothic-doom band THE FORESHADOWING has posted a sample of the song "Death is our Freedom" plus the ful-length track "Departure" on the group's MySpace page. Both cuts come off THE FORESHADOWING's debut album, "Days of Nothing", due on October 22 via Candlelight Records. The CD cover artwork...

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SEPULTURA: Belo Horizonte Concert Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of SEPULTURA performing the song "Slave New World" on September 22, 2007 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil can be viewed below. SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser previously stated about the belo Horizonte show, "It was the best show we [ever] did in BH. I think it was the first tim...

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BONDED BY BLOOD To Guest On J.A.A.P. Radio Tonight

Los Angeles thrashers BONDED BY BLOOD will guest on J.A.A.P. Radio tonight (Thursday, September 27) at 11:00 p.m. EST/8:00 p.m. PST. The band will take questions, talk thrash and hang with the J.A.A.P. crew all night. To listen to the program live via the Internet, go to this location. A four-and-a-...

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SILENTIUM: 'Dead Silent' Single Detailed

Finnish atmospheric doom metallers SILENTIUM have just released the second single from their "Seducia" album, entitled "Dead Silent". The single contains edited versionos of two songs from the album plus a new, previously unreleased composition. The track listing is as follows: 01. Dead Silent (edit...

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NOVEMBERS DOOM To Play Acoustic Show In Europe

A third and final show has been added for Chicago's dark metal act NOVEMBERS DOOM in Europe this November. This performance will be held on November 12 at Rockconcern De ROTS, Antwerp Belgium. To build off the special evening of November 10, where the band will shoot their first-ever live DVD in Vos...

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HIM, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER First-Week Sales Revealed

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending September 23, 2007, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest hundred [except numbers over 20,000, which are rounded to the nearest thousand]; The Billboard 200 chart position incl...

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BONDED BY BLOOD: New Video Interview Available

A four-and-a-half-minute video interview with Los Angeles thrashers BONDED BY BLOOD conducted by The Dude Von Doom can be viewed below. Hailing from Los Angeles, BONDED BY BLOOD's influences come from most of the old-school thrash acts (EXODUS, METALLICA, SLAYER, TESTAMENT, etc) but BONDED BY BLOOD...

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SEPULTURA Joined By Former Guitarist JAIRO GUEDZ At Belo Horizonte Gig

SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser has issued the following update: "Thursday I've played in Sao Paulo, in a small music bar called Ao Vivo Groove Bar with Daniel La Torre (Hammond) and Vasco Fae (drums, vocals and harmonica). Joao Gordo (R.D.P. singer, VJ MTV Brazil) was there too and we did a blue...

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III - Over The Under

The first DOWN album, "NOLA", released in 1995, was a nearly perfect mix of brutal Nineties power groove metal, druggy retro/stoner psychedelia and swampy New Orleans attitude. The mix of personalities from PANTERA, COC, EYEHATEGOD and CROWBAR gelled seamlessly and made the album into an instant cla...