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MEGADETH, TYPE O NEGATIVE, KORN: Photos From Italy's GODS OF METAL Festival Available

Photos of MEGADETH, TYPE O NEGATIVE and KORN, taken at the second installment of this year's Gods of Metal festival (which took place June 30 in Milan, Italy),have been posted at the news blog Musica Metal. Fan-filmed video footage of MEGADETH's performance can be found at YouTube. Holland's FaceCu...

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Breath of the Demiurg

The thing about early 1990s Swedish death metal (and the output from the rest of Europe too, really) wasn't always speed, and it wasn't about who could be the most ludicrously brutal (although that was often a quite enjoyable by-product). No, there was a dankness to the stuff, a primal murk, an atmo...

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TESTAMENT Signs With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT have inked a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The group will enter the studio late summer/early fall to record its long-awaited new album for a March 2008 release. Original TESTAMENT members Alex Skolnick (guitar),Chuck Billy (vocals),Greg Chris...

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MIDDIAN To Release 'Age Eternal' On Double 12" Vinyl

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will have its "Age Eternal" album released on double 12" vinyl on July 30 via Land O Smiles. It has a gatefold cover and the pressing is limited to 500 on 180-gram vinyl. Land O Smiles is accepting pre-orders for the record at this ...

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FATHER BEFOULED To Release 'Profano Ad Regnum' Mini-CD

Georgia-based death metallers FATHER BEFOULED will release their debut mini-CD, "Profano ad Regnum", late summer via Spain's Behold the Beast Productions. The EP will contain five tracks of "unholy, graceless death metal influenced by the olden scene; slow, crushing doom, bellowing death roars and t...

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EXTINCTION OF MANKIND Confirmed for Czech Republic's OBSCENE EXTREME Festival

U.K. crust act EXTINCTION OF MANKIND has been confirmed to appear at the Obscene Extreme festival in Czech Republic this summer alongside the likes of BRUTAL TRUTH, BEHEMOTH and ROTTEN SOUND. The open-air music festival which will take place July 5-7 in Trutnov, Czech Republic will also feature appe...

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BLIND GUARDIAN, OVERKILL Singers To Guest On Tonight's 'Black Night Meditations'

BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist Hansi Kürsch and OVERKILL frontman Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth will guest on tonight's edition of "Black Night Meditations", a four-hour metal radio show on WSCA 106.1 FM in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kürsch discusses the possibility of performing the entire 1998 album "Nightfall...

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H.I.M.: New Song Available For Streaming

A brand new H.I.M. track, entitled "Passion's Killing Floor", is available for streaming at the H-I-M666.com web site (click on "Passion's Killing Floor" in the album track listing to start audio). "Passion's Killing Floor" will be included on the soundtrack album to Michael Bay's "Transformers", du...

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THE FORESHADOWING: New Audio Sample Posted Online

Italian gothic-doom band THE FORESHADOWING has tapped artist Seth Siro Anton (PARADISE LOST, CALIBAN, ROTTING CHRIST, VADER) to create the artwork for the group's debut album, "Days of Nothing", due on October 22 via Candlelight Records. A song from the CD, "Eschaton", is available for streaming on...

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GORGOROTH Frontman Guests On SKITLIV Track; Audio Available

GORGOROTH vocalist Gaahl has made a special guest appearance on "Hollow Devotion", a new track from SKITLIV, the doom/black metal project of former MAYHEM frontman Maniac. Gaahl contributes a chilling spoken intro and outro to the track, both of which were specially written for him. An unmastered ve...

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DE PROFUNDIS Seeks New Drummer

London-based progressive doom metal band DE PROFUNDIS has launched a search for a new drummer following the departure of David Andrews. The group is seeking an experienced London-based skinman, with a tight double-kick technique, crushing fills and some blasting ability. Any interested parties shoul...

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TESTAMENT To Debut New Material At Germany's EARTHSHAKER FEST

According to the organizers of the Earthshaker Fest, which is being July 19-21 in Kreuth, Germany, veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT will perform a special show at this year's event that will include an exclusive world premiere of brand new tracks from the band's forthcoming album....

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Scream of the Iron Iconoclast

Instrumental bands, from THE FUCKING CHAMPS to DYSRHYTHMIA to KARMA TO BURN to ELECTRO QUARTERSTAFF, seem to have a really hard time with the whole categorization thing. That's all well and good for the art, but it's a bitch trying to file the damn CD at the record store. Are DYSRHYTHMIA indie rock?...

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TROUBLE Drummer Releases Two Non-'Doom' CDs

TROUBLE drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson has released two new CDs, but it is not his traditional doom. "Music to Cook By" and "Children's Stories from Around the World" are two of Olson's side projects in addition to his solo rock/psychedelic project, RETRO GRAVE. "Music to Cook By" is a 15-song collection...

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TESTAMENT Frontman Says New Material Is 'Very Heavy' And 'Catchy'

Jesse Capps of RockConfidential.com recently conducted an interview with TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy. A few excerpts from the chat follow: RockConfidential.com: What's touring looking like this year? Chuck: We've got a few shows in July. We're gonna finish writing. We've got a few shows scattered...