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Hate Yourself With Style

Zak Tell is the undisputed star of the show here — his voice is front-and-center, the music constructed around his vocal lines, and his overbearing assault on controversial topics is what gives CLAWFINGER their unique identity. Whether he's castigating rapists ("Right to Rape") or accusing homophobe...

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Lionheart – Special Edition

Sorta surprising to see a deluxe reissue of an unsung album less than two years old, but hopefully this fancy package will call a little more attention to SAXON's cause over here in the United States of Oblivion. They're known more here lately for their newsworthy extracurricular activities (fightin...

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Former MEGADETH Guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN Continues Work On Solo Album

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman's web site has been update with the following message: "Marty was in L.A. recently recording some amazing guests for his new solo album, and with the tracks far exceeding his expectations, he is now back in Japan, and recording will resume in Tokyo immediatel...

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MASTODON Cover METALLICA's 'Orion' For 'Master Of Puppets' Anniversary CD

Atlanta's MASTODON have recorded a cover of METALLICA's "Orion" for Kerrang! magazine's forthcoming 20th anniversary tribute to METALLICA's "Master of Puppets" CD. A number of other top metal acts are expected to contribute to the compilation, including MACHINE HEAD, who have recorded a version of "...

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D-A-D Working On 'Lawrence Of Suburbia' Video

Danish hard rockers D-A-D are hard at work on the third video from their latest album, "Scare Yourself". The clip, for the song "Lawrence of Suburbia", will mark the first time the band have used a fully animated video for one of their tracks since "ZCMI" from the 1989 album "No Fuel Left for the .....

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MARILYN MANSON: Video Of 'Phantasmagoria' Press Conference Available Online

RooTV has posted a video clip with coverage of the press conference held in Berlin last Sunday (Feb. 12) for Marilyn Manson's upcoming film, "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll". Manson paid a visit to the Berlin International Film Festival to drum up interest for his directorial debut, a...

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DRAGONFORCE Announce New Bassist

London-based "extreme power metal" band DRAGONFORCE have found themselves a new bassist. Stepping up to fill the slot vacated last year by Adrian Lambert, who left the band to spend more time with his family, is DRAGONFORCE's current "touring bassist" Frederic Leclercq. Formerly guitarist with Frenc...

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KORN And H.I.M. Confirmed For Sweden's HULTSFRED FESTIVAL

KORN and H.I.M. are among the latest confirmed bands for the Hultsfred Festival, set to take place June 15-17 in Hultsfred, Sweden. Other bands scheduled to appear include DEFTONES, TRIVIUM, SOILWORK and BURST. For more information, visit www.rockparty.se. ...

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Drummer STET HOWLAND Quits W.A.S.P.

Drummer Stet Howland has announced his departure from W.A.S.P.. I na posting on the band's official web site, Howland wrote, "I appreciate the kind words and I am sorry if some of you are sad about my departure. Out of respect to the band and the upcoming tour, I didn't send out a press release ...

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MARILYN MANSON Offers Glimpse Of Film-In-Progress

According to the Hollywood Reporter, shock rocker Marilyn Manson paid a visit to the Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday (Feb. 12) to drum up interest for his directorial debut, a surreal-horrific look at the life of English writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his "Alice in Won...

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UFO, ANDY SCOTT'S SWEET, GOTTHARD Confirmed For Germany's ROCK OF AGES Festival

UFO, ANDY SCOTT'S SWEET and GOTTHARD have been confirmed for Rock of Ages, a new festival series set up by the organizers of the German hard rock and heavy metal festival Bang Your Head!!! The event is set to take place July 28-29 in Seebronn (close to Rottenburg),Germany and will feature appearanc...

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Prototype

There is a ton of grindcore out there right now and it seems I've run into more good than bad this past year or so. Sweden's EXHALE falls firmly into the "good" category. The music on "Prototype", the band's Emetic Records debut (and second release after the 2004 "…Die Inside" demo) is not only ripp...

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EDGUY Frontman: Corrupt Police Officers Disturb Band's Beauty Sleep

EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Hello from a hotel room in Madrid. Everything is going great so far, almost every show has been sold out or was at least close. "Yesterday in Italy there was a weird thing going on. Around midnight, I gue...

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Farsotstider

The genre called "viking metal" begins to lose some of its meaning when one realizes it has, rightly or wrongly, been applied to bands as diverse as AMON AMARTH and FALKENBACH. Yet in the case of Sweden's THYRFING it is hard to argue with it, at least from the standpoint of lyrical content and the ....

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Darkness Foretold

Sometimes critics (myself included) get so wrapped up in picking the perfect words in a desperate attempt to accurately convey the feeling of a metal album that the important stuff goes gets shoved aside. Sometimes you've just got to cast that tattered and coffee-stained Thesaurus aside and keep it...