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AXAMENTA's Collaboration With PAIN OF SALVATION Singer Available Online

Belgium's AXAMENTA, the former band of current EPICA bassist Yves Huts, have uploaded several new samples from their upcoming album, "Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture", at their official web site. Due on May 26 via Shiver Records, the CD was recorded at Hansen studio in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen...

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WINTERTHRALL To Master Debut Album This Week

WINTERTHRALL, the Orange County, California-based doom/death metal project featuring Rob Alaniz (NOCTUARY, ex-RISE, EVILDEAD),Steve Nelson (NOCTUARY),and Jeremy Peto (ex-MORGION),are scheduled to sequence and master their full-length debut, tentatively titled "Nightmares for the Sleepless", this...

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CANDLEMASS Are 'Confident' MESSIAH Will Sing On New Album

Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have posted a new message on their official web site regarding singer Messiah Marcolin's announcement that he was leaving the band. As previously reported, Marcolin contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET on Friday (April 28) to reveal that he has parted ways with the group and that...

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CANDLEMASS Bassist Says Singer MESSIAH Is Suffering From 'Severe Pre-Recording Psychosis'

CANDLEMASS bassist/songwriter Leif Edling has released a statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding singer Messiah Marcolin's announcement that he was leaving the band. As previously reported, Marcolin contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET earlier today (April 28) to reveal that he has parted ways with the Swedis...

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Exclusive: CANDLEMASS Frontman MESSIAH Quits Band

CANDLEMASS vocalist Messiah Marcolin contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET today (April 28) to reveal that he has left the Swedish doomsters and that it's 100 percent definite that he will not return. "We could not agree on how to do the new album," he said, but would not further elaborate on his sudden depart...

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PARAGON Set Working Title For New Album

German power metallers PARAGON have set "Gangland" as the working title of their new album, which they expect to begin recording later in the year. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Hammer of the Gods", "Souleaters", "Gangland", "Forgotten Prophecies", "Face of Death", "Halls of Doom" and...

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BYZANTINE Record EYEHATEGOD Cover For Upcoming Tribute Album

West Virginia's forward-thinking thrashers BYZANTINE recently entered the studio to record a cover song for an upcoming upcoming EYEHATEGOD tribute album. Lead guitarist Tony Rohrbough offers this update: "While most of you were chowing down on some Easter dinner last Sunday, we were in the studio....

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PLANET GEMINI To Collaborate With Original TROUBLE Drummer

Boston-based traditional doom metal band PLANET GEMINI have tapped original TROUBLE drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson to play on their upcoming CD, to be released via the band's web site and possibly pressed through their record label, WoeconstrictoR. PLANET GEMINI have been around for almost a decade and ha...

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Cash Is King

Stoner to the core, wielding riffs like the hammers of Thor and trading in soulful grooves big enough to drive semis through, Indianapolis's DEVIL TO PAY make a big leap forward on this, their second album. Not content to mimic the genre's conventions, the band wander a little beyond the standard fu...

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Revenge

Believe it or not, the rating above is a vast improvement for Danish third-stringers IRON FIRE. Their debut, "Thunderstorm" (released after the group won some Noise Records battle of the bands contest),was a laughably generic exercise in power metal with particularly anemic and reedy vocals from Ma...

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NORTHWEST DEATH FEST 2006: Complete Lineup Announced

Headliners of the third annual Northwest Death Fest 2006 — OBITUARY and SADUS — will be joined by 27 death metal bands on Sunday, May 28, at Fenix Underground in Seattle. California acts DEEDS OF FLESH and SEVERED SAVIOR will co-headline the second stage. The support bands, hailing from Seattle as w...

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INBORN SUFFERING Sign With SOUND RIOT RECORDS

French melodic/dark doom metal band INBORN SUFFERING have inked a deal with Portugal's Sound Riot Records. According to a press release, the band's music is "full of beauty, sadness and sorrow, where such tunes can to be compared to classic albums like ANATHEMA's 'The Silent Enigma' and MY DYING BRI...

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DRACONIAN Announce New Bassist

Swedish gothic doom metal band DRACONIAN have posted the following message on their official web site: "As previously announced, bassist Jesper Stolpe has decided to leave the band in order to prioritize his work and family life. Some time ago his wife gave birth to a little boy and DRACONIAN would...

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NOVEMBERS DOOM To Begin Recording New Album In June

NOVEMBERS DOOM are scheduled to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "The Pale Haunt Departure" on June 16. Once again, the production team will consist of Chris Djuricic for tracking and Dan Swanö to mix the final recording. Mastering will again be handled by James Murphy. In a statement about t...

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ABDULLAH Named 'Best Local Metal Band' By Cleveland's FREE TIMES

Cleveland doom rockers ABDULLAH have been honored as the "Best Local Metal Band" in the annual Free Times music awards for 2006. The Cleveland Free Times is the big weekly entertainment publication in Northeastern Ohio, along with long-standing rival Scene magazine, and past winners of this award ha...