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The Call of the Wretched Sea

The best doom creates an indefinable feeling of dread and a sinking feeling like no other. It may be shrouded in epic atmosphere or dressed up with lighter instrumentation, but the conclusion is a foregone one: man's ultimate demise. And if it is funeral doom akin to the style played by Germany's AH...

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PROCESS OF GUILT Signs With MAJOR LABEL INDUSTRIES

Portuguese post-doom act PROCESS OF GUILT has signed a deal with Major Label Industries. The band has been garnering rave reviews with their "Demising Grace" and "Portraits of Regret" demos, and will now unleash its debut album, named "Renounce", on November 6. "Renounce" was recorded in Quinta Dime...

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EVANESCENCE Singer On Former Guitarist BEN MOODY: 'We're Not Friends, We Do Not Talk'

Theresa Tayler of Dose.ca recently conducted an interview EVANESCENCE frontwoman Amy Lee. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On parting ways with songwriter/guitarist Ben Moody in 2003 while on tour in Europe: "Ben was becoming very unhappy and going through personal things that I don't think had...

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TRISTANIA Schedules CD-Release Party

Norwegian symphonic metal band TRISTANIA has scheduled a release party for its new album, "Illumination", on November 3 at Folken in Stavanger, Norway. Tickets and more details should be available at www.folken.no soon. "Illumination" was recorded at Woodhouse Studios in Hagen, Germany with producer...

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JOB FOR A COWBOY Parts Ways With Drummer, Seeks Replacement

Arizona-based metal quintet JOB FOR A COWBOY has parted ways with drummer Elliott Sellers. "It was a mutual agreement, that ended on a good note," the band writes in a statement. "JOB FOR A COWBOY is in search of a permanent drummer that can keep up with a heavy touring schedule. For all those who ....

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TODAY IS THE DAY's STEVE AUSTIN Announces More SUPERNOVA Details

Groundbreaking musician and renowned producer Steve Austin has announced the launch of his own label, SuperNova Records. Hailed since the mid-'90s as an icon of extreme individuality, Austin now takes one further step toward total independence with the launch of his own label. As a musician, Austin...

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DEICIDE Booted Out Of Their Industrial-Zone Practice Space

According to an Earache Records press release, Floridian death metal legends DEICIDE were practicing in their industrially zoned practice space, surrounded by sonically booming concrete factories, when they were surprisingly bombarded by Florida's Pasco County Sheriff's department and asked to leave...

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MORGANA LEFAY Tracking Vocals For New Album

Swedish "heavy doom progressive" metallers MORGANA LEFAY recently entered Soundcreation studio in Bollnäs, Sweden to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Grand Materia", tentatively due in late 2006/early 2007 via Black Mark Records. According to a posting on the band's web site, "Some vocals go...

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SWALLOW THE SUN: Recording Update

Finnish melodic death/doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN are putting the finishing touches on the recordings for their as-yet-untitled third album at Seawolf Studios in Helsinki and are scheduled to begin mixing the effort next Thursday. Fans can read about the progress of the recordings in Finnish at t...

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THE PROPHECY Completes Work On Long-Awaited New Album

Yorkshire doom-death metallers THE PROPHECY have issued the following update: "After a long hard graft recording it (cascades has 32 different channels!!!!!) over the last two and a half years and some gruelling late 3am mixing sessions THE PROPHECY's new studio album, 'Revelations', has finally bee...

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PARAGON: Recording Update

Bassist Jan Bünning of the German power metallers PARAGON has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Drums, rhythm guitars and (almost) all bass tracks [for the new PARAGON album] are done by now. I still have to do two more cover versions and two of ouf our songs on Wednesda...

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WOLFMOTHER: Three U.S. Dates Cancelled Or Postponed

WOLFMOTHER has pulled the plug on the last six days of their current world tour due to the premature arrival of a baby boy to the band's bassplayer/keyboardist, Chris Ross. Chris received the surprising news of the impending birth yesterday (Sept. 24). Not surprisingly he immediately headed for the...

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DEINONYCHUS: 'You Will Get A Pure Black/Doom Metal Album'

Dutch doomsters DEINONYCHUS have started recording their seventh full-length album for a tentative early 2007 release via Italy's My Kingdom Music. Entitled"Morphium Replacement", the follow-up to 2004's "Insomnia" is being tracked at The Outer Sound Studios under the supervision of Giuseppe Orlando...

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It's Official: CYNIC To Reunite For European Festival Appearances, Possible U.S. Dates

Long-defunct Florida-based band CYNIC, whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, has confirmed plans to embark a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of f...

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Dark Songs of the Prairie

Lonesome winds howl, animals shiver in dank burrows, dust chokes dry river beds… the world of ACROSS TUNDRAS is a bleak, desolate prairie, inhospitable to travelers and as grim in its own way as any snow-choked Scandinavian forest. Somewhere between doom, sludge, the art-ravaged psych crunge of YOB,...