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Come What(ever) May

Before we got all mixed up with eighteen million different subgenres of metal, there was just one single genre: heavy metal (or hard rock),a musical space marked by a significantly harder edge than the mothership of rock and roll but also a field wide open to many different sounds and styles. Thus...

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Born In Hell

From THE DARKNESS to ANDREW W.K. to MANITOBA'S WILD KINGDOM and all the way back to SPINAL TAP, the question has been raised — how deliberately flat-out corny and ironic can a band be and still rock? Swaggering U.K. cock-rockers VIKING SKULL (yeah, I know, I thought it was gonna be power metal too)...

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New OZZY OSBOURNE Album Could Be Out In February

Ozzy Osbourne has told Reuters that he is working on two new albums and the first one could be ready by February. "I don't want to release an album if it's not a great album," Ozzy said. "I primarily write an album for myself, and if the world likes it, great," he said. ...

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GENE SIMMONS' 'Rock School' Students To Release Single Next Week

THE UPRAW, the all-girl band created in the wake of Gene Simmons' Channel 4 reality show "Rock School", are set to release their first single on Broeknrule Records [sic]. The single, "Make My Way", is released on August 1, available on all major download platforms, including iTunes and Napster. The...

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REBELANGELS Changes Name To ELIZIUM

Former MARDUK members Legion (a.k.a. Erik Hagsted vocals) and B.War (a.k.a. Roger "Bogge" Svensson bass) have changed the name of their new project to ELIZIUM from the previously announced REBELANGELS. According to reports, the name change was implemented because "the old name doesn't really go well...

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ZAKK WYLDE 'Song Contest' Launched

Broadjam.com and Electro-Voice are currently running the "Zakk Wylde Song Contest" for independent musicians at this location. Synopsis: He's the right-hand man to the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy. He's one of the most recognizable guitarists on the planet. He's part of two hugely successful bands and a...

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Review: OZZY OSBOURNE Doesn't Live Up To His Legend At OZZFEST

Jon M. Gilbertson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviewed this year's Ozzfest when it hit the the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin on Saturday (July 22). An excerpt from his review follows: The traveling heavy-metal mega-show known as Ozzfest has lasted for 11 years thus far, a...

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EVEMASTER: No New Music Until The Fall Of 2007

Guitarist/vocalist Tomi Mykkänen of the Finnish "dark metal" band EVEMASTER has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "We were supposed to enter the studio to record our third album in May but due to problems with studio we had to postpone the recording session. Jaska [Raati...

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WOLFMOTHER Drummer Says Their '70s Rock Sound Is 'Not Intentional'

Popworld.com recently conducted an interview with drummer Myles Heskett of the Australian trio WOLFMOTHER. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow: Popworld.com: Have you always had the sound you have now? Myles: "No. It's really funny 'cos everyone always compares us to LED ZEPPELIN and BLAC...

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TAAKE To Release Split Mini-LP With GIGANTOMACHY

According to Imperiumi.net, Norwegian black metal band TAAKE will release a split 10" gatefold mini-LP with GIGANTOMACHY (the band featuring TAAKE guitarist C. Corax) via Agonia. The release will be sent to the pressing plant by the end of July. TAAKE's side of the mini-LP includes a DESTRUCTION cov...

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AFTER FOREVER Slam Former Record Label Over 'One-Sided' Collaboration

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal outfit AFTER FOREVER have commented on the recent release of a two-disc compilation album by their former record label, Transmission Records, containing the best songs from the band's first ten years of existence, plus previously unreleased material, non-album tr...

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MISFITS Issue Post-European Tour Update

MISFITS' official web site has been updated with the following message: The MISFITS just returned from a brief tour of Europe performing at festivals and more running throughout Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Barcelona Spain and the U.K. Unfortunately, the band was met with an unexpected and unavo...

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AFTER FOREVER: Dutch TV Interview Posted Online

A four-minute video interview with AFTER FOREVER frontwoman Floor Jansen, conducted last month by the Dutch network L1, has been posted online at this location (Windows Media) (NOTE: The interview is in Dutch.) AFTER FOREVER's former record label, Transmission Records, recently released a two-disc c...

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NECROPHOBIC Confirmed For Germany's HELLFLAME FESTIVAL

Swedish death metallers NECROPHOBIC have been confirmed for the Hellflame Festival, set to take place September 2 in Osnabrück, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are UNLEASHED, GOREFEST, MARDUK and 1349, among others. As previously reported, Candlelight Records has set an August 22 North American re...

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Embittered Darkness/Isle De Morts

They don't get much more authentic than this nutter. STRIBORG's sole member, Sin Nanna (wasn't that one of OL' DIRTY BASTARD's aliases when he flipped his lid?),apparently lives in Tasmania, out in the forest, without a computer or telephone, and refuses to do interviews or allow fan contact. How m...