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DIVINE HERESY Frontman Rehearsing For RAUNCHY Vocalist Gig (Video)

Video footage of DIVINE HERESY frontman Travis Neal rehearsing for his current gig as the stand-in vocalist for Danish modern metallers RAUNCHY can be viewed below. As previously reported, regular RAUNCHY vocalist Kasper Thomsen was forced to sit out the band's trek with SYBREED and THREAT SIGNAL "f...

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DIMMU BORGIR Frontman: 'We've Never Been A Pure Black Metal Band'

Allison Stewart of the Chicago Tribune recently conducted an interview with vocalist Shagrath (real name: Stian Tomt Thoresen) of Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Chicago Tribune: There's a review of your new album that says that DIMM...

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Former EMPEROR/ZYKLON Guitarist Discusses THE WRETCHED END Project In METAL ASSAULT Interview

"Ominous", the debut album from THE WRETCHED END — the new Norway-based band featuring guitarist Samoth (EMPEROR, ZYKLON) and bassist Cosmo (MINDGRINDER) alongside Swedish drummer Nils Fjellström (DARK FUNERAL, IN BATTLE, AEON) — was released on on October 25 through Samoth's own imprint label, Noct...

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Former EMPEROR/ZYKLON Guitarist Discusses THE WRETCHED END Project In New Interview

"Ominous", the debut album from THE WRETCHED END — the new Norway-based band featuring guitarist Samoth (EMPEROR, ZYKLON) and bassist Cosmo (MINDGRINDER) alongside Swedish drummer Nils Fjellström (DARK FUNERAL, IN BATTLE, AEON) — was released on on October 25 through Samoth's own imprint label, Noct...

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TRIPTYKON: 'Shatter' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Shatter", the new five-track EP from TRIPTYKON — the group formed by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior — sold around 500 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 90 on the Top New Artist Albums (H...

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DIVINE HERESY Singer To Join RAUNCHY For European Tour

Vocalist Kasper Thomsen will sit out RAUNCHY's upcoming European tour with SYBREED and THREAT SIGNAL "for family and personal reasons" and will be temporarily replaced by "good friend" Travis Neal from DIVINE HERESY. The trek is scheduled to kick off on November 13 in Bournemouth, U.K. "A Discord El...

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TRIPTYKON: Toronto Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of TRIPTYKON — the group formed by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior — performing on October 11, 2010 at the Wreckroom in Toronto, Ontario, Canada can be viewed below. TRIPTYKON followed its highly acclaimed debut album...

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TRIPTYKON: San Francisco Drum-Cam Footage Available

Sick Drummer Magazine has uploaded drum-cam footage of Norman Lonhard of TRIPTYKON performing the song "Goetia" during the band's October 23, 2010 concert at Slim's in San Francisco, California. Watch the clip below. TRIPTYKON followed its highly acclaimed debut album, "Eparistera Daimones", with th...

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TRIPTYKON Guitarist Interviewed By METAL ASSAULT (Video)

On October 24, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with guitarist Victor Bullok (a.k.a. V. Santura) of TRIPTYKON when the band played at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, California. You can now watch the chat below. TRIPTYKON followed its highly acclaimed debut album,...

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TRIPTYKON Guitarist Interviewed In Denver (Video)

"Superskum" (web site) conducted an interview with guitarist Victor Bullok (a.k.a. V. Santura) of TRIPTYKON when the band played in Denver, Colorado on October 19, 2010. You can now watch the chat below. TRIPTYKON will follow its highly acclaimed debut album, "Eparistera Daimones", with the release...

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THULCANDRA To Enter Studio In December

THULCANDRA — the reactivated German black/death metal band featuring members of OBSCURA, DARK FORTRESS and HELFAHRT — has issued the following update: "We are very proud to announce that we have almost completed the songwriting process for our upcoming release, which will be entitled 'Under A Frozen...

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TRIPTYKON: 'Shatter' Video Released

"Shatter", the new video from TRIPTYKON — the group formed by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior — can be viewed below. Based on a concept devised by Warrior and directed and filmed by Philipp Hirsch of Film-M in Leipzig, Germany in late Septemb...

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TRIPTYKON Mainman Checks In From The Road

Current TRIPTYKON and former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior has posted the following message on his official blog: "On tour again in North America... In April of 2008, when I departed CELTIC FROST and began to lay the foundation for TRIPTYKON, this...

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New RANDY RHOADS, MOTÖRHEAD Biographies To Arrive In The Spring

Joel McIver, the author of 16 books on rock and metal including the bestselling "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica", announced the release of two new books at his web site today. Both are set for publication in spring 2011. McIver writes: "'Crazy Train: The High Life And Tragic Death Of Ran...

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TRIPTYKON Mainman Interviewed By Swiss Church Publication REFORMED

TRIPTYKON/ex-CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Warrior was interviewed by the Reformiert (German word for "reformed"),the monthly German-language publication of the evangelical-reformed church of Switzerland and one of Switzerland's largest publications (with a circulation in excess of 719,000). Amo...