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EARTHEN GRAVE Wins '2010 Best New Entertainer' At CHICAGO MUSIC AWARDS

Chicago-based metal band EARTHEN GRAVE was honored with the "2010 Best New Entertainer" award at the 30th anniversary of the Chicago Music Awards (CMA) on Sunday, January 16 at Excalibur in Chicago, marking the first time a metal group has won in that category. EARTHEN GRAVE's electric flying-V viol...

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ULCER Signs With PULVERISED RECORDS

Polish death metallers ULCER have inked a deal with Pulverised Records. The band's sophomore album, "Grant Us Death", will be released later in the year. Formed in just 2006, ULCER consists of present and past members of BLAZE OF PERDITION, SQUASHED BOWELS, DEIVOS and ABUSIVENESS. The band recorded...

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AUTOPSY To Enter Studio Next Month

Resurrected U.S. gore legends AUTOPSY will enter Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in early February with producer Adam Munoz to begin recording their new album, "Macabre Eternal", for a spring release via Peaceville Records. We've got more [material] written than we need," drummer/vocalist Ch...

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PESTILENCE: Moscow Video Podcast Available, South American Tour Announced

The first-ever video podcast from resurrected late '80s/early '90s death metallers PESTILENCE can be viewed below. The seven-minute clip features behind-the-scenes footage from the band's November 20, 2010 concert at club Tochka in Moscow, Russia. In other news, PESTILENCE will embark on its first-e...

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HATE ETERNAL, OBSCURA, BENEATH THE MASSACRE Confirmed For Holland's NEUROTIC DEATHFEST

ANTROPOMORPHIA, BEHEADED, BENEATH THE MASSACRE, HATE ETERNAL, MAGRUDERGRIND, OBSCURA and VULVECTOMY have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Neurotic Deathfest, set to take place April 29-30, 2011 at 013 and MIDI theatre in Tilburg, Holland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (i...

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KLONE: 'Give Up The Rest' Video Released

"Give Up The Rest", the new video from French metallers KLONE, can be viewed below. The song comes off the group's latest album, "Black Days", which was released on April 19 in France and May 17 in the rest of Europe and Australia via Season of Mist. The track listing is as follows: 01. Rite ...

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EARTHEN GRAVE Nominated For CHICAGO MUSIC AWARD

Chicago-based metal band EARTHEN GRAVE has been nominated in the "Best New Entertainer" category at the 30th-anniversary edition of the Chicago Music Awards (CMA) — the first time a metal band has been nominated in the category. The CMAs honor and feature the best of Chicago entertainers in pop, cla...

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ALICE COOPER Band Members Comment On ROCK HALL Induction News

With its upcoming induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, ALICE COOPER is acknowledged as one of the most influential bands in rock history. At inception forty years ago, the group shocked the world so fundamentally that it seems to have taken a preternaturally long time for their incredible...

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AT THE GATES Confirmed For Holland's NEUROTIC DEATHFEST

AT THE GATES, SARCOLYTIC, SEPTYCAL GORGE and LOGIC OF DENIAL have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Neurotic Deathfest, set to take place April 29-30, 2011 at 013 and MIDI theatre in Tilburg, Holland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AT THE GATES (SE...

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PARADISE LOST Forced To Pull Out Of Macedonia's TAKSIRAT FESTIVAL

Due to "extreme weather conditions," British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST have been forced to cancel their appearance at the Taksirat Festival in Skopje, Macedonia on Saturday, December 4. Commented singer Nick Holmes and guitarist Greg Mackintosh: "To all our Macedonian fans who traveled to...

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MACABRE: New Song Available For Streaming

Celebrarating their 25th anniversary of all original members, Chicago's murder metal pioneers MACABRE unleash their brand new studio album, "Grim Scary Tales", in Europe on January 31, 2011 via Hammerheart Records and in North America on February 8, 2011 through Willowtip Records. The CD explores th...

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DEATH ANGEL Director, Bandmembers Discuss Making Of 'Truce' Video

"Truce", the new video from San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles with director Robert Sexton (SOULFLY, THE DWARVES, MONDO GENERATOR, AMEN). Sexton previously worked with DEATH ANGEL on the clip for the track "Dethroned" off the the ban...

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NIGHTRAGE: 'Vengeance Descending' 2CD Release Detailed

"Swedish metal at its best!" and "The first legitimate successor of AT THE GATES' milestone 'Slaughter Of The Soul'" is what Germany's Metal Hammer magazine wrote back in the early to mid-2000s when NIGHTRAGE released their much-lauded albums "Sweet Vengeance" (2003) and "Descent Into Chaos" (2005)...

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[Sic]nesses

From dream sequences in the head of a couple of guys from Des Moines, Iowa to the reality of performing in front of 80,000 people at England's Download festival as the headliner, SLIPKNOT came, saw, conquered, and crushed into dust. Image oversaturation and the hollow claims of illegitimacy from the...

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Doomsday King

Did you really think they'd stay away for good? THE CROWN's decision to split up after 2003's "Possessed 13" due to fatigue with the trials and tribulations that come with life as a touring extreme metal band left fans heartbroken, to say the least. Facing facts, for as revered as THE CROWN was by c...