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Guitarist KRIS NORRIS Confirms He Has Left DARKEST HOUR

Guitarist Kris Norris has confirmed that he has left the Washington D.C. metal band DARKEST HOUR (as first reported by BLABBERMOUTH.NET yesterday). "Yes, it's not a rumor — I have left DARKEST HOUR," Norris said in a statement sent to BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "Well, I'm not in the band anymore; see it how...

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BEYOND POSSESSION: 1985 Demo Available For Download

The 1985 three-song demo cassette by Calgary punk-metal thrash pioneers BEYOND POSSESSION has been made available for download at the Bazillion Points metal demo blog. According to the blog post, "BEYOND POSSESSION from Calgary, Canada, have at least one molecule of a legacy, thanks to a legendary p...

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ALESTORM Rejoined By Drummer IAN WILSON

Scottish folk/power metal band ALESTORM has issued the following update: "After deciding that plumbing isn't all it's cracked up to be, Mr. Ian Wilson has decided to return to the ALESTORM crew to play the drums. We're totally happy to have him back, 'cos he's a badass guy. Dos! "Also, we've just fi...

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MASTODON: New Interview, Performance Footage Available

MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor and bassist/singer Troy Sanders recently down with Roxwel's "UnCut" to talk about the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival tour, the new record and how the band was formed. The band also performs "Circle of Cysquatch" and "Capillarian Crest" live at the Rockstar Energy Mayhe...

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SAXON Singer: 'We're Not Really Changing, We're Just Trying To Get Better'

Mick Burgess of Metal Express Radio recently conducted an interview with SAXON frontman Biff Byford. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Metal Express Radio: Certainly from SAXON's point of view you seem to be going through something of a renaissance. Your last album, "The Inner Sanctum", was un...

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Former HATESPHERE Frontman Discusses LAST MILE Project

Antenna magazine recently conducted an interview with former HATESPHERE frontman Jacob Bredahl about his new hardcore band LAST MILE. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Antenna: For those who haven't heard LAST MILE, how would you say LAST MILE differs from the thing you're doing with BARCODE?...

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ANGER AS ART Mainman Promises 'Heavier, Faster' New Album

Steve Gaines of the Los Angeles-based thrash metal band ANGER AS ART has issued the following update: "Looking at the calendar, exactly one year ago today we were finishing up a run through the Mountain time zone with headlining date in Salt Lake City. Little did we know that it would be Mars' [Marc...

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PRIMORDIAL Pulls Out Of Portugal's CAOS EMERGENTE Festival

Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL have cancelled their appearance at this year's Caos Emergente festival, set to take place September 12-14 in Recarei, Porto, Portugal. Commented vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill: "It is sad indeed to be writing the same blog twice in as many weeks but there is n...

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WHITE ZOMBIE Box Set Track Listing Revealed

Rob Zombie has revealed the track listing for the much-anticipated WHITE ZOMBIE box set, which is due for release before end of the year. It is as follows: 01. Gentleman Junkie 02. King Of Souls 03. Tales From the Scarecrowman 04. Cat's Eye Resurrection 05. Pig Heaven 06. Slaughter The Grey 07. Eigh...

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Report: A Church For Headbangers

Reuters reports: It may not sound like a traditional hymn but this wine cellar is also a church and these head-bangers are the congregation. The heavy metal fans belong to Pantokrator — a Colombian church in the suburbs of Bogota which has its own rock band. Cristian Gonzalez is its founder, pastor...

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MORTIFICATION: 'Live Humanitarian' DVD Due This Month

Australian Christian metallers MORTIFICATION will release their new double DVD, "Live Humanitarian", on September 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band's mainman Steve Rowe comments: "I did say a couple of months back that the DVD would be a digipack, but it will actually be a standard DVD release....

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ROB ZOMBIE Completes Work On WHITE ZOMBIE Box Set

Rob Zombie has completed work on the long-delayed WHITE ZOMBIE box set. In a posting on his MySpace page, he writes, "Well, I am now holding the finished newly master WHITE ZOMBIE box set in my hands. Yes, it is done! A long time coming but it is here. I'm not sure what the release ...

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GORELORD: New Album Pushed Back To Next Year

GORELORD, the one-man "deathgroove" project of Frediablo (NECOPHAGIA, GRIMFIST, HEMNUR),has had the release date of its new album, "Chapter IV - Hellbound" (Sworn Records),pushed back to February/March 2009. Frediablo said, "It sucks, yes, but on the positive side, I will now record a few extra tr...

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Wake the Sleeper

If memory serves, the last URIAH HEEP album I owned was 1982's "Abominog" and the last one I recall hearing was 1985's "Equator". So yes, it has been awhile. Mick Box and the boys certainly haven't waited for me to catch up and continued releasing albums, just like they've been doing since 1970. Tha...

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JUDAS PRIEST Bassist Discusses Illegal Music Downloading

Greece's Solid Rock recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST bassist Ian Hill. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. Solid Rock: Do you think that a double concept album is rather dangerous or risky during the days of downloading? Ian Hill: "Everything is a risk during the days of down...