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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist Issues Year-End Update

JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing has issued the following year-end update via his official web site, dubbed "K.K. Downing's Steel Mill": "I am writing to wish everyone happy holidays and seasons greetings, and not forgetting a happy new metal year! "2008 has been a fantastic metal year, as you kn...

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Reunited AT WAR Prepares To Enter Studio

Reunited Virginia thrash metal legends AT WAR will enter Pyramid Sound studios in Ithaca, New York on January 4, 2009 to start recording their first album in 20 years, entitled "Infidel". Engineering the album will be Alex Perialas, best known for his work during the golden age of thrash by engineer...

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MEGADETH Drummer Says '8 1/2 Tunes' Have Been Written For New Album

MEGADETH is in the final stages of the songwriting process for the band's new album, which is tentatively expected sometime next year via Roadrunner Records. The CD is once again being helmed by acclaimed British producer Andy "Undie" Sneap, who produced MEGADETH's last album, "United Abominations"...

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SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE SKY: Album Track Listing Revealed

Tampa, Florida-based grindcore act SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE SKY has finished recording its Nuclear Blast debut, "The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry", with legendary guitarist-turned-producer James Murphy (DEATH, TESTAMENT, OBITUARY) at the helm. A March 2009 release v...

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LAMB OF GOD Drummer Checks In From The Road

Drummer Chris Adler of Richmond, Virginia metallers LAMB OF GOD has issued the following update: "Here's a small year-end update from the road. "The shows [with METALLICA] are amazing and we are playing a little bit of new material every night. Things are going very well. We are all pretty happy to...

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HEAVEN AND HELL: More European Tour Dates Revealed

HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Ronnie James Dio (vocals),Tony Iommi (guitar),Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — has scheduled the following European tour dates: May 30 - Moscow, RUS @ B1 Maximum May 31 - Moscow, RUS @ B1 Maximum Jun. 02 - Helsinki, FIN @ Ic...

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MEGADETH Guitarist Is 'Excited' About New Material

MEGADETH is in the final stages of the songwriting process for the band's new album, which is tentatively expected sometime next year via Roadrunner Records. The CD is once again being helmed by acclaimed British producer Andy "Undie" Sneap, who produced MEGADETH's last album, "United Abominations"...

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Aggressive Dissension

"Aggressive Dissension" by the Twin-Cities' RED GEM OF HADES is the product of vocalist Pat "Flex" Young and guitarist Kyle Vraa who decided that the world needs some deathly thrash metal with classic heavy metal guitar solos. To that end, the duo has succeeded. As far as studio projects go, the deb...

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Slaves for Life

This one is a behemoth. "Slaves for Life" by Israel's AMASEFFER is a 77-minute progressive/orchestral metal/rock album about the plight of the Israeli people as told in the Old Testament. Part one of a planned trilogy, it is mind boggling to think that AMASEFFER has two whole albums left in them to...

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Your Drug of Choice

Here we have the (eighth? ninth? do we count that remix album?) full-length effort of muscled down, grown up thrash metal from these Swiss scene veterans (anyone remember POLTERGEIST, besides me and whoever empties the dumpsters at Century Media?). GURD may have zero profile here in the States, but...

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MEGADETH Drummer Issues Studio Update

MEGADETH is in the final stages of the songwriting process for the band's new album, which is tentatively expected sometime next year via Roadrunner Records. The CD is once again being helmed by acclaimed British producer Andy "Undie" Sneap, who produced MEGADETH's last album, "United Abominations"...

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HEAVEN AND HELL Completes Basic Tracks For New Album

HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Ronnie James Dio (vocals),Tony Iommi (guitar),Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — has finished laying down the basic tracks for its new CD for an early 2009 release via Rhino Records. "It has been a pleasurable experience writi...

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SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE SKY: Album Artwork Unveiled

Tampa, Florida-based grindcore act SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE SKY has finished recording its Nuclear Blast debut, "The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry", with legendary guitarist-turned-producer James Murphy (DEATH, TESTAMENT, OBITUARY) at the helm. A March 2009 release v...

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JORN Hard At Work On New Album

Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande — who performs under the name JORN — entered the studio in November to begin recording his new solo album, tentatively due in June 2009 via Frontiers Records. The follow-up to this year's "Lonely Are The Brave" CD — which entered the national chart in Norway...

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DEATH METAL ALLSTARS: Video Footage From Japan Available

Fan-filmed video footage of DEATH METAL ALLSTARS' November 30, 2008 concert at Doors in Hatsudai, Japan can be viewed below (clips uploaded by "Sioru03"). DEATH METAL ALLSTARS — which consists of members of OBITUARY, DEICIDE, EXHORDER, SADUS and DIMMU BORGIR — played five shows in Japan beginning on...