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A HILL TO DIE UPON Signs With BOMBWORKS RECORDS

Bombworks Records has announced the signing of A HILL TO DIE UPON. The band will releasing debut full-length album in June 2009. It will be recorded by Kevin Rendleman at Trash Rocket Studios in Peoria, Illinois and mixed by Eric Tordsson (CRIMSON MOONLIGHT) at Dark Chamber Studios. Hailing from Mon...

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SAXON, CANDLEBOX, GYPSY PISTOLEROS Confirmed For ROCK GONE WILD Festival

SAXON, GYPSY PISTOLEROS and CANDLEBOX have been confirmed for the inaugural Rock Gone Wild festival on August 20-23, 2009 in Algona, Iowa. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: CANDLEBOX DANGEROUS TOYS GREAT WHITE GYPSY PISTOLEROS HARDCORE SUPERSTAR HELIX JUNKYARD KIX LIZZY BORDEN PUDDL...

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EARTH CRISIS Guitarist Comments On Upcoming Album

Reunited hardcore legends EARTH CRISIS have set "To The Death" as the title of their new album, due March 2009 via Century Media Records. The self-produced CD was recorded at Castle Recording Studios in Utica, New York and is currently being mixed by Tue Madsen (HEAVEN SHALL BURN, DARK TRANQUILLITY,...

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TWISTED SISTER Alter Ego BENT BROTHER Schedules East Coast Dates

BENT BROTHER — affectionately known as "TWISTED SISTER's evil twin" (essentially a makeup-less version of the real thing) — has scheduled the following dates: Feb. 06 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ Feb. 27 - Crazy Donkey - Farmingdale, NY Shortly after the members of TWISTED SISTER performed w...

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HARDCORE SUPERSTAR: New Album Title Announced

Swedish sleaze rockers HARDCORE SUPERSTAR have set "Beg For It" as the title of their new album, due in June 2009. The CD is currently being recorded at IN FLAMES' studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. "Medicate Me", the latest video from HARDCORE SUPERSTAR, can be viewed below. HARDCORE SUPERSTAR earlier i...

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While You Were Sleeping…

Just when I'm feeling like I can't take any more of this propagating breed of new school death/grind/core metal youngsters THE PLASMARIFLE's "While You Were Sleeping…" comes along and leaves a mighty big impression on me. Though an overused term like deathcore might apply in this case, it seems more...

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Seizures in Barren Praise

With three releases in 2007 and the new 25-minute full-length, "Seizures in Barren Praise", this year, TRAP THEM is clearly a band overflowing with creative juices. The sound is still proudly based in the Sunlight sound and style of seminal Swedish death metal acts like ENTOMBED and DISMEMBER, the s...

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The Fathomless Mastery

Swedish "superstar" death metallers BLOODBATH have been the critical darlings of extreme metal for quite some time now, even more so since the release of the "Unblessing the Purity" EP and the "The Wacken Carnage" CD/DVD. At least some of that has to do with the now widely accepted role of OPETH's M...

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MUCKY PUP: 20th-Anniversary European Tour Planned

Reactivated New Jersey crossover/hardcore band MUCKY PUP will embark on a short European tour next summer to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. The trek will tentatively feature the same band lineup that recorded the "Now" album (1991) and will see the group performing songs from its first three r...

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THROWDOWN Signs With KOCH RECORDS

Orange County, California's hardcore/metal act THROWDOWN has inked deal with Koch Records. The band will begin recording "Deathless", its first album under this new deal, in early 2009. "Signing with Koch Records is a breath of fresh air for us," said THROWDOWN frontman Dave Peters. "Koch looks at t...

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CALLEJON Films 'Phantomschmerz' Video

German "riff masters" CALLEJON have finished filming a video for the song "Phantomschmerz" taken from the band's new album, "Zombieactionhauptquartier", which was released last month via Nuclear Blast Records. Commented singer Bastian Sobtzik: "We definitely wanted something special that matches the...

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AXL ROSE Breaks Silence On 'Chinese Democracy', Original GN'R Reunion, DR PEPPER And BRIAN MAY

Reclusive GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose broke his silence last night (Thursday, December 11) by answering fan questions on the message boards of two of the most popular GUNS N' ROSES fan sites on the Web — MyGNR.com and Here Today… Gone To Hell! BLABBERMOUTH.NET has collected some of the ...

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TERROR: New Video Interview With NICK JETT Available

Austrian heavy 'zine Stormbringer.at conducted an interview with drummer Nick Jett of the Los Angeles hardcore/metal band TERROR prior to the band's December 5, 2008 "Persistence Tour" concert in Vienna, Austria. Watch the 15-minute chat below. TERROR's third full-length album, "The Damned, The Sham...

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THROWDOWN Rumored To Have Split With Drummer

Orange County, California's hardcore/metal act THROWDOWN is rumored to have parted ways with drummer Ben Dussault. The band has yet to make an official announcement on the matter. HardTimes.ca recently conducted an interview with THROWDOWN vocalist Dave Peters. Watch the nine-minute chat below. THRO...

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TURMOIL Has A New Singer

Philadelphia hardcore/metal band TURMOIL has tapped Nate Johnson (THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, PREMONITIONS OF WAR) to replace longtime frontman Jon Gula, who left the group in September. Tracking for TURMOIL's first LP since 1999's "The Process Of" started earlier in the year at Skylight Studios i...