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MARYLAND DEATHFEST Photos Available

Return to the Pit has uploaded several hundred photos from this year's Maryland Deathfest, which was held May 22-24 at the Sonar in Baltimore, Maryland. Included in the batch are pictures from the following artists: May 22, 2009 (photos): ASPHYX (187 pics) CATTLE DECAPITATION (202 pics) CEPHALIC CAR...

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Death Magic Doom

Hopefully, not many people are still sitting around crying into their chainmail that portly diva Messiah Marcolin is out of CANDLEMASS and isn't coming back. And if they are? Their fucking loss. Texan Robert Lowe, of terminally unappreciated doomsters SOLITUDE AETURNUS, is now on his second full-len...

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CANDLEMASS, SAHG, ABSU, CYNIC Confirmed For Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival

CANDLEMASS, SAHG, ABSU and CYNIC are among the newly confirmed bands for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Tuesday, August 25 - Hole in the Sky: Incoming SAHG KVELERTAK DER...

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DRUDKH To Release 'Microcosmos' In July

Season of Mist's Underground Activists division has set a July 14 release date for the fifth album from Ukrainian folk/black metallers DRUDKH, entitled "Microcosmos". The track listing is as follows: 01. Days That Passed 02. Distant Cries Of Cranes 03. Decadence 04. Ars Poetica 05. Everything Unsaid...

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The Infection

CHIMAIRA is a band that's always played like they have something to prove. After an (at best) average debut, "The Impossibility Of Reason" roared in and earned them a spot amongst the powerhouses of the NWOAHM, while its self-titled follow-up was a monstrous display of a band that wasn't afraid to t...

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Evolution Through Revolution

Hard to believe it's been twelve years since BRUTAL TRUTH released the breakthrough "Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom". In retrospect though, it seems that absence can make the heart grind harder as "Evolution Through Revolution" is as chaotically creative as anything extreme metal has to offer. Never o...

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QUO VADIS: Video Footage From European Tour Posted Online

Canadian progressive tech-death metallers QUO VADIS have released a 10-minute videoblog (see below) to showcase their latest headlining European tour, the places they visited and their very dedicated fans. The footage includes live and backstage shots from Turkey, Romania, Croatia and France as well...

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ENSLAVED To Be Joined By DARKTHRONE, EMPEROR, DARKTHRONE Members At Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY

Norwegian masters of progressive/experimental metal ENSLAVED have been confirmed for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. Commented promoter Torgrim Øyre: "Wow, it's been 10 years already. Who would have though that when w...

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PENTAGRAM Confirmed For Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival

PENTAGRAM, the band led by the "Godfather of U.S. doom," Brooklyn-born Bobby Liebling, has been confirmed for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AURA NOIR NECROS CHRISTOS PE...

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ENTHRONED, URGEHAL, VALKYRJA Confirmed For Germany's FESTUNG OPEN AIR

ENTHRONED, URGEHAL and VALKYRJA have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Festung Open Air festival, set to take place May 30-31, 2009 in Bitterfeld, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AURA NOIR (N) ABSU (US) BLACK FLAME (I) BÖMBERS (N) DEAD TO THIS WORLD (N) DESTRÖYER...

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Depths

If there was ever a band to add credibility to the widely despised and often trendy subgenre of deathcore, that band is OCEANO. To be completely fair, the Chicago-based quartet is closer to an evolved and diverse take on modern death metal than they are to the throngs of faceless "breakdown-grind-gr...

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MINETHORN To Release Long-Awaited Debut

U.K. noise metallers MINETHORN, who feature in their ranks Brooke Johnson of THE AXIS OF PERDITION, will release their long-awaited debut album, "Junk Hive Noir", in late April via Code666 Records. Influenced by the likes of GODFLESH, MESHUGGAH, CANNIBAL CORPSE and VOID OF SILENCE, MINETHORN's CD co...

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TEAM CYBERGEIST: 'Justified' Studio Video Posted Online

TEAM CYBERGEIST — the solo/side project of Angel (a.k.a. Andrew Bartolotta),best known as the past/present drummer of such bands as DOPE, GENITORTURERS, PIG, CROSSBREED, SWITCHED, THE UNDEAD, and many others — has posted a video for the song "Justified". According to a press release, "It is a look...

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TAAKE, NECROS CHRISTOS Confirmed For Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival

TAAKE and NECROS CHRISTOS have been confirmed for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: TAAKE NECROS CHRISTOS VOIVOD AURA NOIR PORTRAIT For more information, visit www.holeinth...

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Frozen in the Moment: Live in Atlanta

This may be the first time I can determine whether a concert DVD actually captures the energy of the live performance. I was in attendance when REDEMPTION played their captivating nine-song set in Atlanta at ProgPower USA in 2007. Practically speaking, no DVD recording can ever truly mimic the exper...