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ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY Explains EYEHATEGOD Tribute Album Selection

ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY has issued the following update: "A while back we were asked to be part of an EYEHATEGOD tribute project. Of course we said yes. EYEHATEGOD were a big inspiration to ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY early on and we are honored to be a part of this thing. "When we recorded our track, 'Godson...

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SIN DEALER: New Album Recordings Postponed

SIN DEALER, the band featuring members of SEA OF GREEN, SONS OF OTIS, EDWIN and PLASMA BLAST, was unable to enter the studio earlier this month, as originally scheduled. However, they are confirmed to enter Escarpment Sound on January 12 to record their much-anticipated follow-up to 2004's "13". Gar...

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PAIN CONFESSOR To Enter Studio Tomorrow

Finnish metallers PAIN CONFESSOR has issued the following update: "Each album has had a song added within the last week before entering studio, 'Turmoil' had 'Just Names Remain', 'Fearrage' had 'DNA of a God'. This Monday we patched up our latest and last addition to the album's tracklist: 'The Harv...

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WINTERS BANE To Debut New Lineup In February

WINTERS BANE, the classic U.S. metal band from Akron, OH, will be debuting their new lineup with a hometown show on Saturday, February 3, 2007 at Crossroads. WINTERS BANE will be performing songs from their entire catalog, including "Heart of a Killer", "Girth", and last year's critically acclaimed...

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3 INCHES OF BLOOD Working On 'Darker, Tighter And More Dangerous' New Album

3 INCHES OF BLOOD, the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based metal sextet is back in the studio recording their second Roadrunner album set for a spring 2007 release. The still untitled album is the follow-up to 3 INCHES OF BLOOD's RR debut, "Advance and Vanquish". Drummer Joey Jordison of SLIPK...

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VREID Begins Recording New Album

Bassist Hváll of the Norwegian band VREID has issued the following update: "The second weekend of November we started the recordings of our third album. Steingrim spend four intense days of beating the hell out of his drum kit, and what a job he did. He has always been a great drummer, but on this ....

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Chapter Chaos Begins

It is pleasant surprise time again. I'm talking about "Chapter Chaos Begins" by Montreal thrash kings ANONYMUS. It is a crime that more folks outside of Canada are not aware of the knuckle-busting thrash produced by this monster act. The group has moved quite a few units in its homeland and for good...

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The Diabolic Procession

Right out of the starting gate, Chicago's BIBLE OF THE DEVIL parties like it's 1979, tossing out galloping moon-boot riffs like candy off a parade float and singing about ridiculous shit in the most earnest voice since Paul Stanley's. Like some demented bastard child of KISS, RIOT, PENTAGRAM and the...

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The Deep and Dreamless Sleep

Never been a big fan of these Boston trad-metal water-treaders, from their somewhat plodding and generic major label days to their more recent, hopeless and low-buck efforts. And I wasn't expecting to change my mind based on the "Xeroxed tree" motif of the cover of "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep", or...

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Threshold

Six albums in, and a darker wind seems to be blowing through the HAMMERFALL camp, ruffling the frilliest of shirts and injecting a little minor-chord pomposity into the band's helium odes to how much rocking, well, rocks. Don't get me wrong, the band isn't reinventing their sound, or even trying any...

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VINNY APPICE: New BLACK SABBATH Songs Are 'Very, Very Heavy, But A Little Bit More Modern'

Vinny Appice, legendary drummer from DIO/BLACK SABBATH, checked in with Hardrock Haven after returning from England and recording with Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler. The band, called HEAVEN AND HELL, is recording bonus tracks for the "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years" release is plannin...

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MASTER Added To DERANGED European Tour

Death metal legends MASTER have been added to the previously announced DERANGED European headlining tour, which is set to take place in May 2007. The lineup for the trek is now as follows: DERANGED, MASTER, RESURRECTED, DEMONICAL and EPICEDIUM. So far the following shows have been booked, with more...

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KAMELOT Guitarist Issues New Album Update

Guitarist Thomas Youngblood of the American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT has issued the following update: "I am just returning from another great week in Germany as we are laying down the finishing touches of the new album. I am dying to tell you the song ideas and title but I am sworn to sec...

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Guitarist JESPER STRÖMBLAD: 'I Have Not Quit IN FLAMES'

DIMENSION ZERO — the Swedish band featuring IN FLAMES guitarist Jesper Strömblad (on bass),ex-MARDUK vocalist Joakim "Jocke" Göthberg, LUCIFERION/DIABOLIQUE drummer Hasse Nilsson, and PATHOS guitarist Daniel Antonsson — has begun recording its third album, tentatively due in early 2007. We spent th...

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SOULFLY Drummer 'Looking Back At A Very Intense Year'

SOULFLY drummer Joe Nunez has issued the following update: "After our return from the Gigantour with MEGADETH, ARCH ENEMY, and CALIBAN in Australia, I took a deep breath and found myself looking back at a very intense year, 2006. SOULFLY had hit the globe with 'Dark Ages', and the touring was non-st...