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The Ills of Modern Man

DESPISED ICON's "The Ills of Modern Man" is one devastatingly heavy album. The Montreal act follows the shape-shifting mix of hardcore and death metal of "The Healing Process" with an album that moves into more of a death metal direction to good effect, the result sounding like a band that is even m...

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ALL SHALL PERISH Birthday Lapdance; Video Available

Nuclear Blast recording artists ALL SHALL PERISH recently threw a huge party for their bassist Michael Tiner's 28th birthday. Video has surfaced from the event of Mike getting a very drunken lapdance then getting covered in ranch dressing by the rest of the band. Watch it at YouTube. ALL SHALL PERIS...

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DIAMOND HEAD Drummer Reports On New Album Recording Process

DIAMOND HEAD drummer Karl Wilcox, who is based in Los Angeles while the rest of the group resides in the U.K., has posted a report on the recording sessions for the band's new album, "What's in your Head?" An excerpt follows: "What started as riffs and ideas on one side of the globe has become ...

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ADASTRA: New Song Available For Download

Finnish metallers ADASTRA have made available for download a new track, entitled "Stood My Ground". Check it out on the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the group's debut album, "The Last Sunset", due on June 6 via Violent Journey Records. The CD includes "old" favorites and a bunch of previo...

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ENGINE OF PAIN Parts Ways With Singer, Seeks Replacement

ENGINE OF PAIN, the Dutch thrash act featuring former AFTER FOREVER (1995-2000) drummer Joep Beckers, has issued the following update: "We have some news that we want to share with you all. Nick Hameury [vocals] will leave ENGINE OF PAIN within a very short period of time. Of course we are very sad...

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ASTRAL DOORS: New Album 'Sounds Awesome'

Swedish metallers ASTRAL DOORS, who feature in their ranks LION'S SHARE vocalist Patrik Johansson, have issued the following update: "We are at the end of the mixing process [for the new ASTRAL DOORS album] and it sounds awesome. Peter Tägtgren [mixer; PAIN, HYPOCRISY] has made a great job so far so...

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S.I.N. Finishes Recording Third Album

German/Norwegian hard rockers S.I.N. (SOMEWHERE INTO NOWHERE) have finished recording their third album. "All tracks are laid down and in June we are going to enter House Of Audio Studios for the final mix and master," the group writes on its web site. "This album will be the first conceptional albu...

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PAIN Mainman: 'I Have Never Done Anything Which Was 100% Perfect'

Holland's Lords of Metal e-zine recently conducted an interview with PAIN/HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Lords of Metal: You said about [PAIN's last] album ["Dancing with the Dead"], "This was the first PAIN album I knew exactly what I wanted. I wanted more en...

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PAIN LINK Completes Work On New EP

Northern Kentucky thrash metallers PAIN LINK have just finished recording a new four-song video-enhanced EP, titled "Uncivil Servant". The band has scheduled a June 23 CD-release show at The Mad Hatter in Covington, Kentucky. The disc will also be available at CDBaby.com, at the band's web site, and...

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BLAKJAK Inks DEAL WITH CHAVIS RECORDS

New Jersey's "most dangerous band" BLAKJAK has inked a deal with Chavis Records for the release of "Pleasure in Pain". BLAKJAK is currently in Aarius Studios in Sayersville, NJ recording its debut with guitar virtuoso/producer Jack Frost (SEVEN WITCHES, BRONX CASKET COMPANY, SMELL THE GLOVE, FROST,...

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BLIND GUARDIAN, THERION, PAIN Perform In Moscow; Photos Available

Russia's Darkside e-zine has uploaded high-quality photos of PAIN, THERION and BLIND GUARDIAN's performances at the HammerSound Festival on May 20, 2007 in Moscow, Russia. Check them out at this location. The bands' setlists were as follows: PAIN: 01. Same Old Song 02. Zombie Slam 03. End Of The Lin...

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FLESHCRAWL Finishes Recording New Album

German death metallers FLESHCRAWL entered Toninfusion studios in Ulm, Germany last month to record their new album, entitled "Structures of Death". The band has since issued the following update: "The recording sessions for our new album, 'Structures of Death', are finished. Everything's done and pr...

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Italy's ALEPH And SOWN To Release New Albums In July

On July 6, Fuel Records will release the latest albums from two promising Italian metal bands: progressive metallers ALEPH with "In Tenebra" and the nu-metal outfit SOWN with "Downside". According to a press release, "In Tenebra" is ALEPH's debut album which was released on the Italian market exclus...

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JON OLIVA'S PAIN Auctioning Backdrop, Guitar Pedal

JON OLIVA'S PAIN, led by the SAVATAGE mastermind Jon Oliva, is parting ways with two items from its past tours. The first item, a massive 10' x 30' backdrop from the "'Tage Mahal" record was sold on eBay in a blazing eight minutes after the auction began for $900.00. The winning bidder, a die-hard f...

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FASTWAY Parts Ways With Singer JOHN 'HARV' HARBINSON

Original MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke's band FASTWAY has officially parted ways with its most recent singer, John "Harv" Harbinson (STORMZONE). Harbinson's statement on the matter reads as follows: "Most people familiar with me know that I'm never usually stuck for words, whether written or...