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ORDER OF ENNEAD: Video Interview Available

Sonic Excess recently conducted an interview with ORDER OF ENNEAD, the Florida extreme metal band featuring Steve Asheim (drums; DEICIDE),Scott Patrick (bass; RESURRECTION),Kevin Quirion (guitar, vocals; COUNCIL OF THE FALLEN) and John Li (guitar). Watch the 10-minute chat below. ORDER OF ENNEAD's...

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LINKIN PARK To Headline Japan's SUMMER SONIC 09 Festival

LINKIN PARK will headline Japan's Summer Sonic 09 festival, set to take place August 7-9 at Chiba Marine Stadium in Tokyo and Maishima in Osaka. It is the historic 10th installment of the annual festival. Tickets go on sale at all ticket locations, including Lawson, E-plus, and Pia, on Saturday, May...

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NEBULA: 'The Dagger' Live Video Posted Online

Video footage of Los Angeles rockers NEBULA performing the song "The Dagger" in November 2008 in Europe can be viewed below. "Heavy Psych", the latest EP from NEBULA, was expanded to include six tracks and was released initially in the U.S. through the band's own Salt Of The Earth Music. The track l...

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SACRIFICE: First 'The Ones I Condemn' Audio Teaser Available

A 34-second teaser for "The Ones I Condemn", the much-anticipated new album from reunited Canadian thrashers SACRIFICE, is available below. Tentatively due this spring via Brazil's Marquee Records, the CD was recorded at Rouge Valley Studio in Toronto, Ontario with engineer Darius Szczepaniak, who h...

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MASTODON Announces Digital Album Pre-Order Exclusively On iTunes Today

Atlanta-based hard rock behemoths MASTODON have announced an exclusive pre-order of "Crack The Skye", their seven-song strong, Brendan O'Brien-produced opus, which begins today, February 24, exclusively through iTunes. Those who pre-order the album digitally will also be able to immediately download...

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The Harvest Floor

To this day, I remained impressed and honestly somewhat intimidated by the apex of extreme that is CATTLE DECAPITATION's "Karma.Bloody.Karma", and slight doubts stirred as to whether or not the band could surpass said album, or simply repeat themselves with its follow up. After all, when a group str...

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ACTIVISION's TIM RILEY Talks 'Guitar Hero: Metallica'; Video Available

Tim Riley, vice president of music affairs at Activision, recently spoke to the Scandinavian gaming mag Gamereactor about the new importance of games as a platform for distribution and the new position it holds as catalyst for increased digital music sales in reference to the company's upcoming META...

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MARIONETTE Hard At Work On New Album

Gothenburg, Sweden-based metal sextet MARIONETTE has entered Studio PH with Pontus Hjelm (DEAD BY APRIL, ex-CIPHER SYSTEM) to begin recording the follow-up 2008's "Spite". Commented guitarist and backing vocalist Aron Parmerud: "Last week Anton [guitar] and I arrived at Studio PH in Gothenburg to be...

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HAMMERFALL Performs On Sweden's 'Popcircus'; Video Available

On Wednesday, February 18, Swedish metallers HAMMERFALL played at the Debaser Medis in Stockholm as part of a live broadcast of the SVT production "Popcirkus". Watch two songs from the performance below. HAMMERFALL's new album, "No Sacrifice, No Victory", was released in Europe this past Friday (Feb...

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SLASH, Wife To Attend LEEZA GIBBONS' 'Oscar Night At Mr. Chow'

It's Oscar weekend, and this year VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash and his wife Perla will attend Leeza Gibbons' "Oscar Night at Mr. Chow". The event is being held to honor those celebrities that strive to be "Ambassadors of Change" — who lead by example by supporting charities. In a...

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LONEWOLF Hard At Work On New Album

French heavy metal squad LONEWOLF has started pre-production for its brand new, fourth studio album. Some of the special guests that will take part in the recordings are Majk Moti (ex-RUNNING WILD) and Jan Bünning (ex-PARAGON). The as-yet-untitled CD will be recorded this summer, produced by Bart Ga...

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FINNTROLL Taking Time Off From Touring To Write New Material

Finnish folk metal band FINNTROLL has issued the following update: "You may have noticed that there aren't any shows booked for us so far, but this doesn't mean that we won't play at all this year. We just decided after the Heidenfest tour that we will have half a year off from playing and be ...

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THE CULT: New Tour Dates Announced

THE CULT has scheduled the following dates: May 01 - Memphis, TN @ Beale Street Music Festival Jul. 10 - Lockport, NY @ Ulrich City Center In other news, Vinyl 180 will release a remastered edition of THE CULT's "Love" album on March 9, 2009 on 180g vinyl with updated artwork. It will ...

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CENTURY Announces Lineup Changes, Plots Next Album

The Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based post-metal act CENTURY — whose 2008 Prosthetic debut, "Black Ocean", was named one of Revolver magazine's Top 20 albums of 2008 — were recently rejoined by original drummer Grant McFarland and bassist Ricky Armellino, the respective drummer and vocalist of fellow La...

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SONIC SYNDICATE: 'Powershift' Video Available

SONIC SYNDICATE video for the song "Powershift" can be viewed below. The clip is one of two videos (along with "Contradiction") that SONIC SYNDICATE recently shot with director Marius Böttcher of Quent Film. Check out photos from the video shoot at Metal-Hammer.de. Both songs come off the band's lat...