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GENERAL SURGERY Parts Ways With Vocalist, Announces Replacement

Legendary Swedish grindcore merchants GENERAL SURGERY have issued the following update: "Once again, our resident alcoholic Scottish doctor has decided to take leave of the band. Due to 'administrative problems pertaining to morgue-related issues' (he's too busy getting intoxicated to be of any use)...

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KALMAH To Enter Studio In October

Finnish metallers KALMAH are currently writing material for their fifth studio album, tentatively due next spring. "Right now we have about seven songs ready and will enter studios in October to record the next swamp metal masterpiece. I guess the new material will represent heavier and even more ri...

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New TESLA Guitarist: 'It Was Just Like Joining A Local Band'

Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with new TESLA guitarist Dave Rude. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: How did you get this gig? Dave: I have my own band and we have a MySpace page. It has been up a couple of years. Frank actually found ...

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AYREON: First Guest Singer For New Album Revealed

AYREON, the brainchild of Dutch guitarist/composer Arjen Lucassen, has revealed the identity of the first singer who will guest on the band's upcoming album, tentatively due late 2007/early 2008: Magali Luyten (VIRUS IV, BEAUTIFUL SIN). Twelve vocalists have been confirmed so far, with a number of s...

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AYREON: First Vocals For New Album Recorde; Audio Sample Available

AYREON mastermind Arjen Lucassen's webmaster has issued the following update: "The very first vocalist for the seventh AYREON album was recorded in the Electric Castle Studio last week. We're not revealing the name of the vocalist just yet, but you can listen to a sample of the voice (without instru...

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Horna/Behexen

At the risk of including overly used terms like "sick" and "necro" to describe this split release, there are honestly no better terms to use to describe this Finnish black metal behemoth. Fret not though, I'm saving "kvlt" to use in the next review of a worthy black metal release. But seriously folk...

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AYREON to Enter Studio In June

AYREON mastermind Arjen Lucassen's official web site has been updated with the following message: "Arjen just finished recording the demos for his seventh AYREON album. "As previously reported, Arjen went through a difficult time last winter. Since then he's been doing a lot better. He discovered th...

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DEADSOUL TRIBE Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

DEADSOUL TRIBE — the group led by former PSYCHOTIC WALTZ frontman Buddy Lackey (a.k.a. Devon Graves) — has been confirmed for the Metalcamp 2007 festival, set to take place July 16-21, 2007 in Tolmin, Slovenia. More than 80 bands will perform on two stages over the course of five days of live music....

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GWAR Frontman Comments On VIRGINIA TECH Massacre

MTV's Headbanger's Blog has posted the first "Countdown to Sounds of the Underground" guest blog entry, featuring GWAR's "psychotic" frontman Oderus Urungus. An excerpt follows: "As the tour drew to a close, the Virginia Tech shootings took place. In Europe, there was a sneering awareness of the eve...

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CEREMONIAL CASTINGS Working On Concept Album Based On Salem Witch Trials

American "deathphonic black metal" warriors CEREMONIAL CASTINGS have issued the following update: "As some may already know, CEREMONIAL CASTINGS has been talking for some time about releasing a concept album based of the Salem Witch Trials. Especially being that two of the three members are direct d...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'Survival Is For Those Who Let Fear Run Their Lives'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "We are all on the same raft. 500 Direct TV channels and an unlimited choice of purchase options doesn't change that. The ocean that surrounds us all ain't one we can swim, it's vast, cold and merciless. We live...

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MACHINE HEAD's DEMMEL Wants To Make 'Timeless Songs' People Will Listen To In 20 Years

Michelle LaRose of Garage Radio magazine recently conducted an interview with MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel. A couple of excerpts follow: Garage Radio: Can you tell us a little bit about your brand new album "The Blackening" that just came out this week? Demmel: Yeah. "The Blackening", eight so...

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GENE SIMMONS And IDW PUBLISHING Announce Joint Publishing Venture

IDW Publishing has announced that it has partnered with rock legend Gene Simmons of KISS fame to create the Simmons Comics Group, an imprint within IDW's stable of comics. Simmons himself will be writing some of the comics, and has fully created and fleshed out a number of new titles that will be ap...

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You are the Lamb

Canada's Goodfellow Records has consistently unearthed the kind of bands that scrape, crawl, and destroy in fine sludge and hardcore fashion. Add Seattle's IAMTHETHORN to that list. Debut EP "You Are the Lamb" is 23 minutes of EYEHATEGOD-style angry sludge and doom, in this case with the boys pissed...

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Pain is the Game

ALLHELLUJA is a band that you need to know about. The late 2006 follow-up to 2005's "Inferno Museum" debut is an explosion of dirty, rock 'n' roll infused metal and hot-shit grooves called "Pain is the Game". Vocalist Jacob Bredahl (HATESPHERE),bassist Roberto Gelli, drummer/co-founder Stefano Long...