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SLAYER's KERRY KING Demonstrates New MARSHALL Amp At NAMM; Video Available

Video footage of SLAYER's Kerry King demonstrating the new Marshall MG range of amplifiers at a company breakfast press conference (8:30 a.m.!) at the 2009 winter NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show on January 15, 2009 in Anaheim, California can be viewed below. 2009 will see the arr...

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RAZOR OF OCCAM: New Album Details Revealed

RAZOR OF OCCAM, the London, England-based black/thrash metal band featuring members of DESTRÖYER 666 and ADORIOR, will release its third full-length album, "Homage To Martyrs", on March 13 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and March 16 in the rest of Europe through Metal Blade Records. The...

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THE 69 EYES To Work With SLAYER/MONSTER MAGNET Producer

Finnish goth metallers THE 69 EYES have issued the following update: "THE 69 EYES will start recording their next, ninth studio album with the Grammy-awarded producer Matt Hyde. He is mostly known from his works with SLAYER, MONSTER MAGNET and FU MANCHU. The recording process will take place both in...

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UNANIMATED: New Album Title Announced

UNANIMATED, the reunited Swedish melodic death metal band featuring former members of ENTOMBED and DISMEMBER, has set "In The Light (The Covenant Of Death)" as the title of its new album, due later in the year via Regain Records. The CD will be mixed by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studios (WATAIN, F...

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MASTODON's NAMM Schedule

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON will attend this year's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants),which is being held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Their schedule is as follows: Saturday, January 17: 12:00 noon - MASTODON band signing at Shure 1:...

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Author Discusses 'The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists' Book

Robert Gray of Ultimate-Guitar.com conducted an interview with British journalist/author Joel McIver. Topics of discussion included McIver's new book, "The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists", DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton's foreword, the possibility of a DEICIDE autobiography, and plans to release a biog...

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MASTODON: Free 'Crack The Skye' T-Shirt Offer

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON are hooking up their hardcore fans with a *free* "Crack The Skye" t-shirt ahead of their new album's release. The limited t-shirt is available only from www.mastodontshirtoffer.com using a special code. The first 50 BLABBERMOUTH.NET users who enter the code "bl...

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DEATHRASH Reveals Setlist For First Show In 22 Years

Reunited New Jersey thrashers DEATHRASH will play their first show in 22 years at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey on Friday, January 16. The band says, "The last DEATHRASH show was March 27, 1987 so this will be an historic event. We will be playing all the DEATHRASH classics as well as new songs fr...

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SLAYER Frontman's Brother To Play Bass For MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE

Johnny Araya, brother of SLAYER's Tom Araya and a member of the Canadian metal band THINE EYES BLEED, will step in for bassist LynZ during MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE's Kerrang! tour as well as MSI's subsequent European run. MSI will be directly supported on the trek by The End Records labelmates DIR E...

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FORBIDDEN: 'We Are Extremely Excited About STEVE SMYTH Joining Us For Our Newest Chapter'

As BLABBERMOUTH.NET first reported on January 9, reactivated San Francisco Bay Area thrashers FORBIDDEN have now officially confirmed that they have parted ways with guitarist Glen Alvelais and have replaced him with Steve Smyth (TESTAMENT, NEVERMORE). Commented the group in a statement: "Throughout...

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DEVASTATOR 'Burns The Beast' On New CD

Northern California's DEVASTATOR has released its new CD, "Burn the Beast". Produced by Juan Urteaga (TESTAMENT, MACHINE HEAD, SADUS) at Trident Sound, the five-song EP marks the extremely active live band's most representative and best-sounding disc to date as previous efforts just haven't lived up...

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VINNIE PAUL Auctioning His First-Ever Cell Phone

HELLYEAH/ex-PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott is auctioning his first cell phone from the early '90s — a birthday gift from his brother, late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist Dimebag — via eBay. The auction, which ends on January 19, was started off at $1 with no reserve but at press time, it has gener...

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SARCASTIC: Video Footage, Photos From ROCKSTAD Festival Available

Reactivated Swedish thrash metallers SARCASTIC returned to the live stage on December 20, 2008 when they supported SABATON as part of the Rockstad festival in Uddevalla, Sweden. This was SARCASTIC's first performance since 2004 and its first concert with returning guitarist Erik "Beast" Halvorsen (e...

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MELIAH RAGE: New Album Title Revealed

Veteran Massachusetts metallers MELIAH RAGE have set "Masquerade" as the title of their new album, due later in the year via Screaming Ferret/Metro City Records. The CD was recorded at The Outpost in Stoughton, Massachusetts and was mastered at the end of November by producer Rich Spillberg (WARGASM...

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SLAYER: NAMM Signing Sessions Announced

SLAYER members will participate in the following signing sessions at this year's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which is being held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California: * Tom Araya: Saturday, January 17: 1-2:30pm - ESP signing * Kerry King: Thu...