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Exclusive Report: KREATOR Thrashing Indonesia

Special thanks to Wendi Putranto of Rolling Stone magazine (Jakarta, Indonesia) for the following report: Legendary thrash metal warriors from Germany KREATOR made their live debut in the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, Saturday night (Sept. 24). The show, which was covered by the national media...

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ENSIFERUM Part Ways With Drummer, Announce Replacement

Finnish folk-influenced melodic death metal band ENSIFERUM, now featuring in its ranks NORTHER frontman Petri Lindroos, have officially parted ways with drummer Oliver Fokin. "As some of you may have already noticed, there's been a new man behind the drums at the live concerts during the past six mo...

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WINDS Mastermind Offers Update On New Album

WINDS keyboardist/mastermind Andy Winter has issued an update on the direction of the group's new record, which is currently in the making. The next WINDS album is due for completion and release sometime in 2006. Andy's entire message reads as follows: "Considering that we have not really spoken muc...

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SLAYER Fans Invited To Name Tribute Album

SLAYER fans wishing to have a hand in naming Mediaskare Records' upcoming tribute album dedicated to the Los Angeles thrashers are encouraged to send their album title suggestions via a special MySpace.com page. In addition, video clips of NEW DEAD RADIO recording "South of Heaven" and THE BURNING R...

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Drummer NIGEL GLOCKLER Comments On His Return To SAXON

Drummer Nigel Glockler has commented on his return to SAXON following the departure of Jörg Michael, who has since resumed touring full-time with STRATOVARIUS. Said Glockler: "I'd been mulling it over for a few months. We knew Jörg was leaving in August. I wanted to make sure that it was what I real...

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VANISHING POINT: Live Dates Announced

Australian progressive metal band VANISHING POINT have posted the following update on their official web site: "VANISHING POINT will be performing more shows in October! On the 29th of October at The Manning Bar in Sydney they are co-headlining with DUNGEON for the Under Raven Skies show. This will...

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TEXTURES To Film DVD Documentary; 'Ostensibly Impregnable' Video Posted Online

Dutch progressive metallers TEXTURES will be filming their performance tonight (Sept. 17) at W2 in Den Bosch, Holland for a short DVD documentary, to be released in conjunction with their new studio album, tentatively due next spring. In other news, TEXTURES were recently invited by multimedia compa...

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Reactivated Black Metallers SHINING To Hit The Road, Record New Album

Reactivated Swedish black metallers SHINING have returned! SHINING are now officially allied with the highly repected French record label Osmose Productions, who recently reissued SHINING's first two albums on digipack with bonus tracks. SHINING leader Kvarforth last year announced the death of the...

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The Middle of Nowhere

It's not easy leaving a band like SAVATAGE after an eight-year run, but former vocalist Zachary Stevens didn't waste any time forming another first-rate melodic metal project with CIRCLE II CIRCLE. The 2003 debut album, "Watching in Silence", was made of AOR-style melodies, power metal shades, and p...

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Apocalypsis Damnare

Christ, this is about as uplifting as a post-genocide funeral procession. I mean there's doom and then there is RIGOR SARDONICOUS. "Apocalypsis Damnare" is a re-recording of an album that was originally released in 1999. Original members Joseph J. Fogarazzo and Glenn Hampton got together with former...

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HANOI ROCKS: Forging Ahead Into The Unknown

HANOI ROCKS frontman Michael Monroe has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Yes, it's me, myself and I, breaking the silence once again… well, as Angie McCoy so kindly informed you — yes, I do have the beastly machine! And I'm not afraid to use it. However, that doesn't me...

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KURT COBAIN's Daughter Interviewed By TEEN VOGUE

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Courtney Love and late NIRVANA star Kurt Cobain, interviewed in the upcoming issue of Teen Vogue. The New York Daily News has published a few excerpts for the piece, including the 13-year-old's thoughts on her legacy as the daughter of two of the 90s biggest rock sta...

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BURN IN SILENCE Sign With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Boston metal titans BURN IN SILENCE have inked a deal with Prosthetic Records. Drawing on influences raging from death metal to prog metal, BURN IN SILENCE have been creating quite a stir in the Northeast supporting everyone from SHADOWS FALL and THE HAUNTED to MORBID ANGEL and DEICIDE. The band wil...

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Requiem

The self-described "blackout grind" on "Requiem" from Seattle's SKARP works on many levels. As a soundtrack to the album's suicide theme, the feeling produced is one of anxiety and hopelessness, though not in a cold, gothic kind of way. Instead, vocalist Renae Louise Betts uses gritty screams and sc...

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ENSIFERUM To Record New Album Next Summer

Finnish folk-influenced melodic death metal band ENSIFERUM, now featuring in its ranks NORTHER frontman Petri Lindroos, will enter Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki in November to record a mini-CD containing one new track, new studio recordings of several old demo songs, and a couple of traditional Fin...