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KEEP OF KALESSIN: New Album Title Revealed; Video Teaser Available

Norwegian extreme metal veterans KEEP OF KALESSIN have set "Reptilian" as the title of their new album, due in early 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records. A video teaser for the CD can be viewed below. KEEP OF KALESSIN is competing in the national Eurovision Song Contest called "Melodi Grand Prix". The ba...

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Black Metal Documentary Makers To Guest On 'The ParaFactor'

Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, the filmmakes behind "Until The Light Takes Us" — a feature-length documentary about black metal — will guest on "The ParaFactor" on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. EST. "The ParaFactor" can be heard every Thursday night between 9:00 p.m. and midnight EST at www...

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SYSTEM DIVIDE Begins Recording Full-Length Debut

SYSTEM DIVIDE, the extreme modern metal act featuring Sven De Caluwé (ABORTED) and Miri Milman (ex-DISTORTED) on vocals, Cole Martinez (ex-YEARS OF FIRE, ANTENORA) and Joseph Spiller (ex-THE BINARY CODE) on guitars, Andrew Lenthe (ANTENORA) on bass, and Mike Heller (MALIGNANCY) on drums, has entered...

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MESHUGGAH Drummer Discusses Forthcoming 'Alive' DVD

Zooindustry recently conducted a short interview with drummer Tomas Haake of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Zooindustry: Without sounding presumptuous, what took so long to get that DVD "Alive" done ? Haake: To be honest, I'm not entirely su...

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DRAGONFORCE: New Audio Interview With HERMAN LI Available

Metal Express Radio conducted an interview with guitarist Herman Li of British extreme epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE during the band's recent U.K. tour. The 11-minute chat is now available for streaming at this location. DRAGONFORCE will have its first two studio albums — "Valley Of The Damned" a...

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Nailed

Australia's DESTRUKTOR may have taken over a decade to release this, their first full-length offering, but the results are most definitely worth the wait. This won't be a long review, because it doesn't take much to sum up what DESTRUKTOR are all about. They deliver fast, simple, precision-tooled bl...

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Nullo: The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation

When you've been in a band for two decades, you're either pushing forty or past it, and you still feel the need to release a sequel to a song called "Infernal Haemorrhoids", the world has no right to expect major progression or mellowing out from you. Dave Rotten has been fronting Spain's extreme de...

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SHINING: European Tour Dates Announced

Swedish extreme metallers SHINING have scheduled the following European dates: Mar. 05 - Helvete - Oberhausen, Germany Mar. 06 - From Hell - Erfurth, Germany Mar. 07 - Baroeg - Rotterdam, Netherlands Mar. 08 - Biebob - Vosellar, Belgium Mar. 09 - Laiterie - Strasbourg, France Mar. 11 - Metropolis -...

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KATAKLYSM: New Album Title Revealed

Canadian extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have set "Heaven's Venom" as the title of the follow-up to 2008's "Prevail", tentatively due in October 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records. Commented guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais: "This album will be different than 'Prevail', but will still have the classic KATAK...

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MACHINE HEAD Guitarist PHIL DEMMEL: 'The Next Record Is Gonna Be Our Best Record'

Robert Gray of Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist Phil Demmel of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Ultimate-Guitar.com: MACHINE HEAD recorded a version of PANTERA's "Fucking Hostile" for a "Dimebag" Darrell tribu...

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DESPISED ICON Interviewed In Montreal

HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with Montreal, Quebec, Canada extreme metallers DESPISED ICON when the band played in their hometown on December 5, 2009. Watch the 21-minute chat below. "Day Of Mourning", the new album from DESPISED ICON, sold around 3,000 copies in the United States in its firs...

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DE PROFUNDIS: 'A Bleak Reflection' Trailer Posted Online

London, U.K.-based progressive extreme metal band DE PROFUNDIS will release its second album, "A Bleak Reflection", on February 1, 2010 via Kolony Records. The CD was recorded in June/July 2009 with producer Fernando Pereira Lopes (MISANTHROPE, ORAKLE) and was mastered by Tim Turan (EMPEROR, OPETH,...

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HYPOCRISY Cleared To Enter U.S

Swedish death metallers HYPOCRISY have issued the following statement: "It seems Santa has come early this year for HYPOCRISY! "As previously reported, we were forced to cancel our recently scheduled tour with ENSIFERUM due to problems with work visas. Today we received the good news that we are now...

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BYFROST Signs With PAINKILLER RECORDS

Netherlands-based Painkiller Records (a sub-label of Apollon Entertainment UN Limited) has added Norwegian extreme metallers BYFROST to its roster, and will release the band's debut full-length album, "Black Earth", in the spring. The follow-up to the band's self-released EP "Byfrostmetal", "Black E...

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CANDLEMASS, HAMMERFALL, DARK FUNERAL Nominated For SWEDISH METAL AWARDS

CANDLEMASS, HAMMERFALL, DARK FUNERAL and MARDUK are among among the nominated artists for the third annual Swedish Metal Awards, which will be held January 29, 2010 in Sweden. The complete list of nominees is as follows: Hard Rock: * EUROPE - "Last Look At Eden" * HELLFUELED - "Emission Of Sins" * H...