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'Get Thrashed' Thrash Metal Documentary: East Coast Premiere Announced

"Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, will have its East Coast premiere in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday, April 1 at 6:00 p.m. as part of the Backseat Film Festival....

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THE CULT To Support THE WHO In Europe?

THE CULT will reportedly support THE WHO on a number of dates in Europe this summer. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. THE CULT is currently working on material for the group's first album since 2001's "Beyond Good and Evil". "We've got some ideas down, circulating," guitarist Billy Duf...

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EXTREMA Signs With SCARLET RECORDS

Legendary Italian metal band EXTREMA has announced that it has parted ways with V2 Records and signed a new worldwide deal with Scarlet Records. The band, whose latest full-length effort, "Set The World On Fire", was released in 2006, is working on a double DVD, entitled "Murder Tunes & Broken B...

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VADER To Tour With KRISIUN, ROTTING CHRIST, DRAGONLORD

Polish death metallers VADER have issued the following update: "During the second part of Polish Blitzkrieg 4 Tour promoting VADER's latest studio album 'Impressions in Blood', the band will be sharing the stage with three special guests: KRISIUN (Brazilian death metal commando, their latest studio...

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EXODUS Guitarist Finishes Filming Instructional DVD

EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt has issued the following update: "Just finished shooting my instructional DVD yesterday, and I am glad that's over! Fingers hurt like hell from shredding all day, skin baked like a turkey from a few thousand watts of lights beaming down on me in a tiny room for hours on en...

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TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK: 'Our Current President Has Created A Disaster For The Country'

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO/TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: In hindsight, what was the final catalyst that prompted you to step away from the heavy metal genre? Alex: "Well, there were a few things...

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BENEDICTION Enlists New Touring Drummer

Long-running British metallers BENEDICTION have issued the following update: "As many of you know by now, Nick Barker [drums] has been doing a stint with TESTAMENT, and since the band have been locked away in this cellar, no tour dates were planed for 2007, leaving Nick time to play on the new TESTA...

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BLIND GUARDIAN: 'Another Stranger Me' Single Details Revealed

German melodic metallers BLIND GUARDIAN will release a new single, "Another Stranger Me", on May 4. The first edition will be made available as a digipack, and there will be a picture disc (12") as well. The track listing is as follows: 01. Another Stranger Me (4:35) 02. All The King's Horses (4:11)...

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THERION Confirmed For Norway's METAL HEART Festival

Sweden's THERION has been confirmed for Metal Heart, a brand new two-day metal festival set to take place August 17-18 at Tapperiet in Notodden, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): CANDLEMASS CIRCUS MAXIMUS CLOUDSCAPE DØDHEIMSGARD DIMMU BORGIR JORN MORGANA...

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In Blood We Rock

This is the kind of review that makes a writer feel like a real asshole. Texas retro-rockers BLOOD OF THE SUN have an amazingly good thing going on here — instrumentally, they can't be touched. Big warm analog riffs, a keyboard player that throws in just the right amount of piano and Hammond B-3 org...

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The New Machine of Liechtenstein

Sick of reading about HOLY MOSES reissues yet? Well, too fucking bad, because the smokin' banshee Sabina Classen and her band of German thrashers haven't gotten a fraction of the attention and respect they deserve yet. Getting their discography back in print, including this 1989 rager, is good news...

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ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO: New Album Samples, Concert Video Footage Available

ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO, the band led by TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick, has posted four songs from its newly released album, "Last Day in Paradise", on its MySpace page. Check out the tracks "Mercury Retrograde", "Western Sabbath Stomp", "Last Day in Paradise" and "Tom Sawyer" (a live electronica-ins...

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NECROPHAGIST: Drummer HANNES To Play Final Show At CALIFORNIA METALFEST

German death metal band NECROPHAGIST has posted the following message on its official web site: "NECROPHAGIST will headline the second day of the annual California Metalfest, taking place at the Galaxy Concert Theater in Santa Ana, CA on March 31 and April 1. Bay Area legends TESTAMENT will headline...

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THE ABSENCE: 'Riders Of The Plague' Artwork Revealed

Tampa thrash outfit THE ABSENCE has posted the cover artwork for its upcoming album, "Riders of the Plague", at this location. The CD, which features guest appearences by guitarists James Murphy (DEATH, TESTAMENT),Jonas Kjellgren and Per Nilsson (SCAR SYMMETRY),Santiago Dobles (AGHORA) as well as...

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TESTAMENT: 2007 'Live At The Independent' Official 'Bootleg' DVD Now Available

San Francisco Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT are currently offering a new "bootleg" in DVD format for sale in the "Merch" section of the group's official web site. "Live at the Independent" (view cover here) was filmed on January 27, 2007 at The Independent in San Francisco, California by Walter Morga...