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A Conversation With Denmark's RAUNCHY

By: Scott Alisoglu Denmark's RAUNCHY have been releasing quality albums since 2002 debut "Velvet Noise". While gaining fans slowly, but surely, with each successive release, may seem like a good thing, it is the "slowly" part that has dogged the sextet, while contemporaries have blown up across the...

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OZZFEST 2008: Video Highlights Available

The official Ozzfest YouTube channel has been updated with a five-minute video clip featuring footage from this year's one-day stadium event on August 9, 2008 at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas. Watch it below. Saturday's show included performances from METALLICA, OZZY OSBOURNE, SERJ TANKIAN, KORN s...

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ENEMY OF THE SUN Mainman Says Upcoming Show With GUS CHAMBERS Is Not A GRIP INC. 'Reunion'

ENEMY OF THE SUN, the German band featuring guitarist Waldemar Sorychta — former member of GRIP INC./DESPAIR and producer for such bands as LACUNA COIL and MOONSPELL — will play a set of GRIP INC. songs with ex-GRIP INC. singer Gus Chambers on August 16 at Zeche in Bochum, Germany. This will mark a...

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MATT HEAFY Says 'Shogun' is TRIVIUM's 'Make-Or-Break' Album

MetalSucks recently conducted an interview with Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu of Floridian metallers TRIVIUM. An excerpt from the chat follows. MetalSucks: What about worrying about listener reaction? When "Ascendancy" came out, there wasn't a lot of anticipation for it. There weren't a lot of peopl...

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SLAYER's KING, ARAYA Talk About Their First-Ever East Coast Tour; Video Available

The makers of the critically acclaimed music documentary "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" have posted a short video clip of SLAYER's Kerry King and Tom Araya talking about their first-ever East Coast tour in 1984, designated drivers and fans thrashing clubs. Watch it at this location (Windo...

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DEAD AND BURIED Signs With ESCAPIST RECORDS

Escapist Records has announced the signing of Delaware's DEAD AND BURIED. The group's new album, "Bear Witness", was recorded, mixed and mastered at Clay Creek studio with producer Nick Rotundo (PAINT IT BLACK, ALL ELSE FAILED, KNIVES OUT) and it features guest vocals from Justice of TRAPPED UNDER I...

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MACHINE HEAD Bassist ADAM DUCE Answers 15 Questions

Bassist Adam Duce of the San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD recently answered 15 questions for the official Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival YouTube channel. Watch the three-minute chat below. The Mayhem lineup also includes SLIPKNOT and DISTURBED, DRAGONFORCE, MASTODON, AIRBOURNE, FIVE FI...

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ANTHRAX Guitarist Issues OZZFEST Recap

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has issued the following update: "Had a great time in Dallas [at the one-day Ozzfest on Saturday, August 9]. Rehearsal at Vinnie Paul's [HELLYEAH/ex-PANTERA drummer] house Friday night was a blast. Jamming [PANTERA's] 'New Level' and 'Walk' with Vince, Bob Zilla [HELLYEAH...

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'DIMEBAG' DARRELL ABBOTT Honored With OZZFEST Superjam

A special one-time only all-star tribute to fallen PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist and Texas native "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was held this past Saturday, August 9 at the one-day Ozzfest at Dallas' Pizza Hut Park. The tribute to "Dimebag" Darrell featured Abbott's brother, Vinnie Paul (acting as musical...

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MACHINE HEAD: New Video Interview Available

Project Placebo sat down with frontman Robb Flynn and drummer Dave McClain from San Francisco metallers MACHINE HEAD prior to the band's July 12, 2008 concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California (where the group was performing as part of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival). W...

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EXODUS Frontman Checks In From The Road

Vocalist Rob Dukes of the veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers EXODUS has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "Wacken 2008... I came from behind the curtain to see before me 75,000 people with their hands in the air. And screaming. It was fucking surreal. I was overwhelmed by the whol...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING To Take Part In One-Hour Signing Session At OZZFEST

Jägermeister, the official second stage sponsor of Ozzfest 2008, has announced that a number of bands/artists will be making special appearances at the Jägermeister Booth during the one-day Ozzfest in Frisco, Texas on Saturday, August 9 for autograph signings. SEVENDUST, SHADOWS FALL, DEVILDRIVER, K...

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APOCALYPTICA Performs 'Unplugged' At 100.3 THE EDGE Studios In Little Rock; Video Available

Finnish cello quartet APOCALYPTICA stopped by the studios of KDJE 100.3 The Edge (web site) in Little Rock, Arkansas earlier this week and took part in a three-song "unplugged" performance for radio station winners. Watch video footage of the performance below. (Note: Updated version of Windows Medi...

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DEMOLITION HAMMER: 1988 'Skull Fracturing Nightmare' Demo Available For Download

The 1988 four-song "Skull Fracturing Nightmare" debut demo cassette by respected New York thrashers DEMOLITION HAMMER has been made available for download at the Bazillion Points metal demo blog. According to the blog post, "On DEMOLITION HAMMER's first demo, the trio already controlled a deathly mi...

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METALLICA Looking Forward To Playing Its First OZZFEST

The Pulse of Radio reports: METALLICA will appear at the long-running Ozzfest for the first time in the event's history on Saturday (August 9),when the group co-headlines the show with OZZY OSBOURNE at Pizza Hut Park in Dallas. Although this is the only Ozzfest date scheduled for this year, METALLI...