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Along Came a Spider

Twenty-five studio albums? Now that is what you call a body of work! ALICE COOPER is one of a select group of artists that is able to change styles, at least partially, from one album to the next and get away with it. Just consider the diversity across albums like "Love it to Death", "From ...

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Manmade Monster

Playing blatant tribute to your idols with original compositions is a risky proposition, especially when the object of praise is a revered group like the MISFITS (Danzig era, of course). Surprisingly, San Francisco's PLAN 9 pull it off reasonably well with "Manmade Monster", which consists of 13 ori...

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State of Insurgency

Based on the gripping Ed Repka cover art, you can probably guess that HEXEN's "State of Insurgency" is another in an ever-growing catalogue of recent old school thrash albums. Hell, even the record label is called Old School Metal. The good news is that the Los Angeles act is one of the better ones...

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Southern Nihilizm

It is USBM southern style on BAHIMIRON's second full-length release, "Southern Nihilizm". The act is another in a long line of evildoers from the Lone Star State that play a distinctly Texas style of dangerously hot black metal that offer one images of decomposing bodies baking in 105-degree tempera...

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Ruination

Dubbed "working-class, beer-drinking metal" by the band on its MySpace page, the description of "Ruination" by New Jersey's ABACINATE doesn't tell much about the style heard on the disc, but I've no reason to disbelieve that the boys are working class, drink beer, and play/listen to metal. More accu...

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Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years

If there is one band defines what death metal is all about, then it is surely CANNIBAL CORPSE, nitpicking and elitist assertions notwithstanding. Since 1987, the Buffalo band — the members themselves don't recognize the unit as a "Tampa band" — is arguably the world's most successful death metal ban...

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LILLIAN AXE: New Album Title Announced

LILLIAN AXE has set "A Sad Day On Planet Earth" as the tentative title of its new album. The band will embark on a short tour at the end of September and October to "road-test" some new songs before locking itself up in the studio to create the new CD for an early 2009 release. ...

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DOWN: 'Deluxe Edition' Of 'Over The Under' Due In October

DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ex-PANTERA) — w...

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FALL FROM GRACE To Release Debut In November

Seattle-based punk rockers FALL FROM GRACE have announced a November 4 release date for their debut album, "Sifting ThroughThe Wreckage". The CD will be released on Bunk Rock Records, boasting production by Terry Date (PANTERA, DEFTONES, SOUNDGARDEN) and Greig Nori (SUM 41, LUDACRIS, HEDLEY) and fea...

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ROSS THE BOSS: 'New Metal Leader' Lands On German Chart

"New Metal Leader", the new album from former MANOWAR guitarist ROSS THE BOSS, has entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 99. According to a press release, Ross "continues his legacy with a true metal album that doesn't deny his past and displays his charismatic style of creating gre...

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SCARS ON BROADWAY: Milan Footage Available

Italian news blog Musica Metal has uploaded video footage of SCARS ON BROADWAY performing the song "Universe" on September 2, 2008 in Milan, Italy. Photos from the concert can be found at this location. SCARS ON BROADWAY recently added more dates to its first-ever North American tour, including one...

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MINSK To Support TROUBLE

Chicago/Peoria, Illinois quartet MINSK has announced a run of tour dates with legendary Chicago doomsters TROUBLE. This tour will begin on September 11 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada before heading down along the East Coast, then westward. MINSK is currently writing material for the follow-up to its R...

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RITUAL Albums To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks

Shadow Kingdom Records continues to give attention to some of the classic and rare NWOBHM treasures. This time RITUAL (UK) is getting the royal treatment. This month the heavy metal label is reissuing RITUAL's early albums on CD — "Widow" (1983) and "Valley Of The Kings" (1993) — both albums include...

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AIRBOURNE Frontman On Touring With Heavier Bands, Constant Comparisons To AC/DC

MetalSucks conducted an interview with AIRBOURNE lead singer/guitarist Joel O'Keefe at the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival stop at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York. O'Keefe shared his thoughts about hard partying on the road, being the only hard rock act on an extreme metal tour, and the con...

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METALLICA's ULRICH: It's Difficult To Talk About How Great TRUJILLO Is Without Dissing NEWSTED

Revolver executive editor Brandon Geist has posted Part 3 in "The Best of the Rest" of his recent METALLICA interviews for the magazine's current cover story on the band and its highly anticipated new album, "Death Magnetic". In this installment (the follow-up to last week's interview with guitarist...