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HELLMOUTH Begins Recording Debut Album
Michigan's HELLMOUTH entered the studio this past weekend to start recording its full-length debut, "Destroy Everything. Worship Nothing", tentatively due before the end of the year via Ferret Music. According to the band, "we're putting down 14 tracks of bile, filth and distortion. We tracked for 2...September 23, 2008
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CRUCIFIED BARBARA: New Album, Single Pushed Back To Next Year
Swedish all-female rock/metal band CRUCIFIED BARBARA has pushed back the release date of its new single, "Sex Action" (originally scheduled for October 15) and second full-length album, "Til Death Do Us Party" (originally due on November 19) to early 2009. The exact release dates will be announced s...September 23, 2008
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KOMMANDANT Signs To PLANET METAL
Planet Metal has confirmed the signing of Chicago's KOMMANDANT, the black/death metal group featuring former and current members of CIANIDE, USURPER, and CORPSEVOMIT. KOMMANDANT's sound is a militant and vicious assault of stripped-down metal extremity, incorporating dissonant and dirty riffing, int...September 23, 2008
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TED NUGENT Offers His Services As Personal Security For PAUL MCCARTNEY
Rock and roll gun-slinger Ted Nugent is offering to provide personal security for rock and roll animal rights activist Sir Paul McCartney. McCartney has been threatened by Muslim extremists if he plays a concert in Israel to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday. "Regardless that Paul and I have our obvi...September 22, 2008
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DEFTONES: Performance Footage Of New Song Posted Online
Fan-filmed video footage of DEFTONES performing a brand new song, tentatively titled "Melanie", this past Thursday night (September 18) at Spaceland in Silverlake, California can be viewed below. In his review of the show, Rick Florino of ARTISTdirect says of the track, "the evening's one new song p...September 20, 2008
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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT On When He Realized He Was A 'Rock Star'
RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett. An excerpt from the chat follows below. RollingStone.com: Was there a point when you realized you were a rock star? Kirk: It was probably the "Black Album" tour, when thing started to get really crazy. We would g...September 17, 2008
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TOTAL F**KING DESTRUCTION: New Album Details Revealed
BRUTAL TRUTH drummer Richard Hoak has unveiled "Non-Existence Of The Self", a new track by TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION, the "grindcore performance-art project" he has masterminded for almost a decade. The song appears on TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION's third full-length album, "Peace Love, And Total Fucki...September 17, 2008
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BOSTON, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Classics To be Reissued On Vinyl
According to Punknews.org, BOSTON and BLUE ÖYSTER CULT are among the classic bands whose albums will be reissued on vinyl via Sony/Legacy. Other LPs that were originally released through Columbia, Epic, and RCA that are part of the reissue campaign include recordings by JEFFERSON STARSHIP and CHEAP...September 16, 2008
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VOLBEAT: 'Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed
"Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood", the third studio album from Danish metal rock 'n' rollers VOLBEAT, has registered the following first-week chart positions in Europe: Denmark: #1 Finland: #1 Sweden: #4 Germany: #15 Austria: #26 Norway: #28 Netherlands: #29 Switzerland: #30 An e-card for "Gui...September 13, 2008
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Death Magnetic
So here we are again, more than five years after a whole slew of you ripped me a new one for my enthusiastic review of the last and most controversial METALLICA album ever, 2003's "St. Anger". Unlike many critics — especially in the UK press — who came out equally unabashed in their praise ...September 12, 2008
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MOTÖRHEAD Frontman Launching Private Entropia Universe Army
Mindark, developer and operator of Virtual World Entropia Universe, and rock icon Lemmy from MOTÖRHEAD, today announced a partnership in which Lemmy and his band will team up with Mindark to create Motörhead Stadium and Lemmy's Castle within Entropia Universe. The Stadium and Castle are being built...September 9, 2008
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WALLS OF JERICHO GUITARIST: 'There Are Chords On New Record I Stole Straight From JOHN MAYER'
MetalSucks recently conducted an interview with WALLS OF JERICHO guitarist Chris Rawson. An excerpt from the chat follows. MetalSucks: So you guys have had a big year already. You put out an acoustic EP, "Redemption", and now you've put out a new full-length, "The American Dream". For a hardcore ban...September 9, 2008
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ALL THAT REMAINS: New Song Available Via MAJOR LEAGUE GAMING Web Site
Massachusetts metallers ALL THAT REMAINS and Major League Gaming, the professional gaming league, today announced an innovative promotion that will allow fans of the band to download a track from their new album, "Overcome", one week before the album's release date. The track "Chiron" will be exclus...September 9, 2008
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SATYRICON Bassist Talks About New Material
TOTALT JÄVLA MÖRKER bassist and longtime Warwick endorser Victor Brandt recently spoke to Warwick.de about his new gig as the bassist for the Norwegian black metal band SATYRICON. Brandt was chosen out of hundreds of candidates from all over the world, including the U.S., England and South Africa, f...September 9, 2008
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VOLBEAT Interviewed At Hungary's SZIGET Festival; Video Available
Hungarian metal magazine "Kettõnégy" conducted an interview with Danish metal rock 'n' rollers VOLBEAT at the Sziget festival, which was held August 12-18 in Budapest, Hungary. Watch the footage below. (Note: The clip also features interviews with IRON MAIDEN fans and other shenanigans.) An e-card f...September 8, 2008