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CLOVEN HOOF Re-Recording Classic Tracks For 'The Definitive' Compilation

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends CLOVEN HOOF are currently re-recording 24 of their classic songs for a two-part "best-of" compilation, "The Definitive Part One" and "The Definitive Part Two". The first part will be available via the CLOVEN HOOF web site at the end of January. It wil...

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GRAVE: New Album Title Revealed

Long-running Swedish death metallers GRAVE have set "Dominion VIII" as the title of their eighth studio album, tentatively due in April/May via Regain Records. According to the band, the CD will contain "nine tracks of sheer evil and mass brutality. At this moment the vocal parts and mixing/masterin...

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MIDDIAN Starts 'Defense Fund' In Legal Dispute Over Band Name

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, has issued the following update: "As many of you know, MIDDIAN received a cease-and-desist demand in October from MIDIAN of Milwaukee LLC. This demand required MIDDIAN to stop using our name completely, stop selling our album, and further d...

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SUPREME PAIN To Mix Debut Album In January

Dutch/Slovenian brutal death metal band SUPREME PAIN has entered the studio to begin recording its debut album, "Cadaver Pleasures", for an early 2008 release via the U.S. label Comatose Music. At the end of November, Robert Kovacic entered Negligence Studio in Slovenia and recorded the drum tracks...

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SCARS Announces New Album Title

Brazilian thrashers SCARS have set "Devilgod Alliance" as the title of their new album, tentatively due next spring. The CD will contain 11 tracks and will be recorded in January. According to the group, the album's lyrical concept will be based on ageless literature masterpieces that portray evil a...

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DIAMOND HEAD: Glasgow Concert Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends DIAMOND HEAD's November 30, 2007 concert at the Glasgow Academy, UK can be viewed below (courtesy of "weissheim"). DIAMOND HEAD recently supported THIN LIZZY on 14 dates of their UK tour. The band's new album, "What's In Yo...

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VAN HALEN Book Author Interviewed; Audio Available

"Talking Metal" has posted a podcast interview with Ian Christe — author of "Sound of the Beast" and "Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga", and host on Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack and Buzzsaw. Check out the chat in MP3 format at this location. In a recent interview with The Toronto Sta...

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Fast and Deadly

Ready for still more drunken, rollicking '80s thrash revival? You'd better be, because it doesn't sound like Canada's MANIAC intends to take no for an answer. This trio of Toronto throwbacks bash out nine quick and filthy anthems to all things evil, demon-besotted and insane, with the kind of clatte...

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SODOM: 'City Of God' Video Posted Online

"City of God", the latest video from veteran German thrashers SODOM, is available for download at this location (MPG file; 69 MB). SODOM will make several festival appearances next year and is planning on releasing the second part of its "Lords of Depravity" DVD. Also in the works are reissues of so...

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Heavy Metal Stars Pick Their Favorite Albums Of 2007

Thiago Sarkis of the Imhotep webzine has compiled a list of more than 60 hard rock/heavy metal stars' favorite albums of 2007 and has posted it online at this location. The following is complete list of the musicians offering their picks for the finest releases of last year: Alan Nemtheanga (PRIMORD...

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THERION's SNOWY SHAW To Play Drums For DEATHSTARS On KORN Tour

Swedish multi-instrumentalist Snowy Shaw (THERION, DREAM EVIL, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, MEMENTO MORI, NOTRE DAME) will play drums for the industrial goth metal band DEATHSTARS on their upcoming European tour as the support act for KORN. For a list of dates, click here. DEATHSTARS' regular drumme...

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EXTREME Guitarist Says LED ZEPPELIN Should Be Allowed To Rock At Any Age

EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has penned a lengthy response to music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz's recent review of LED ZEPPELIN's reunion concert at the O2 arena in London in which Bob wrote, in part, "LED ZEPPELIN is dead. And one of the reasons it's so revered is that the band didn't ca...

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MAGICIAN: 'Minstrel's Domain' Video Posted Online

Brazilian power metal band MAGICIAN has released the video for the song "Minstrel's Domain", taken from the group's new album, "Tales of the Magician". Watch the clip below. Recorded in 2006, "Tales of the Magician" is a conceptual work, "telling the journey of Zhaldor, a mage seeking to free his ho...

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LOST DREAMS To Release 'End Of Time' In February

Austrian melodic death metal band LOST DREAMS will release its third album, "End of Time", in Europe on February 22 via Reartone Music/Twilight Distribution. The CD was recorded between September 2006 and January 2007 at the group's own SMT studio and was mixed at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Swede...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD: 'A Little Piece Of Heaven' Animated Film Preview Available

A preview of AVENGED SEVENFOLD's animated film "A Little Piece of Heaven" is available below. The full film will be released on all registered CD+MVIs on January 7, 2007. To purchase AVENGED SEVENFOLD's new, self-titled album in MVI format, click here. AVENGED SEVENFOLD recently shot a video for the...