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GORY BLISTER: Italian Dates Announced

Long-running Italian technical death metallers GORY BLISTER have scheduled the following dates in their home country: Jul 12 - Wall out festival - Cittadella - PD Jul 19 - Rivalta in Rock 2008 - Rivalta Bormida - AL GORY BLISTER recently completed work on its new album, "Graveyard of Angels", due la...

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Norway's INFERNO Festival: Special Trailer Available

Contraband Candy's Inferno festival trailer featuring interviews with King of GORGOROTH and SAHG, Nergal of BEHEMOTH, Maniac, once of MAYHEM and now with blackened doom-punks SKITLIV, the outrageous and controversial Kvarforth of SHINING and loads more can be viewed below. Inferno festival was held...

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SPAWN OF POSSESSION Announces New Drummer

Swedish technical death metal outfit SPAWN OF POSSESSION has issued the following update: "After some successful rehearsals with the drummer Richard Schill (SHINING, VILE SCAR, LEVEL ABOVE HUMAN),he performed songs like 'Church of Deviance', 'Swarm of Formless', parts from 'Noctambulant' and new so...

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Sculptor And SKITLIV Bass Player SPACEBRAIN Reveals His 'Space Bass'

Sculptor Spacebrain (Rene Hamel),who extends his artistic career to playing bass for SKITLIV, the black/doom/noise project of former MAYHEM vocalist Maniac, has used his sculpting skills to design and build his own extraordinary bass guitar. Making its debut at Norway's Inferno festival recently, t...

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SLAYER, VENOM, CANDLEMASS, ROTTING CHRIST, KRISIUN Confirmed For France's HELLFEST

SLAYER, VENOM, CANDLEMASS, DANKO JONES, ROTTING CHRIST, KRISIUN, SHAI HULUD, BLEEDING THROUGH, THROWDOWN, DISFEAR, BLACK TIDE and PUNISH YOURSELF have been confirmed for this year's Hellfest festival, set to take place June 20-22, 2008 at Clisson, France. The festival billing is shaping up as follow...

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SHINING Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

Swedish black metallers SHINING have issued the following update: "Due to [drummer] Jarle Byberg's current situation, we have decided that we cannot go ahead with merely him in our ranks. This has nothing to do with him leaving URGEHAL last week or anything like that, but he simply hasn't got time e...

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BEHEMOTH, IMPALED NAZARENE Confirmed For Germany's ASGARD FESTIVAL

BEHEMOTH and IMPALED NAZARENE are among the confirmed bands for the Asgard Festival, set to take place September 27 at Weststadthalle in Essen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BEHEMOTH MNEGARM IMPALED NAZARENE SHINING DARKESTRAH KADAVERIK For more information, visit www.asgar...

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SHINING Taps GORGOROTH's KING For Forthcoming Album

Swedish black metallers SHINING have tapped GORGOROTH's King Ov Hell (real name: Tom Cato Visnes) to play bass on their upcoming sixth studio album, entitled "Tillbaka P Ruta Ett" (Back to Square One). The CD will be recorded at The Slaughterhouse studios with producer Rickard Bengtsson beginning on...

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SHINING: New CD Producer Named

Swedish black metallers SHINING have issued the following update: "SHINING are once again entering The Slaughterhouse on the 28th of April to start recording their sixth studio album. Rickard Bengtsson will once again produce now when his and Kvarforth's [SHINING mainman Niklas Kvarforth] difference...

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Light from Above

It is heartening to see America's budding metal musicians taking their creative cues from the ranks of traditional metal icons rather than the newer school populated by the likes of DISTURBED or CHEVELLE. That's not to say that the teenagers of BLACK TIDE are playing retro thrash or pure NWOBHM, but...

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Killing Season

Four-year wait between albums. Terrible album cover. Generic album title. A song called "Sonic Beatdown". Is it any wonder I was nervous about giving this one a spin? I shoulda known better — DEATH ANGEL are doing things on their own terms these days, for the right reasons, and they'll release anoth...

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MESHUGGAH Drummer: 'This Album Is Almost Like A Sample Platter Of Everything That We've Done'

Adrien Begrand of PopMatters recently conducted an interview with MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's sixth full-length album, "obZen": "This album is almost like a sample platter of everything that we've done through the years, and in that it's less foc...

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SHINING: New Album Title Revealed

Swedish black metallers SHINING will enter the studio on April 28 to begin recording their new album, "Tillbaka P Ruta Ett" (Back to Square One),for a late 2008 release via Osmose Productions. The LP will contain six songs and will feature "six different vocalists," according to a press release. SH...

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Sculptor SPACEBRAIN To Host 'Art From Hell' Exhibition At INFERNO

Sculptor Ren M. Hamel, better known as Spacebrain, will host a special event at this year's Inferno festival in Oslo. He will open his new studio to the public for the first time on Saturday, March 22 between the hours of 12:00 and 17:00. His sculptures, including new works, will be displayed inside...

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MOONLYGHT: 'Shining' Release Date Announced

Quebec City's dark metallers MOONLYGHT will release their long-awaited sophomore album soon on March 25 via Mankind's Demise Records (with Galy distribution). According to a press release, "the ten-track monster called 'Shining' is the epitaph of MOONLYGHT, as the band calls it quits following the [...