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ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION Signs With VIOLENT JOURNEY RECORDS

Legendary Finnish thrashers ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION have inked a deal with Violent Journey Records. The band's new album, "Gallery Of Pain", will be released on April 28. The "Gallery Of Pain" artwork (see below) was created by Juha Vuorma, who also designed covers for the first three KALMAH albums an...

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LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR: New Video To Premiere Next Week

One week from today — on Thursday, April 1 — the new LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR video will be unleashed via a special premiere on Decibel magazine's "Deciblog". The clip is for "Evil Power", the title track to the band's menacing upcoming fourth full-length release. Directed by Ryan Oliver of cult horror...

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LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR Launches Record Label; Announces Album, Video, Tour

Emerging from the caustic burrows of Chicago comes the monolith of metal known as LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR, a sonic "fuck you" to the current trends and sub-genres of metal who carry the torch of metal's roots (CELTIC FROST, SLAYER, MOTÖRHEAD) with a death breath of fresh air, and spitting gas on the fl...

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ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION Putting Finishing Touches On New Album

Legendary Finnish thrashers ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION are in the studio putting the finishing touches on their new album, "Gallery Of Pain", due later in the year. Several new tracks are currently streaming on the band's MySpace page, including "Children Of Misfortune", "Cross The Line Of No Return", "S...

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New USURPER Material To Surface This Year

Guitarist/founder Rick Scythe of Chicago's now-defunct band USURPER has issued the following update: "I am planning on releasing at least one or two (maybe more) new USURPER songs in 2010. "I have these demos of songs we never put out. "I used to write everything for USURPER. I would show up to rehe...

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Infidel

War, what is it good for? Lyrical inspiration for metal bands, that's what. Just ask AT WAR, what some might call the JUNGLE ROT of thrash metal. Sensing the time was right in this era of the old-is-new-again thrash resurgence, Virginia's AT WAR finally follows up its 1988 release "Retaliatory Strik...

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METUJA: Entire New Album Available For Streaming

"Enimmäkseen Harmiton", the new album from Finnish hard rockers METUJA, is available for streaming in its entirety on the band's MySpace page. Due on July 29 via Violent Journey Records the CD was once again produced by Sami "Hannu" Koivisto (AMORPHIS, WALTARI) and features artwork by Juha Vuorma (W...

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METUJA To Release New Album Next Month

Finnish hard rockers METUJA will release their new album, "Enimmäkseen Harmiton", on July 29 via Violent Journey Records. The CD was once again produced by Sami "Hannu" Koivisto (AMORPHIS, WALTARI) and features artwork by Juha Vuorma (WHIPLASH, AUTOPSY, USURPER). The album, which features Finnish ly...

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Former CELTIC FROST Mainman Interviewed For New TV Documentary

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "In the course of the production of a new documentary series about the evolution of music in the 1980s, German/French TV station Arte contacted me some time ago to arrange an intervie...

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Former CELTIC FROST Frontman Signs Publishing Deal For 'Only Death Is Real' Book

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "Work on TRIPTYKON's first album was temporarily and somewhat rudely interrupted early last week when I was forced to check into the hospital late at night to have my appendix removed...

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Crack The Skye

Any album that comes with its own built-in hype machine or slapped with the "next-big-thing" tag before proving its worth to the public should be met with a certain amount of caution and even skepticism. That goes doubly for metal bands that break through the underground and find themselves a part o...

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TOM GABRIEL FISCHER: 'One Year Ago Today I Left CELTIC FROST'

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "One year ago today I left CELTIC FROST. "I had seen the 'Monotheist' album as a mere beginning, and a tame one at that. There was a time when I was not alone with this view and ...

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TOM FISCHER's TRIPTYKON Performs CELTIC FROST's 'Synagoga Satanae'

Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update on his current TRIPTYKON project: "I always intended to make CELTIC FROST's 'Synagoga Satanae' part of TRIPTYKON's live set when the moment comes to take our group onstage, and I was thus going to begin playing it with...

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Former CELTIC FROST Mainman 'Deeply Intoxicated' By New TRIPTYKON Song

Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update on his current TRIPTYKON project: "Of course, my own opinion is biased, and of course I am not really entitled to rate the results of our own work. But it is difficult not to emerge from our sessions at TRIPTYKON's rehe...

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Stormlegion

Featuring in its ranks veterans of bands like USURPER, CIANIDE, and CORPSEVOMIT, Chicago's KOMMANDANT keeps it tremolo picked and blast beaten on "Stormlegion". Black metal with subtle dirty thrash undertones is the soup of the day. While the straightforward, no-frills approach has its merits, the s...