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Deathrider

If the greasy-knuckled biker rock of BRAND NEW SIN turns your crank, then these long-running German hessians (wisely debuting a new name, after spending years trying to get somewhere as THE SHITHEADZ) will fill the bill nicely. Throw in a little bit of accented Hetfield yowl, the occasional tough-bu...

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Failure

After releasing a couple of EPs as mere teenagers, Maine hardcore punkers OUTBREAK now offer the world its "full-length" (16 songs, 20 minutes) debut, "Failure", via Bridge Nine Records. In keeping with Bridge Nine's relatively consistent roster of punk and hardcore, "Failure" at least stays true to...

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II

If you have not yet been exposed to the "Cruel Tanked Fucking Warfare" of Swedish black metallers BLODULV, then this re-release is a good place to start. (The album was original released by Total Holocaust Records and limited to 1,000 copies). Taking a BURZUM-esque style and twisting into their own...

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Original WHITE ZOMBIE Members Team Up For VANS WARPED TOUR Appearance

Original WHITE ZOMBIE members Tom Five (guitar) and Ivan de Prume (drums) have teamed up to perform with HEALER on the San Diego stop of the Vans Warped Tour. The concert will take place today (July 6) at the Coors Ampitheatre. HEALER's lineup for the performance will be as follows: (mungk) SiddiQ -...

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H.I.M. Frontman VILLE VALO: 'Touring In The States Is A Pain In The Ass'

Live-Metal.net recently conducted an interview with H.I.M. frontman Ville Valo. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Live-Metal.net: You have had a slow build in the United States. As you have toured the U.S. for the past few years, how has touring changed you? Ville: "Well, to be brutally fra...

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JASON NEWSTED: Early SUPERNOVA Music Is Sounding 'Quite Powerful'

Chad Bowar of About.com recently conducted an interview with former METALLICA and current VOIVOD/SUPERNOVA bassist Jason Newsted. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: About.com: How did you get selected to be part of the TV series "Rock Star" this year? Jason Newsted: "Tommy had gotten togethe...

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BROKEN TEETH Announce U.S. Tour

Austin balls-to-the-wall rockers BROKEN TEETH — featuring Jason McMaster of WATCHTOWER/DANGEROUS TOYS fame — are gearing up for a-30 day U.S. tour in support of their new live CD, "Blood on the Radio". "Blood on the Radio" features songs from the band's first two studio albums. During the upcoming t...

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ION DISSONANCE Part Ways With Singer, Seek Replacement

Montreal-based metallers ION DISSONANCE have parted ways with vocalist Gabriel McCaughry. The singer's official statement on the matter reads as follows: "It's over... and it's probably the hardest decision I had to take in my entire life. There are so many reasons... to be totally honest with you,...

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CRUCIFIED BARBARA To Support MOTÖRHEAD On U.K. Tour

The all-female Swedish quartet CRUCIFIED BARBARA (view photo here) will tour alongside rock legends MOTÖRHEAD on an 18-city trek of the United Kingdom this November. The pairing is fitting, for the group's new album, "In Distortion We Trust", was recently released in the United States with a cover o...

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EYES OF SHIVA: 'Kamisama' Video To Be Shown Before World Cup Game Tomorrow

"Kamisama", the first video from Brazilian band EYES OF SHIVA's second album, "Deep", will be seen by more than nine million viewers in Brazil and the U.S. through Globo network (TV Globo in Brazil / TV Globo Internacional in the U.S.) when it is aired this Monday (June 12) before the World Cup game...

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RUSH Frontman In BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE Video: Watch Clip Online

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, RUSH bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee makes a humorous appearance — spoofing an "American Idol" judge — in the video for BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE's song "Fire Eye'd Boy", from their Juno Award-winning self-titled third album, released on Oct. 4, 2005....

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Discordia

Many extreme metal bands talk of combining grindcore and death metal with fragments of (old school) hardcore, but a paltry few do it better than MISERY INDEX. And we are not talking about metalcore by any stretch of the imagination. This is about death metal's technicality, grindcore's blinding brut...

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THE CULT, THE DARKNESS, SOULFLY, H.I.M. Concert Attendance Figures Revealed

The following are a few select recent heavy metal/hard rock concert attendance figures, as reported by Billboard magazine: Artist/Event: GUNS N' ROSES, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Venue: Hammerstein Ballroom City/State: New York, N.Y. Date: May 12, 14-15, 17, 2006 Gross Sales: $739,668 Attendance: 12,87...

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THE AMENTA Seek New Vocalist

Australia's extreme industrial metal collective THE AMENTA are currently seeking a new vocalist. Interested parties should download the instrumental version of "Nihil" — which is available at the band's official web site — and record a demo version of the track before e-mailing it to the group at au...

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Our Darkest Days

The terms "melodic" and "hardcore" tend to go together like oil and water if not done just right. On "Our Darkest Days", Orange County's IGNITE does it just right. Considering the number of bands that combine the two elements and ultimately water down the best parts of both (i.e., WITH HONOR),that...