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Shadowcast

Formed in 2004, it's taken six years for death metal super group INSIDIOUS DISEASE to crank out their much anticipated debut album, "Shadowcast". And what a heartbreaking disappointment it turned out to be. Just kidding. It is actually an album that lives up to its membership pedigree, as well as of...

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The Panic Broadcast

SOILWORK has been used as a reference for so many years now when critics describe the oodles of often generic metalcore and melodic death metal bands that base their songs on aggressive verses and cleanly sung choruses that one almost forgets that the Swedes are the stalwarts of the style, not the a...

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Inner Receivings

I've leveled my fair share of criticism at what has been an avalanche of shoe-gazing in the black metal community; some of it justified, some of it based on inundation, and some, perhaps unfairly, based on the fact that too much of it bores the ever living shit out of me. However, those bands that ....

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What Evil Have They Summoned…

Billy Nocera has been releasing so many quality old school gore and death metal releases for so many years on his Razorback label that the time must have seemed right to start his own band with wife Vanessa. Not that they've not contributed to past releases (as lyricists for example),but SCAREMAKER...

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Into the Crypts of Blasphemy

I can't say I was surprised that an album of true blue old school Swedish death metal released on Pulverised came across so well, aurally speaking. The dedicated operators of the Singaporean label have keen ears for that sort of thing, AXIS POWERS' effort from last year an example that comes immedia...

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For Aeons Past

You know that voice; you damn well better if you've spent any amount of time at all in Swedish melodic death metal neighborhoods. And I'm talking about the kind of melo-death that is both modern and polished to stratospheric levels of gloss. You realize I'm referring to any project in which vocalist...

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With Flesh Unbound

Throw a few rocks out your living room window and you're likely to hit a band playing old school and Sunlight-ed Swedish death metal (and I don't just mean bands from Sweden). That has definitely been the case these past couple of years and a massive upsurge has occurred within the last year. And wh...

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ARCH ENEMY Frontwoman Interviewed In Maldives

Haveeru conducted an interview with vocalist Angela Gossow of Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY last week prior to the band's first-ever appearance in Maldives. Watch the first part of the chat below. (Note: The second part of the interview has not yet been made available.) ARCH ENEMY was...

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DREAM THEATER Singer JAMES LABRIE Debuts New Solo Track

"One More Time", a brand new song from DREAM THEATER singer James LaBrie, is available for streaming below (courtesy of AOL's Noisecreep). The track comes off LaBrie's new solo album, "Static Impulse", which will be released on September 28 via InsideOut Music. The CD marks LaBrie's first solo effor...

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ICON IN ME Begins Recording Sophomore Album

ICON IN ME — the Russian/Swedish/Danish modern metal band featuring HOSTILE BREED guitarist Dmitry Frans, Danish drummer Morten Løwe Sørensen (SUBMISSION, THE ARCANE ORDER, SCARVE, INSTANT CARNAGE, STRANGLER, SCARVE, SOILWORK) and Swedish vocalist Tony Jelencovich (M.A.N, ex-MNEMIC, TRANSPORT LEAGUE...

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SONIC SYNDICATE Announces U.K. Headlining Tour

Swedish/British modern metallers SONIC SYNDICATE have announced a tour of the U.K. as part of their first full European headlining run. Commented bassist Karin Axelsson: "After an amazing summer of festivals playing alongside some of my all-time favorite bands, the time has arrived! "It's just one m...

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Norway's SHINING Wins 'A-Ha Grant'

Last month, the Norwegian "blackjazz" outfit SHINING surprised the ever-growing international jazz-metal scene by taking home the fabled "A-Ha Grant" after first "shocking the living shit" out of the audience of 80,000 people and about one million TV viewers. Even more shocking was the fact that the...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist Interviewed At U.K.'s HIGH VOLTAGE Festival

Baconmusic's James Allman conducted an interview with guitarist Oscar Dronjak of Swedish melodic metallers HAMMERFALL before the band's performance at High Voltage, the U.K.'s new rock festival, which took place July 24-25, 2010 at Victoria Park in London. Watch the chat below. HAMMERFALL's latest a...

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HAIL OF BULLETS Completes Recording Second Album

HAIL OF BULLETS — the Dutch death metal band featuring GOREFEST drummer Ed Warby, THANATOS guitarists Stephan Gebédi and Paul Baayens, former PESTILENCE/ASPHYX singer Martin Van Drunen and former HOUWITSER bass player Theo van Eekelen — has completed work on its as-yet-untitled second full-length al...

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EUROPE Announces 'Balls 'N' Banners' U.K. Tour

Following last night's triumphant performance at the iTunes festival at the London Roundhouse, Swedish rockers EUROPE have announced that they will embark on the "Balls 'N' Banners" U.K. tour in February. EUROPE vocalist Joey Tempest believes that it is the strength of the band's last album that is...