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'Black Metal Satanica' Documentary To Be Screened In Hollywood This Month
A new documentary about black metal called "Black Metal Satanica" will be screened at Laemmle's Sunset 5 theatre (8000 Sunset Blvd.) in West Hollywood, California on Friday, July 18 at 10:00 p.m. The film's synopsis reads as follows: "Church burning, grave desecration, Satanism and murder. This docu...July 3, 2008
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OCEANS OF SADNESS: New Song Available For Free Download
Belgian progressive metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS have made a new song from their forthcoming fifth album, "The Arrogance of Ignorance", available for free download. According to the band, "The song is called 'Some Things Seem So Easy' and it is a shining example of the diversity of OCEANS OF SADNESS....June 24, 2008
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PEPPERMINT CREEPS Drummer Dead At 34
Drummer Traci Michaelz of the long-running Hollywood, California glam-metal band PEPPERMINT CREEPS passed away on Friday, June 13 after the group's concert in Ft. Worth, Texas. He was 34 years old. According to the surviving members of PEPPERMINT CREEPS, "the cause of death is still unknown" and wil...June 17, 2008
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SHINING: New Album Title Changed; Artwork, Track Listing Revealed
Swedish black metallers SHINING have changed the title of their upcoming sixth album to "VI / Klagopsalmer" from the previously announced "Tillbaka P Ruta Ett" (Back to Square One). The new CD was recorded at The Slaughterhouse studios with producer Rickard Bengtsson and is scheduled for release lat...June 11, 2008
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OCEANS OF SADNESS: New Song Posted Online
Belgian progressive metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS have posted a new song from their forthcoming fifth album, "The Arrogance of Ignorance", on their MySpace page. According to the band, "The song is called 'Some Things Seem So Easy' and it is a shining example of the diversity of OCEANS OF SADNESS. It...June 8, 2008
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SHINING Frontman To Guest On Spain's 'El Sotano' Radio Show
SHINING mainman Niklas Kvarforth will be interviewed tonight (Tuesday, June 3) on the Spanish extreme metal radio show "El Sotano", which is broadcast from 23.00 on TNT Radio. You can listen to the program live on the Internet at www.tntradiorock.com. SHINING recently tapped GORGOROTH's King Ov Hell...June 3, 2008
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Former MAYHEM Frontman, SHINING Mainman Interviewed At INFERNO Festival; Video Available
Part 3 of the Contraband Candy's three-part Inferno festival special features an interview with the legendary MAYHEM frontman Maniac, guitarist Niklas Kvarforth and bass player Spacebrain about their new blackened doom/punk project SKITLIV (literally "Shit life"). There's grim talk of illness and ma...May 27, 2008
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Be Gone
In an interview I conducted with PHARAOH guitarist Matt Johnsen a couple of months ago, I was discussing the fact that I still preferred 2006's "The Longest Night" to new album "Be Gone", though not by a wide margin. It is one of those instances where the follow-up to an album that you adored (it .....May 19, 2008
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DREAM THEATER: Vancouver Concert Filmed For Upcoming DVD
DREAM THEATER last week kicked off the Progressive Nation 2008 tour, also featuring OPETH, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME and 3. DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has posted the following update on the Progressive Nation web site: "Welly, welly, welly, my fellow prog fans... Progressive Nation 2008 is f...May 9, 2008
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Black Metallers FOSCOR Launch New Video
"I Torn de les Cendres", the new video from black metallers FOSCOR, can be viewed below. Taken from the group's latest album "The Smile of the Sad Ones", the clip was directed and edited by guitarist and founding member Falke, and was shot at the Balneari de la Puda, an old abandoned spa hotel in .....May 5, 2008
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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...April 29, 2008
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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...April 25, 2008
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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...April 23, 2008
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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...April 17, 2008
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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...April 3, 2008
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