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Report: Heavy Metal Is Evolving, Not Dying

Austin Porter of The Daily O'Collegian reports: Heavy metal may have been the greatest thing to happen in the history of music. In the form of dropped D ballads that make listeners want to cry or double bass drum pedals that force listeners to head bang until their necks hurt, heavy metal has ...

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METALLICA, SLAYER, PANTERA, AC/DC Music Featured On 'Kerrang! Karaoke' DVD

You may not get to sing to 70,000 at Wembley Stadium… You may not get to power slide across the stage at Download… But you can jump around your living room in your pants! The first-ever "Kerrang! Karaoke" presents 16 monstrous anthems hand-picked by the K! team to provide the ultimate high voltage r...

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'Global Metal' Documentary Expected In September

According to Metal Israel, the makers of the documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" have set a tentative September 2007 release date for their follow-up film, "Global Metal", which will explore the global spread of heavy metal music and culture. "The goal of this film is to discover what is hap...

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SLAYER, LORDI, STONE SOUR, HELMET Confirmed For Austria's NOVA ROCK Festival

SLAYER, LORDI, STONE SOUR and HELMET are among the confirmed bands for the Nova Rock Festival 2007, set to take place June 15-17 on the Pannonia Fields in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria (near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders). The festival billing is shaping up...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS, SLAYER, KORN Confirmed For Germany's ROCK AM RING/ROCK IM PARK Festivals

The reunited SMASHING PUMPKINS, SLAYER, KORN, STONE SOUR, EVANESCENCE and LINKIN PARK are among the confirmed bands for this year's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals, set to take place June 1-3 in the German towns of Nürburgring and Nürnberg, respectively. The festival billing is now shaping u...

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TOM ARAYA Says There Is A Feel-Good, Family Side To SLAYER's Heavy Metal Assault

SLAYER frontman Tom Araya recently told Dan Nailen of The Salt Lake Tribune that his two kids ages 7 and 10, both veterans of SLAYER tours, love videos with lots of music, so Araya and his wife Sandra have a collection that includes the best-selling tween flick and other movies that are pretty ...

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Report: SANCTUARY Mulls Music Sell-Off

ThisIsMoney.co.uk reports that Sanctuary — the independent music group which represents artists such as SLIPKNOT and SLAYER — said today it is looking into the sale of some of its businesses as it attempts to return to profitability. The news came as the group posted operating losses of £56.7 millio...

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TESTAMENT: Feeling The Fire

TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson and new drummer Nick Barker (ex-DIMMU BORGIR, CRADLE OF FILTH) are currently in Northern California locked down in the studio beginning to lay the foundation for the group's new album. Peterson states, "It's feeling pretty good so far... Nick's playing has sparked s...

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DIMENSION F3H Confirmed For Norway's HOVEFESTIVALEN

DIMENSION F3H, the Norwegian death metal band led by Morfeus (LIMBONIC ART),has been confirmed for Hovefestivalen, a brand new five-day festival set to take place June 25-29 on the island of Tromøy, just outside the city of Arendal, in Norway. Also scheduled to appear are SLAYER, MASTODON, HATEBREE...

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METALLICA's 'Master Of Puppets' Tops List Of Most Influential Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time

METALLICA's classic 1986 album "Master of Puppets" has been selected by Spence D. and Ed Thompson of IGN Music as the "most influential" heavy metal album of all time. In the accompanying blurb explaining their choice, Spence writes, "Heavy metal fans no doubt have argued till blue in the balls abou...

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EXODUS: 'War Is My Shepherd' Live Video Available

A video of veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers EXODUS performing their track "War Is My Shepherd" at the Crocodile Rock in Allentown, PA during the Monsters Of Mayhem tour last year has been posted online at the Underground Video Television web site. EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt recently announce...

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NEUROSIS: New Album Title Revealed

According to the U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine, long-running Oakland, California-based industrial/alternative/metal pioneers NEUROSIS have set "Given to the Rising" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in May. The band began recording the effort late last month at Electrical Audio studio in...

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SLAYER: Atlantic City Show Cancelled

The sold-out SLAYER concert scheduled for February 17 at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, New Jersey has been cancelled due to "venue production issues," according to the group's publicist. The Atlantic City date was to be part of SLAYER's 22-city tour North American that kicks off today (Jan. 2...

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SLAYER Frontman On Writing Songs About 'Humanity's Demons And Humanity's Devils'

Paul Gargano of Maximum Ink recently conducted an interview with SLAYER frontman Tom Araya. An excerpt from the chat follows: Maximum Ink: Is it fair to say that SLAYER have become a lot more political in recent years? Tom Araya: It comes across that way, but it's not. There are more social ...

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Funeral For Yesterday

A 4 is high praise indeed, for a band signed too young, crassly marketed as Disney Channel nu-metal for tweener girls, and universally castigated for their inability to play, sing, or write songs. The fact remains, though, that Canadian all-girl troupe KITTIE are slowly getting competent, and on occ...