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MELECHESH: 'Emissaries' Track Listing, Artwork Revealed

Osmose Productions has set an October 30 European release date for the new MELECHESH album, entitled "Emissaries". The track listing for the effort is as follows 01. Rebirth of the Nemesis (Enuma Elish Rewritten) 02. Ladders to Sumeria 03. Deluge of Delusional Dreams: Act I: Cast Tempest from the Ea...

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Blood Mountain

MASTODON fully lives up to its name and cements its status as one of the best newer American metal bands out there with, of all things, its major label debut. The band's third studio offering is an immense slab of brutally heavy rock that veers wildly between all-out thrash on cuts like opener "The...

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Savior Sorrow

It's been a long three years for Cleveland-based shock metallers MUSHROOMHEAD. They changed vocalists, changed labels, changed masks (not that anyone over 14 should care) and watched their public profile diminish slightly as their media-inflated “feud" with SLIPKNOT was allowed to fade into obscurit...

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KROKUS: 'Hellraiser' Reaches Gold Status In Switzerland

KROKUS's latest album, "Hellraiser", reached "gold" status in the band's home country of Switzerland within a day of its release, according to the group's official newsletter. The CD, which will be issued in North America on October 24, was recorded with producer Dennis Ward (PINK CREAM 69). The new...

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FIREBALL MINISTRY, ARTIMUS PYLEDRIVER and VAINS OF JENNA To Team Up For TRIPLE THREAT TOUR

While beer snobs around the world will soon flock to Germany for the country's annual Octoberfest, the more budget-conscious boozers among us will have an even more intoxicating entertainment option this fall right around the corner at the local rock bar. On Oct. 13, The Triple Threat Tour — featuri...

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WARMACHINE To Support INTO ETERNITY In Hamilton

Toronto's WARMACHINE will support INTO ETERNITY on Tuesday, September 26 at the Underground in Hamilton, Ontario. Also appearing the bill are WILL OF THE ANCIENTS, HEAVEN ABLAZE and NEXUS. WARMACHINE's debut album, "The Beginning of the End", was released in North America earlier in the year via Nig...

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GOJIRA: 'To Sirius' Video To Debut On 'Headbanger's Ball' This Weekend

French extreme metallers GOJIRA's video for the song "To Sirius" will make its North American debut this weekend (Sept. 23) on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" show. According to a press relase, the video is "a technical wonder produced by famous French photographer Alain Duplantier: it was entirely made...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Prepares For 'Invasion'

AVENGED SEVENFOLD guitarist Zacky Vengeance told AOL Music that his band got a kick out of everything that's happened to the quintet since they released their breakthrough album, "City of Evil", in June 2005. Along the way they've opened for METALLICA, traveled the world and, most recently, won an M...

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THESYRE Frontman Wins CELTIC FROST 'Roadie For A Die' Contest

Eric M. Syre, vocalist/bassist for Quebec-based black metallers THESYRE has posted the following update on his official blog: "On September 16th, in Montreal, I had the great opportunity to act as a CELTIC FROST roadie thanks to a contest the band organized on their website. "I first thought about p...

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ION VEIN Forced To Pull Off KAMELOT Bill In Illinois

Guitarist Chris Lotesto from Chicago-based progressive-power metallers ION VEIN has issued the following update: "We're making the official announcement that we have to pull off the bill with KAMELOT [on Sept. 30] at the Pearl Room in Mokena, IL due to the lack of a singer. We were hoping that somet...

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QUIET RIOT's BANALI, DUBROW Talk About New Album

Wayne "Doobie" Dubay of Glam-Metal.com recently conducted an interview with QUIET RIOT members Kevin DuBrow and Frankie Banali. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Glam-Metal.com: Kevin, I'm excited to hear that QUIET RIOT has a brand new studio album coming out, titled "Rehab". Mind telling...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer Responds To MASTODON's 'Stupid Remarks'

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has responded to remarks made by MASTODON's Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher in the November 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine in which they stated that DREAM THEATER "have a little Chinese girl playing bass" and "dress all gay." Hinds also went on to say, "They wea...

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MASTODON: DREAM THEATER 'Dress Gay' And 'Have A Little Chinese Girl Playing Bass'

Guitar World magazine interviewed MASTODON's Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher for its November 2006 issue. An excerpt from the chat follows: Guitar World: Let me posit something: You guys definitely have prog elements to your sound, and yet you're exciting and valid — you're cool. Why do you think you'...

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PESSIMIST Officially Laid To Rest

PESSIMIST guitarist Kelly McLauchlin (DIABOLIC) has released the following statement: "As most of you folks already know, I have recently joined the newly reformed DIABOLIC, along with founding DIABOLIC member and former UNHOLY GHOST bandmate Aantar Coates. "After parting ways with UNHOLY GHOST in M...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Will Not Be Touring With AVENGED SEVENFOLD This Fall

Despite reports that they'd be touring this fall as one of the support acts on AVENGED SEVENFOLD's upcoming North American tour, set to kick off in November, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will not be on the bill, according to MTV.com. As previously reported, the cover artwork for KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's new album,...