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Entering the Diabolic Trinity

Long-running underground U.S. black metal act SATHANAS drop their fifth album courtesy of Singapore's Pulverised Records (pay attention to this label). Blackened thrash is more like it, with an emphasis on the thrash part. The secret to "Entering the Diabolic Trinity" is in its non-nonsense, in-your...

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DIAMANTHIAN Part Ways With Drummer, Seek Replacement

U.K. death metallers DIAMANTHIAN have parted ways with drummer and co-founder Pete Watson. The split was amicable, with Pete deciding to concentrate on his family and university studies. Anyone wishing to fill the vacant stool should contact the band through their web site, www.fuckingmetal.com. DIA...

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EIDOMANTUM To Release New Seven-Inch Single

Swedish cult old-school black metal maniacs EIDOMANTUM will release a seven-inch single containing two brand new tracks ("Fear the Master" and "Black Aura") that show a new side of the band — described in a press release as "decidedly more heavy metal in their approach than earlier material. Imagine...

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DECEASED: More New Songtitles Revealed

Virginia's veteran '80s/death/thrash act DECEASED have posted the following message on their official web site: "Work will begin soon on our next album, entitled 'Surreal Overdose'. Songtitles are 'Skin Crawling Progress', 'Kindred Assembly', 'The Traumatic', 'A Doom Laden Aura', 'Resemblence', 'Glo...

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The Acoustic Verses

Anyone unfamiliar with the pedigree of GREEN CARNATION could be forgiven for thinking this EP was, at various intervals, a new product from COLDPLAY, U2, PINK FLOYD or PORCUPINE TREE. Make no mistake, while this is all acoustic, it's as lush, orchestrated, and enigmatic as any "electric" album from...

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Kontamination

Limited to 2,000 hand-numbered copies, Southern Lord offers to the grim U.S. black metal masses "Kontamination" from France's HAEMOTH. A limited edition (300 copies) picture disc was also issued, but has sold out. The "as real as it gets" cliché truly applies in the case of this incredibly abrasive...

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Prologue

Former HANGNAIL vocalist Heck Armstrong has been kicking around the scene for years, but he's still got that teen scream going on, the primal yowl of a pimply young Chris Cornell celebrating the onset of his first pubes by caterwauling along with his beat-to-shit ZEPPELIN tapes in the shower. It's a...

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Synchestra

As much as I enjoy STRAPPING YOUNG LAD I always find myself enjoying THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND more. It is something about the way Canada's resident musical genius wraps beautiful melodies around layers of soulful wisp and intense emotion. Much like "Accelerated Evolution", "Synchestra" takes repeat l...

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Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue

Eight musicians play an assortment of instruments that include cello, double-bass, bells, viola, violin, and trumpet, as well as guitar, bass, and drums. Sixty minutes of music is produced, all of which demonstrates the members' distaste for convention. Boston's KAYO DOT is not out to make things ea...

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DECEASED Announce New Album Title

Virginia's veteran '80s/death/thrash act DECEASED have posted the following message on their official web site: "We will be taking a break from playing live this winter to start writing songs for our next release, tentatively entitled 'Surreal Overdose'. Songtitles in the works are 'Skin Crawling Pr...

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Unraveled

Wholly outside of any trend in metal, yet influential to many more famous musicians, CONFESSOR make good on their recent reformation with this weighty slab of downtrodden, progressive, cathartic doom bleakness. Serpentine rhythms, hair-raising vocals full of dissonant melody and soul-sobbing misery,...

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Disciple of the Heinous Path

Far from any reinvention of the wheel, SARGEIST's "Disciple of the Heinous Path" is a good example of well-written, old school, Norwegian-inspired black metal that just happens to be played by Finns. Morbid guitar melodies and primitive riff tones abound, and a natural drum sound, Torog's strained c...

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The Fallen One of Flames

Here's a little history lesson, courtesy of the kult-hounds over at Paragon (CHARNEL VALLEY, the torturous RIGOR SARDONICUS). Recorded in the winter of 1991-92 in the Arctic darkness of northern Finland, this demo captures a real sense of the haunting atmosphere black metal was originally meant to i...

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ARCTURUS To Appear On MTV's 'Dirty Sanchez'

Norway's ARCTURUS have been confirmed to appear on MTV's "Dirty Sanchez", filmed during the Inferno Festival earlier this year. The show featuring the band will be broadcast on September 18 at 10:30 p.m. (BST). MTV U.K.'s popular production, "Dirty Sanchez" appeared at Inferno during their special E...

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Atavism

In addition to having the weirdest song titles of the year, an album cover straight out of Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy, and a sound that is as violently unfashionable as it is charismatic, San Francisco's SLOUGH FEG manage to pull off the eccentric vibe of long-deleted 1982 "true metal" without des...