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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...

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DEATHRASH: Rare Video Footage Unearthed

Bassist/founding member Pat Burns of the reunited New Jersey thrashers DEATHRASH has issued the following update: "We got word last weekend that a video from our Sept. 27, 1986 show at The Grunge Club has surfaced! This is excellent news as we have been looking for a copy since we got back together....

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SLAYER On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!': 'Eyes Of The Insane' Performance Posted Online

A video clip of SLAYER performing the song "Eyes of the Insane" on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Friday night (January 19) has been posted online at YouTube.com. SLAYER played a total of six tracks during their first-ever network television appearance, but only "Eyes" was broadcast in its entirety;...

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SLAYER On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!': First-Hand Account

SLAYER made its first-ever network television appearance on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last night (Friday, January 19),performing in front of a 1,000 fans on an outdoor stage in Hollywood, California. A BLABBERMOUTH.NET visitor by the name of Michael James Seidenberg has submitted the following...

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SLAYER: 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Songs Revealed

BLABBERMOUTH.NET has just received official word that SLAYER will play two songs — "Eyes of the Insane" and "Jihad" — on air during the band's first-ever network television appearance on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" which is set for tonight (Friday, January 19). "Eyes" will be broadcast in its enti...

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FEAR MY THOUGHTS, THE CREETINS Confirmed For Germany's WITH FULL FORCE Festival

FEAR MY THOUGHTS and THE CREETINS have been confirmed for this year's With Full Force festival, set to take place June 29 – July 1 at Flugplatz Roitzschjora in Löbnitz, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMON AMARTH BAD MANNERS BARCODE BOLD BRUJE...

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SLAYER Visits U.S. Troops In Germany; Video Available

Blender.com has posted a three-minute video of SLAYER paying a visit, on November 8, 2006, to the 52nd Services Squadron, located on the Spangdahlem U.S. Air Force Base in Germany. The band, whose latest release, "Christ Illusion", deals with the brutality of war and religions fanaticism, scrutinizi...

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APOCALYPTICA: 'The Band Is In Great Mood, Motivated And Working Hard'

Eicca Toppinen, the primary composer of the Finnish cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA, has issued the following update: "We are still working on pre-production for the [new] album, so there is nothing special to announce beside that we've decided to start drum recordings with Mikko [Sirén] beginning of Mar...

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KERRY KING Is Surprised RICK RUBIN Is Working With 'Sinking Ship' METALLICA

AZNightBuzz.com has published a few assorted quotes from SLAYER guitarist Kerry King ahead of the band's appearance next Wednesday (Jan. 24) at the Tucson Arena: On President Bush: Kerry King: "Everyone in the world's laughing at him. I don't really pay too much attention to politics, but I do know...

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH On New Songs: 'We're Trying To Be As Self-Critical As Possible'

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke to Revolver magazine (web site) about the writing process for the group's new album, tentatively due before the end of the year via Warner Bros. Records. "It's nice not to walk into the studio and all of sudden there's three cameras in your face and you h...