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Top Metal/Hardcore Albums Of 2005 As Voted By Writers Of Sweden's CLOSE-UP Magazine

A total of 30 metal, rock and punk writers at Sweden's Close–Up magazine have voted in the magazine's annual critics' album-of-the-year poll. The final results were as follows: 01. SYSTEM OF A DOWN – "Mezmerize" 02. OPETH – "Ghost Reveries" 03. NINE INCH NAILS – "With Teeth" 04. THE MARS VOLTA – "Fr...

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DAVID COVERDALE Says PURPLE Fans Deserve Better Than 'Highly Questionable' Live Albums

In a recent fan posting on the official WHITESNAKE message board, WHITESNAKE mainman David Coverdale was asked about the circumstances behind his departure from DEEP PURPLE and his allegedly "weak" performance (according to one reviewer) on Disc Four of the "Deep Purple on the Road" four-CD collecti...

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SWORN ENEMY Prepare To Release New Album, Hit The Road With ANTHRAX

Queens, New York-based SWORN ENEMY will release their Abacus Recordings debut, "The Beginning of the End", on January 24, 2006. The group's sophomore record, the new album was recorded at Big Fish Studios in San Diego with producer Tim Lambesis (AS I LAY DYING),engineer Steve Russell and mixer Zeus...

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P.O.D.'s EP Demos Give Fans A Peek At Next Album

Launch Radio Networks reports: P.O.D.'s latest release, "The Warriors EP, Vol. 2", features demo versions of two songs — "Teachers" and "Ya Mama" — which the group is considering for their upcoming album, "Testify". Frontman Sonny Sandoval told Launch that including them on the EP would let P.O.D.'s...

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Gospels for the Sick

Hey kids, look, another supergroup! SCUM brings together a motley crew of extreme musicians, including Casey Chaos (AMEN),Samoth and Faust (EMPEROR),Cosmocrator (MINDGRINDER),and Happy Tom (TURBONEGRO). Nocturno Culto (DARKTHRONE),Mortiis, and Knut "Euroboy" Schreider (TURBONEGRO, EUROBOYS) cont...

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Experience Is the Words That Are Written

Yet another of those bands bursting with potential, on the right track, and probably destined for great works if the vagaries of the real world don't do them in… but like so many before them, ABEYANCE is just not quite there yet — they're missing that crucial something that would put them into the u...

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WITCH Sign With TEE PEE RECORDS

WITCH, the band featuring J. Mascis of DINOSAUR JR. on drums alongside members of FEATHERS, have inked a deal with Tee Pee Records. WITCH began recording their self-titled debut record on October 10 with John Agnello (DINOSAUR JR., EARLY MAN, SCREAMING TREES, LAMB OF GOD) at the helm. The band's mus...

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'Cabras' Movie Soundtrack To Release 20 Metal Videos Online

In early 2006, the "Cabras" motion picture will become the first independent film to offer their entire official soundtrack's music videos for download on the new video iPods. There will be a total of 20 music videos available from artists such as Canada's politically charged metal act INNER SURGE,...

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DEFINE DIVINE: We Never Claimed Our Singer Was In CANNIBAL CORPSE

DEFINE DIVINE, the San Francisco-based metal band featuring former NEUROTICA/BALD DAISY guitarist Shawn Bowen and ex-NEUROTICA drummer G.J. Gosman, have issued the following statement regarding a previously published press release claiming that the group's singer, Angst, was once a member of "an ear...

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ANTHRAX's SCOTT IAN, BIOHAZARD's EVAN SEINFELD To Take Part In VH1's 'So Jewtastic'

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and BIOHAZARD frontman Evan Seinfeld are among the variety of music artists, TV and film stars, comedians, journalists and other celebrities who are scheduled to appear on VH1's "All Access Presents: So Jewtastic" — a celebration of everything you knew, and lots of stuff...

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'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 U.S. and Canadian alternative metal, emocore, hardcore, math metal, metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands. In the mid-'90s, in the wake of grunge...

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HIMSA, THE ACACIA STRAIN To Support DARKEST HOUR

Prosthetic Records has announced that both HIMSA and THE ACACIA STRAIN will be teaming out to tear through the United States this February and March. The Prosthetic labelmates will help round out the melting pot of sounds along a string of North American dates that also features DEAD TO FALL, A LIFE...

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ALL SHALL PERISH Announce New Vocalist; New Song Available For Download

Oakland, CA-based death metal band ALL SHALL PERISH have posted a new demo song featuring their new singer, Eddie Hermida (ex-GUNMETAL GREY). The track, entitled "Eradication", can be downloaded at this location. In addition to acquiring a new lead singer, the band were recently joined by lead guita...

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Singer MARC STORACE Talks About The KROKUS Carousel

Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with KROKUS frontman Marc Storace. An excerpt from the chat follows: Classic Rock Revisited: Has anyone complained about Fernando [Von Arb] not being a part of KROKUS? Marc: "Hardly anybody. There were one or two hardcore Fernando fans that we t...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: 'I Would Have Taken A Bullet' For DIMEBAG

Former PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has spoken exclusively to Revolver magazine (web site) about the death of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, Anselmo's much-rumored substance-abuse problems and the role the heavy metal media has played in PANTERA's eventual demise, among many other topics. Several exce...