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Strange Cousins From The West

Took a while for me to get into this one, and that threw me for a loop after the last coupla slabs of immediate, delectable, relentlessly-catchy CLUTCH stoner swamp groove. "Strange Cousins From the West" is an altogether slinkier beast, taut and sparse, with a lot of sinewy funk and dirt-floor blue...

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SENTINEL BEAST Pulls Out Of Germany's THRASH ASSAULT 4 Festival

Reactivated '80s Sacramento, California thrashers SENTINEL BEAST have cancelled their appearance at the at the Thrash Assault 4 festival, which will be held on November 14, 2009 at Posthalle in Würzburg, Germany. According to the festival organizers, the band was forced to call off its performance d...

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KATATONIA Members Talk About Their Influences

RevolverMag.com has uploaded a video clip (see below) of KATATONIA members Anders Nyström (guitars) and Jonas Renkse (vocals) taking a trip to a local record store to talk about a few musical influences that played a significant role in writing the band's new album, "Night Is The New Day", as well a...

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EUMERIA Parts Ways With Bassist, Announces Replacement

EUMERIA, the brainchild of former OUTWORLD keyboardist Bobby Williamson, is recording its debut album at Origin Sound in Spring, Texas with producer Craig Douglas (HELSTAR, NECROFAITH, LYCOPHILE). Williamson says, "Due to an unfortunate injury to EUMERIA bassist Shawn Kascak's hand, the band has cho...

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TIWANAKU: New Song Featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist Posted Online

TIWANAKU, the central Florida-based metal band featuring Emo Mowery (ex-NOCTURNUS) on guitar/vocals and Mike Estes (BURNING INSIDE, ACHERON) on guitar, and newest addition, Royse Bassham on drums, has uploaded a song called "Today in Battle", featuring a guest appearance by bassist Alex Webster (CAN...

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DESEXULT: 'S.O.D. F.O.A.D.' 1986 Demo Available For Download

The 1986 five-song "S.O.D. F.O.A.D." demo cassette by groundbreaking Danish death metal act DESEXULT has been made available for download at the Bazillion Points metal demo blog. According to a posting on the site, "The infamous 'S.O.D.F.O.A.D' cassette was the original European death metal dismissa...

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EXODUS: TV-Broadcast-Quality Footage From Colombia Available

Vocalist Rob Dukes of San Francisco Bay Are thrashers EXODUS has issued the following update: "We spent three months with KREATOR over the last half year and [the last night] was an awesome way to end the tour. "Sao Paulo is amazing, the fans are great, but really, all of South America has been grea...

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Those Whom The Gods Detest

It seems that every time an artist is interviewed about his or her newest piece of work, they're quick to call the effort their "best yet," or be otherwise complimentary towards the album. After all, nobody in their right mind would doubt themselves in the faces of their fans and every musician stri...

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All Shall Fall

"Highly anticipated" does not do justice to the eagerness with which fans have waited for IMMORTAL's first album since 2002's "Sons of Northern Darkness". Much like EMPEROR, we are talking about band that inspires rabid devotion from both fans and critics because of a one-of-a-kind status in black m...

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Skeletons in the Closet

On the heels of the underwhelming "Blooddrunk", Finland's CHILDREN OF BODOM deliver the typical covers-album career stopgap, but being CHILDREN OF BODOM, and unable to do anything that isn't ludicrously over the top, they've cranked out seventeen jams that range from the expected to the interesting...

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Process of a New Decline

The chances that you will read a negative review of GOROD's "Process of a New Decline" are slim at best. The French tech-death band's follow up to "Leading Vision" has been hailed as one of the year's best albums of its kind. It would seem that GOROD has in fact earned its place among the ...

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Interviewed By PureGrainAudio.com

Spencer Matulaitis of PureGrainAudio.com conducted an interview with vocalist Trevor Strnad and bassist Ryan Williams of Michigan's THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER on September 26, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Watch the 10-minute chat below. "Deflorate", the new album from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, sold...

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EX DEO Forced To Cancel Dates On ENSIFERUM Tour

EX DEO, the the Ancient Roman-themed arsenal led by KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono, has pulled out of the ENSIFERUM tour for visa matters beyond the band's control. Commented Maurizio: "Well, the Gods are definitely not smiling on us at the moment. Some confusion happened in the visa departement...

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W.A.S.P.: More 'The Crimson Covers' Tribute Album Details Revealed

Hamburg, Germany-based record label Remedy Records is putting together a W.A.S.P. tribute album, entitled "W.A.S.P. Tribute - The Crimson Covers". The collection will be released early 2010 as a limited-edition two-CD set for the price of a normal CD. It will be mastered by Marius Costache, who has...

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JACK STARR Interviewed On METAL RULES! RADIO

Jack Starr (VIRGIN STEELE, DEVIL CHILDE, PHANTOM LORD, GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME) was interviewed for episode 26 of Metal Rules! Radio. The entire podcast can now be streamed using the audio player below. The latest BURNING STARR CD, "Defiance", was released via Magic Circle Music, the record label own...