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EPICA Begins Recording New Album

Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA have issued the following update: "As of today, EPICA has started the recordings for their fifth full-length album. This still-untitled album will expectedly be released by Nuclear Blast on March 9th, 2012. EPICA entered the famous Gate studios in Germany once more to...

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GODSMACK Frontman Interviewed On Alaska's KWHL 106.5 (Audio)

On September 1, Alice of Anchorage, Alaska's KWHL 106.5 radio station conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. "The Oracle", the fifth album from GODSMACK, sold 117,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release...

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ANTHRAX Members Talk About Upcoming Tour With TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL (Video)

Video footage of ANTHRAX members Scott Ian (guitar) and Charlie Benante (drums) talking to AOL's Noisecreepabout their upcoming U.S. tour with TESTAMENT and DEATH ANGEL can be seen below. ANTHRAX and TESTAMENT, who haven't toured together in more than a decade, are set to co-headline a U.S. tour beg...

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METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, EXODUS Featured In 'Murder In The Front Row' Book; Cover Unveiled

Bazillion Points Books has revealed the hardcover jacket artwork and page samples for "Murder In The Front Row: Shots From The Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter", by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew. This spectacular large-format 272-page view inside "the metal scene that banged those heads that did not ba...

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REDEMPTION: New Song Available For Streaming

REDEMPTION, the U.S. progressive metal band featuring in its ranks guitarist/songwriter Nick van Dyk and legendary FATES WARNING vocalist Ray Alder, will release its fifth studio album, "This Mortal Coil", on September 26 in Europe and October 11 in North America via InsideOut Music. The follow-up t...

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GRAVEWORM: First 'Fragments Of Death' Trailer Released

Italian dark metal outfit GRAVEWORM will release its new album, "Fragments Of Death", on October 21 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2009's "Diabolical Figures" was recorded in July at the Dream Sound Studios in Munich, Germany and was mastered by Jan Vacik. According to a press release,...

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SLASH To Attend Opening Of Largest Guitar Emporium In The U.K.

Legendary guitarist Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES) is heading to the U.K. this September to personally open the finest guitar haven in the south, GuitarGuitar. He will be at GuitarGuitar's Epsom store from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 15 for an autograph signing, and most im...

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EDGUY Singer: 'Creating Music Is Not Only A Profession For Me, It's Something I Need To Do'

David E. Gehlke of Blistering.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist Tobias Sammet of German melodic metallers EDGUY. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Blistering.com: With all of the work you have done recently with AVANTASIA, is it easy to get back into EDGUY mode? Sammet...

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ANTHRAX, TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL: U.S. Tour Dates Announced

Thrash titans ANTHRAX and TESTAMENT, who haven't toured together in more than a decade, are set to co-headline a U.S. tour beginning Friday, October 14 in Grand Rapids, Michigan (itinerary below). ANTHRAX will close all shows, and DEATH ANGEL will be main support for the entire tour. The coast-to-co...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Donating To Police, Firefighters To Mark September 11

According to The Pulse Of Radio, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and the Rockstar Uproar Festival are working with Hartford, Connecticut radio station WCCC to raise funds in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of September 11 this year. The tour and the band will both make a dollar for dollar match of all donatio...

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Warriors of Ice

The sound of VOIVOD is as distinctive today as it was 25 years ago. That's what happens when the only item left behind after VOIVOD arrived from outer space onto sovereign Canadian land and turned metal world upside down was a broken and battered mold. Check out the 15-track set recorded live at Mon...

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Live in Black

Always wondered about all the fuss over this Jorn Lande fellow or were curious about the quality level of the material on his eight studio albums? Then "Live in Black" is the album — make that a double-CD/DVD combo — for you since it offers a nice cross section of music from a band called ...

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The Deluge

"This reissue of 'The Deluge' is dedicated to all the fans that have kept MANILLA ROAD alive for more than three decades," is the statement made by vocalist/guitarist/composer Mark "The Shark" Shelton in the liners notes of this Shadow Kingdom reintroduction of what many consider the Wichita, Kansas...

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Devouring

An early death metal form of thrash metal or a death-tinged brand of thrash; any way you dice it, EXCRUCIATOR's "Devouring" is still a thrash metal album, albeit one on the heavier end of the spectrum. No molds have been broken and the old school spirit thrives on the Portland act's solid full-lengt...

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The Death of Hope

With the rise of a trio of underground stars — INSIDIOUS DECREPANCY, PUTRID PILE, and BLOODSOAKED — came something that has traditionally been handed out by death metal fans with the utmost selectivity: Respect. Shawn Whitaker, Shaun LaCanne, and Peter Hasselbrack, respectively, have earned it with...