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MINISTRY Mainman On MIKE SCACCIA's Passing: 'I Just Lost A Huge Chunk Of My Heart Today'

MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen has released the following statement regarding the passing of the band's guitarist, Mike Scaccia: "I just lost my lil' brother and my best friend. The 13th Planet compound is devastated, completely in shock and shattered. Mikey was not only the best guitar player in th...

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MINISTRY, RIGOR MORTIS Guitarist MIKE SCACCIA Dead At 47

Guitarist Mike Scaccia, who is best known for his work with MINISTRY, RIGOR MORTIS and the REVOLTING COCKS, died last night (Saturday, December 22) of a sudden heart attack brought on by a heart disease (official cause of death: atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease),according to the Tarra...

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JEFF PILSON Discusses T&N Debut In New Audio Interview

On November 6, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Jeff Pilson of T&N (formerly TOOTH AND NAIL),the new project featuring current and former members of DOKKEN. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. "Slave To The Empire"...

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Why Are There So Few African-Americans In Metal?

Katon W. De Pena (pictured below) of long-running Long Beach, California-based metallers HIRAX is one of only a handful of black singers fronting metal and hard rock bands. Although there have been other African-Americans playing this genre of music — Jimi Hendrix, Phil Lynott (THIN LIZZY),Byron Da...

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EDENBRIDGE: New Album Title Revealed

Austrian female-fronted symphonic metallers EDENBRIDGE have set "The Bonding" as the title of their eighth studio album, which is scheduled for release in early 2013. Commented the band: "'The Bonding' is the connection of the baby to the mother right after the birth, as well as the connection to th...

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Former MERCYFUL FATE/KING DIAMOND Guitarist Launches DENNERS TRICKBAG

Legendary Danish heavy metal guitarist Michael Denner (MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND) has launched a brand new band called DENNERS TRICKBAG. "It's a project Denner started about six months ago," the guitarist's webmaster tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "First, he wanted to make some good music, with some of h...

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Music For New TOOL Album 'More Than Halfway' Done

According to The Pulse Of Radio, TOOL's webmaster posted a lengthy message online this week in which he claims that the band may be "more than halfway" finished writing the music for their fifth studio effort. The webmaster wrote, "While riding with Danny [Carey, drums] to Chili John's yesterday, I...

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NERVOCHAOS To Release 'To The Death' In January

Brazilian death metallers NERVOCHAOS will release their new album, "To The Death", on January 22 via Greyhaze Records. According to a press release, "To The Death" is "nothing short of a relentless onslaught and features guest performances by big names in the international and South American metal s...

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VOIVOD Drummer Says New Guitarist 'Was Very Well Accepted By Everybody'

Patrick Prince of Powerline magazine recently conducted an interview with drummer Michel "Away" Langevin of Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Powerline: You have said that you think this new album has all the elements of VOIVOD throughout its history. Obvio...

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LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH's 'Baphometic Chaosium' Due In January

Los Angeles underground black metallers LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH will release their third full-length album, "Baphometic Chaosium", on January 22 via Metal Blade Records. The band has appropriately become a five-piece (completing the pentacle) with the recruitment of lead guitarist "Inverted" Chris...

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BARONESS: New Acoustic Performance Footage Posted Online

A clip of BARONESS' John Baizley and Pete Adams playing an acoustic version of the song "Stretchmarker" can be seen below. The clip, recorded in Baizley's Philadelphia art studio, marks the first performance the band members have shared since their horrific bus accident in August. "Simply put: it's...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE To Release New Album In April

Vocalist Jesse Leach of Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE announced during the band's performance last night (Sunday, December 16) at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York that their new studio album will be released in April 2013 via Roadrunner Records. The CD was recorded by...

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Silverthorn

A few years back, I was stranded outside a venue as guest of a band opening for symphonic metallers KAMELOT. My hosts had been detained at customs on the same day as the gig, hence their late arrival. Fortunately for me, I'd interviewed former KAMELOT vocalist Roy Khan a week prior and the band spie...

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Honor Found in Decay

Hundreds of disciples have tried to wander into the same plats of dark grandeur through metes and bounds of metallic survey. All territory NEUROSIS painstakingly blazed as far back as 1992's "Souls at Zero", considered the band's morphing point from a hardcore act into excavators of sonic expression...

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WhoCares

This release may be a few months old already, but in the season of giving, it's perhaps prudent to shine the light on a benefit project if for nothing else, to serve as a reminder that music does serve a higher purpose when it wants to. Last year, Ian Gillan and Tony Iommi joined audile ...