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MASTODON To Play New Year's Eve Show In Atlanta

MASTODON will play a very special New Year's Eve show in their hometown of Atlanta at The Masquerade. Support at the gig will come from ARTIMUS PYLEDRIVER, GONZALEZ and CINJED. Tickets and more information can be found at www.masq.com. MASTODON are tentatively planning on entering the studio in Febr...

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EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY, IMMOLATION: More East Coast Dates Announced

According to the band's booking agent, EXODUS will be teaming up with CRYPTOPSY and IMMOLATION for the following East Coast dates: Apr. 27 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx Apr. 28 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance Apr. 29 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium Apr. 30 - New York, NY @ B.B. King's EXODUS will ...

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EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY, IMMOLATION To Team Up For U.S. Tour?

According to the upcoming events calendar on New York City's B.B. King's Blues Club web site, EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY and IMMOLATION will be teaming up for a April 30, 2006 show at the venue. Additional dates are expected to be announced soon. EXODUS are continuing to tour in support of their latest album...

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From the Dead End Blocks Where Life Means Nothing

I guess this is the week for SHATTERED REALM press on Blabbermouth. Little did I know that a review of "From the Dead End Blocks Where Life Means Nothing" (the follow-up to 2002's "Broken Ties…Spoken Lies…") would dovetail with news of a shooting death at the band's Tucson performance on December 7...

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MASTODON Drummer Says New Album Will Be 'More Progressive' And 'Thrashier'

MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor recently spoke to Revolver magazine about the group's upcoming Warner Bros. debut, tentatively due late summer 2006. "We want the whole thing to flow together as one big piece of music, where the end of one song links up with the beginning of the next one," he said. "We...

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THINE EYES BLEED Taking Time Off From The Road To Write New Album

London, Ontario-based thrash/metalcore act THINE EYES BLEED, who feature in their ranks former KITTIE guitarist/technician Jeff Phillips and bassist John Araya (brother of SLAYER's Tom Araya),will be taking time off from the road over the next few months to concentrate on writing the follow-up to t...

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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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Heavy Metal Musicians Remember DIMEBAG DARRELL

MTV News spoke with members of some 30 hard rock and metal bands about their memories of late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. They told MTV how much he'd meant to them, they shared fond memories and spoke of the impact he made on their lives and their music. A few excerpts fro...

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Mythological Occult Metal 1991-2001

Not a best-of, which North America in particular could really use, but rather a nicely-packaged odds-and-sods collection of rarities from this ever-mutating, currently on hiatus Texas underground horde. You'd have to be a big fan to begin with to shell out cash for a 99-minute excursion into underpr...

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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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SLAYER's New Song May Address 9/11 Attacks From Terrorists' Perspective

Los Angeles thrash masters SLAYER are preparing to enter the studio to begin recording the long-awaited follow-up to the band's acclaimed 2001 release, "God Hates Us All". According to Revolver magazine, SLAYER guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman are currently finishing up the lyrics, which will...

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THE ACCURSED Part Ways With Guitarist, Seek Replacement

Guitarist Chris "Loki" Ellingsen has announced his departure from the New Bedford, Massachusetts melodic thrash metallers THE ACCURSED. "[Loki] has been with us from the start, helped form and mold THE ACCURSED into the killing metal machine that it is today," the band write on their web site. "It i...

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THE MIGHTY NIMBUS Working On Concept Album

Minnesota's THE MIGHTY NIMBUS are currently working on their second full-length album, "Chronicles of the Northern Beast", tentatively due in 2006 via Threeman Recordings (Candlelight Records in the U.S.). Commented frontman Alexander "The Yeti" Bones: "We are not fucking around. This is serious shi...

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BLOOD TSUNAMI To Play Oslo This Weekend

BLOOD TSUNAMI, the Oslo, Norway-based thrash metal band featuring drummer Bård G. Eithun (a.k.a. Faust; SCUM, ABORYM, ex-EMPEROR),will make their next live appearance on Saturday, December 3 at John Dee in Oslo. The concert, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of Body Map merchandise, will also i...

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APOCALYPTICA Change Location Of DVD Shoot

Due to "technical reasons," Finnish cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA will not be able to record their upcoming live DVD in Erfurt (Dec. 2) and have changed the location of the shoot to Duesseldorf, Germany (Dec. 4). As previously reported, APOCALYPTICA will be headliner of the prestigious opening night pa...