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Jack Knife Rendezvous

Dunderheaded German metal with a clunky punk attack, like a more low-rent version of the first MAIDEN record, complete with endearingly off-key vocals, rudimentary twin leads and titles like "Bleed For My Strings" and "Witch of Death" to ensure maximum metal cliché goofiness. The end result is somew...

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ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Reports On NAMM, South American Tour

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Myself and Daniel Erlandsson [drums] traveled to sunny California last month and spent a few days at the NAMM convention. We had a wail of time hanging out and doing the NAMM thing! "So I met a lot...

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BLIND GUARDIAN, Ex-NIGHTWISH Singers Added To 20th Anniversary NUCLEAR BLAST Compilation

RAGE guitarist Victor Smolski is working on a compilation CD to celebrate Nuclear Blast Records' 20th anniversary, entitled "Into the Light". Smolski composed, recorded and produced about 10 songs for various metal artists that are part of the Nuclear Blast history, including a track that is being r...

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'Metal: The Definitive Guide' Book Due In April

Garry Sharpe-Young's next book, a 608-page, 600,000-word treatise simply titled "Metal: The Definitive Guide", will be published in the U.S. on April 28 by Backbeat Books. Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST provided the foreword. He wrote, in part, "From its beginnings out of Birmingham, England in the lat...

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PATHS OF POSSESSION Drummer Launches Recording Studio

Drummer Nick Goodyear (PATHS OF POSSESSION, DARK FAITH, PROMETHEAN HORDE, EVISCERATOR) has opened up Death n Decay Studios and is currently working with VIREXDA, the new band featuring members of DARK FAITH and CRIMSON MASSACRE. Other recent projects include SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE...

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METALLICA's HAMMETT Talks About Meeting LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD; Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett about the San Francisco Bay Area club scene and the first t...

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SEBASTIAN BACH Starting Mixing Process On 'Angel Down'

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has posted the following message on his official web site: "Greetings from Hollywood, California ! I am busy here doing two things: 1. Filming a new episode of the 'Gilmore Girls' for the CW newtork! and 2. Starting the mixing process on the 'Angel Down' CD! O...

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Singer JOHN BUSH: 'I Am Not Ready' To Commit To ANTHRAX Again

On January 23, 2007, Bob Nalbandian of Shockwaves magazine conducted a 36-minute interview with ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX vocalist John Bush about Bush's current status with ANTHRAX and his future plans. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET from Shockwaves Podcas...

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GENITORTURERS Putting Finishing Touches On Studio Album, DVD

Florida-based "shock-rock" band GENITORTURERS, featuring MORBID ANGEL frontman David "Evil D" Vincent on bass, is currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on two new releases for 2007 — a new full-length album and a live DVD. More information will be made available soon. In other news G...

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THE ACCUSED: New Songs Available For Free Download

Seattle's reigning kings of "splatter rock" THE ACCUSED have posted two songs from their latest studio session — "Fuck Sorry" and "Scotty Came Back" — at their official web site, www.splatterrock.com. The session that yielded the "Why Even Try?" EP was helmed by Randall Dunn at a recording facility...

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Eschaton

Sometimes a band can tweak the conventions of their chosen genre, not so much reinventing anything as just approaching things in a slightly different way, and by doing so they can set benchmarks for lesser mortals to follow. ENTOMBED's "Clandestine" comes to mind — on the surface, it was a slightly...

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BEHEMOTH To Play Israel In April

According to Metal Israel, Polish extreme metal titans BEHEMOTH are scheduled to perform at the Theatre Club in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 21. BEHEMOTH is currently hard at work in the studio tracking its much-anticipated new album, "The Apostasy", which is set for a summer release. The new effort is...

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ICARUS WITCH: Photos From NAMM Posted Online

Pittsburgh traditional metal upstarts ICARUS WITCH took a week off from recording their new album to take part in a meet-and-greet at the Dean Markley guitar strings booth at the NAMM show in late January. Pictures from the event can be seen at the band's MySpace page. ICARUS WITCH is back in the .....

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Former DEATH/MASSACRE Vocalist KAM LEE Talks About His New Band DENIAL FIEND

Masterful Magazine recently conducted an interview with former DEATH/MASSACRE and current DENIAL FIEND vocalist Kam Lee. A few excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow: Masterful Magazine: What have you been up to since the split of MASSACRE? I read in an old interview that you are a com...

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SLAYER Guitarist Says ABC-TV Put Last-Minute 'Gag Order' On Band's 'Jimmy Kimmel' Performance

Ashley Brown of The Kansas City Star reports: For the second year SLAYER has been nominated for a Grammy in the best metal performance category. It goes to the ceremony, according to guitarist Kerry King, if only for the courtesy booze. "We went for the parties with no intention of winning," he says...