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CELESTIAL SEASON: 'Solar Lovers' Reissue To Contain Bonus Material

Displeased Records has announced plans to reissue the 1995 album "Solar Lovers" from the acclaimed Dutch metal band CELESTIAL SEASON in a combined package with three EPs as bonus material: "Sonic Orb" (1995),"Above Azure Oceans" (1994) and "Flowerskin" (1993). The re-release is expected before the...

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CONFESSOR: Photos From Norway's SONIC SOLSTICE Festival Posted Online

Photos of reunited North Carolina-based progressive metallers CONFESSOR performing live in Oslo, Norway in late September as part of the Sonic Solstice festival, have been posted online in the "Pics" section of the band's official web site, www.confessorband.com. Additionally, the group are putting...

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GAMMACIDE: 1990's 'Victims Of Science' Reissued With Bonus Tracks

Long out of print and available on CD for the first time, GAMMACIDE's 1990 release, "Victims of Science", has been reissued. All nine tracks of ripping thrash metal intensity have been digitally remastered for maximum sonic damage. As a special bonus, six extra tracks have been included: the four ul...

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AKERCOCKE To Tour Europe With MORTICIAN, BLOOD RED THRONE

After crushing the U.K. in October with a brace of shows and the unleashing of the beast that is new album "Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone", British Satanic metallers AKERCOCKE have announced they will be teaming up with MORTICIAN and BLOOD RED THRONE to lay waste to the continent that...

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OMNIUM GATHERUM Guitarist Says New Keyboardist Is 'Energetic As A Monkey'

Guitarist Markus Vanhalla of the Finnish death metallers OMNIUM GATHERUM has issued the following update: "OMNIUM GATHERUM is doing only two gigs at the end of this year, as we have to take a pause in composing material for the new album. These gigs are both Finnish indoor festivals — Rocklinna Meta...

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AKERCOCKE: Limited-Edition Version Of New Album To Include 7" Single

Earache Records has set an October 10 European release date for the fourth album from U.K. satanic death metallers AKERCOCKE, entitled "Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone". The album will be released in two different formats — regular CD and limited edition version containing a bonus 30-mi...

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DYSRHYTHMIA To Enter Studio In December

DYSRHYTHMIA will be entering B.C. Studios in Brooklyn, NY with engineer Martin Bisi (SWANS, SONIC YOUTH, JOHN ZORN) in early December to record their new album, entitled "Barriers and Passages". "Barriers and Passages" is set for a spring 2006 release. A demo version of a new DYSRHYTHMIA track, enti...

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ELVENKING: New Album To Feature Guest Appearance By DESTRUCTION Frontman

Italian folk/power metal band ELVENKING have set "The Winter Wake" as the title of their third album, due on January 27, 2006 via AFM Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Wyrd" was recorded at Sherpa Studios (Italy),mixed at Sonic Pump Studios by Nino Laurenne and mastered at Finnvox Studios by Mika J...

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WINTERSUN Announce Working Title For New Album

WINTERSUN, the band led by former ENSIFERUM singer Jari Mäenpää, have set "Time" as the working title of their new album, tentatively due late 2006 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to the group's self-titled debut album (released last September) will be recorded in May 2006 at Sonic Pump Stu...

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AMORAL: 'Decrowning' International Release Date Pushed Forward

The international release date for Finnish techno-thrashers AMORAL's second album, "Decrowning", is now October 10 and not November 21 as previously announced. The Finnish release date for the CD is still October 5. "Decrowning" was mastered on August 4 at Finnvox studios by Mika Jussila. AMORAL sig...

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French Black Metal Band ANOREXIA NERVOSA's Lyrics Cited By Suicidal Teenager

BBC News is reporting that France has reacted with horror as details emerged this week of the twin suicide of two teenage girls who bound their hands together and jumped from the 17th-story window of a block of flats (photo) in Paris. The 14-year old girls, who have been named only ...

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AMORPHIS Complete Work On New Album

Finland's AMORPHIS completed the final mix for their new album on Saturday, September 24 at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki with Mikko Karmila (who previously worked with the group on their "Am Universum" CD). The follow-up to last year's "Far from the Sun" was recorded at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki...

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AKERCOCKE: New Songs Posted Online

Two brand-new AKERCOCKE tracks, "Verdelet" and "The Penance", have been posted online at www.myspace.com/akercocke. The songs come off the U.K. black/death metallers' fourth album, "Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone", tentatively due in early 2006 via Earache Records. The follow-up to 200...

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Priest Satisfied With Australian Black Metal Fan's Three-Year Sentence

Australia's News.com.au has issued the following report: A priest whose century-old church was burned to the ground by a drunken teenage heavy metal fan said today he was satisfied with the three-year sentence the arsonist received. Reverend Ron Rosinsky said a "lingering sadness" remained in his Me...

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Solace

"Solace" defined: "A source of comfort or consolation." My ass! In a brutal twist of sarcasm, Montreal's ION DISSONANCE has eschewed all that is commercially accessible and aurally pleasing, opting instead for an involuntary sonic enema. Fans of fellow Canadian psycho-core madmen DESPISED ICON, as w...