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EX DEO Chooses Different Song For Next Video

EX DEO, the Ancient Roman-themed arsenal led by KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono, recently returned home after making its North American debut alongside ENSIFERUM and BLACKGUARD. "If the debut shows in North America and Europe have had these results, the future looks bright as the empire rises fro...

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SOULGRIND: Video Footage From The Studio Posted Online

Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "The Tuoni Pathway" — the ninth album from SOULGRIND, the Finnish band featuring former LULLACRY frontwoman Tanja "Whisper Lilith" Kemppainen (a.k.a. Tanya) — can be viewed below. "The Tuoni Pathway" is scheduled for release in April 2010 via U.K.'s Femme...

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JOE STUMP Performing 'Blackmore's Boogie' In Michigan; Video Available

High-quality video footage of guitar virtuoso Joe Stump (HOLYHELL, REIGN OF TERROR) performing the song "Blackmore's Boogie" on October 9, 2009 at Planet Rock in Battle Creek, Michigan can be viewed below. "Blackmore's Boogie" is featured on Stump's latest album "Virtuostic Vendetta", which was rele...

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CODE Frontman Launches 'Mega Therion' Club In Helsinki

British singer Kvohst (born Mathew McNerney; CODE, DØDHEIMSGARD) has issued the following update: "I have a new heavy metal/rock club night starting in Helsinki, Finland, next Thursday! I called it Mega Therion which means Great Beast, in homage to Crowley himself, the language of the Greeks, and, o...

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D.R.I.: More Tour Dates Announced

Hardcore/metal crossover pioneers D.R.I. (DIRTY ROTTEN IMBECILES) have scheduled the following live performances: Dec. 04 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's Dec. 05 - Detroit, MI @ Blondie's Dec. 11 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Gil's Bar and Grill Dec. 12 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx Dec. 18 - Ramona, CA @ Ramona Ma...

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FATALIST Films 'Frozen Epitaph' Video; Photos Available

Champions of the old-school Swedish death metal style (Stockholm, not Gothenburg),Ventura, California's FATALIST recently stepped in front of the camera to begin shooting a video for the track "Frozen Epitaph". Frontman Neil Burkdoll states, "We filmed about four hours of footage for [the clip] thi...

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IMMORTAL Announces Hometown Show

Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL will play a hometown concert in Bergen on January 9, 2010 at the USF Verftet venue. Tickets are available at www.billettservice.no. "All Shall Fall", the new album from IMMORTAL, sold around 3,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at...

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HEIDEVOLK: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed

Dutch folk metal six-piece HEIDEVOLK has completed recording its new album, "Uit Oude Grond" ("From Old Soil"),at S&K Studio in Doetinchem, Holland with producer Dick Kemper. 11 songs were laid down during the sessions "ranging from epic and solemn folk tunes to brutal and merciless metal riffs...

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SEPTICFLESH's 'Communion' Released As Limited-Edition 12" LP/Box

Necroterror Records, the Cyprus-based underground record label and distributor which specializes in high-quality black metal releases mainly in the vinyl format, has released the 12" LP/box version of SEPTICFLESH's latest album, "Communion". Limited to 350 copies, this vinyl release features all-new...

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ENEMY OF THE SUN Frontman Checks In From The Studio

ENEMY OF THE SUN, the German band featuring guitarist Waldemar Sorychta — former member of GRIP INC./DESPAIR and producer for such bands as LACUNA COIL and MOONSPELL — entered the studio on October 13 to begin recording its second album for an early 2010 release. Vocalist Jules Näveri (also in PROFA...

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Night Is the New Day

Every time KATATONIA has graced us with one of their more recent albums, we've all gushed about how it's the most lush and realized version yet of their bleak, lonely vision, and how it's going to be so impossible to top it next time they drag their maundering carcasses back into the studio. You'd t...

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Axe To Fall

At the risk of burying myself, I'm going to be upfront and admit to never being a huge follower of CONVERGE. Not that I could never get into them (nor am I ignorant to their body of work),as I remember "Jane Doe" kicking my ass for a good six months after I first picked ...

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El Rostro de la Muerte

Not to be a total dick, but what's more gruesome, the picture on the front of this CD or the one on the back? Just joshin' — it's kinda nice to hear '80s thrash metal, made in 2009, and played by dudes who weren't eating zweiback and shitting their Garanimals to "The Smurfs" when the ...

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ALESTORM Interviewed On 'Black Night Meditations'

Gareth Murdock, Ian Wilson and Christopher Bowes of the Scottish folk/power metal band ALESTORM were recently interviewed on the "Black Night Meditations" show on the WSCA 106.1 FM radio station. The entire 37-minute discussion is now available for streaming using the audio player below. WSCA 106.1...

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UNLEASHED Begins Recording New Album

Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED have entered guitarist Fredrik Folkare's Chrome studio to begin recording their tenth full-length album for an early 2010 release via Nuclear Blast Records. According to the band, the musical direction of the forthcoming CD will be "the logical continuation fro...