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TERRANA Completes Work On First Three Songs

TERRANA, the new three-piece power rock trio led by renowned drummer Mike Terrana (TARJA, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, AXEL RUDI PELL, MASTERPLAN, GAMMA RAY, RAGE),has finished recording three songs at Nadir Music Studios in Genoa, Italy with producer Tommy Talamanca (SADIST mastermind). The official video fo...

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The Great Shadow Infiltrator

Ash and Marquis Thomas comprise the Cincinnati death metal duo FAITHXTRACTOR. While the moist sci-splat artwork for their second album "The Great Shadow Infiltrator" would lead one to believe a tech-heavy conceptual album awaits their listeners, that notion is a misnomer. Instead, the Thomas brother...

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The Dawn of Consummation and Emergence

You have to have a sick sense humor to call yourself REPTILIAN DEATH. Hailing from Mumbai, India, REPTILIAN DEATH is the side project of DEMONIC RESURRECTION vocalist Sahil "Demonstealer" Makhija. Existing for more than a decade as Demonstealer's death metal playground, REPTILIAN DEATH's latest offe...

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SEPULTURA's ANDREAS KISSER: Having DAVE LOMBARDO Guest On New Album Was 'An Honor'

The Rock Pit recently conducted an interview with guitarist Andreas Kisser of Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Rock Pit: Ross Robinson produced the new album ["The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart"] and the last time you wo...

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BLINK-182 Drummer Goes 'Black Metal' For Halloween

BLINK-182 drummer Travis Barker dressed up as former GORGOROTH and current GOD SEED bassist King Ov Hell (real name: Tom Cato Visnes) this past Halloween. Barker's Instagram photo of his Halloween getup — complete with black metal-style makeup — can be seen below. Back in 2002, Barker revealed to Sw...

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COAL CHAMBER Rejoined By Bassist NADJA PEULEN

Bassist Nadja Peulen has rejoined COAL CHAMBER, the reformed '90s alt-metal band fronted by current DEVILDRIVER singer Dez Fafara. Comments the band in a statement: "Sometimes change is good. Especially when that change reunites a person with someone from the past who they love and had missed. "That...

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DAWN OF AZAZEL To Enter Studio In January

After several years of absence, New Zealand-based extreme metallers DAWN OF AZAZEL will enter Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida in January 2014 to begin recording their new album. The band states: "We are currently intensely involved in pre-production work and it is already certain t...

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MEGADETH Bassist Interviewed For SEPULTURA Documentary

MEGADETH bassist Dave Ellefson is the latest musician to be interviewed for the long-awaited documentary about SEPULTURA’s incredible journey from Brazil to the world. Filmmaker Otavio Juliano has been following the band for the better part of 2010-2013, a time of tension and triumph for SEPULTURA,...

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METALLICA: 30-Minute LAMC PRODUCTIONS Video Recap Of Singapore Concert

LAMC Productions has posted a 30-minute video recap of METALLICA's August 24 concert at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. Check it out below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Hit The Lights 02. Master Of Puppets 03. The Shortest Straw 04. Ride The Lightning 05. Fade To Black 06. The Memor...

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SEPULTURA: Third 'Mediator' Album Trailer Available

The third trailer for "The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart", the new album from Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA, can be seen below. The CD will be released on October 25 via Nuclear Blast Records. The artwork was created by Brazilian artist Alexandre Wagner, who specializes...

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KORN To Be Inducted Into Guitar Center's Historic RockWalk

Guitar Center has announced the upcoming induction of Grammy Award-winning hard rock innovators KORN into the retailer's historic RockWalk. The private, invite-only induction ceremony is set to take place on Tuesday, October 8, at noon at Guitar Center's Hollywood location on Sunset Boulevard. After...

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Savages

"It's about the human condition right now", states Max Cavalera in a recent press release for SOULFLY's latest album, "Savages". "We have the Internet and we're working on missions to Mars, but we are still decapitating each other and blowing up marathons. We're still savages. Even with technology a...

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Godslayer

Chicago sludge-thrashers LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR are hardly shy. If you've ever seen their gonzo "War Master" video, you know just about anything goes with these guys, so long as one, it's brutally heavy and two, it's contained within the realm of pulp fantasy. Gore, T&A, sword-cleaving mayhem in "...

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The Death Card

Illinois hardcore troopers SWORN IN have amassed a quick following in the two-plus years they've stormed the scene. Following their "Start/End" EP comes the band's full-length debut, "The Death Card". Brash, heated and ultimately toxic, "The Death Card" is chocked full of a fracas-minded denunciatio...

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The Fall of Omnius

It should be no surprise who French death grinders NEPHREN-KA emulates. Consider this group in the milling vein of NILE's debut album from which they derive their namesake, "Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka". Inspired by the same sandy wastelands as NILE, NEPHREN-KA doesn't consult ancient Sumeri...