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DESPISED ICON: More Footage From The Studio Posted Online

Montreal extreme metallers DESPISED ICON are working on their new album, due in the fall via Century Media Records. The sixth in a series of webisodes documenting the sessions can be viewed below. The band states: "Guitar solos are done! Check out this week's studio update to see the latest shred. T...

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STARRING JANET LEIGH: New Song Posted Online

Toronto, Ontario, Canada's STARRING JANET LEIGH has posted a new song, "Mistress", on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's debut full-length album, "Spectrum", which is scheduled for release on May 12 via Ironclad Recordings (Trevor Phipps of UNEARTH's label). The CD was recorded...

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Tonight's Nashville Stop Of Relapse Contamination Tour To Be Webcast

Tonight's (Thursday, April 30) Nashville stop (at The Muse) on the Relapse Contamination Tour will be broadcast live at www.themusenashville.com. The broadcast starts at 7 p.m. EST and will include sets by OBSCURA, GRAVES OF VALOR, and ABYSMAL DAWN. The "Contamination Tour" has been Relapse Records'...

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Blastphemous Sindecade

Has GORTAL really been in existence since 1996? I guess when the death metal ground is as fertile as it is in Poland you are bound to miss the occasional ball-busting act. In keeping with the country's proud tradition of technically accomplished, well written, and chunky-as-hell death metal, "Blastp...

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PRIMITIVE GRAVEN IMAGE: Performance Footage Of New Song Available

Video footage of U.K. black metallers PRIMITIVE GRAVEN IMAGE performing a new song, "The Godless Chambers", at Winterfest in Cork, Ireland can be viewed below. The track comes off the band's forthcoming second album, "Celebrating Impending Chaos", which was mixed and mastered by none other than Russ...

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NECROVILE: 'The Pungency of Carnage' Now Available

United Guttural has released the full-length debut from the Transylvanian brutal death metal act NECROVILE, entitled "The Pungency of Carnage". According to a press release, "NECROVILE's music can be described as straight forward crushingly heavy death metal. Fans of brutal acts like CANNIBAL CORPSE...

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BEHEMOTH, NILE, KEEP OF KALESSIN Members To Guest On EX DEO Debut

Nergal (BEHEMOTH),Karl Sanders (NILE) and Obsidian C (KEEP OF KALESSIN) will make guest appearances on "Romulus", the debut album from EX DEO, the new band led by KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono. Nergal will appear in the song "Storm The Gates Of Alesia", singing a very famous Caesar quote; Sand...

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DGM : 'Hereafter' Video Available

"Hereafter", the new video from Italian progressive metallers DGM, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Salvatore "Xavy" Perrone, who has previously worked with EMPYRIOS, PARKWAY DRIVE, BURY YOUR DEAD, BRING ME THE HORIZON and SUICIDE SILENCE. "Hereafter" comes off DGM's seventh album, "FrA...

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NILE To Enter Studio In June

Chad Bowar of About.com recently conducted an interview with Karl Sanders of the South Carolina-based technical death metal band NILE. An excerpt from the chat follows below. About.com: When and how did you first become interested in Middle Eastern culture, mythology and music? Sanders: Years ago, m...

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NILE Drummer Featured On CEREBRUM Debut

Greek tech-prog death metallers CEREBRUM have inked a deal with Lacerated Enemy Records. The group's debut album, "Spectral Extravagance", features a guest appearance by NILE drummer George Kollias and is due later on the year. According to a press release, "Fans of PESTILENCE, ATHEIST, DEATH, CYNIC...

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NACHTMYSTIUM's 'Doomsday Derelicts' MCD To Be Released Next Month

Chicago-area psychedelic black metal group NACHTMYSTIUM has issued the following update: "We're proud to announce that we've licensed our own new EP, 'Doomsday Derelicts', from our North American label, Century Media, to be released on our own in-house label, Battle Kommand Records, for release in N...

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Depths

If there was ever a band to add credibility to the widely despised and often trendy subgenre of deathcore, that band is OCEANO. To be completely fair, the Chicago-based quartet is closer to an evolved and diverse take on modern death metal than they are to the throngs of faceless "breakdown-grind-gr...

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NILE To Tour Europe In November/December

South Carolina-based technical death metal band NILE will embark on a European headlining tour in November/December. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. A follow-up trek covering many of the places not included on the 2009 tour will take place sometime in 2010. NILE is currently working o...

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NECRODEATH: New Album Title Announced

Italian black-thrash metal heroes NECRODEATH have set "Phylogenesis" as the title of their new album, due later this month via Scarlet Records. The follow-up to 2007's "Draculea" is a concept effort dealing with the origin of the species, featuring "nine killer tracks about the past, the present and...

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DIRGE Debut Being Mixed In Wales

DIRGE, the new metal band featuring ex-SOIL guitarist Shaun Glass, THE DOOMSDAY SOCIAL drummer James Knight (ex-THE BLANK THEORY, CHACOPA),vocalist Jeremy "Jerms" Genske, bassist Brian Paz and guitarist Matt Szlachta, has tapped Jeff Rose and Martin "Ginge" Ford of Nott-In-Pill studios in Newport,...