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SERJ TANKIAN: 'Elect The Dead' Bonus Tracks Revealed; First Concert Footage Available

More details have been revealed about the deluxe edition of SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian's upcoming solo debut, "Elect the Dead", which arrives on October 23. The special limited-edition version comes in a linen-wrapped hardbound book with four bonus tracks, a 48-page color booklet contain...

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RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER Announces Tour Dates

Philadelphia's self-proclaimed "criminal thrash" band RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER will hit the US tour trail starting in late October. The group will kick off the two-week stint in Trenton, NJ on October 26 and work its way through the South and Midwest until mid-November. In other news, RUMPELSTILTSKIN...

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ANGEL BLAKE: 10 New Songs Ready To Be Recorded

ANGEL BLAKE guitarist Marko Tervonen (ex-THE CROWN) has issued the following update: "I'm at this moment working on the final song for the yet-untitled album Nr. 2 "10 songs, ladies and gentlemen, 10 songs are planned to be recorded as soon as everything is 100% done with lyrics, titles and some bit...

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KULT OV AZAZEL To Utilize Session Musicians For AUTUMN EQUINOX 5 Festival Performance

Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have issued the following update: "KULT OV AZAZEL's performance for this Saturday's Autumn Equinox 5 Festival will be a unique one. Hammer and Xul will not attend due to working schedules. Instead of canceling, Xaphan has aligned a group of individuals to ass...

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PENTACLE Mainman Discusses 'Under The Black Cross' Release On IBEX MOON RECORDS

Wannes Gubbels (vocals/bass) of PENTACLE has released this statement about the band's upcoming release on Ibex Moon Records: "As was the case with its predecessor 'Ancient Death', our new album 'Under the Black Cross' is again a very honest and raw-sounding death metal offering. Don't expect somethi...

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DEATHCHAIN: New Dates Announced

Finnish death/thrash metallers DEATHCHAIN have lined up the following dates: Oct. 06 - Henry's Pub, Kuopio, FIN (w/ AJATTARA, DEFUSE) Oct. 12 - Klubi, Turku, FIN Oct. 20 - Inferno, Tampere, FIN (w/ VELCRA, MORIAN) Nov. 09 - Street Bar 41, Kuopio, FIN (w/ MAYHEM) DEATHCHAIN's third album, "Cult of De...

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GENE SIMMONS Talks About 'Moneybag' Clothing Line

John Mackie of the Vancouver Sun conducted an interview with Gene Simmons of KISS and designer Jason Dussault at Leone's store in Vancouver, Sept. 14, 2007. The occasion was the launch of their new clothing line, Moneybag. An excerpt from the chat follows: Vancouver Sun: So why did you [Gene] want t...

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Embrace the Fall

Chicago's HURTLOCKER hit the scene in a big way with 2006's Napalm debut, "Fear in a Handful of Dust", an unrelenting and frighteningly vicious slab of modern thrash. That balls-out style is continued on "Embrace the Fall", this time with better songwriting and a wider array of riffs and more arrang...

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Pittsburgh Thrashers MELTDOWN Release Full-Length Debut

Pittsburgh thrashers MELTDOWN have just released their debut album, "Executioner". Starting in mid-2004, MELTDOWN's sturdy foundations were formed by a group of wayward teenagers. A developing aggression for brainwashed peers met by a growing passion for heavy metal brought the band together. The Eu...

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CAVALERA CONSPIRACY: Album Details Revealed

Brazilian metal titans Max and Igor Cavalera have written and recorded new material together for the first time in 12 years. It is their first outing since recording their former band, SEPULTURA's colossal landmark album, "Roots" in 1995. The new project named CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, features the Caval...

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BLIND ILLUSION's 'The Sane Asylum' To Be Reissued In September

Metal Mind Productions will reissue one of the most valuable thrash metal albums ever to see the light of day — "The Sane Asylum" by BLIND ILLUSION — on September 10 in Europe. The CD will be available in a new digipack edition, limited to a hand-numbered 2,000 copies. BLIND ILLUSION was a highly te...

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KULT OV AZAZEL: Two Canadian Shows Cancelled

Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have issued the following update: "Unfortunately, due to personal schedule conflicts we have been forced to drop two of the shows for Canada this coming September (September 14 in Montreal, QC and the 16th in Hamilton, ON). We will now be performing only one...

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SUN DESCENDS: New Song Posted Online

New York City thrashers SUN DESCENDS, who feature in their ranks former EXUMER vocalist Mem von Stein, have posted the first song from their new CD, titled "The Entropy Formula", on their MySpace page. The six-minute track "3 Corners of Hell" is the group's first new material to surface in the one a...

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Ex-THE CROWN Guitarist Issues Update On ANGEL BLAKE Project

ANGEL BLAKE guitarist Marko Tervonen (ex-THE CROWN) has issued the following update: I have been in touch with record labels (always a slow process) that have shown interest in ANGEL BLAKE, and it seems like all this will be sorted out in a very near future. More about that in a later post. I've als...

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POSSESSED: Video Footage From WACKEN OPEN AIR Posted Online

Fan-filmed video footage of POSSESSED performing the track "Confessions" at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which took place August 2-4 in Wacken, Germany, has been posted on YouTube. Watch the clip below. POSSESSED's lineup for the Wacken concert consisted of sole original member Jeff Becerra...