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CELLADOR Parts Ways With Drummer, Seeks Replacement
Nebraska-based extreme power metallers CELLADOR have parted ways with drummer David Dahir. Commented guitarist Bill Hudson: "It's been less than four months since we parted ways with our bass player, and we're happy to inform you that we have found a replacement. His name will be announced soon, but...March 28, 2007
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Age Eternal
Mike Scheidt may have been the guitarist and vocalist of revered northwest U.S. space-doom freaks YOB, but the opening track of his new band's debut seems determined to highlight the differences between his earlier outfit and MIDDIAN. "Dreamless Eye" crashes out of the gate with a fast, aggressive,...March 26, 2007
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PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING Signs With SWAMP FOETUS PRODUCTION
Oklahoma City-based funeral doom metal act PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING has inked a deal with the French label Swamp Foetus Production. The group's first CD, entitled "Listless Acts of Attrition", includes artwork created by Aaron Stainthorpe of MY DYING BRIDE and is scheduled for release next month. The...March 25, 2007
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OFFICIUM TRISTE, ASUNDER, COLOSSEUM Featured On THERGOTHON Tribute CD
OFFICIUM TRISTE, ASUNDER and COLOSSEUM are among the bands that will appear on the forthcoming tribute to THERGOTHON, due later in the year via Russia's Solitude Productions. The projected track listing for the two-disc set is as follows: Doom Side: 01. LOSS - Everlasting 02. EVOKEN - Yet the Watche...March 22, 2007
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ALCEST Signs With PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS
France's ALCEST has signed a five-album deal with Prophecy Productions. The group's debut CD, "Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde", will be released in the summer. After making a small stir in the black metal underground with its 2004 mini-CD "Le Secret", ALCEST has musically left its origins in that scene...March 21, 2007
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The New Machine of Liechtenstein
Sick of reading about HOLY MOSES reissues yet? Well, too fucking bad, because the smokin' banshee Sabina Classen and her band of German thrashers haven't gotten a fraction of the attention and respect they deserve yet. Getting their discography back in print, including this 1989 rager, is good news...March 19, 2007
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BRING ME THE HORIZON, THE WARRIORS Confirmed For Germany's PRESSURE FESTIVAL
BRING ME THE HORIZON, THE WARRIORS and MISERY SPEAKS have been confirmed for the Pressure Festival, set to take place June 23-25 at the Gysenberg Hall in Herne, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALL OUT WAR ANIMOSITY BLACK FRIDAY '29 BRING ME THE HORIZON BURY YOUR DEAD (to be c...March 12, 2007
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The Spitfire Collection
First and foremost, let it be known that the stone-cold zero (NA) rating above has nothing to do with TESTAMENT as a musical entity, or about the music on this CD. You'd have to be a dick not to show some respect for their (ahem) legacy — they're one of the few bands of their ...March 10, 2007
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The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote
Stoner rock isn't exactly known for its innovative streak — many of its most beloved practitioners are content to fire off the same turbo-charged riffs and yowl like wigged-out surfers about the usual velvet-poster topics. All well and good, but that just makes it all the odder when one of the genre...March 10, 2007
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NYDVIND Begins Mixing New Album
French black metallers NYDVIND have entered CCR Studio in Zulte, Belgium to begin mixing their long-awaited second album, "Sworn to the Elders". A late 2007 release is expected. The projected track listing is as follows: 01. Intro 02. Son Of Fire 03. To Enter The Realm Of The Ravenlord 04. Sworn of...March 4, 2007
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THE SENSELESS Debut To Arrive In May
Anticulture Records set a May 21 release date for the debut album from THE SENSELESS, the new project led by THE BERZERKER bassist Sam Bean. Entitled "In the Realm of the Senseless", the CD features guest appearances from Matt Wilcock (AKERCOCKE, THE BERZERKER) and Ol Drake (EVILE),and was mixed by...February 15, 2007
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Black Metal-Inspired Exhibitions To Open In Amsterdam This Friday
This coming Friday, February 16, the de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, Holland will open two exhibitions that could be of interest to the lovers of heavy metal, black metal, and grindcore: "Steven Shearer - Steven Shearer" and "Erik Smith - The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling", both on view from F...February 13, 2007
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U.T.D.
The worst stereotypical excesses of one-man black metal bands are on infamous display here, as Norway's FURZE clatter through eight tracks of atonal, horribly-recorded, comical noise collages that have more in common with hallucinogenic musique concrete experiments than anything resembling actual so...February 12, 2007
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GOSPEL OF THE HORNS Reforms Once Again, Plans European Tour
Two weeks after it was announced that the band had once again split up, Australia's renowned blackened death/thrash outfit GOSPEL OF THE HORNS has reformed — initially as a three-piece (featuring bassist/vocalist Howitzer, drummer Hellcunt and guitarist Masochist) — with plans to tour Europe later i...January 25, 2007
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SOULGRIND: New Song Available For Download
SOULGRIND, the Finnish band featuring former LULLACRY frontwoman Tanja "Whisper Lilith" Kemppainen (a.k.a. Tanya),has uploaded its new single, "Pakana", at this location. The song is the title cut of the group's eighth album, due next month via Holy Records. "Pakana", was recorded at D studio and i...January 19, 2007
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