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EXHORDER's Official Status Is 'Permanently Disbanded'

Long-defunct New Orleans metallers EXHORDER — cited by many as the originators of the riff-heavy power-groove approach popularized by PANTERA — have issued an official statement in response to persistent rumors that the band will get back together to play select shows and/or record a new studio albu...

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DRAGONLAND Members To Score French Film

DRAGONLAND's Olof Mörck and Elias Holmlid will be working with French director and screenplay writer Thierry Lorenzi, scoring the music for his gothic and romantic short film "Bye Bye Bloody Mary", which will feature some high-profile names in French cinema, such as Didier Azoulay (who played the an...

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Metal Black

In the age of digital recording and lost metal innocence, it's physically impossible for a band to suck as bad as VENOM did in their formative years, and still be so awesome. But that didn't stop Cronos from trying to recapture the filth, fury and unholy incompetence of the band's classic(k) early w...

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Entering the Diabolic Trinity

Long-running underground U.S. black metal act SATHANAS drop their fifth album courtesy of Singapore's Pulverised Records (pay attention to this label). Blackened thrash is more like it, with an emphasis on the thrash part. The secret to "Entering the Diabolic Trinity" is in its non-nonsense, in-your...

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VENOM: North American Release Date Set For 'Metal Black'

Sanctuary Records has set an April 4 North American release date for the new VENOM album, entitled "Metal Black". "Metal Black" (view album cover at this location) was mixed at the Townhouse Studios in London and contains 14 new songs, including "Antechrist", the demo for which can be heard at this...

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VENOM: New Seven-Inch Single Planned

VENOM's record label Sanctuary are planning to release a 7" single from the group's new album, "Metal Black". The full-length CD is set for a March 27 release, although the single should hit the shops prior to the album. An exact release date ahs not yet been confirmed. "Metal Black" (view album cov...

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JAG PANZER Frontman To Guest On BATTLE CRY EP

Colorado Springs-based power metallers BATTLE CRY report that Harry "The Tyrant" Conklin from the legendary JAG PANZER will lend his voice for some backing parts and possibly lead on a bonus track for their upcoming self-titled debut EP. Other notable guest musicians set to appear on the recording a...

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VENOM: 'Metal Black' Release Date Announced, Cover Artwork Revealed

Sanctuary Records/Castle Music has set a March 24 German release date (March 27 in the rest of Europe) for British black metal pioneers VENOM's new album, "Metal Black". Check out the album cover artwork at this location. "Metal Black" was mixed at the Townhouse Studios in London and contains 14 new...

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VENOM Announce Rare U.K. Performance

According to BaconMusic.com, British black metal pioneers VENOM will play their first U.K. gig of the new millennium on Sunday, March 26 at the Manchester Academy. As previously reported, VENOM have finished mixing their new album, "Metal Black", at the Townhouse Studios in London. The album contain...

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Father Of Man Killed At DONNYBROOK/SHATTERED REALM Concert Is Looking For Answers

C.T. Revere of the Tucson Citizen is reporting that the father of the man fatally shot outside a hardcore/metal show on December 7 in Tucson, Arizona has written a letter to Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup asking several hard questions: Why was his son portrayed as a "violent hoodlum" after being shot to de...

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VENOM Finish Mixing 'Metal Black'; Track Listing Revealed

British black metal pioneers VENOM have finished mixing their new album, "Metal Black", at the Townhouse Studios in London. The album contains 14 new songs, including "Antechrist", the demo for which can be heard at this location. A March 2006 release via Castle Records/Sanctuary Group is expected....

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EXHORDER: Audio Interview With Former Frontman KYLE THOMAS Posted Online

A 25-minute audio interview with former EXHORDER/FLOODGATE frontman Kyle Thomas, conducted in mid-October by Cleveland, Ohio's "The Metal Show" (airing on WXTM FM),has been posted online at www.myspace.com/themetalshow. Thomas discusses his career, including EXHORDER, FLOODGATE, his newer projects,...

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From the Dead End Blocks Where Life Means Nothing

I guess this is the week for SHATTERED REALM press on Blabbermouth. Little did I know that a review of "From the Dead End Blocks Where Life Means Nothing" (the follow-up to 2002's "Broken Ties…Spoken Lies…") would dovetail with news of a shooting death at the band's Tucson performance on December 7...

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Man Killed Outside DONNYBROOK/SHATTERED REALM Show Identified

Becky Pallack of the Arizona Daily Star is reporting that Tucson Police have identified a man fatally shot outside a hardcore/metal show last night as Ray Darrin Pierson, 27, of Mesa. Pierson was in Tucson to see the band SHATTERED REALM at Skrappy's, a Downtown music club that caters to teens and a...

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Police: Shooting At DONNYBROOK Concert Likely Self-Defense

Mark Poepsel of KOLD News-13 has issued the following report: "I saw the fight break out inside and I tried to break it up, and I got punched a couple of times. A couple minutes later, speakers were being thrown and a kid got beat with a mic stand." Rawley Burriss is a ...