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DIRGE Completes Recording Debut Album

DIRGE, the new extreme metal band featuring ex-SOIL guitarist Shaun Glass, THE DOOMSDAY SOCIAL drummer James Knight (ex-THE BLANK THEORY, CHACOPA),former A TEXAS FUNERAL vocalist Jeremy "Jerms" Genske, bassist Brian Paz and guitarist Matt Szlachta, recently entered the studio to begin recording 13...

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MASSACRE: Early Album Reissues In The Works

Resurrected Florida-based death metallers MASSACRE are planning to re-release some of the early recordings to coincide with the band's 25th anniversary. According to the group, there are "plans not only [to] remaster these classic albums, but [to include] new updated artwork for the covers of these...

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OBSCURA, GRAVES OF VALOR, ABYSMAL DAWN Join Forces For RELAPSE RECORDS' 'Contamination Tour'

OBSCURA, GRAVES OF VALOR, and ABYSMAL DAWN will join forces for the 2009 installment of the Relapse Records "Contamination Tour". The trek will kick off on April 28 in Birmingham, Alabama and will include special guests on select dates (to be announced soon). The "Contamination Tour" has been Relaps...

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SLIPKNOT, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER Drummers Featured In 'On the Beaten Path: Metal' Book

Alfred has announced the release of "On the Beaten Path: Metal – The Drummer's Guide to the Genre and the Legends Who Defined It", a much-anticipated extension to the highly acclaimed, award-winning book "On the Beaten Path: The Drummer’s Guide to Musical Styles and the Legends Who Defined Them", vo...

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Former NILE, ORIGIN, DYING FETUS Members Join Forces In VILE PENANCE

Veteran death metallers Duane Timlin (DYING FETUS, DIVINE EMPIRE),Joe Payne (NILE, DIVINE HERESY),James King (ORIGIN, UNMERCIFUL),Derek Engemann (UNMERCIFUL) and John Ramos (A.T.W.T.T.B., FUNERAL RITES) have joined forces in a new band called VILE PENANCE. VILE PENANCE is the brainchild of Ramos...

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DIMMU BORGIR's DARAY Honored In Poland's TOP DRUMMER Magazine

DIMMU BORGIR/ex-VADER drummer Dariusz "Daray" Brzozowski took first place in the "Rock Metal" category in Poland's largest drum magazine, Top Drummer. Daray played his final concert with VADER on August 30, 2008 as part of the band's 25-year anniversary show at Stodola Club in Warsaw, Poland. The gi...

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DIRGE: Kenosha Footage Posted Online

Fan-filmed video footage of DIRGE's February 28, 2009 concert at McKinley in Kenosha, Wisconsin can be viewed below. DIRGE is the new extreme metal band featuring ex-SOIL guitarist Shaun Glass, THE DOOMSDAY SOCIAL drummer James Knight (ex-THE BLANK THEORY, CHACOPA),former A TEXAS FUNERAL vocalist J...

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CRADLE OF FILTH, Ex-NILE Members To Record With Reactivated MASSACRE

Resurrected Florida-based death metallers MASSACRE have issued the following update: "Well, it seems that both the drummer and bassist positions may have now been secured for the 'new' MASSACRE lineup. "Kam Lee [vocals] has spoken to both bassist Dave Pybus (CRADLE OF FILTH) and to drummer Tony Laur...

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NACHTMYSTIUM Forced To Pull Out Of SCION ROCK FEST

Blake Judd of the Chicago-area psychedelic black metal group NACHTMYSTIUM has released the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "NACHTMYSTIUM has sad news today with a once-again recurring issue surfacing from the wake of our past. We've been forced, at the request of the promoters and the folks...

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STARRING JANET LEIGH Signs With IRONCLAD RECORDINGS

Ironclad Recordings (Trevor Phipps of UNEARTH's label) has announced the signing of STARRING JANET LEIGH. Formed in 2003, the Canadian metal act began with creating music the band found both interesting and challenging with no compromise to musical integrity. Fusing death metal, hardcore, and modern...

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NILE Mainman Featured On AMARNA SKY Track

NILE mainman Karl Sanders has helped mix a new version of the song "Beyond The Horizon" that will be featured on the next full-length album from the Egyptian-themed Brazilian doom metal band AMARNA SKY. Making a guest appearance on vocals on this new version of the track is Aziza A. Poggi, the front...

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NECROVILE To Release New Album Via UNITED GUTTURAL

United Guttural will release the new album 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 "straightforward, crushingly heavy death metal. Fans of brutal acts like CANNIBAL COPRSE, SUFFOC...

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RESISTANCE Confimed For Texas' THUNDER OF GODS Festival

Los Angeles metallers RESISTANCE have been confirmed for the Thunder Of Gods open-air festival, set to take place May 7-10, 2009 on the RP Campgrounds in Dripping Springs, Texas. The following groups are scheduled to appear, among many others: ABSU BLOODSOAKED BOZO PORNO CIRCUS CADAVERIA (Italy) CAU...

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NOXIOUS Signs With TWO SIDE MOON/SLW PROMOTIONS

NOXIOUS, the South Carolina-based post-grunge outfit featuring former NILE/SHAITAN MAZAR bassist/vocalist Chief Spires, ex-SHAITAN MAZAR guitarist Robert Dirr and ex-SHAITAN MAZAR drummer Jake Axelson, has issued the following update: "NOXIOUS would like to announce that we've just signed a deal wit...

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TRIVIUM's COREY BEAULIEU And MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO To Guest On DIRGE Debut

Corey Beaulieu of TRIVUM and Michael Angelo Batio of NITRO fame will make guest appearances on the debut album from DIRGE, the new extreme metal band featuring ex-SOIL guitarist Shaun Glass, THE DOOMSDAY SOCIAL drummer James Knight (ex-THE BLANK THEORY, CHACOPA),former A TEXAS FUNERAL vocalist Jere...