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MEDEIA: 'Descension' Video Available

"Descension", the new video from the Finnish "alternative death metal" act MEDEIA, can be viewed below. The clip is said to be "a twisted homage to MICHAEL JACKSON's classic 'Thriller' video, but with a more terrifying and disturbing end." "Descension" comes off MEDEIA's second full-length album, "C...

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RAM: New Album Details Revealed

RAM, the traditional Gothenburg, Sweden-based heavy metal band featuring Morgan Pettersson (ex-B-THONG),has completed work on its second album, "Lightbringer". The follow-up to 2005's "Forced Entry" was produced by Johan Reivén and was mixed at Studio Bongo in the group's hometown. "Lightbringer" t...

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SUPREME PAIN: New Album Track Listing Revealed

Dutch brutal death metal band SUPREME PAIN has entered Soundlodge Studio in Germany with producer Jorg Uken (SINISTER, DEW-SCENTED, OBSCENITY, GOD DETHRONED) to begin recording its second full-length album, "Nemesis Enforcer", for a tentative late spring/early summer release via Metal Age Production...

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Evisceration Plague

Well, the short answer is that "Evisceration Plague", CANNIBAL CORPSE's 11th studio album, will easily satisfy the group's legion of fans. It is another reliable death metal release from one of the most consistent bands of the genre. What made this assessment of "Evisceration Plague" more difficult...

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BLUT AUS NORD: New Song Posted Online

A new track from French experimental black metal masters BLUT AUS NORD entitled "The Formless Sphere (Beyond The Reason)" is available for streaming on the Candlelight Records MySpace page. The song comes off the band's new album, "Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars", which is scheduled fo...

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SWORN: New Album Track Listing Revealed

SWORN, the Norwegian black metal project led by Lars Jensen (MYRKGRAV),has finalized the track listing for its second album, "Bastards & Conqueror", due later in the year via Twilight Vertrieb. It is as follows: 01. Beyonder 02. The Bastard, the Conqueror 03. Carnal Monuments 04. Ascendant 05....

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CANNIBAL CORPSE's ALEX WEBSTER Reveals Scariest Guitar Scale

The February issue of Metal Maniacs features an interview with CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster about the band's new album, "Evisceration Plague", and the legendary diminished fifth. Excerpts from the conversation follow below. Metal Maniacs: What's the darkest scale in metal? Alex Webster: Beli...

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BLUT AUS NORD: New Album Due Next Month

French experimental black metal masters BLUT AUS NORD will release their new album, entitled "Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars", on February 23 via Candlelight Records. Commented the band's singer/guitarist Vindsval: "This album is extremely important for us, we have already composed two...

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SUPREME PAIN: New Album Artwork Unveiled

Dutch brutal death metal band SUPREME PAIN has unveiled the cover art for its upcoming second full-length album, "Nemesis Enforcer". Check it out below. The group will enter Soundlodge Studio in Germany next month with producer Jorg Uken (SINISTER, DEW-SCENTED, OBSCENITY, GOD DETHRONED) to begin rec...

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The Age of Nero

If you haven't liked SATYRICON's grimward slide toward dry, minimalist, sardonic post-genre permafrost, you're gonna just keep on hating them for "The Age of Nero". Stylistically, it picks up where "Now, Diabolical" left off, all brittle, haughty vocals and skeletal bare-wire riffing. But if that's...

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DARKEST HOUR: New Shows Announced

Washington, D.C.'s DARKEST HOUR will take a short break from writing and recording pre-production demos for its next album to play the following dates: Jan. 20 - Washington, DC - The Black Cat ("Demand In DC") Jan. 30 - Harrisonburg, VA - Rockingham County Fairgrounds (w/ AS I LAY DYING) Jan. 31 - R...

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BEHEMOTH Preparing To Enter Studio

Polish extreme metal veterans BEHEMOTH are in the final stages of the songwriting process for their upcoming, as-yet-untitled album. The record is tentatively expected sometime in the fall via Metal Blade (USA) and Nuclear Blast (Europe). BEHEMOTH mainman Adam "Nergal" Darski and his bandmates are p...

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DARKEST HOUR: Documentary Of Homecoming Show Available

DCist, the most popular blog in Washington, D.C. covering all the goings-on in the Capitol, has uploaded a "documentary" of local metallers DARKEST HOUR as they prepared for their annual homecoming D.C. show. Watch the clip below. DARKEST HOUR is about to enter Baltimore, Maryland's Salad Days Studi...

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WATAIN Mainman: 'MAYHEM Was Revolutionary'

Darren Cowan of Blistering.com recently conducted an interview with WATAIN mainman Erik Danielsson. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Blistering.com: The plans that [former MAYHEM members] Dead and Euronymous started died after they were gone, and no one really carried on those ideas. GORGO...

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VITAL REMAINS, DEBAUCHERY, WOLFCHANT Confirmed For Germany's WALPURGIS METAL DAYS IX Festival

VITAL REMAINS, DEBAUCHERY and WOLFCHANT have been confirmed for next year's Walpurgis Metal Days IX festival, set to take place May 1-2, 2009 at Festplatz in Hauzenberg, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ARTAS DEBAUCHERY DISBELIEF DORNENREICH ENTHRONED FJOERGYN FLESHLESS GRAILK...