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HELLYEAH Guitarist Says This Is Not A One-Time Project

FMQB recently conducted an interview with HELLYEAH/NOTHINGFACE guitarist Tom Maxwell. A few excerpts from the chat follow: FMQB: The news recently broke that Jerry Montano [bass] left [HELLYEAH]. What happened? Tom: All I can say about it is that it's a real personal matter and we just had to move o...

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'METAL' MIKE CHLASCIAK Working On 'The Heaviest And Most Insane Output I Have Done Musically'

Guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak (HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM, SEBASTIAN BACH) has issued the following update: "With much metal pleasure, I would like to announce the launch of brand new www.metalmike.net. We have reworked everything to give you the best online metal experience that we possibly can. You wi...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Guitarist Discusses TENET Project

Metal Realm recently conducted an interview with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD guitarist Jed Simon. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Realm: First off, let's talk about STRAPPING YOUNG LAD. What is going on with the group? Are SYL on hiatus? Done? Jed: Good question, haha! Nothing is going on r...

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A New Disease is Born

I found it rather interesting that NIGHTRAGE would make the jump from Century Media to Lifeforce concurrent with a change in style that has more in common with the modern Swedecore acts on the latter label's roster. We are not talking in relative terms here either, as "A New Disease is Born" has far...

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SICK OF IT ALL, UNEARTH, AS I LAY DYING Confirmed For Germany's PRESSURE FESTIVAL

SICK OF IT ALL, UNEARTH and AS I LAY DYING been confirmed for the Pressure Festival, set to take place June 23-25 at the Gysenberg Hall in Herne, Germany. The final festival lineup is as follows: ALL OUT WAR ANIMOSITY AS I LAY DYING BLACK FRIDAY '29 BRING ME THE HORIZON BUN DEM OUT BURY ...

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PITTS VS. PREPS Begins Recording New Album

PITTS VS. PREPS — the Louisiana-based band featuring former EXHORDER/FLOODGATE and current ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY frontman Kyle Thomas — has issued the following update: "April 6-8 we went in House of 1000hz studios in the 9th ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. Even though someone was shot around the cor...

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RESISTANCE, BUN DEM OUT, DO OR DIE Confirmed For Germany's PRESSURE FESTIVAL

RESISTANCE, BUN DEM OUT and DO OR DIE 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 BUN DEM OUT BURY YOUR DEAD CASEY JONES...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...