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NECRODEATH's Cover Of SLAYER's 'Black Magic' Available For Streaming

Long-running Italian extreme metallers NECRODEATH will celebrate their 25th anniversary by releasing a covers album, entitled "Old Skull". The CD, which is due on February 5, features guest appearances by members of influential Italian thrashers BULLDOZER and former members of SCHIZO. "Old Skull" wa...

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NECRODEATH: More 'Old Skull' Details Revealed

Long-running Italian extreme metallers NECRODEATH will celebrate their 25th anniversary by releasing a covers album, entitled "Old Skull". The CD, which is due on February 5, features guest appearances by members of influential Italian thrashers BULLDOZER and former members of SCHIZO. "Old Skull" wa...

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KATAKLYSM Accepts 15-Year Award From NUCLEAR BLAST

Canadian extreme metallers KATAKLYSM were honored at a recent performance in Stuttgart, Germany with a plaque commemorating their 15-year relationship with Nuclear Blast Records. Footage of the band receiving the award on stage can be viewed here. KATAKLYSM has set "Heaven's Venom" as the title of t...

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KULT OV AZAZEL Parts Ways With Vocalist/Bassist

Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have issued the following update: "It's our misfortune to announce that after 10 years with KULT OV AZAZEL, Xul [bass, vocals] has taken an indefinite hiatus from the band and therefore will not be doing any touring or recording during 2010. We respect his de...

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Scouting the Boneyard

"Irksome," "awkward," and occasionally "embarrassing" are the words that kept coming to mind during listening sessions with "Scouting the Boneyard" by Buffalo's SONS OF AZRAEL. Much of that has to do with the far-too-literal and usually cartoonish anti-Christian/Satanic lyrics, which made it difficu...

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SOREPTION: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

Swedish technical death metallers SOREPTION will release their debut album, "Deterioration Of Minds", on March 3 via Ninetone Records. The CD was recorded, mixed and produced by Tommy Rehn (ANGTORIA) at Sidelake, Ninetone and Blue Oyster Studios. "Deterioration Of Minds" track listing: 01. Suppressi...

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Japan's SOLITUDE To Release 'Brave The Storm' Album

SOLITUDE, the Japanese heavy metal quartet which was formed out of the ashes of SACRIFICE (not to be confused with the Canadian thrashers),will finally release its second album, "Brave The Storm", via Spiritual Beast Records. The follow-up to 2001's "Virtual Image" was produced by Fuyuhiko Inui (BU...

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KATAKLYSM Frontman Interviewed In Vienna

Austria's Stormbringer.at webzine conducted an interview with vocalist Maurizio Iacono of Canadian extreme metallers KATAKLYSM when the band played in Vienna on January 15, 2010. Watch the chat below. KATAKLYSM has set "Heaven's Venom" as the title of the follow-up to 2008's "Prevail", tentatively d...

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VENOM Frontman Says New Songs Are 'Tremendous'

John Doran of The Quietus recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Conrad "Cronos" Lant of British black metal pioneers VENOM. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. The Quietus: I need to ask you about that incident from when you were first on tour with SLAYER all those years ago t...

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SATYRICON Frontman Says He Owns Copy Of BURZUM EP With EURONYMOUS' Blood On It

In the latest installment of Roadrunner Records's "Ask the Artist" series, the U.K. branch of the label sat down with vocalist Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven and drummer Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad of Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON and put the best of fans' questions to the guys. A couple of exce...

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SAEL To Release Debut Album In April

SAEL, the French black metal band which features in its ranks members of ASMODEE, REVERENCE, OFFENDING and ACARUS SARCOPT, will release its debut album, "The Sixth Extinction", on April 30, 2010 via Pictonian Records. The CD was recorded at the Drudenhaus (ANOREXIA NERVOSA, ASMODEE, REVERENCE, ULTRA...

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Insurrection Rising

Word has it that the U.K.'s SAVAGE MESSIAH kicked up some dust in its native country with the release of debut album "Spitting Venom" on its own imprint, SMR Productions. Candlelight Records took notice, signed the lads, and released the follow up, "Insurrection Rising", a shiny slice of thrash and...

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Deathless

Yep, it's another one of those "what happened to this band?" reviews, much like the case with THE AUTUMN OFFERING's newest polished turd. I never got a chance to spin 2007's "Venom & Tears", so I can't comment on it, but I did enjoy 2005's "Vendetta", an album that basically ripped off PANTERA a...

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The Reel

The Mooose has returned, extra "o" and all. When we last discussed St. Louis' VAMPIRE MOOOSE it was in the context of reviewing sophomore album "Serenade the Samurai", a muscularly percussive, aggressive collection of caustic grooves that most folks had difficulty pigeonholing, although hard core an...

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KATAKLYSM: New Album Title Revealed

Canadian extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have set "Heaven's Venom" as the title of the follow-up to 2008's "Prevail", tentatively due in October 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records. Commented guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais: "This album will be different than 'Prevail', but will still have the classic KATAK...