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Primordial

Oh, the riffs. THE RIFFS! It would be easy to get hysterical and evangelical about TELEKINETIC YETI. There is never a shortage of great doom and stoner rock bands, so ageless and undeniable is that musical code. But not every band delivers a consistent stream of riff-centric greatness, and even fewe...

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Y&T's DAVE MENIKETTI Is 'Doing Well And Happy To Be Finally Finishing' Radiation Therapy Treatment In Prostate Cancer Battle

Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti, who went public with his prostate cancer battle in February, is continuing to undergo radiation therapy treatment. On Monday (July 4),he took to the band's social media to issue the following update on his condition: "Thought I'd chime in for a rare post on social m...

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False Light

Avant-garde experimentalists to their twisted core, WHITE WARD regard black metal as a vehicle, one that will transport the Ukrainians wherever they damn well please. "False Light" contains plenty of the frostbitten good stuff, of course: opener "Leviathan" is at least 50 percent bombast and extremi...

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Y&T's DAVE MENIKETTI Begins Last Phase Of Radiation Therapy Treatment In Prostate Cancer Battle

Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti, who went public with his prostate cancer battle in February, is continuing to undergo radiation therapy treatment. According to an update sent out to the Y&T newsletter subscribers, "After an unfortunate delay from the treatment center, Dave finally began the las...

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Heavy Pendulum

For all kinds of noble reasons, CAVE IN are one of the most widely revered bands in all of heavy music. Whether reinventing hardcore, exploring psychedelic and progressive rock or simply being instinctively inventive and idiosyncratic, they have been a potent (if intermittent) force for creative goo...

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Y&T's DAVE MENIKETTI Undergoes First Radiation Therapy Treatment In Prostate Cancer Battle

Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti, who went public with his prostate cancer battle in February, has just undergone his first radiation therapy treatment. According to an update sent out to the Y&T newsletter subscribers, it's been "so far, so good. Now he begins the next round of treatments," the...

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Y&T's DAVE MENIKETTI To Undergo Five Weeks Of Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer

Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti, who went public with his prostate cancer battle in February, says that he will undergo five weeks of external radiation starting in May. The 68-year-old guitarist/vocalist discussed his diagnosis and treatment during an appearance on today's (Wednesday, April 20) epi...

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CYNIC's PAUL MASVIDAL Says There Was 'Anger' And 'Grief' Over SEAN MALONE's Death

By David E. Gehlke 2020 began for heralded progressive rock/metallers CYNIC with the devastating news that ex-drummer and co-founding member Sean Reinert passed away at 48 due to an aortic rupture. By then, Reinert had been out of CYNIC for five years after a falling out with fellow co-founding memb...

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Dread Reaver

Banished from the frostbitten IMMORTAL nest, Abbath (the man) and ABBATH (the band) have made light work of establishing themselves as a fiercely independent creative force in extreme metal. Although not quite as brashly definitive as the illustrious classics that made the Norwegian so notorious, bo...

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Chasing Ghosts

There was a time when bands like STABBING WESTWARD sounded like the future. Purveyors of a bombastic but streamlined strain of industrial rock, the Illinoisian crew released three major label records in the '90s and received plenty of critical acclaim in the process. Heavily influenced by NINE INCH...

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Y&T Frontman DAVE MENIKETTI Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer

Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti has announced that he is battling prostate cancer. The 68-year-old guitarist/vocalist revealed his diagnosis in a social media post on Friday (February 18). He wrote: "After numerous blood tests, an extensive MRI, and last Friday's biopsy, I have been diagnosed with P...

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Recollections Of The Insane

The furious midpoint between primitive death metal and caustic thrash has always been one of the most exciting places to bang your head. The full-length follow-up to 2020's utterly murderous "Voices" EP, "Recollections of the Insane" confirms that Belgium's SCHIZOPHRENIA are flying the death / thras...

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ABBATH And WATAIN Announce September/October 2022 European Tour

Norwegian metal titans ABBATH have announced a brand new co-headlining tour with Swedish black metal outfit WATAIN. The "Chariots Of Fire" trek will kick off on September 15 at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris, France and will wreak havoc in 13 more countries before a final curtain on October 9 at the...

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Zeal & Ardor

Regularly tipped as heavy music's next big thing, ZEAL & ARDOR mastermind Manuel Gagneux may be beginning to wonder what more he has to do to bewitch bigger audiences. After two widely acclaimed albums, his band are still being touted as the next big thing, and even if you came to this new recor...

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ABBATH Shares Title Track Of 'Dread Reaver' Album

Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH, the solo project of former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name Olve Eikemo),have released the title track of their new album, "Dread Reaver", which will arrive on March 25 via Season Of Mist. The cover artwork for the LP was created by Bjørn Stian Bjoarvik and t...