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Descend into Heresy

They may not yet be Germany's answer to MISERY INDEX, but with "Descend into Heresy" KEITZER is headed down that road. Given some time for musical growth and identity formation that together rivals the ferocious death-grind attack KEITZER could be major players. Any memory retention issues with the...
July 27, 2011
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MESHUGGAH Guitarist Interviewed At Finland's TUSKA Festival (Video)

Kaaos TV conducted an interview with guitarist Mrten Hagstrm of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH at this year's edition of the Tuska open-air metal festival, which was held July 22-24, 2011 at Suvilahti in Helsinki, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. In a recent interview wit...
July 26, 2011
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ABSU: New Album Artwork, Release Date Revealed

Candlelight Records has set an October 4 North American release date for ABSU's new album titled "Abzu". The CD is part two of a planned trilogy of recordings from the Dallas-based mythological occult metal band. Mixed by J.T. Longoria (KING DIAMOND, SOLITUDE AETERNUS),the effort features the origi...
July 26, 2011
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MESHUGGAH's FREDRIK THORDENDAL Talks Next Album

Guitar World magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Fredrik Thordendal of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH as part of the regular "Dear Guitar Hero" feature (using fan-submitted questions). When asked about whether MESHUGGAH has been working on new music and if he ha...
July 23, 2011
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CONSORTIUM PROJECT V: 'Enemy Within' Video Released

Lion Music has set a July 15 release date for "Species", the fifth and final part of former ELEGY/VENGEANCE singer Ian Parry's CONSORTIUM PROJECT fictional concept story set centuries in the future where the truth of mankind's origins is discovered and a final epic journey into outer space is met wi...
July 4, 2011
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ANTHRAX Drummer Checks In From 'Big Four' Tour

ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante has checked in with the following update: "The last three days have been done with only a few hours of sleep and jet lag. I was running on fumes... "Joey [Belladonna, vocals] and I get picked up at 12:15 to go to the listening session [for the new ANTHRAX album, 'Wors...
July 4, 2011
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Sweden's FRANTIC AMBER To Tour Russia In September

Stockholm, Sweden-based all-female metal band FRANTIC AMBER will embark on its second tour of Russia in September. The group's last trip to Russia was a four-date, one-week trek in March, which included an appearance at the fifth-anniversary edition of the female-voice festival Zheleznye Devy festiv...
July 2, 2011
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Ex-DIO Guitarist TRACY G: I Am Not Entirely To Blame For 'Angry Machines' Album

Wendy Dio, the wife/manager of legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio, recently told Goldmine magazine that "musically speaking, my least favorite album [for the DIO band] was 'Angry Machines' [1996], because I felt that Ronnie had taken a turn that he was being pushed into, to become more in...
June 24, 2011
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The Cold

Let's move beyond the history lesson as we all know that FLOTSAM AND JETSAM was the band that lost Jason Newsted to METALLICA and most of know how utterly badass and influential their debut, "Doomsday For The Deceiver" was, and still is, for that matter. Considering a good chunk of today's record bu...
June 20, 2011
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TARJA TURUNEN Performs At Russia's 'Rock On Volga' Festival; Video Available

Video footage of former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen's June 12, 2011 performance in front of 242,000 music fans at the Rock On Volga festival in Samara, Russia can be viewed below. Commented Turunen: "I had a true pleasure to perform in Samara, Russia a few days ago. I never thought the local peop...
June 17, 2011
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Former AC/DC Drummer CHRIS SLADE Performs With Russian Tribute Band (Video)

Former AC/DC drummer Chris Slade performed with the Moscow, Russia-based AC/DC tribute band EASY DIZZY on June 2, 2011 at club Jagger in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Video footage of the concert can be seen below. Slade received his highest exposure in 1989 when he was asked to join AC/DC as the replac...
June 16, 2011
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DOWN Performs Snippet Of PANTERA's 'Walk' In Brussels (Video)

DOWN, the New Orleans, Louisiana-based band featuring former PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo, performed a snippet of the PANTERA classic "Walk" on June 14 at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium after a fan threw a PANTERA t-shirt onstage during DOWN's concert. Fan-filmed video footage of the perfor...
June 16, 2011
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Guitarist TRACY G Has 'Nothing Bad To Say' About Time He Spent Playing With DIO

Ex-DIO guitarist Tracy "G" Grijalva has commented on a recently published interview with his former DIO bandmate Vinny Appice in which the drummer said that the reason he decided to leave DIO back in 1997 was that "the band mostly played in small shitty clubs and with every show it was going downhil...
June 14, 2011
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JOURNEY: 'Eclipse' First-Week Chart Positions

JOURNEY's new album, "Eclipse", has registered the following first-week chart positions: Germany: #14 Japan: #19 Switzerland: #24 U.K.: #33 Sweden: #36 Netherlands: #44 "Eclipse" was released in the U.S. and Canada on May 24 exclusively at Walmart and June 3 in Europe on Frontiers Records. The CD wa...
June 10, 2011
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ICON IN ME: 'Un-Slaved' Video Released

"Un-Slaved", the new video from ICON IN ME the Russian/Swedish/Danish modern metal band featuring HOSTILE BREED guitarist Dmitry Frans, Danish drummer Morten Lwe Srensen (SUBMISSION, THE ARCANE ORDER, SCARVE, INSTANT CARNAGE, STRANGLER, SCARVE, SOILWORK) and Swedish vocalist Tony Jelencovich (M.A.N,...
June 7, 2011