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ZAO To Record New Album In January

ZAO have written over ten songs and continue to accumulate material for their new full-length album, the follow-up to last year's landmark "The Funeral Of God". The band are demoing material in their hometown of Greensburg, Pennsylvania right now and will enter Chicago's Electrical Audio studio in J...

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Meet Winners Of SLIPKNOT Mask Contest

Georgette Braun of the Rockford Register Star has issued the following report: Benjamin Schuster is known for two things at work: Doing his job as a machinist at Janssen Machining in Loves Park and drawing during down time. Staff at the shop suggested he enter our contest to draw a mask he'd like .....

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Holy Hell

Thanks to labels like SPV and Candlelight, albums like "Holy Hell" that would have once been consigned to import purgatory are seeing the light of day in the USA (albeit months after their release elsewhere). And thank the metal gods for it! Former IMPELLITTERI and AXEL RUDI PELL vocal powerhouse Ro...

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DRAGONLAND: 'Be Ready For Mystery And Revelation Of Cosmic Proportions'

DRAGONLAND guitarist Olof Mörck has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "DRAGONLAND are currently knee-deep in the process of writing our fourth, as-yet-untitled, album, and halfway through completion things are looking marvelous! Inspiration has never come in such an abundance, and you c...

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Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds that Go Undone

England's AKERCOCKE are in a class by themselves, one of those bands that remains rooted in a death metal style without ever being limited by it. Those choosing to walk the path of the band's sinister and overtly Satanic tapestry of extremity were richly rewarded by albums like the brilliant "Choron...

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ROB ZOMBIE: 'Hellbilly Deluxe - Deluxe Edition' Details Revealed

ROB ZOMBIE's 1998 macabre masterpiece "Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales Of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside The Spookshow International" debuted in the Top 5 and was a certified triple platinum smash. A realization of his vision of the darkside — a mix of classic horror films and sleazy pop culture, creativity...

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ARSEBREED Video E-Card Available

A video e-card featuring three live tracks from Dutch death metal band ARSEBREED, featuring members of DISAVOWED, PYAEMIA and MANGLED, has been added to www.neurotic-records.com. The tracks "Rectal Vomit", "Stabbed in the Arse" and "Vaginal Butchery" were recorded during the band's appearance at thi...

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INFINITED HATE Have Not Split Up

Despite a previous report to the contrary, Dutch "extreme death metal" act INFINITED HATE (featuring members of SINISTER and HOUWITSER) have NOT split up. The group's record label, Displeased Records, has informed Voices From The Darkside that frontwoman Rachel Heyzer-Kloosterwaard is no longer part...

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INFINITED HATE Call It A Day?

According to a posting at Voices From The Darkside, Dutch "extreme death metal" act INFINITED HATE (featuring members of SINISTER and HOUWITSER) appear to have called it a day after releasing only two albums. Frontwoman Rachel Heyzer-Kloosterwaard recently revealed that she's no longer part of the b...

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Ogre Tones

Call it the ENUFF Z'NUFF syndrome. A few unfortunate haircuts at the beginning of a band's existence, a well-meant but mismatched tour or two, and a band spends its life consigned to a genre where it fits and functions about as well as COURTNEY LOVE's chastity belt. Many metalheads think they're wea...

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ARSEBREED Complete Work On Debut Album; Audio Available

Dutch death metal band ARSEBREED, featuring members of DISAVOWED, PYAEMIA and MANGLED, have completed work on their debut album, "Munching the Rotten", due late October via Neurotic Records. The band's music is described in an official press release as "the perfect blend between older, more technica...

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THEATRES DES VAMPIRES Frontwoman Warned Against Feeding Audience Her Blood: Photo Available

Female-fronted Italian goth band THEATRES DES VAMPIRES have announced their first-ever U.K. tour in support of their new album, "Pleasure and Pain", which will be released in Europe November 28 via Code666 Records. The band were warned recently by London promoters that vocalist Scarlet would get the...

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PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT Added To DEICIDE's European Tour

Dutch death metallers PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT have been added to the upcoming DEICIDE European tour beginning in late October. Also appearing on the bill will be VISCERAL BLEEDING and WYKKED WYTCH. Confirmed tour dates are as follows: Oct. 22 - Josephs Well - Leeds, UK Oct. 23 - Temple Bar Music Ce...

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ARSEBREED To Enter Studio In August

Dutch death metal band ARSEBREED, featuring members of DISAVOWED, PYAEMIA and MANGLED, will enter the studio in August to begin recording their debut album, tentatively titled "Munching the Rotten", for a late September release via Neurotic Records. The recordings will take place at several studios...

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Black Grimoire

Somewhere between nihilistic ambience and crushing brutality, BLOOD RITUAL set up shop in a murky corner of death metal, informed and influenced by early black metal. Sole member Tim Bishop treads the same dark paths of primeval murk as IMMOLATION and INCANTATION, though his music is less technical...