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PHILIP ANSELMO: The Making Of DOWN's 'Over The Under' Part III

To chronicle the past five years leading up to the release of DOWN's new album, "III - Over The Under", singer Philip Anselmo (ex-PANTERA) has been issuing periodic installments leading up to the release of the record. This is Philip's personal communication to the band's loyal fan base and gives a...

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Pittsburgh Thrashers MELTDOWN Release Full-Length Debut

Pittsburgh thrashers MELTDOWN have just released their debut album, "Executioner". Starting in mid-2004, MELTDOWN's sturdy foundations were formed by a group of wayward teenagers. A developing aggression for brainwashed peers met by a growing passion for heavy metal brought the band together. The Eu...

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GLOOMY GRIM Signs With ANTICULTURE RECORDS

Anticulture Records has announced the signing of the Finnish black metal project GLOOMY GRIM. According to a press release, "It all began in 1984 as HELLSTORM. Agathon (vocals) got his first influences as a teenager from the bands like VENOM, HELLHAMMER and BATHORY. HELLSTORM ended quite soon, but t...

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SEPULTURA: Video Footage Of ANDREAS KISSER's U.K. Clinic Available

SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser visited the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in Leeds, England last month to host a guitar clinic as part of the Metal Hammer Weekender. Watch video footage of his guitar skills at this location. Kisser stated about the clinic: I didn't have with me all...

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VOIVOD Drummer Hopes To Perform Tribute To PIGGY

Chad Bowar of HeavyMetal.About.com recently conducted an interview with VOIVOD/KOSMOS drummer Michel "Away" Langevin. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: HeavyMetal.About.com: What's the latest with VOIVOD? Have you began putting together an album with the rest of Piggy's songs? Michel "Away"...

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Hex

"…life is nasty, brutish, and short", wrote 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his book Leviathan, this abbreviated statement also aptly describing the music of underground legends NUNSLAUGHTER. After about a thousand (well, more like 110) releases of various shapes and sizes since forming in...

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Classic SLAYER Videos Available For Download

MetalKult.com has posted live videos from a 1985 performance by SLAYER. The videos were shot on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York City during the Combat Tour Live, which also included VENOM and EXODUS (the show was recorded/filmed and later released as part of the "Ultimate Revenge" video on th...

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THROWDOWN Frontman Says Being Compared To PANTERA Is 'An Honor And A Privilege'

FMQB recently conducted an interview with THROWDOWN frontman Dave Peters. An excerpt from the chat follows: FMQB: It sounds like you went for a more straight ahead metal sound on this album with less of your usual hard core vibe. Dave Peters: We really didn't go for anything specific. We had a lot ....

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LIZZY BORDEN: 'Appointment With Death' Details Revealed

LIZZY BORDEN was created in 1983 in Hollywood California. Spitting venom, stage blood and dripping grease paint while breathing life into bizarre characters bred precisely for the stage. Theme-oriented creations such as "Love You to Pieces" (1985),"Menace to Society" (1986),"Visual Lies" (1987),"...

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VENOM: New Album Pushed Back To Next Year

British black metal pioneers VENOM have decided to re-record some of the already completed tracks for their upcoming album and push back the CD's projected release date to early 2008. Drummer Antony "Antton" Lant (brother of VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant) explains: "During the Scandinavian tou...

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SEPULTURA Guitarist Checks In From The Road

SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser has issued the following update: "August 17: The [European] tour is almost finished; four more shows and then we are going home. It was a long tour but a very good one. We play for many people around Europe and now we feel ready to start new music for a new ...

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Former VENOM Guitarist Launches GOATREIGN

Former VENOM/CARCASS guitarist Mike Hickey has just unleashed his brand new project called GOATREIGN. According to a press release, the group's debut CD is "a pummeling collection of gut-wrenching metal," featuring "crushing rhythms, searing lead guitar, wrapped up with a deadly production." Availab...

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DEADSOIL Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

German metal/hardcore act DEADSOIL has issued the following update: "It's been a while since the last news update here from the DEADSOIL front, but we have been anything else but lazy! We played tons of shows, wrote new songs and rehearsed like crazy! "Well, some of you might have heard the rumors t...

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DROWNING POOL, THROWDOWN, STILL REMAINS First-Week Sales Revealed

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending August 12, 2007, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, where applicable): DROWNING POOL - "Full Circle": 10,100 (#64) THROWD...

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NERVECELL Taps PSYCROPTIC Drummer For New CD

Dubai-based death/thrash act NERVECELL has tapped David Haley of PSYCROPTIC (also of THE AMENTA, RUINS) to handle the drum duties on its upcoming album, "Preaching Venom". NERVECELL will enter the studio in September in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with producer Kiran Sequiera who previously worked o...