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Blood Mountain

MASTODON fully lives up to its name and cements its status as one of the best newer American metal bands out there with, of all things, its major label debut. The band's third studio offering is an immense slab of brutally heavy rock that veers wildly between all-out thrash on cuts like opener "The...

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GODSMACK, BREAKING BENJAMIN Tour Dates Announced

GODSMACK will team up with BREAKING BENJAMIN for a U.S. tour beginning late October. Confirmed dates are as follows: Oct. 19 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Casino Oct. 20 - Glen Falls, NY - Glens Falls Civic Center Oct. 21 - Portland, ME - Cumberland County Civic Center Oct. 23 - Syracuse, NY - ...

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SAMMY HAGAR: 'The Way I've Grown Is I've Become More And More Myself'

FMQB Retro-Active correspondent Ken Sharp recently conducted an interview with Sammy Hagar about his new CD, "Livin' It Up", the uniqueness of his live shows, and the secrets behind a "Three Lock Box". An excerpt from the chat follows: Q: In recent years, your live shows have taken on a life of thei...

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RAVEN Frontman Comments On New Material

RAVEN bassist/vocalist John Gallagher has commented on the band's recent recording session which produced four new songs — "Against The Grain", "Running Around In Circles", "Breaking You Down" and "Necessary Evil" — at Assembly Line Studios with Kevin 131 (PROJECT: FAILING FLESH, DECEASED, DYSRYTHMI...

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DEFTONES: New Audio Interview With STEPHEN CARPENTER Posted Online

The "Cort and Fatboy Show" (Rock 101 KUFO, Portland) recently conducted an interview with Stephen Carpenter of the DEFTONES. Topics discussed include his being angry at singer Chino Moreno's selfishness, meeting KISS, partying on Jonathan Davis' stripper bus, his early influences, his utter lack of...

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AUDIOSLAVE: New Audio Interview With TOM MORELLO Posted Online

The "Cort and Fatboy Show" (Rock 101 KUFO, Portland) interviewed Tom Morello of AUDIOSLAVE about his throwing the first pitch at last weekend's Cubs game, how METAL SKOOL keeps the terrorists from winning, learning the guitar, Old McDonald in metal, hanging with KISS in studio on the eve of their re...

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DISTURBED: New Audio Interview Posted Online

The "Cort and Fatboy Show" (Rock 101 KUFO, Portland) interviewed Dan Donegan of DISTURBED and discussed the reasoning behind covering the GENESIS hit "Land of Confusion", DISTURBED action figures, Todd McFarlane, David Draiman's surgery, partying with Zakk Wylde and METALLICA vs. PANTERA. You can he...

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Golgotha

I guess it is Christian metal week here at Blabbermouth. The message of WITH BLOOD COMES CLEANSING's "Golgotha" is a spiritual and a positive one, but you would never know it listening to the group's bludgeoning mix of metal and hardcore. Rather than standard metalcore (however one defines it these...

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ESTUARY To Enter Studio This Weekend

Ohio death-thrashers ESTUARY will enter the studio this weekend to begin recording their sophomore release, to be titled "The Craft of Contradiction". The album will be tracked and mixed in Cincinnati at Audioasis Studios and is due for release January 23 through Ibex Moon Records. "The Craft of Con...

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Japan Wins AIR GUITAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS; SENTENCED Guitarist Among Judges

Air Guitar World Championships took place in Club Teatria, Oulu, for the 11th time. Japan's strong presence produced a world champion and this year Ochi "Dainoji" Yosuke gets a chance to spread the gospel of air guitars. Yosuke outplayed the other skillful contestants with his simplistic but extreme...

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AUDIOSLAVE Offers 'Revelations' Today

Launch Radio Networks reports: AUDIOSLAVE releases its third studio album in four years, called "Revelations", today (Tuesday, September 5). The CD comes a little over 15 months after the group's second effort, "Out of Exile", and guitarist Tom Morello told Launch that the fairly quick turnaround he...

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A Matter of Life and Death

Seven out of the ten very long, largely interminable tunes on IRON MAIDEN's 14th studio offering start out with either a gentle, low bass line or a softly strummed guitar. There's nothing wrong with either type of intro, but hearing it over and over again starts to make the listener feel like he's h...

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IRON MAIDEN Bassist: SHARON OSBOURNE Has An Ego The Size Of California

The Spanish edition of Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris. What follows is the English translation of the interview, courtesy of the IRON MAIDEN fan site MaidenFans.com: Q: It is quite sure that the fans might frown and not like the album on t...

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NOCTE OBDUCTA Frontman's AGRYPNIE Project To Release Full-Length Debut

AGRYPNIE, the new project featuring NOCTE OBDUCTA frontman Torsten, Der Unhold, will release its full-length debut, "F51.4", on September 29 via Supreme Chaos Records. The follow-up to the group's 2005 split demo/CD with FATED reportedly contains "nine tracks of melodic black/death metal." "F51.4" t...

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ATHEIST Frontman Reports On HOLE IN THE SKY Appearance

Vocalist Kelly Shaefer of the technical metal pioneers ATHEIST has posted a lengthy report on the band's appearance at the Hole in the Sky festival, which took place August 23-26 in Bergen, Norway. Read it at this location. As previously reported, a video clip of ATHEIST bassist Tony Choy falling th...