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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's REED MULLIN Speaks To THE AGE OF METAL (Video)

The Age Of Metal recently conducted an interview with CORROSION OF CONFORMITY drummer Reed Mullin. You can now watch the chat below. Due to a torn rotator cuff, Mullin was forced to sit out CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's recent live dates. He was temporarily replaced by Eric Hernandez, formerly of KYLESA...

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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Drummer REED MULLIN Forced To Sit Out Live Dates

Due to a torn rotator cuff, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY drummer Reed Mullin has been forced to sit out the band's upcoming live dates. Reads an official statement from the band: "We are sorry to announce that Reed Mullin will not be onboard for this tour. He's been playing through pain, awaiting a strat...

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The Make Believe

This five piece angst sludge band from South Carolina have been together under the name DARKENTRIES since 2012, but the components were friends long beforehand. Their familiarity with one another was pushed to the nth by reportedly living in the same house together and slogging through the night on...

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Harvest Earth

Right behind SIERRA comes another discovery for the KYLESA-backed Retro Futurist label, JAGGED VISION. Instead of plunging through the deep American South where KYLESA calls home and allies themselves with other underground sludge monsters, Retro Futurist first tapped into the Canadian scene to turn...

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Swiss Extreme Metal Group SCHAMMASCH Signs With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Prosthetic Records has announced the signing of the Basel, Switzerland-based extreme metal quartet SCHAMMASCH (aka Šamaš, the sun god from Akkadian / Babylonian mythology). The band's sophomore album, "Contradiction", will be released later in the year. The effort is described in a press release as...

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Pslip

Ontario stoner trio SIERRA have captured the attention of KYLESA principals Philip Cope and Laura Pleasants, who recently started their own label, Retro Futurist Records. As their inaugural signing, SIERRA is sure to win over the stoner sect as quickly as they have Cope and Pleasants. Their debut al...

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SO HIDEOUS Signs With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Prosthetic Records has announced the signing of the acclaimed, genre-defying Brooklyn quartet SO HIDEOUS. The band's full-length debut, "Last Poem / First Light", will be released on April 29 on CD, cassette and 180-gram black vinyl. The CD was recorded at The Wild Arctic Studios in Portsmouth, New...

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SKELETONWITCH's SCOTT HEDRICK Speaks To RESIDENT ROCK STAR (Video)

Resident Rock Star conducted an interview with guitarist Scott Hedrick of Ohio metallers SKELETONWITCH on February 11 in Denver, Colorado. You can now watch the chat below. SKELETONWITCH's new album, "Serpents Unleashed", sold around 5,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to...

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DEAD TO A DYING WORLD Preparing To Record New Album

Dallas, Texas-based blackened doom congregation DEAD TO A DYING WORLD will enter the studio in the near future to record the band's sophomore full-length release. The group is preparing to record this time with renowned sonic decimation engineer Billy Anderson (SLEEP, NEUROSIS, MELVINS),who will un...

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KYLESA Launches RETRO FUTURIST RECORDS

KYLESA — Phillip Cope, Laura Pleasants and Carl McGinley II — will launch Retro Futurist Records next month with the January 28 release of Canadian prog trio SIERRA's album "Pslip". "The idea behind Retro Futurist Records is to provide an artist-friendly home to bands we like and bands we feel are r...

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No One is Alone if No One is Alive

If you've ever seen Chicago's CZAR perform live, the temptation to compare them to NEUROSIS and, to lesser degrees, A STORM OF LIGHT, is inescapable. This trio rolls their set with little illumination outside of white light flushes below and rolling projections of terror behind them. Yet, CZAR's mus...

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SKELETONWITCH's SCOTT HEDRICK Talks To AlanCross.ca (Audio)

Andrew Epstein of AlanCross.ca conducted an interview with guitarist Scott Hedrick of Ohio metallers SKELETONWITCH prior to the band's November 2 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. SKELETONWITCH's new album, "Serpents Unleashed", so...

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KYLESA: 'Low Tide' Video Released

"Low Tide", the new video from the genre-defying Savannah quintet KYLESA, can be seen below. The animated clip was directed by Brodie Rush. KYLESA will make its eagerly awaited return to Europe in support of the band's current album, "Ultraviolet". The extensive tour will kick off on January 10 in P...

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SKELETONWITCH: 'Serpents Unleashed' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Serpents Unleashed", the new album from Ohio metallers SKELETONWITCH, sold around 5,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 62 on The Billboard 200 chart. Issued on October 29 via Prosthetic Records, the follow-up to 2011's "Forever Abomination" was rec...

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SKELETONWITCH: 'Serpents Unleashed' Video Released

The video for the title track of "Serpents Unleashed", the new album from Ohio metallers SKELETONWITCH, can be seen below. Filmed in black and white, the clip features just over two minutes of stylized, in-your-face performance footage produced and directed by Ralph Miller (Turnstyle Fims) and edite...