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Founding BATHORY Member: 'QUORTHON Had Much More To Offer'

Legendary video director and founding BATHORY member Jonas Åkerlund has spoken to Sweden's Expressen newspaper about the passing of BATHORY mastermind Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg from what is believed to be heart failure. Forsberg, who was known to have been battling heart problems for years, was fou...

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BATHORY Mastermind QUORTHON Dead At 39

BATHORY mastermind Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg was found dead in his apartment in Stockholm, Sweden on Monday, June 7, informed sources have told BLABBERMOUTH.NET. The 39-year-old son of Black Mark Records owner Börje Forsberg, widely considered to be one of black metal's founding fathers, died of an...

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UNEARTH: New Song Available For Download

A brand-new UNEARTH track, titled "The Great Dividers", has been posted online in MP3 format at this location. "The Great Dividers" comes off the group's forthcoming album, "The Oncoming Storm", due on June 29 through Metal Blade Records. A video for the track was recently shot in New York City's Sp...

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SHADOWS FALL: 'The War Within' Track Listing, Release Date Set

Century Media Records has set a September 21 release date for the new SHADOWS FALL album, "The War Within". The follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed disc, "The Art of Balance", the new album was produced again by Zeuss (HATEBREED) at Planet Z Studios in the band's home state of Massachusetts...

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Reunited HALLOWS EVE Part Ways With Singer

Reunited classic '80s thrashers HALLOWS EVE have parted ways with singer Steve Cannon. Steve, editor-in-chief of the world's oldest and longest running Internet-based music magazine Vibrations of Doom, has issued the following statement on the matter: "As I sit here writing this, I cannot believe it...

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MALEVOLENT CREATION, DOOMSWORD Drop Off Germany's ROCK HARD Festival

MALEVOLENT CREATION and DOOMSWORD have cancelled their participation in the upcoming the Rock Hard Festival on May 28-30 at Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. MALEVOLENT CREATION are citing their booking agent's failure to book additional dates around the festival as the reason for their cancel...

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FILTER Collaborators Talk About The Band's New Album

Legendary JANE'S ADDICTION bassist Eric Avery, FAILURE mastermind Ken Andrews and FILTER's Frank Cavanaugh recently answered a few questions for FILTER's official web site about their work on the new FILTER album, tentatively due later in the year: Q: What does the new FILTER album sound like? Ken:...

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AMONG THIEVES: Full-Length Debut Due Next Week

AMONG THIEVES, the New York-based band featuring LIFE OF AGONY bassist Alan Robert and BIOHAZARD drummer Danny Schuler, have set an April 26 release date through Japan's Daymare Recordings for their full-length debut, entitled "Beginning of the End". U.S. and European distribution is currently in th...

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MELISSA AUF DER MAUR To Support THE OFFSPRING In North America

Former HOLE/SMASHING PUMPKINS bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur will support THE OFFSPRING on their North American tour beginning May 11 in Minneapolis, according to Billboard.com. Auf Der Maur will be on the road to promote her solo debut, "Auf Der Maur", due on May 18 through Capitol Records. "We did a...

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Soundtrack To Your Escape

Is it just a failure on our part to grasp the evolving essence of this Swedish phenomenon, or are IN FLAMES simply not as groundbreaking as they're made out to be? Without a doubt, around the time of their epic for the new millennium, "Clayman", they were something to behold beyond the norm — a ...

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THE BERZERKER Set Release Date For DVD

Australian industrial death metal phenomenon THE BERZERKER will release their first DVD, "The Principles And Practices Of The Berzerker", on March 29 through Earache. With the release of their second album, "Dissimulate", in August 2002, THE BERZERKER began their own journey, which over a year took...

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DAVE MUSTAINE To Begin Mixing New MEGADETH Album In March/April

Dave Mustaine is scheduled to begin mixing the new MEGADETH album "somewhere around the middle of March/beginning of April," the guitarist/vocalist revealed in an online posting. "The time factor is based on [producer/mixer] Jeff Balding [JEWEL, TRISHA YEARWOOD, LONESTAR, SHANIA TWAIN] squeezing thi...

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New Found Power

The fall of PANTERA could have been predicted by anyone keeping an eye on the band for the last few years. Increasingly erratic performances and behavior from singer Philip Anselmo, as well as his predilection for going off and attempting enough side projects to fill a record store, made it clear th...

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DISTURBED Singer Says 'Personality Conflicts' Led To Bassist's Departure

DISTURBED frontman David Draiman recently spoke to MTV.com about the departure of original bassist Fuzz, who had left the band in mid-December after more than six years. "I don't want to drag anyone through the mud, there were just personality conflicts," Draiman explained. "It wasn't a relationship...

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FILTER Singer Jams With JERRY CANTRELL, CAMP FREDDY At SUNDANCE Festival

FILTER mainman Richard Patrick has posted the following message to the "Rich's Words" section of the group's official web site: "So a buddy of ours, Billy Morrison, called up Jerry Cantrell and I last week and asked us to go sing a couple of songs in his cover band called 'CAMP FREDDY' which perform...