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UNLEASHED, BELPHEGOR, DEVIAN: 'Battalion North Tour' Dates Announced

Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED will team up with BELPHEGOR, DEVIAN and DIABOLICAL for the "Battalion North Tour" in February/March. Confirmed dates are as follows: Feb. 27 - Tapper - Tallin, Estonia Feb. 28 - Yo-talo - Tampere, Finland Mar. 01 - Nosturi - Helsinki, Finland Mar. 03 - Klubi Tu...

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DEVILS WHOREHOUSE Completes Recording New Album

DEVILS WHOREHOUSE — the "horror-death rock" side-project of MARDUK guitarist Morgan Håkansson — has finished recording its new full-length album. The CD is currently being mixed and is set to be unleashed during early spring via Regain Records. The album title and track listing will be unveiled duri...

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GOREAPHOBIA Completes Work On New Album

Reunited death/thrash legends GOREAPHOBIA have completed the recording of their first album for Ibex Moon Records, "Mortal Repulsion". The band — guitarist Alex Bouks, bassist/vocalist Chris Gamble, guitarist John McEntee (also in INCANTATION),and drummer Jim Roe (ex-INCANTATION) — has also re-reco...

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NECROPHOBIC: Performance Footage Of New Song Available

Imhotep has uploaded video footage (see below) of Stockholm, Sweden-based death/black metallers NECROPHOBIC performing a new song, "For Those Who Stayed Satanic", on December 26 at Mosebacke in the band's hometown. The concert marked the group's first show with new bassist Alex Friberg. NECROPHOBIC...

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Relationship Between Heavy Metal And Spirituality Examined In New Book

Editor Justin St. Vincent has released a new book entitled "The Spiritual Significance of Music: Metal Edition" which "provides an exciting exploration of how music powerfully impacts spirituality, and why spirituality influences music," according to a press release. "Readers will discover sincere e...

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TIWANAKU: New Demo Tracks Posted Online

TIWANAKU, the central Florida-based metal band featuring Wade Black (CRIMSON GLORY) on vocals, Emo Mowery (ex-NOCTURNUS) on guitar/vocals and Mike Estes (BURNING INSIDE, ACHERON) on guitar, has posted two new demo tracks on its official web site. Check out "Playing God" and "Ghost War" at this locat...

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TESTAMENT Takes Top Honors In 2008 'Metal On Metal' Listener Poll

TESTAMENT's "The Formation Of Damnation" album took the No. 1 spot in WJCU's "Metal On Metal" annual listener Top 25 countdown show. The album beat out second-place finisher, METALLICA's "Death Magnetic", by a 36% margin on the recently broadcast program (see chart below). "The Top 25 countdown show...

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UNLEASHED Frontman Talks Christianity

Matt Smith of GASPetc.com recently conducted an interview with frontman Johnny Hedlund of Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED. An excerpt from the chat follows below. GASPetc.com: I have to say I absolutely love "Hammer Battalion", to me it's one of the best albums you guys have put out in awhile. It...

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UNLEASHED: Video Interview With JOHNNY HEDLUND

Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Johnny Hedlund of Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED. Johnny talks about living in Sweden, rebelling and spreading his message through UNLEASHED, the up and down periods of UNLEASHED, recording in the band's own studio, the g...

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NECROPHOBIC To Play First Show With New Bassist

Stockholm, Sweden-based death metallers NECROPHOBIC will play their first show with new bassist Alex Friberg on December 26 at Mosebacke in the band's hometown. NECROPHOBIC is currently working on its sixth full-length studio album, tentatively due in early 2009. Songtitles set to appear on the as-y...

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EXILIA Films 'Are You Breathing?' Video

Italian female-fronted quartet EXILIA filmed a video for the song "Are You Breathing?" this past Wednesday (December 17) with director Tobias Dannappel. The track comes off the band's new album, "My Own Army", which will now be released on February 20, 2009 via AFM Records. The CD was recorded at Pr...

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UNLEASHED: Warsaw Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of UNLEASHED's December 7, 2008 concert at Progresja in Warsaw, Poland can be viewed below (clips uploaded by "Zwierzak26"). UNLEASHED's ninth full-length album, "Hammer Battalion", sold 370 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen Sound...

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SPV To Celebrate 25th Anniversary

SPV will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2009. The label from Hanover, Germany was launched 25 years ago — on January 1, 1984 to be precise. What started with the sampler "Soundtrack zum Untergang" and bands such as TOXOPLASMA, SLIME, SODOM and DESTRUCTION soon threatened to burst the seams of the...

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ROTTEN SOUND, AZARATH Confirmed For Germany's PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival

ROTTEN SOUND (Finland) and AZARATH (Poland) have been confirmed for the 2009 edition of the Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 6-8, 2009 in Bad Berka, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AZARATH DEN SAAKALDTE EVOCATION HATE ETERNAL INHUME MARDUK MISERY INDEX RO...

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Into the Night

Heavy Artillery Records just keeps on delivering the goods. After a run of righteous vintage thrash albums, the label has now unleashed one in the traditional heavy metal vein, albeit a disc with a significant speed metal element. On "Into the Night", Sweden's ENFORCER stomp on the gas pedal and rac...