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NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL Lineup Revealed

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, presented by ESP Guitars & Basses and Krank Amps, is set for Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28 with a Friday night headline performance by Norwegian black metal sensations DIMMU BORGIR and a tribute to Metal Blade Records' 25th anniversary to ca...

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SKELETONWITCH Signs With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Cleveland thrashers SKELETONWITCH have officially inked a deal with Prosthetic Records. Fresh off self-releasing the "Worship the Witch" EP, the band will now join the Prosthetic roster, having already shared stage with the likes of HIGH ON FIRE, BLEEDING THROUGH, OVERKILL and labelmates KYLESA earl...

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Los Angeles Death Metallers THE CAUTERIZED Prepare To Release Debut Album

Los Angeles-based death metallers THE CAUTERIZED will release their debut album, "Hung Be The Heavens With Black", on February 23 via Musicaz Records. The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Embalmed At Birth 02. Meroveus Rex (The Blood Immortal) 03. Lament For The Serpent King 04. The I...

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PRO-PAIN: New Album Details Revealed

PRO-PAIN will release its new album, "Age Of Tyranny / The Tenth Crusade", in Europe on March 30. U.S. and Japanese release dates will be announced shortly. The track listing is as follows: 01. The New Reality 02. All For King George 03. Pigs In Clover 04. Beyond The Pale (feat. Matt Bizilia from IC...

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MACHINE HEAD, POSSESSED Members Guest On New SKITZO CD

Legendary Bay Area thrash/crossover band SKITZO will release its 17th CD, "Five Point Containment", on May 15 via Open Grave Records. The track is as follows: 01. Curse of the Phoenix 02. Gag Like A Maggot 03. Metallic Tyrants 04. Vengeance Is Mine (BLIND ILLUSION cover) 05. Stab Her Goodnight 06. H...

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Jack Knife Rendezvous

Dunderheaded German metal with a clunky punk attack, like a more low-rent version of the first MAIDEN record, complete with endearingly off-key vocals, rudimentary twin leads and titles like "Bleed For My Strings" and "Witch of Death" to ensure maximum metal cliché goofiness. The end result is somew...

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'Metal: The Definitive Guide' Book Due In April

Garry Sharpe-Young's next book, a 608-page, 600,000-word treatise simply titled "Metal: The Definitive Guide", will be published in the U.S. on April 28 by Backbeat Books. Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST provided the foreword. He wrote, in part, "From its beginnings out of Birmingham, England in the lat...

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THE ACCUSED: New Songs Available For Free Download

Seattle's reigning kings of "splatter rock" THE ACCUSED have posted two songs from their latest studio session — "Fuck Sorry" and "Scotty Came Back" — at their official web site, www.splatterrock.com. The session that yielded the "Why Even Try?" EP was helmed by Randall Dunn at a recording facility...

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EDEN A.D. To Support GOD FORBID, FULL BLOWN CHAOS In Puerto Rico

Brooklyn, New York-based metal band EDEN A.D. will support GOD FORBID and FULL BLOWN CHAOS on the following two dates in Puerto Rico: Mar. 09 - Mayaguez Cafe - Mayaguez, PR Mar. 10 - LaCuadra Sports Bar - Gurabo, PR EDEN A.D. is currently recording a follow-up EP to their self-released "Lost Eden Ch...

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ICARUS WITCH: Photos From NAMM Posted Online

Pittsburgh traditional metal upstarts ICARUS WITCH took a week off from recording their new album to take part in a meet-and-greet at the Dean Markley guitar strings booth at the NAMM show in late January. Pictures from the event can be seen at the band's MySpace page. ICARUS WITCH is back in the .....

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Former DEATH/MASSACRE Vocalist KAM LEE Talks About His New Band DENIAL FIEND

Masterful Magazine recently conducted an interview with former DEATH/MASSACRE and current DENIAL FIEND vocalist Kam Lee. A few excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow: Masterful Magazine: What have you been up to since the split of MASSACRE? I read in an old interview that you are a com...

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RUSH: 'Classical Tribute' Due In April

Vitamin Records has set an April 3 release date for "Through the Prism: The Classical Tribute to Rush". The official press release reads as follows: "What can be said about RUSH that hasn't been said already? They have won more praise and awards for their work than can be catalogued here. One of the...

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KITTIE: Asbury Park Show Cancelled

Canadian metal band KITTIE has issued the following update: "We regret to inform all of you hoping to attend the [February 11] Asbury Park, New Jersey show at the Fastlane that the show has been cancelled. We were advised by the promoter to cancel the show after an increase in gang violence and a re...

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KITTIE: More New Songs Posted Online

Canadian metal band KITTIE has uploaded three new tracks — "Summer Dies", "Witch Hunt" and "This Too Shall Pass" — to its MySpace page. All three cuts come off the group's new album, "Funeral for Yesterday", due on February 20 via KITTIE's record label, X of Infamy. A trailer for the DVD that ...

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Funeral For Yesterday

A 4 is high praise indeed, for a band signed too young, crassly marketed as Disney Channel nu-metal for tweener girls, and universally castigated for their inability to play, sing, or write songs. The fact remains, though, that Canadian all-girl troupe KITTIE are slowly getting competent, and on occ...