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COBALT: New MP3 Posted, Cover Art/Track Listing Revealed

A full MP3 of the track "Blood Eagle Sacrifice" from the upcoming COBALT album "Eater of Birds" (to be released on Profound Lore Records) has been uploaded to this location. Likewise the album cover can be viewed on the Profound Lore web site. Taking the band's vicious and unconventional sound parad...

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Gear Talk With ICED EARTH's SCHAFFER: 'I'm A Gear Head But Not A Gear Whore'

With ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer and producer Jim Morris locked up at Morrisound studios in Tampa this week to mix the band's forthcoming album, "Framing Armageddon", IcedEarth.com checked in with Jon before he left for temporary exile in Florida to inquire about what gear he has and will be usi...

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United Abominations

MEGADETH's 2004 album "The System Has Failed" might not have persuaded a whole lot of people that the veteran speed metal act was back — following a two-year hiatus and wholesale lineup overhaul — but "United Abominations" makes the case a lot more convincingly out of the starting gate. "Sleepwalker...

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MARILYN MANSON Talks About New Album, Upcoming Tour

MansonUSA.com recently conducted an interview with Marilyn Manson. A few excerpts from the chat follow: MansonUSA.com: In 2005, you mentioned Tim [Skold] writing around 20 songs. Was earlier material scrapped altogether as by-products of false-starts, or has much of it survived from the initial 20-o...

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MARILYN MANSON On Marriage, Depression And VIRGINIA TECH Massacre

Polly Vernon of the U.K.'s The Observer recently conducted an interview with Marilyn Manson. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On his new album, "Eat Me, Drink Me": "I don't think that I would... [long pause] exist, if it weren't for this record. . . I haven't... left my house in a ...

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SYMPHONY X: Full-Length Track 'The Serpent's Kiss' Posted Online

Progressive metallers SYMPHONY X have posted a new full-length track, "The Serpent's Kiss", on their MySpace page. The song comes off the group's upcoming album, "Paradise Lost", due on June 26 via Inside Out Music (June 25 in Japan via JVC Victor Entertainment Inc.). The CD was mixed by Jens Bogren...

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Former EVANESCENCE Keyboardist Slams 'Ungrateful' Hired Band For Criticizing AMY LEE

Former EVANESCENCE keyboard player David Hodges — who recorded most of the group's breakthrough album, "Fallen", with Ben Moody and Amy Lee but left in 2002 before the CD was released — has jumped to Amy Lee's defense in response to the comments made by the group's former guitarist, John LeCompt, fo...

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SYMPHONY X: 'Paradise Lost' Audio Samples Available

Progressive metallers SYMPHONY X will release their new album, "Paradise Lost", on June 26 via Inside Out Music. The CD was mixed by Jens Bogren (OPETH, SOILWORK, AMON AMARTH) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden. The follow-up to 2002's "The Odyssey", "Paradise Lost" will feature the fol...

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KATAGORY V: New Album Details Revealed

Utah-based progressive/power metallers KATAGORY V have announced the release dates for their fourth album, "Hymns of Dissension", as well as the track listing and artist creating the album cover. The band has currently completed the recording of the album and is moving into the mixing phase. "Here w...

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Singer AMY LEE: 'EVANESCENCE Is Alive And Well'

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee has issued the following statement regarding the departure of guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray: "EVANESCENCE is alive and well. John and Rocky were in EVANESCENCE for four years and we shared some great times together playing live, but they were ready to move...

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Former EVANESCENCE Drummer ROCKY GRAY Comments On His Departure

Rocky Gray, longtime drummer for multi-platinum rockers EVANESCENCE, has confirmed reports that he has quit the band. Best known prior to EVANESCENCE as the guitar player for seminal Christian metal bands LIVING SACRIFICE (a band whose members went on to join P.O.D., NORMA JEAN and more) and SOUL EM...

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EVANESCENCE: 'Making Of Sweet Sacrifice' Video Available

A seven-minute clip containing behind-the-scenes footage of the making of EVANESCENCE's "Sweet Sacrifice" music video has been posted at YouTube. The finished clip can be seen at this location. In a recent interview with MTV.com, EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee said about the clip, "It's mostly live perf...

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Treatise on the Abyss

Billed as the "Satanic elite of Louisiana," Baton Rouge's CATHOLICON have been leaving paths of scorched earth since 1994. "Treatise on the Abyss" is the band's third full-length album and follow up to the whirlwind of lost souls that is "The Death Throes of Christianity". Those yet to discover CATH...

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EVANESCENCE Honored For 'Best Album' At 'MTV Australia Video Music Awards'

EVANESCENCE was honored with the "Album of the Year" award for its "The Open Door" CD at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards, held Sunday night (April 29) at Sydney's Acer Arena. EVANESCENCE is slated to co-headline this summer's Family Values tour with KORN, marking the first time that EVANESCENCE...

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SYMPHONY X: 'Paradise Lost' Final Track Listing, Artwork Revealed

Progressive metallers SYMPHONY X have finalized the track listing and artwork for their new album, "Paradise Lost", due on June 26 via Inside Out Music. The CD was mixed by Jens Bogren (OPETH, SOILWORK, AMON AMARTH) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden. The follow-up to 2002's "The Odysse...