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AKERCOCKE Prepares To Record New Album

U.K. death metallers AKERCOCKE are gearing up for the recording of their fifth album. The band plans to commence recording at its own Goat of Mendes Studios in December for a tentative May 2007 release via Earache Records. Frontman Jason Mendonca describes the new material as "a logical development...

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SYMPHORCE: 'Become Death' Track Listing Revealed

German power metallers SYMPHORCE, featuring BRAINSTORM frontman Andy B. Franck, are preparing to enter House of Music studios in Winterach, Germany with producer Dennis Ward to begin recording their new album, "Become Death", due in February/March via Metal Blade Records. According to the band, the...

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SOLEMNITY Records Classical Version Of BATHORY Song For Upcoming Vinyl Release

Germany's SOLEMNITY recently teamed up with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra to record a classical version of BATHORY's "One Rode To Asa Bay". The song was recorded at the Ulmer Münster Cathedral in Ulm, Germany, which is said to be the highest Catholic church on earth. "THIS was the place to call on...

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REVEREND: New Album To Feature DAVID WAYNE's Last Lyrics

REVEREND has released a limited number of photographs of its recording sessions with Grammy Award-wining producer Joe Trevino of Blue Cat Recording Studios at the band's official MySpace page. According to a press release, discussions are underway as to what the new CD will be titled, with the curre...

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BLACK FUNERAL Completes Work On New Album

U.S. black metal outfit BLACK FUNERAL has completed work on its seventh album, "Waters of Weeping", due in early 2007 via Behemoth Productions. The CD is described in a press release as "an apocalyptic black metal exploration of the 10 spheres of the inverse sephiroth, the tree of death from ancient...

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Free European Metal Compilation Available For Download

A free metal compilation, "Born in Blood Vol. 1", featuring sample cuts from six European metal bands, is available for download at this location. The track listing is as follows: THE COVEN (Finland) – "Hallowmas Gallows" ANCIENT DOME (Italy) - "Total Command" RATATOESKR (Germany) - "Mind Eclipse" T...

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Pestapokalypse VI

This one's a monster, folks. And really now, isn't it about time that you discovered Austria's most incendiary black/death metal act? The group has been on a roll ever since the unbridled Christ-crush of 2003's "Lucifer Incestus" (some would say, and not inaccurately, that it started way before that...

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Italian Heavy Metal TV Show Cancelled Following Discussion Of Satanism

"Extreme Metal", the heavy metal video program which aired on the Italian satellite music channel Rock TV, has been officially shut down. The host of the show, ANCIENT/FAUST guitarist Aleister, was dismissed from Rock TV after a musician that made a guest appearance on "Extreme Metal" professed his...

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GENERAL SURGERY Confirmed For Holland's ARNHEM METAL MEETING

Legendary Swedish grindcore merchants GENERAL SURGERY have been confirmed for the Arnhem Metal Meeting, set to take place Saturday, December 9 at Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, Holland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AETERNUS ANCIENT RITES ANTAEUS ARCH ENEMY GENERAL...

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CHTHONIC Frontman To Speak At CMJ MUSIC MARATHON

MTV.com reports that Freddy, frontman for the Taiwanese black-metal band CHTHONIC, will make his U.S. public-speaking debut November 3 in New York at the CMJ Music Marathon panel "From Glam to Death: Metal Subgenre Feasts". He'll be plugging the band's first U.S. release, "Seediq Bale", which came o...

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ANCIENT RITES Guitarist Expands AHRÁYEPH Project

ANCIENT RITES guitar player Raf has expanded his one-man project AHRÁYEPH into a band, according to a posting on his Myspace blog. In the past few weeks, the lineup was completed and the group's current formation is as follows: Raf - Vocals/Guitar Damien Lecompte - Guitar Dirk Vollon - Bass Cris Tit...

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Kauja Pie Saules (reissue)

Pagan folk-tinged black metal from, of all places, the Baltic state of Latvia, SKYFORGER has been going strong for over a decade now. "Kauja pie Saules", their debut CD, was originally released on Mascot in 1998, and has been brought back into print by the esoteric 'heads over at Paragon. With the a...

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SUIDAKRA: 'The IXth Legion' Video Posted Online

German melodic black/death metallers SUIDAKRA have uploaded their video for the song "The IXth Legion" at YouTube.com. The track comes off the group's new album, "Caledonia", due on November 17 via Armageddon Music. The follow-up to 2005's "Command to Charge" was recorded by Martin Buchwalter at Ger...

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DANZIG Taps Former SAMHAIN Bassist For 'Blackest Of The Black' Tour

DANZIG has tapped former SAMHAIN bassist Steve Zing for its upcoming West Coast-only edition of the "Blackest of the Black" tour, which will kick off on November 17 in Seattle, WA. Headliner DANZIG — Glenn Danzig (vocals),Zing, and TYPE O NEGATIVE's Johnny Kelly (drums) and Kenny Hickey (guitar) —...

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Ragnarok

Soaring, epic, majestic progressive Viking metal from the Faroe Islands – how come they're not on top of the charts already? Actually, TYR have been raising quite a ruckus with their "Eric the Red" album, properly released worldwide this year after initially seeing the light of day in 2003 on a tiny...