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Geomancy

Owls are cool. Therefore, and I don't think I'm being unreasonable here, any band that adopts OWL as their name should be profoundly cool, too. Coming straight out of Oakland, California, the men behind "Geomancy" are very much up to the task. OWL (or, if you prefer, OVVL) have been around for more...

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EYEHATEGOD Announces '30 Years Of Take As Needed For Pain' April 2023 U.S. Tour With GOATWHORE

This spring, New Orleans disciples of hardcore, blues-based, post-amplified audio wreckage EYEHATEGOD will hit the road in the USA for their "30 Years of Take As Needed For Pain" tour, featuring GOATWHORE as support. Kicking off April 8, the trek also makes a stop at the annual Decibel Metal & B...

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The Jaws of Life

San Diego's PIERCE THE VEIL are known for masterfully blending post-hardcore punk and prog. Now on their fifth studio album, "The Jaws of Life", the band is showing more ambition and experimentation than ever before. There was plenty anticipation behind this new album, since it marked the outfit's f...

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Revelations of the Sacred Skull

Bands playing hopscotch across genres has been the norm for years. But intuitively enough, musical amalgams that have an impact are the ones that are built by musicians who have genuine passion for the disparate sounds and styles in question. For Montreal's LUGER, various ingredients including doom,...

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Tales Of Demonic Possession

For a brief moment back there, CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC were musically earthbound. The NYC quartet's last release, "Cloud Covered", was a collection of covers, including a particularly inspired reading of CHICAGO's "If You Leave Me Now". Lockdown fever will do that, even to such dedicated space cadets....

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Feast Of The Repulsive Dead

Named after the hotel in cult director Lucio Fulci's grotesque classic "The Beyond", SEVEN DOORS proudly walk the well-trodden line between crushing, old-school death metal and mind-bending, bloody horror. This, it barely needs stating, is an excellent idea. The metal underground is awash with simil...

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Ex-SLAYER Drummer JON DETTE Shares Drum Cover Of 'Postmortem' As Part Of 'Big Four' Series

Drummer Jon Dette (TESTAMENT, SLAYER, ANTHRAX) has uploaded the latest in his "Big Four" drum-cover series: SLAYER's "Postmortem". The clip, which can be seen below, follows his previously released videos for METALLICA's "Damage, Inc.", SLAYER's "Killing Fields", METALLICA's "Blackened", ANTHRAX's "...

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GEORGE LYNCH's THE BANISHMENT To Release Debut Album, 'Machine And Bone', In March

Frontiers Music Srl has announced the signing of THE BANISHMENT. The band, a collaboration between guitarist George Lynch (LYNCH MOB, THE END MACHINE, ex-DOKKEN) and programmer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Haze, started in 2011, and since 2020, has also included Los Angeles-based artist/vocalist De...

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The Abyssal Plain

Major credit to Prosthetic Records for continuing to unearth so many nasty and uncommercial bands. Formed in 2017, DRYAD have released a couple of independent EPs, a split with Missouri black-thrash goons ACID LEATHER and a retrospective compilation, "Anthology", in 2020. Firmly entrenched in the cr...

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RICK RUBIN Reflects On His Work On SLAYER's 'Reign In Blood': I Wanted To Hear 'The Precise Tightness' Of The Music

In a new interview with Channel 4 News, producer Rick Rubin reflected on his work on SLAYER's classic third album, "Reign In Blood". Released in October 1986 through Def Jam Recordings, the LP was the band's first collaboration with Rubin, whose input helped the band's sound evolve. Kerrang! magazin...

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THE WINERY DOGS Share Music Video For New Single 'Mad World'

THE WINERY DOGS — the powerhouse trio consisting of guitarist/vocalist Richie Kotzen, bassist/vocalist Billy Sheehan and drummer/vocalist Mike Portnoy — will release its third album, "III", on February 3 via the band's Three Dog Music label (via Burnside Distribution/The Orchard). Following in the f...

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NICKELBACK's MIKE KROEGER On MESHUGGAH's Recent Concert In New York: 'They Absolutely Ripped The Roof Off' The Venue

In a recent interview with Italy's 106.6 Radio Rock radio station, NICKELBACK bassist Mike Kroeger, who has been vocal about his appreciation for heavy metal, spoke about his love for Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I saw MESHUGGAH play a...

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MESHUGGAH Announces March/April 2023 Tour Of Sweden And Norway

Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH will embark on a tour of Sweden and Norway in early 2023. "Special guest" on all shows will be THE HALO EFFECT, the new project featuring five former members of the Swedish metal band IN FLAMES. Additional support at the Swedish dates will come from SCAR...

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Watch: THE WINERY DOGS' RICHIE KOTZEN Talks About Writing Process For New Single 'Xanadu'

In the clip below, THE WINERY DOGS guitarist/vocalist Richie Kotzen talks about the songwriting process for the band's new single, "Xanadu". "Xanadu" is taken from THE WINERY DOGS' third album, "III", which will be released on February 3, 2023 via the band's Three Dog Music label (via Burnside Distr...

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The Forest Sessions

Formerly guitarist with Swedish gothic death merchants TRIBULATION, Jonathan Hultén surprised everybody, perhaps even himself, when he transformed into an artful singer songwriter. Both his debut EP "The Dark Night Of The Soul" and subsequent full-length, "Chants From Another Place" were spellbindin...