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MESHUGGAH: New Video Interview With MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM Available

Before Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH itook the stage last night (Thursday, February 19) in New York City for the second-to-last show of their U.S. headline tour with CYNIC and THE FACELESS, HeadbangersBlog.com pinned down guitarist Mårten Hagström for a brief on-camera interview a...

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MESHUGGAH: New Audio Interview With TOMAS HAAKE Available

Joel Parent from ABORT Magazine conducted an interview with drummer Tomas Haake of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 8. Listen to the 17-and-a-half-minute chat at this location. MESHUGGAH and the support band on the band's North Ameri...

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EVERY TIME I DIE And EPITAPH Make It Official

Epitaph Records has confirmed the signing of one of hardcore-rock's most notorious bands EVERY TIME I DIE. With the ink on the contract barely dry, the group is eager to enter the studio this spring to record its debut for the label, which is expected for release this fall. "To be given the opportun...

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BOSTON Mastermind Threatens Legal Action Against Fan Message Board

According to The Boston Globe, BOSTON mastermind Tom Scholz and his wife Kim have enlisted Burns & Levinson attorney Lawrence Green to send a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of a BOSTON fan board called "CoolTheEngines" where registered users were allegedly badmouthing Scholz for his trea...

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GUNS N' ROSES: 'Chinese Democracy' Certified Platinum In U.S.

GUNS N' ROSES' new album, "Chinese Democracy", was officially certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 3, 2009 for shipments in the United States in excess of one million copies. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the CD has shifted 537,000 units since it w...

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MESHUGGAH: Hollywood Footage Available

Fan-filmed footage of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH performing the track "Bleed" on February 3, 2009 at the House of Blues in Hollywood, California can be viewed on the band's tour video player below. To view the footage, click on the "Shows" tab and click on the box titled "Meshu...

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CENTURY MEDIA Partners With ROADRUNNER To Release New DAATH Album

Century Media Records has announced a worldwide partnership with Roadrunner Records to release DAATH's new opus, "The Concealers", on April 20 in Europe and April 21 in the U.S. Guitarist Emil Werstler comments: "We mutually agreed that Century Media would be much more appropriate for the band at th...

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CEPHALECTOMY: New Album To Be Made Available As Free Download

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-based death/grind metallers CEPHALECTOMY have issued the following update: "CEPHALECTOMY has decided to make their upcoming album, 'An Epitaph To Tranquility', a free download, which will be available on their website when completed. Instead of sinking money into CDs, wh...

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MESHUGGAH And CYNIC Launch Joint Online Video Channel In Support Of Tour

Early next month, two of the finest acts in extreme music, the mighty Swedes of MESHUGGAH and prog-metal forefathers CYNIC, will embark on a three-week North American tour sponsored by MySpace Music. This run of dates will feature far more than one of the strongest bills in recent memory, as CYNIC a...

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HAMMERFALL Singer: 'Our Music Is Timeless And Not Dated'

Denmark's Antenna recently conducted an interview with vocalist Joacim Cans of Swedish melodic metallers HAMMERFALL. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Antenna: You're [about] to release a new album, "No Sacrifice, No Victory", your tenth [counting the live album "One Crimson Night", a...

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: I Love The Way 'Death Magnetic' Sounds

Greg Kot of ChicagoTribune.com recently conducted an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. ChicagoTribune.com: "Death Magnetic" was portrayed as a conscious return to the style of your '80s albums. Do you agree? Ulrich: It didn't start that wa...

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The Age of Nero

If you haven't liked SATYRICON's grimward slide toward dry, minimalist, sardonic post-genre permafrost, you're gonna just keep on hating them for "The Age of Nero". Stylistically, it picks up where "Now, Diabolical" left off, all brittle, haughty vocals and skeletal bare-wire riffing. But if that's...

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The Resting Sonata

It is not a question of ROSE FUNERAL's inability to write decent songs and play a fairly convincing form of modern down-tuned 'n chunky death metal. It is just that the continual aping of a beaten-to-death style makes it difficult to appreciate an album like "The Resting Sonata", if only because you...

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GORGOROTH Frontman Discusses His Homosexuality; Video Available

Vocalist Gaahl of Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH was recently asked by Holland's FaceCulture if he thinks people will see him and his music differently now that he has publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. "Mankind is known to be narrow-minded, so… maybe some [will have a negative reaction],...

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GORGOROTH's GAAHL Is Confident About Outcome Of Upcoming Trial

Holland's FaceCulture has posted a short interview clip (see below) with vocalist Gaahl of the Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH. Gaahl discusses the legal battle between him and bassist King ov Hell on one side and the group's estranged guitarist Infernus on the other side over the rights to the...