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Disgorge Mexico

After a prolific run of releases, Canada's FUCK THE FACTS landed a much-deserved deal with Relapse and released 2006's "Stigmata High-Five", a grinding metallic album featuring Topon Dos' nails-on-chalkboard riffs and Melanie Mongeon's scathing growls. Always a band with peculiar album titles, one w...

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Stick with What You Know: Live in Europe

PAT TRAVERS is a guitar hero that doesn't get mentioned enough in conversations about the great axe-swingers who came of age in the 1970s. The Toronto-born TRAVERS made some sizzling hard rock with albums like 1978's "Heat in the Street", 1979's smash hit "Live! Go for what you Know" (hence, the new...

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THE RED CHORD Frontman On Music For Next Album

MetalSucks conducted an interview with THE RED CHORD frontman Guy Kozowyk at the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival stop at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York. Excerpts from the chat follow. MetalSucks: What's on the horizon for you guys when you wrap the tour up? Kozowyk: We finish the tour up o...

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DAVID COVERDALE: 'I Didn't Want To Be Part Of The Demise Of The Legacy Of DEEP PURPLE'

Goldmine contributor Bryan Reesman recently conducted an interview with WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. On working with WHITESNAKE guitarist Doug Aldrich: "After developing a good friendship from touring and hanging out, it was inevitable that we would...

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MIKE CHLASCIAK: HALFORD Is 'One Of The Most Professional Musicians I Have Ever Played With'

Blogs N' Roses recently conducted an interview with guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak (SEBASTIAN BACH, HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. Blogs N' Roses: So how is it collaborating with Sebastian? Do you find writing material with him easy? Mike: No, but that doesn't nec...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer Interviewed About 'Rock Band'; Audio Available

Harmonix editor Brett Milano recently conducted an interview with DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy about Rock Band: Metal Health — the latest Rock Band DLC (Downloadable Content) update otherwise known as the Roadrunner 6 Pack (a collection of metal more harsh than biting down on a ball of aluminu...

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EDGUY Frontman Talks About Upcoming Album, AVANTASIA DVD

German melodic metallers EDGUY recently entered Gate Studios in Wolfsburg, Germany to begin recording the follow-up to 2006's "Rocket Ride". Entitled "Tinnitus Sanctus", the new CD is being produced by Sascha Paeth and is scheduled to be released in November 2008. EDGUYfrontman Tobias Sammet has ans...

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Watershed

When a band makes an ascent up that arduous ladder of success and morphs from an underground phenomenon into a household name splattered across T-shirts worn everywhere from concert venues to middle schools, there will undoubtedly be cries of "fuckin' sell-out" heard from fans who caught on at the b...

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THE BOY WILL DROWN Signs With EARACHE RECORDS

Earache Records has announced the signing of British technical metallers THE BOY WILL DROWN to a multi-album, worldwide recording deal. THE BOY WILL DROWN is a four-piece band based in Norwich/Colchester, UK who formed in late 2006. Currently regarded as one of the most flamboyant and intense bands...

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INSOMNIUM To Enter Studio In March

Guitarist Ville Friman of the Finnish metal band INSOMNIUM has issued the following update: "We are currently rehearsing new material, which will become fourth INSOMNIUM album at some point. At the moment, we have four songs ready and lots of semi-ready material in store just waiting to be trained a...

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Folie Circulaire

Atlanta's WITHERED came bounding onto the scene with 2005's "Memento Mori", standing out on the Lifeforce roster with a style that took Sunlight Studios motoring death and combined it with a little sludge and bit of HIGH ON FIRE dirty pummel. Now on Prosthetic Records, "Folie Circulaire" shows the b...

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Purifying Consecrated Ground

I will be the first to admit that I'm a fan of the INCANTATION/IMMOLATION brand of filth covered, death metal iniquity, a style that is not as easy to pull off as it may sound. As John McEntee always says, it is all about capturing a certain feeling. Seattle's DRAWN AND QUARTERED has had it ...

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GLOOMY GRIM Parts Ways With Guitarist, Announces Replacement

Finnish black metal project GLOOMY GRIM has parted ways with original guitarist Mrgth. His replacement is occultist Father Umbra Sol who has already played with GLOOMY GRIM in the past. Commented GLOOMY GRIM founder Agathon: "This has been there for a long time. Working with Mrgth has been more diff...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM Frontman: 'I'm So Not Into The Whole BLABBERMOUTH Bullsh*t'

UK's Zero Tolerance magazine recently conducted an interview with CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. On the element of CHILDREN OF BODOM's non-fanbase that views him as a bleach-blond pretty boy who insists on making all the rules in his band...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: 'Angel Down' To Receive UK Release In July

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach will have his latest solo album, "Angel Down", released in the UK on July 21 through Demolition Records. The UK version of the CD will include a bonus five-track live DVD. "Angel Down" was produced by Roy Z (BRUCE DICKINSON, HALFORD, JUDAS PRIEST),and recorde...