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GUTWORM: 'Disfigured Narcissus' Samples Available

British extreme metallers GUTWORM will release their new album, entitled "Disfigured Narcissus", on September 7 via Anticulture Records. Audio samples are available on the group's MySpace page. Since the debut CD's release, GUTWORM has been busier than ever. After a stunning performance at the Blood...

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SKINLAB Signs With CRASH MUSIC, Announces New Guitarist

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB have inked a two-album deal with Crash Music Inc. The group will spend the months of November and December at Trident Studio with producer Juan Urteaga recording its new full-length album for an early 2008 release. Commented frontman Steev Esquivel: "...

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DEICIDE Gearing Up To Record New Album

Earache Records head honcho Digby Pearson has revealed that DEICIDE has finished demoing most of the material that will appear on the group's next album, tentatively due in early 2008. "Touring as been curtailed as Glen [Benton, bass/vocals] has some legal issues pending BUT that has given the main...

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VOIVOD Frontman Launches PARANOLAND Project

In a complete departure from what they have done before, Denis "Snake" Belanger (VOIVOD) and longtime friend Botcher (AGGRESSION) spent the last year working on a project called PARANOLAND. Experimenting with modern sounds and samples over knockout riffs and twisted arrangements, the group stepped u...

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ALCATRAZZ: Behind-The-Scenes Biography Posted Online

Founding ALCATRAZZ members Jimmy Waldo (keyboards),Gary Shea (bass) and Jan Uvena (drums) have posted a lengthy behind-the-scenes biography at this location. The site covers the full story of the band, from its initial formation through three ex-guitar players, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Danny...

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MEGADETH Drummer Prepares For Headlining Tour

MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "With about three weeks until the next tour leg begins, at this point I would usually be dusting off the drum-set and sssssllllllllooooooowwwwwwwwllllly begin to rehearse on my own...

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MEGADETH Guitarist GLEN DROVER: We're Not Doing This For Money Or For Wrong Reasons

ChartAttack.com recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH guitarist Glen Drover. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On joining MEGADETH with his brother Shawn Drover (drums): "It was definitely a magical moment, that's for sure. That whole period was definitely a high point in my career...

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MEGADETH: Complete 'Warchest' Box Set Details Revealed

MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine and Capitol/EMI have collaborated to create and deploy the ultimate MEGADETH box set: "Warchest". The 4-CD+DVD collection features more than six hours of digitally remastered content, hand-selected by Mustaine, including 30 audio and video tracks making their global release...

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MEGADETH To Film 'Never Walk Alone' Video This Month

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "Today was an early day for me; I was up before the sun (and not because I didn't go to sleep),and I hear a noise in the front room of my home, again it is ...

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SKINLAB: Live CD, DVD In The Works

Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of the San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update: "Today we start listen to the live CD recording from our show at The Metro June 3rd. We're set to start mixing next week. We'll be working our our longtime friend Juan Urteaga at Trident...

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MEGADETH's GLEN DROVER TO Receive New Graphic Guitar

MEGADETH guitarist Glen Drover has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "Just wanted to drop all of you a few lines to share some new and exciting news….. "My good friends at Dean Guitars are now presently working on a nice new graphic guitar for me,...

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MEGADETH: 'That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires' To Receive CD Release

MEGADETH and Image Entertainment will release "That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires", a live double CD set on September 4, 2007. The companion to the gold-certified DVD of the same name that was released earlier this year, the CD set contains 22 tracks, including three — "Skin Of My Teeth", "Die Dea...

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MEGADETH: Japanese Tour Dates Announced

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the band's official forum: "Just wanted to say that it has been a lot of entertainment for me the last three weeks getting to come back and spend time with you each morning. "It's as if y'all are in my house having coffee each mornin...

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Icons of Evil

One of the more divisive death metal albums of 2007, the new VITAL REMAINS manages a rather neat trick by being everything its most ardent supporters say it is — and suffering from every flaw its detractors claim. It's a big, turgid, exhausting, overstuffed Thanksgiving turkey of an album, a ludicro...

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LION'S SHARE: Audio Interview With LARS CHRISS Available

Rock 247 Online recently conducted an interview with LION'S SHARE guitarist Lars Chriss. Listen to the 13-minute chat at this location. LION'S SHARE's video for the song "The Edge of the Razor" has been posted at YouTube. The track, which features a guest solo from ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick, co...