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RESURRECTED Part Ways With Drummer

Drummer Michael Scholz has left long-running German death metallers RESURRECTED for "personal reasons," according to a posting on the band's web site. "He feels powered out and thinks that he's not powerful enough any more especially to play in the drum recordings for our upcoming album, 'Endless Se...

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DISGORGE To Team Up With ROTTENESS For Mexican Tour

California death-grind band DISGORGE will be teaming up with ROTTENESS for a Mexican tour in June. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. The band wil also underetake a "huge" European tour with MALEVOLENT CREATION and SKINLESS beginning mid-September. DISGORGE released their fourth album, "...

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Invasion from the Death Dimension

When metal bands from the Pacific Northwest hook up with New York's Razorback Records, good things usually happen. It usually involves a musical product consisting of a lethal and catchy combination of gore, thrash, death, and grind. The key difference with Shoreline, Washington's FUNEROT is that th...

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Nothing Positive, Only Negative

So the question is: Why wouldn't you sign a band that released an album called "Shit Bloody Shit"? Well, that and the aptly described "southern fried dirt metal" will get an aptly-named band like FACEDOWNINSHIT a grubby spot on the Relapse roster. Take a little burned out punk rock soul, the heart o...

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MACABRE, JUNGLE ROT Confirmed For Holland's OP VOLLE SNOEREN Festival

MACABRE and JUNGLE ROT have been confirmed for the fifth edition of Holland's "most brutal death and grind fest" Op Volle Snoeren, set to take place Saturday, April 22 at Willemeen in Arnhem. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: MACABRE (USA) JUNGLE ROT (USA) PIGSTY (CZ) CLITEATER (NL) XEN...

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Samsara

You don't usually see a label like Century Media give up on a band after one album. But then again, you also usually don't run across bands like Chicago jazz/prog/metal freaks YAKUZA. Harsh metal with a technical bent and distorted sax solos? Haunting mellow free-jazz pieces? In the same song? It's...

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COLLISION Complete Work On New CD; Audio Available

Dutch "grind 'n' thrashcore" act COLLISION have completed work on their sophomore album, "Roadkiller", tentatively due this spring via Bones Brigade Records. The CD was recorded at Toneshed Studio in Horst, Holland by Erwin Hermsen and was mastered at Imperial Mastering in Concord, California by Col...

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BLOOD DUSTER 'Almost Finished' Writing New Album

Australian act BLOOD DUSTER — who are described as blending lethal grindcore with traditional '70s-style Southern rock and rockabilly rhythms spiced up with a large dose of grossed-out humor — have almost finished writing the material for their upcoming album and "are all really happy with the direc...

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WASTEFORM Confirmed For Germany's NRW DEATHFEST

New York-based death metallers WASTEFORM are the latest addition to this year's NRW Deathfest, a two-day indoor death/grind festival set to take place September 15-16 in Wermelskirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): CARNAL DECAY (SWI) DEFLORATION (GE...

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Self Medicated Psycho Therapy

Lawdy, lawdy, cover your ears and protect your privates, DESOLATEVOID ain't foolin' around. That such a quality dish of battery acid and pit bull balls has been released on one of the premier crust punk and grind labels, Crimes Against Humanity, is not surprising. While "Self Medicated Psycho Therap...

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Malaysian Label Abandons Plans To Release RIBSPREADER Collection

Contrary to previously published reports, Malaysia's Summers End Records (via sub-label Unburied Records) will NOT be issuing the "Church of the Zombie (Re-Excavated Death)" album from RIBSPREADER, the Swedish "old-school death metal" band featuring guitarist/vocalist/bassist Rogga Johansson (PAGANI...

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CRETIN Finish Recording New Full-Length

CRETIN have completed work on "Freakery", their forthcoming Relapse Records full-length. "Freakery" is CRETIN's first album effort after a well-received 7" EP (Cretanic Grind Ambush) and was recorded entirely by the band at their Tillinghast Workshop studio. Bassist Matthew Widener comments on the r...

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BENEDICTION Confirmed For Germany's F*CK THE COMMERCE Festival

Long-running British extreme metallers BENEDICTION have been confirmed as one of the headliners of the 2006 edition of the Fuck the Commerce festival, set to take place May 25-27 at MZA (Mehrzweckhalle) in Luckau, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BENEDICTION (UK) DAWN OF DISEA...

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MORTIFICATION Announce New Drummer, Complete Work On New CD

Australian Christian metallers MORTIFICATION have announced the addition of drummer Damien Percy to the group's ranks. The band's new album, "Erasing the Goblin", has been mixed and mastered and should be available in late March. According to a press release, fans should "expect a death metal-orient...

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Call of the Mastodon

Before you do anything, take a close look at the track listing above. If a lot of it looks familiar, you probably already own the out-of-print "Lifesblood" EP — and only you can decide if four more early tracks, for a total of 28 minutes of music, is worth shelling out full price for. But ...