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DARK FUNERAL: Summer Festival Appearances Announced

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have announced the following festival appearances during 2006: Jun. 17 - Dornbirn, AUT - Metalliga Open Air Jul. 15 - Spital am Semmering, AUT - Kaltenbach Open Air Jul. 29 - Gernika, SPA - Metalway Festival Sep. 16 - Anröchte, GER - Braincrusher Festival A compl...

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DARK FUNERAL: More European Dates Confirmed

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have announced more dates for their upcoming European headlining tour, which is scheduled to kick off in late February. Confirmed dates are as follows: DARK FUNERAL w/ NAGLFAR Feb. 21 - Helsinki, FIN - Tavastia Feb. 22 - Jyväskylä, FIN - Lutakko DARK FUNERAL w/ N...

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21LUCIFERS Complete Work On Debut Album

Swedish grind/death/thrash quintet 21LUCIFERS, featuring members of WITHOUT GRIEF and GENOCRUSH FEROX, have inked a deal with JMT-Music. The group's debut album, "In the Name of…" was recorded at Black Lounge Studio by Jonas Kjellgren (CARNAL FORGE, CENTINEX, SCAR SYMMETRY, WORLD BELOW) and is tenta...

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DARK FUNERAL: 'Attera Totus Sanctus' Picture-Disc Version Due In February

Regain Records will be releasing a picture-disc version of DARK FUNERAL's latest album, "Attera Totus Sanctus", on February 20, 2006. View the LP layout/cover design at this location. "Attera Totus Sanctus" was recorded and mixed by Daniel Bergstrand (MESHUGGAH, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, IN FLAMES, BEHEM...

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See You On The Other Side

KORN's seventh studio album, "See You On The Other Side", comes after a tumultuous year in which the band parted with both its longtime label, Epic Records, and one of its founding members, guitarist Brian "Head" Welch, marking the first personnel change in the band's 11-year recording history. Seem...

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Sedimente

Here is an example of a band that understands how to take a grindcore and crust punk foundation and not only create interesting arrangements, but also deftly weave in elements of death metal and old school hardcore. "Sedimente" by Germany's WOJCZECH demonstrates how a band can stay true to its filth...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE: 'Kill' Details Revealed

CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster has released the complete track listing for the group's upcoming album, "Kill", tentatively due on March 21, 2006 via Metal Blade Records. The CD was recorded at Mana Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida with producer Erik Rutan (MORBID ANGEL, HATE ETERNAL). Commen...

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VOMITORY, MISERY INDEX, ROTTEN SOUND To Appear On NAPALM DEATH Tribute CD

VOMITORY, MISERY INDEX, ROTTEN SOUND, PIG DESTROYER and RELEVANT FEW are among the bands that are scheduled to appear on an upcoming NAPALM DEATH tribute album, to be released sometime in 2006 through No Tolerance Records. The tentative lineup of acts expected to take part in the CD is as follows (i...

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INDEX CASE Part Ways With Drummer, Announce Temporary Replacement

Iowa-based metal/hard rock act INDEX CASE, the first signing to Tim King (SOIL) and Rob Such's (TWELFTH GATE) Mortal Music/Platform Records (via Fontana/Universal distribution),have parted ways with drummer Jordan Spence. The group's official statement on the matter reads as follows: "After seven y...

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GOD FORBID Complete New Video: Photos Available

GOD FORBID will kick off the New Year in true heavy metal fashion on tour as direct support to ANTHRAX, with SWORN ENEMY and MANNTIS in the support slots. The trek, which runs from January 6 through January 21, will lead them across the U.S. and immediately into a national headlining run. The group...

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'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 U.S. and Canadian alternative metal, emocore, hardcore, math metal, metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands. In the mid-'90s, in the wake of grunge...

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MISERY INDEX To Record New Album In January

MISERY INDEX, the Baltimore, Maryland-based band featuring Jason Netherton (bass/vocals, ex-DYING FETUS) and Sparky Voyles (guitar, ex-DYING FETUS, M.O.D.),recently entered the studio to record a couple of tracks for a split seven-inch single, tentatively due early next year. The band are also cont...

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Unraveled

Wholly outside of any trend in metal, yet influential to many more famous musicians, CONFESSOR make good on their recent reformation with this weighty slab of downtrodden, progressive, cathartic doom bleakness. Serpentine rhythms, hair-raising vocals full of dissonant melody and soul-sobbing misery,...

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Disciple of the Heinous Path

Far from any reinvention of the wheel, SARGEIST's "Disciple of the Heinous Path" is a good example of well-written, old school, Norwegian-inspired black metal that just happens to be played by Finns. Morbid guitar melodies and primitive riff tones abound, and a natural drum sound, Torog's strained c...

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Finnish Metal Musicians To Take Part In DIMEBAG BEYOND FOREVER Tour

A dozen or so Finnish metal musicians will be taking part in the "Dimebag Beyond Forever Tour", set to kick off in early December. A posting at the trek's official web site, www.dimetour.com, reads as follows: "Once again it is the time to raise our hands and salute our fallen brother Dimebag Darrel...