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GRAND MAGUS Begins Recording New Album

Swedish heavy rockers GRAND MAGUS have entered the studio to begin recording the follow-up to last year's "The Hunt" for an early 2014 release via Nuclear Blast. The band is once again working with producer Nico Elgstrand and engineer Staffan Karlsson (ARCH ENEMY, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS) at Studio Sweets...

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CODE To Release 'Augur Nox' In November

U.K.-based avant-garde metal outfit CODE will release its third album, "Augur Nox", on November 19 in Europe and November 26 in North America via Agonia Records. "Augur Nox" is the first album featuring CODE's new lineup of Aort, Wacian, Syhr, LORDt and Andras. The brand-new material demonstrates th...

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TRANSPORT LEAGUE Guitarist Forced To Sit Out Shows Due To 'Serious Health Problems'

Multi-camera video footage of reunited Swedish heavy rockers TRANSPORT LEAGUE performing on June 29 at Virgin Oil in Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland can be seen below (clip shot and edited by Timo Halo). TRANSPORT LEAGUE's latest album, "Boogie From Hell", was released digitally on May 20 via frontman...

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KILL DEVIL HILL: New Album Title, Cover Artwork Revealed

KILL DEVIL HILL — the band featuring legendary drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL) alongside Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN) on bass, Mark Zavon (RATT, W.A.S.P., 40 CYCLE HUM) on guitar and Jason "Dewey" Bragg (PISSING RAZORS) on vocals — will release its sophomore album, "Revolut...

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TROUBLE Guitarist Interviewed On 'Radioactive Metal' Podcast (Audio)

Guitarist Rick Wartell of Chicago doom metal legends TROUBLE was interviewed for the latest edition of "Radioactive Metal". You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. TROUBLE recently announced the addition of bassist Rob Hultz to the group's ranks. Hultz is no stranger to the heav...

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KILL DEVIL HILL Signs With CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

KILL DEVIL HILL — the band featuring legendary drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL) alongside Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN) on bass, Mark Zavon (RATT, W.A.S.P., 40 CYCLE HUM) on guitar and Jason "Dewey" Bragg (PISSING RAZORS) on vocals — has inked a multi-album North American dea...

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TROUBLE: New Bassist Announced

Chicago doom metal legends TROUBLE have announced the addition of bassist Rob Hultz to the group's ranks. Hultz is no stranger to the heavy metal, hard rock, and doom metal genres as his lengthy music resume boasts. While still in high school, he joined an East Coast hardcore band called SOCIAL DECA...

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TRISTANIA: Audio Samples Of Entire 'Darkest White' Album

A six-minute YouTube clip containing audio samples of all the tracks that appear on "Darkest White", the seventh studio album from Norwegian/Italian metallers TRISTANIA, can be seen below. "Darkest White" was released on May 31 via Napalm Records. The CD artwork, painted by artist Eliran Kantor (TES...

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TRISTANIA: New Audio Interview With OLE VISTNES

The Age Of Metal recently conducted an interview with bassist Ole Vistnes of Norwegian/Italian metallers TRISTANIA. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud player below. TRISTANIA released its seventh studio album, "Darkest White", on May 31 via Napalm Records. The CD artwork, painted by a...

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The Last Spire

Full disclosure: this writer believes CATHEDRAL's final studio recordings - collected on 2013's suitably named "The Last Spire" - arrive not a minute too soon, following a frequently dissatisfying, deeply inconsistent, even occasionally embarrassing series of LPs released by the storied British doom...

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The Eldritch Dark

BLOOD CEREMONY's third album, 2013's "The Eldritch Dark", arrives in the midst of a historically busy time for parent label, Rise Above, which is obviously counting on its partnership with America's mighty Metal Blade to help juggle virtually simultaneously released new efforts from CATHEDRAL, CHURC...

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CODE Signs With AGONIA RECORDS

U.K.-based avant-garde black metal outfit CODE has inked a worldwide deal with Agonia Records. The band's as-yet-untitled third studio album will be released later this year. Gathering together a group of musicians with widely varying musical backgrounds, CODE has nearly finished recording the new m...

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MERCYFUL FATE And WITCHFINDER GENERAL Albums Remembered In New Ebooks

Two new one-dollar short ebooks tell the stories of the making of influential black metal and doom metal albums from 1983 — MERCYFUL FATE's "Melissa" and WITCHFINDER GENERAL's "Friends Of Hell". Author Martin Popoff explains: "We explore one of the most imposingly scary and skilled metal classics ev...

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TRANSPORT LEAGUE: Performance Footage From 'Boogie From Hell' CD-Release Party

Video footage of reunited Swedish heavy rockers TRANSPORT LEAGUE performing the song "Electric Wolf" on May 24 at Sticky Fingers Bar & Grill in Gothenburg, Sweden at the release party for their new album, "Boogie From Hell", can be seen below. "Boogie From Hell" was released digitally on May 20...

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Horrible Nights

UK doom purveyors MOSS have remarkably been a going concern for some thirteen years, releasing a fairly steady flow of demos, EPs and splits on a frantic schedule more typical of grindcore bands, before they finally convinced Rise Above to carry their sophomore LP in 2008, and now, through the Briti...