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EYES OF FIRE Embark On Headlining U.S. Tour; New Track Now Available

Orange County-based quintet EYES OF FIRE will embark on a lengthy headlining U.S. tour with LOSA early next month in support of their highly anticipated sophomore release, "Prisons", which is set for a February 7 release. The trek, which runs from Feb. 3 through March 4, will be the group's first he...

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HIGH ON FIRE Announce Second Leg Of 'Blessed Black Wings Tour 2006'

HIGH ON FIRE have announced the second leg of their North American "Blessed Black Wings Tour 2006". This leg of the tour will begin March 30 and extend into May. Support on all dates will come from GOATWHORE and WATCH THEM DIE. HIGH ON FIRE kick off the first leg of the "Blessed Black Wings ...

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GOAT HORN: New Album Will Rival METALLICA's 'Master Of Puppets'

Canadian metallers GOAT HORN will be entering the studio this spring to record the follow up to their "Threatening Force" EP. The band are currently in talks with a handful of labels about a possible release of their new CD, which is expected this fall. In other news, GOAT HORN's upcoming CD has bee...

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YAKUZA: New 'Samsara' Release Date Announced; Audio Available

Prosthetic Records has pushed back the projected release date for the new album from the Chicago-based experimental jazz/metal quartet YAKUZA, entitled "Samsara", to March 21 from the previously announced March 7. "Samsara" was recorded by Matt Bayles (ISIS, BOTCH) at Volume Studios in Chicago and h...

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MASTODON Guitarist Talks About Upcoming CD

MASTODON guitarist Bill Kelliher recently spoke to Decibel magazine about the songwriting process for the group's follow-up to 2004's "Leviathan", tentatively titled "Blood Mountain". The CD, which is expected to surface this summer, will be the band's first for new label Warner Bros. "We're thinkin...

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HIGH ON FIRE To Embark On North American Headlining Tour

HIGH ON FIRE are getting ready to kick off their "Blessed Black Wings Tour 2006" on January 18 in San Francisco, CA at 12 Galaxies. The tour will include special guest THE BRONX, BIG BUSINESS, and Relapse Records labelmates BURIED INSIDE. HIGH ON FIRE spent most of 2005 touring as part of the The So...

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EYES OF FIRE To Team Up With LOSA, PLATOON 13 For U.S. Tour

Orange County-based quintet EYES OF FIRE will be teaming up with LOSA and PLATOON 13 for a U.S. tour beginning in early February. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Feb. 03 - Pheonix, AZ - Metal Devastation 2 Feb. 05 - Houston, TX - The Engine Room Feb. 06 - Oklahoma City, OK - ...

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MASTODON Set Tentative Title For New Album

According to the new issue of Resound magazine (the free magazine/mail-order catalog of Relapse Records),MASTODON have set "Blood Mountain" as the tentative title of the follow-up to 2004's "Leviathan", due next summer via Warner Bros. "We want the whole thing to flow together as one big piece of m...

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MASTODON To Play New Year's Eve Show In Atlanta

MASTODON will play a very special New Year's Eve show in their hometown of Atlanta at The Masquerade. Support at the gig will come from ARTIMUS PYLEDRIVER, GONZALEZ and CINJED. Tickets and more information can be found at www.masq.com. MASTODON are tentatively planning on entering the studio in Febr...

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From Mars to Sirius

GOJIRA have, on their third album, unleashed an epic. This is a masterpiece on par with anything MESHUGGAH or MASTODON have released, that sort of massive, lumbering, seething wall of sound that the listener just can't help but become immersed in. "From Mars to Sirius" is a journey that'll take many...

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MASTODON And BLOODSIMPLE Brothers To Guest On BBC Radio 1's 'The Rock Show'

On Tuesday, December 13 between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. GMT, you can hear BLOODSIMPLE bassist Kyle Sanders (bass) and his brother, Troy Sanders (bass, vocals) from MASTODON, play and talk about their favorite music on the BBC Radio 1 "The Rock Show". Click here for more information. MASTODON are ten...

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MASTODON Drummer Says New Album Will Be 'More Progressive' And 'Thrashier'

MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor recently spoke to Revolver magazine about the group's upcoming Warner Bros. debut, tentatively due late summer 2006. "We want the whole thing to flow together as one big piece of music, where the end of one song links up with the beginning of the next one," he said. "We...

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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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EYES OF FIRE: 'Prisons' Cover Art Posted Online

Orange County-based quintet EYES OF FIRE have posted the following update on their official web site: "EYES OF FIRE has seen the first edit for the video for 'It All Dies Today' and the band is really impressed with the outcome. The edit the band was able to see is the version that will be ...

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KIRK HAMMETT: 'METALLICA Have A Lot More To Say'

In the latest issue of Guitar World, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of METALLICA's landmark "Master of Puppets" album, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett gets quizzed by the magazine readers and a host of metal luminaries, including MASTODON, LAMB OF GOD, EXODUS, EVERY TIME I...