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NILE: New Album 'Collector's Edition' To Include Exclusive Artifacts

Relapse Records has set a May 24 release date for the new NILE album, "Annihilation of the Wicked". A special "collector's edition" (view artwork here) of the album is currently available for pre-order for $30, featuring exclusive NILE artifacts: a custom Serpent-Ankh necklace, full-color album post...
March 22, 2005
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MORTIIS Confirmed For Germany's WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN Festival

Norway's legendary eccentric artist MORTIIS has been confirmed for the Wave Gotik Treffen festival, set to take place May 13-16 in Leipzig, Germany. Other bands scheduled to perform at the festival include TIAMAT, ATROCITY, TRISTANIA, BESEECH, DIE KRUPPS, DARKWELL, MORTIIS, ZEROMANCER, FLOWING TEARS...
March 20, 2005
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Nightmares Made Flesh

My experience with death metal "supergroups" this past year has been 50/50: MURDER SQUAD's "Ravenous Murderous" rules, GOD AMONG INSECTS' "World Wide Death" blows. The winning percentage shoots up with BLOODBATH's "Nightmares Made Flesh". But then, did you really expect anything less from Dan Swanö'...
March 20, 2005
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NOX To Enter Studio In June

NOX, the Dutch death metal outfit consisting of ex-CENTURIAN guitarist Rob Oorthuis and drummer Bob Dussel, plus SEVERE TORTURE members Patrick Boleij and Seth v/d Loo, (both also ex-CENTURIAN),will enter Excess Studios in Rotterdam, Holland in June to begin recording their debut album, "Ixaxaar",...
March 19, 2005
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EXCITER: Early Albums To Be Re-Released This Week

Canadian thrash metal pioneers EXCITER will have three of their classic albums — "Heavy Metal Maniac" (1983),"Long Live the Loud" (1985) and "Unveiling the Wicked" (1986) — re-released on March 15 via Megaforce Records. All three releases were remastered by Jeff Waters (ANNIHILATOR) and include bon...
March 14, 2005
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Cycle of Pain

As much as I enjoyed HAVOCHATE's "This Violent Earth" for its old-school OVERKILL/TESTAMENT crunch grooves and hardass heavy metal attitude, I still thought it was a good, not great album. About half the album crushed convincingly (especially the excellent title track) and half I found to be just av...
March 9, 2005
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NILE Announce New Bassist

NILE have announced that "due to last-minute rehearsals with 19-year-old bass player Joe Payne, Karl and Dallas have decided that he will in fact be the bass player on the upcoming European dates starting next week," according to a posting on the group's official web site. "NILE and World Management...
March 8, 2005
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LIFE OF AGONY: 'Love To Let You Down' Live Video Clip Posted Online

A live clip of LIFE OF AGONY's new single, "Love to Let You Down", has been posted at the group's official web site. Check it out at this location. "Love to Let You Down" is the first single off the group's enw album, "Broken Valley", due on May 31 via Epic Records. The ...
March 5, 2005
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EXMORTEM To Headline Finland's JALOMETALLI FESTIVAL

Danish death metallers EXMORTEM have been confirmed as the headliners of the first night of this year's Jalometalli Festival, a two-day event set to be held August 19-20 in Oulu, Finland (LORD BELIAL will headline the second night). The complete list of artists currently confirmed to appear at the f...
March 3, 2005
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AGENT STEEL To Perform Entire 'Skeptics Apocalypse' Album At Germany's KEEP IT TRUE Festival

AGENT STEEL will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic "Skeptics Apocalypse" LP by performing the album in its entirety at the Keep It True IV Festival on April 2 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Koenigshofen, Germany. The complete list of acts currently scheduled to appear at the festival i...
February 28, 2005
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RAISE HELL To Enter Studio In April

Swedish death/thrashers RAISE HELL will enter Sheepvalley Productions in Stockholm in April to begin recording their fourth album, tentatively due late summer/early fall through Black Lodge Records. "We are almost finished with writing the songs and from what we can hear so far it's gonna be a kille...
February 24, 2005
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INSISION Cancel Southeast Asian Tour

Stockholm, Sweden-based brutal death metallers INSISION have been forced to cancel their previously announced tour of Southeast Asia. "We have some difficult stuff to deal with at home at the moment, so it would have been impossible for us to leave right now," the band write on their web site. "We h...
February 24, 2005
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MAX CAVALERA Says New SOULFLY CD Is 'A Very Heavy, Brutal Album'

SOULFLY mainman Max Cavalera spoke to the SOULFLY fan site SoulflyWeb.com last Saturday (Feb. 19) about the group's upcoming DVD release, "The Song Remains Insane", their forthcoming studio album and their future touring plans, among other topics. Several excerpts from the interview follow: SoulflyW...
February 23, 2005
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LIFE OF AGONY: 'Broken Valley' Track Listing Revealed

LIFE OF AGONY have confirmed the track listing for their much-anticipated new album, "Broken Valley", due on May 31 via Epic Records. The album's first single, "Love to Let You Down", is scheduled to go for radio adds around March 21. Check out the album cover artwork at this location. A video for ....
February 23, 2005
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LIFE OF AGONY: 'Broken Valley' Release Pushed Back

Epic Records has pushed back the release date of the much-anticipated new LIFE OF AGONY album, entitled "Broken Valley", to May 31 from the previously announced May 17. The album's first single, "Love to Let You Down", is scheduled to go for radio adds around March 21. Check out the album cover artw...
February 18, 2005