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NEW RENAISSANCE RECORDS Seeks Bands For New 'Speed Metal Hell' Compilation

New Renaissance Records, the record label which claims to have coined the term "speed metal," is looking for new bands for their first compilation album in twenty years. In the early 1980s New Renaissance Records released the first American recordings of SEPULTURA, MORBID ANGEL, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM,...

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Second 'Get Thrashed' Screening Added To Slipped Disc Festival

After selling out the 8:00 p.m. screening, a second showing of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" has been added to the Slipped Disc Records Film Festival. The extra screening will be at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 25 and seating is limited. Heavy Artillery Records recording artists MERCIL...

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Ex-DEADLY BLESSING Singer To Guest On Tonight's 'Black Night Meditations'

On tonight's (Aug. 14) special "old-school night" edition of "Black Night Meditations" (a metal radio show airing on WSCA 106.1 FM in Portsmouth, New Hampshire),former DEADLY BLESSING vocalist Ski will talk about his time with the band, why he left the group twice, what really happened in his quest...

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Speed Kills… Again

Just in case you missed the whiff of stale beer in denim and heard the sound of creaking leathers, the Heavy Artillery label is reminding you with all the subtlety of a boot to a poseur's face that thrash is back. Rising up from the American underground (particularly in the Latino community, for som...

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MERCILESS DEATH: Tour Dates Announced

Hot off the heels of their critically acclaimed debut album "Evil in the Night", New York thrashers MERCILESS DEATH have announced dates for their upcoming US tour. MERCILESS DEATH has injected metal with a vigor that hasn’t been seen since the golden age of thrash metal when then young bands like S...

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'Get Thrashed' Documentary: Long Island Screening Announced

"Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, will be screened at the Slipped Disc Film Festival on Saturday, August 25 at 68 Rockaway Ave in Valley Stream, New York. The screening...

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ARTILLERY, KARMA TO BURN, TREPONEM PAL Classic Titles To Be Reissued

On August 13 (October 9 in the U.S.) Metal Mind Productions will re-release several classic titles from thrash metal act ARTILLERY, desert/psychedelic rock band KARMA TO BURN and industrial group TREPONEM PAL. The titles are as follows: ARTILLERY – "Through The Years" box set containing four CDs and...

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RAMMER: New Song Posted Online

Toronto-based thrashers RAMMER posted a track from their forthcoming "Siege of Madness" album, entitled "Obliteration: WWIV", on their MySpace page. According to the band, track is "just a taste of the wild mayhem and sheer brain pulverizing thrash anthems coming your way." In other news, the group...

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EVILE: Video Footage From Recording Studio Posted Online

Up-and-coming U.K. thrashers EVILE have provided a snapshot into their time in the studio recording their debut release "Enter the Grave" with producer Flemming Rasmussen (METALLICA, ARTILLERY, MORBID ANGEL). The video, which can be viewed online at this location, gives an exclusive glimpse behind t...

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'Thrash Metal' Book Due In September

Garry Sharpe–Young's latest book "Thrash Metal" is being readied for publication this September. In addition, Zonda Books will publish Garry's "Death Metal", "Black Metal" and "Power Metal", all before the end of the year. These titles replace the 2001 editions, which have consistently ranked No. 1...

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Former DEATH Drummer CHRIS REIFERT Remembers Playing With CHUCK SCHULDINER

Luxi Lahtinen of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with Chris Reifert (DEATH, AUTOPSY, ABSCESS). An excerpt from the chat follows: Metal-Rules.com: First off, it needs to be asked how did you actually meet "Evil" Chuck Schuldiner back in the '80s? When Chuck moved from Canada (he moved...

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AVENGER OF BLOOD Signs With HEAVY ARTILLERY RECORDS

Heavy Artillery Records has announced the signing of Las Vegas metal merchants AVENGER OF BLOOD. AVENGER OF BLOOD has been busy making its mark on the metal underground since 2003 with relentless local and regional gigging as well as multiple appearances at Minneapolis Mayhem festival, Northwest Dea...

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SOULFLY Guitarist MARC RIZZO To Play Concert For The Troops

SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo will play a concert to welcome home the India 3/12 Artillery Battery Marines of Camp Lejume in Jacksonville, North Carolina from their recent tour of duty in Iraq. The troop is familiar with Marc as SOULFLY has played for them before on their base in North Carolina. The...

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MERCILESS DEATH: Debut Album Samples Available

Two tracks from MERCILESS DEATH's debut album, "Evil in the Night", have been posted on the Heavy Artillery Records MySpace page. According to a press release, the preview tracks "Exhumer" and "Ready to Kill" "capture the speed, aggression and musical prowess of thrash legends such as EXODUS, DARK A...

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DESTRUCTOR To Release 'Storm Of Steel' EP At KEEP IT TRUE Festival

"Storm of Steel" (cover),a new limited-edition EP from Cleveland, Ohio's legendary power/thrash band DESTRUCTOR, will be released by Auburn Records to coincide with the band's Keep It True VIII festival appearances in Germany on April 13 and April 14. The track listing is as follows: 01. Storm of S...