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SAMAEL To Reveal New Album Title Later This Month

Swiss industrial black metallers SAMAEL will reveal the title of their new album on December 21. Three weeks after returning from Germany where the band spent time going over every new song with longtime collaborator Waldemar Sorychta (MOONSPELL, LACUNA COIL, TIAMAT, GRIP INC.),SAMAEL entered the s...

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Blood of the Pentagram

Typically speaking, minimalism in metal either works or it doesn't and it usually has just as much, if not more, to do with the imagines conjured, the morbid feelings unearthed, and an aroma of toxicity. GRAVEWURM has been around long enough (1990, to be exact) to make it work to a sufficient, if no...

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1349 Drummer: 'We Are Pushing The Level Of Ambition All The Time'

The Scream Queen recently conducted an interview with drummer Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad of Norwegian black metallers 1349 and SATYRICON. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Scream Queen: How do you believe 1349 is perceived through the eyes of your fans? Frost: I think that we...

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Norway's DEVIL Signs With SOULSELLER RECORDS

DEVIL, the Norwegian heavy doom rock band featuring members of VESEN, RIKETS CRUST, CEASE.AND.DESIST, FUCK YOU ALL and FAUSTCOVEN, has inked a deal with the Dutch label Soulseller Records. The quintet's full-length debut is tentatively due next year. DEVIL, which hails from the Norwegian city Nes (i...

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DØDHEIMSGARD, EXHUMED Confirmed For Norway's INFERNO Festival

Norway's DØDHEIMSGARD and California's EXHUMED have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Inferno festival, set to take place April 20-23, 2011 at the Rockefeller and John Dee venues in Oslo, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALCEST ATHEIST AURA NOIR DØDHEIMSGARD EXHUMED...

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LOCK UP: New Song Posted Online

Extreme metal supergroup LOCK UP has uploaded the first new piece of music in eight years, a track titled "Life of Devastation", to the band's official MySpace page. The song is set to appear on a split seven-inch single with MISERY INDEX early next year.

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ARGUS Signs With CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC

Cruz Del Sur Music has inked a deal with Pennsylvania's ARGUS for the release of the band's new album, entitled "Boldly Strides The Doomed". ARGUS was formed in 2007 and features Bruce Balich of PENANCE fame on vocals. They released their self-titled debut album on Shadow Kingdom Records in 2009, wh...

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BLIND GUARDIAN Schedules Quebec City Signing Session

German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN will take part in a signing session this coming Thursday, November 25 at Pentagram, an independent metal-only store in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, starting at 1:30 pm. Everyone attending the signing session will have to show his/her ticket for that night's BLIN...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING Talks 'The Vinyl Conflict' (Video)

Counting down to the band's 30th anniversary, SLAYER's Kerry King sat down and talked about "The Vinyl Conflict", the band's high-end, limited edition vinyl box set that was just released. Representing SLAYER's entire American Recordings catalogue, "The Vinyl Conflict" begins with 1986's genre-defin...

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NACHTMYSTIUM: 'Every Last Drop' Video Released

"Every Last Drop", the new video from Illinois-based extreme metallers NACHTMYSTIUM, can be viewed below. (***WARNING***: The video is graphic.) The clip was filmed on July 24-25 in Brooklyn, New York with Jimmy Hubbard and Seldon Hunt, and was edited by Alan Dubin (ex-KHANATE, GNAW); special FX mak...

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SAMAEL: More 'Antigod' EP Details Revealed

"Antigod", the new EP from Swiss industrial black metallers SAMAEL, will be released on November 19 in the following territories: * Via Nuclear Blast in Europe on seven-inch single (two tracks),CD-digipack and digital download (six tracks) * Via Season Of Mist in North America as digital dowload (s...

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Doom Legends PENTAGRAM Sign With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Long-running D.C. doom legends PENTAGRAM, with riff-meister Victor Griffin back in the fold, will record their new album, "Last Rites", between November 29 and December 21 for a late March/early April release via Metal Blade Records. The effort will be a double-disc set consisting of the new studio...

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SAMAEL Signs North American Deal With SEASON OF MIST

Swiss industrial black metallers SAMAEL have signed a North American deal with Season of Mist. The band's new EP, "Antigod", will be released on November 19 as a digital download exclusive. Commented the group: "We always remember the first time. "When we met again with Michael Berberian [Season Of...

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ATHEIST, OKKULTOKRATI Confirmed For Norway's INFERNO Festival

Reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST and Norwegian dirty punk metallers OKKULTOKRATI have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Inferno festival, set to take place April 20-23, 2011 at the Rockefeller and John Dee venues in Oslo, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as...

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KERRY KING On Playing With MEGADETH Again: 'I Never In A Million Years Thought It Would Happen'

Artisan News Service spoke with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine and SLAYER guitarist Kerry King shortly before King joined MEGADETH on stage last Thursday (October 21) at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California to perform MEGADETH's classic "Rattlehead". You can now watch the two separa...