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Buried Alive

So this is it, the final farewell to a band that called it quits voluntarily after evolving from barren death metal artisans and English manglers ("Rot to Dead"! "Desperationed Future"!) in the late 1980s to a sleek, melancholy hit-making machine (in their native Finland, anyway). While some would p...

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New York City Metal Bands To Take Part In 'Metal Meltdown'

In an attempt to revive the long-forgotten camaraderie and sheer entertainment of the old infamous L'Amours and Ritz metal scenes, several New York City bands and supporters have organized a new series of shows under the moniker Metal Meltdown. The first show will be at the metal-friendly Don Hill's...

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EWIGKEIT: New Song Posted Online

U.K. left-field experimetalists EWIGKEIT have uploaded a demo mix of a new track, "Identity Theft", at their MySpace page. EWIGKEIT mainman and self-styled activist James Fogarty says, "I got this leaflet through the door from the Home Office about the need to protect my identity from thieves. The t...

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EXTREME NOISE TERROR, DETONATION Confirmed For Germany's BONEMETAL FESTIVAL

EXTREME NOISE TERROR and DETONATION are among the confirmed bands for the Bonemetal Festival, set to take place April 14 at Stadthalle in Werl (near Dortmund),Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: EXTREME NOISE TERROR LAY DOWN ROTTEN DETONATION EMBEDDED DESECRATION ANGUISHED CHRON...

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Former STUCK MOJO Frontman BONZ Releases New Video Message

Former STUCK MOJO vocalist Bonz has posted an eight-minute video message addressing his departure from STUCK MOJO and the current status of his DEAD GOSPEL project. Watch it at this location. STUCK MOJO guitarist Rich Ward fired Bonz from the band in July 2006, claiming that the frontman's substance...

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ROB ZOMBIE: 'Werewolf Women' Trailer Is 'Quite Possibly The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made'

Rob Zombie has completed work on "Werewolf Women of the SS", one of the series of fake trailers audiences will see between Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" and Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" when they check out "Grindhouse" beginning April 6. In a Jan. 21 posting on his MySpace page, Zombie cal...

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New STUCK MOJO Frontman LORD NELSON Speaks

STUCK MOJO's official forum was recently updated with a question-and-answer session with the group's new frontman Lord Nelson. A few excerpts follow: Q: Were you a fan of STUCK MOJO before you auditioned and did you know Rich [Ward, guitarist/songwriter] or Bonz [former STUCK MOJO frontman/rapper] b...

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MARYLAND DEATHFEST V Running Order Announced

The running order has been announced for this year's Maryland Deathfest V, set to take place on May 26-27 at Sonar in Baltimore. It is as follows: Saturday, May 26: Doors at 12:30 p.m. SAPROGENIC - 1:00 - 1:25 FOETOPSY - 1:40 - 2:10 FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION - 2:25 - 2:55 NUNWHORE...

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Passenger

Denmark's MNEMIC turned quite a few heads with its futuristic thrash, MESHUGGAH-like rhythms and shades of FEAR FACTORY/STRAPPING YOUNG LAD songwriting on 2003's "Mechanical Spin Phenomena" and 2004's "The Audio Injected Soul". While the soon-to-be-released "Passenger" may not reach the heights achi...

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DESPISED ICON Begins Recording New Album

Singer Alex Erian of the Montreal-based deathcore six-piece DESPISED ICON has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "We've been in the studio [recording our new album] for about two weeks now. The drums were recorded with a click track/metronome and the result is tight as fuc...

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Gloria

It's been a while since we've been given a front-row seat as a band self-destructs this spectacularly. MORGOTH going from bleak death metal to KILLING JOKE in the mid-1990s… the "black metal to weird industrial" metamorphosis of bands like MAYHEM and COVENANT a few years later… and of course, loomin...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman Recalls She-Male Near-Encounter

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "The last couple of weeks I was obsessing madly over sex. I get into periods of it. Naturally, being me it's not the 'Gee, that girl has a fine rack' kind of obsessing. It's more, me walking past a ...

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Ex-CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Singer Debuts KARL AGELL'S BLIND; Video, Photos Available

A video clip of KARL AGELL'S BLIND, the new project of former CORROSION OF CONFORMITY/current LEADFOOT vocalist Karl Agell, performing the C.O.C. classic "Dance of the Dead" this past Saturday, January 6 at the Winter Metalfest at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, NC has been posted online at Away-Tea...

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MORTAL SIN: WACKEN OPEN AIR Video Footage Available

A nine-minute video of reactivated Australian thrashers MORTAL SIN performing live at Germany's Wacken Open Air festival in August 2006 has been posted online at YouTube.com. Vocalist Mat Maurer of MORTAL SIN was interviewed by Italy's Terror Metal at the Wacken Open Air festival. Watch the video in...

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The Contaminated Void

Is it death? Is it grind? In this hyperintense Babel of a metal scene, such labels are becoming as obsolete as a cassette deck head cleaner. COLDWORKER attain all the obvious qualifications for death metal, while dishing out frequent grinding blast beats that spit sparks and debris like shrapnel. Th...