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I, Infidel

My first reaction to the vocals on the new RITUAL CARNAGE was a startled "What the fuck???" It'd been a while since I heard this Japanese band in action — I worship their first two albums, "The Highest Law" and "Every Nerve Alive", as masterful and devastating neo-thrash classics free of any influen...

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Amerijuanican

Give me bands like WEEDEATER and BONGZILLA any day of the week and I'll slurp up those over-amplified, down-tuned fuzz tones, scarred-throat vocals, and sludgified mania like a jailed militant who just ended a hunger strike. I didn't know that WEEDEATER vocalist/bassist Dixie Dave Collins had contri...

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Exclusive Report: KREATOR Thrashing Indonesia

Special thanks to Wendi Putranto of Rolling Stone magazine (Jakarta, Indonesia) for the following report: Legendary thrash metal warriors from Germany KREATOR made their live debut in the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, Saturday night (Sept. 24). The show, which was covered by the national media...

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HOLY MOSES Introduce New Members

Long-running German thrashers HOLY MOSES introduced two new bandmembers during their appearance at the Occultfest on September 3 in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands: bassist Ozzy (ex-WARPATH, TEMPLE OF THE ABSURD, LA CRY, ELF) and drummer Asgard. HOLY MOSES had their early albums "Finished with the Dogs"...

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TERROR To Embark On Canadian 'Aggressive Tendencies' Tour

Los Angeles hardcore soldiers TERROR will bring their old-school assault to Canada and across the U.S. this fall. The band will be part of Canadian "Aggressive Tendencies" tour with chaos-core pioneers CONVERGE and politico-crust giants CURSED. The tour will be sponsored by Exclaim, Canada's leading...

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DEMONS & WIZARDS: Japanese Version Of 'Touched By The Crimson King' To Include Bonus Tracks

According to Victor Entertainment Japan, DEMONS & WIZARDS's sophomore album, "Touched by the Crimson King", will be released in Japan on September 22 with the following bonus tracks: "Lunar Lament", "Wicked Witch" (slow version) and "Spatial Architects". The CD will also include the video for th...

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Once Was Not

It has taken a while for Canadian death metal techsters CRYPTOPSY to get back on track after the departure of Mike DiSalvo. The last studio album was 2000's "And Then You'll Beg", after which vocalist Martin LaCroix entered the picture, lasting long enough to perform on concert LP "None so Live" and...

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HOLY TERROR Announce New Vocalist

Guitarist Kurt Colfelt (a.k.a. Kurt Kilfelt; ex-AGENT STEEL) of the reformed Seattle-based speed metal band HOLY TERROR has sent the following message to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding the group's recent vocalist search: "So the search for the singer has ended as quickly as it began. Man, we got respons...

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DEMONS & WIZARDS: New HANSI KÜRSCH Audio Interview Posted Online

A new audio interview with DEMONS & WIZARDS frontman Hansi Kürsch (BLIND GUARDIAN),conducted recently by Denmark's Revolution Music, has been posted online at www.revolution-music.dk (go to "Interviews" and right-click on "Download", and "Save As"). As previously reported, DEMONS & WIZARDS'...

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California Death Metal Fan Believed To Be Man On Latest Terror Tape

A masked man making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Australia in a new tape delivered to ABC News in Pakistan this weekend (Photo, Real Video) is believed to be Adam Yahiye Gadahn (Photo#1, Photo#2),a U.S. citizen from Southern California who wrote in a web posting ...

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TERROR And THE BANNER To Team Up For Short Tour

TERROR, Los Angeles' greatest export to the hardcore scene, and THE BANNER, horror-core heroes from New Jersey, are doing a week's worth of dates together in October. For TERROR, this will be a continuation of a great year of tours which has included the Sounds of the Underground tour with LAMB OF G...

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CONSTRUCDEAD And HATESPHERE To Support SOILWORK In Europe

CONSTRUCDEAD, the Swedish band featuring TERROR 2000 drummer Erik Thyselius, and Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have reportedly been confirmed as the opening acts for SOILWORK on their upcoming European tour. The dates are as follows: Oct. 05 - Tampere, FIN @ Pukkahone Oct. 06 - Jyväskylä, FIN @ Lutakk...

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Destroyers from the Western Skies

Right or wrong, there was a time when those with using "black metal" and "elite" in the same sentence were referring to bands of a Scandinavian heritage, while those same folks snickered at the idea of a legitimate U.S. black metal world presence. Regardless of the questionable validity of the origi...

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REQUIEM Complete Work On New Album

Finnish melodic metallers REQUIEM have completed work on their third album, "Requiem Forever", for an October 24 release via Scarlet Records. The CD was mastered at Chartmakers studios in Helsinki, Finland, by Svante Forsbäck (STRATOVARIUS, RAMMSTEIN) and will feature artwork by Carlos Del Olmo (SOI...

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THE CROWN: Posthumous Triple-DVD Set Due In January

According to MTV.com, Swedish thrashers THE CROWN will release a posthumous triple-DVD set on January 10, 2006. The package will trace the band's history from their inception in 1990 to their breakup in March 2004. Vocalist Johan Lindstrand had previously stated about the set, "This will be the fina...