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PRIMORDIAL: 'Imrama' Reissue Detailed

2008 was a great year for Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL. After the release of their magnum opus, "To The Nameless Dead", in late 2007, the band played shows and festivals all over Europe and gained loads of new fans. The Pagan metallers have lots of plans for the New Year, including a tour thr...

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NAZXUL: Two Tracks From Long-Awaited New Album Posted Online

Sydney, Australia-based experimental black metallers NAZXUL have posted two unmastered songs from their long-awaited new album, "Iconoclast", on their MySpace page. Check out the tracks "Dragon Disputious" and "Oath (Fides Resurrectio)" at this location. "Iconoclast" will mark the band's final recor...

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THROES OF DAWN Completes Recording New Album

Finnish dark metal band THROES OF DAWN has issued the following update: "The recordings of the fifth [THROES OF DAWN] album have been finished on most parts and the sound engineer will start the mixing process at the very beginning of January. "As you can guess, the recording of this album has not b...

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Black Faith Inquisition

I really struggled with this one. I'd go back and forth between assessing "Black Faith Inquisition" as an epic tour de force of melodic black metal and a painstakingly long, verbose black metal album that tries to do too much. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. There is no question that...

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Come, Reap

This album has a way of getting inside you and rattling around your insides for days on end. There is something foreboding in the brilliant classic/occult rock melodies that seem harmless and totally addictive on the surface until you realize that the melodies swirling relentlessly in your head are...

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Banished from Inferno

This is a short 'n sweet blast of old-school Swedish style death metal. All wrapped up in bullet belts and stinking of stale beer, BANISHED FROM INFERNO offers a 23-minute EP of fundamentally arranged death metal with groove and just the right amount of tunefulness, much like one would expect from a...

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HANK WILLIAMS III To Open For DOWN

Hellbilly rocker Hank Williams III (ASSJACK, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ARSON ANTHEM) will open for DOWN on the band's upcoming U.S. tour which is scheduled to kick off around January 23. The news was confirmed by Hank during an appearance yesterday (Tuesday, November 11) on "The No Name Show" on the KIRC R...

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HOLLENTHON Confirmed For Germany's WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN Festival

Austrian symphonic extreme metal outfit HOLLENTHON has been confirmed for next year's Wave Gotik Treffen festival, set to take place May 29 - June 1, 2009 in Leipzig, Germany. Also scheduled to appear is ATARGATIS. For more information, go to this location. HOLLENTHON's new album, "Opus Magnum", was...

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HANK WILLIAMS III's Wild Ride: Kawasaki Battle Of The Builders

Hellbilly rocker Hank Williams III (ASSJACK, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ARSON ANTHEM) was one of four outlaw dudes chosen to test-drive new RUVs through wild wind and tough terrain at the Glen Helen Raceway for Side By Side Action magazine's Battle of the Builders 2008 that focused on the Kawasaki Teryx. Ch...

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HOLLENTHON, TÝR: Hamburg Performances Being Streamed Live

Tonight's (Thursday, October 9) performances by HOLLENTHON and TÝR at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany are being streamed live on the Hamburger Morgenpost web site at this location. The four bands are currently on the road in Europe as part of the Aaskereia - The Wild Hunt Tour 2008. HOLLENTHON's new...

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METSÄTÖLL Signs With SPINEFARM RECORDS

Estonian progressive thrash metallists METSÄTÖLL have signed with Spinefarm Records. The band (whose name is an ancient Estonian dialect word for the word "wolf") began its career in 1999. Having performed in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium and Germany, METSATÖLL has more than a 170 gig...

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MEDICATED: 'Magnum For Amen' EP Available For Streaming

MEDICATED, the new Finnish metal band featuring former IMPERANON vocalist Aleksi Sihvonen, has made its "Magnum For Amen" EP available for streaming on the group's MySpace page. Formed in 2005, MEDICATED describes its music as "thrash/death metal with big choruses, screaming and clean vocals, hard r...

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HANK WILLIAMS III: 'Long Hauls & Close Calls' Video Posted Online

"Long Hauls & Close Calls", the new video from Hank Williams III (ASSJACK, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ARSON ANTHEM),can be viewed at RecordStoreDay.com. The track comes off his sixth album, "Damn Right Rebel Proud", which is scheduled for release on October 21 via Sidewalk Records. According to a press...

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HANK WILLIAMS III To Release 'Damn Right Rebel Proud' In October

Hank Williams III (ASSJACK, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ARSON ANTHEM) will release his sixth album, "Damn Right Rebel Proud", on October 21 via Sidewalk Records. According to a press release, the CD is "filled with a self-described 'Jekyll and Hyde' mix of disturbingly dark stuff and 'good ol' country.'" The...

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Watershed

When a band makes an ascent up that arduous ladder of success and morphs from an underground phenomenon into a household name splattered across T-shirts worn everywhere from concert venues to middle schools, there will undoubtedly be cries of "fuckin' sell-out" heard from fans who caught on at the b...