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PHILIP ANSELMO: The Story Of DOWN's 'Over The Under' Part I

To chronicle the past five years leading up to the release of DOWN's new album, "III - Over the Under", Philip Anselmo is placing periodic installments to be released over the course of the next month on the band's web sites leading up to the release of the record. This is Philip's personal communic...

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ZOROASTER Completes Work On New Album

Thundering power-doom trio ZOROASTER has completed work on its debut full-length, entitled "Dog Magic". The album is set for a September 11, 2007 release date via Terminal Doom / Battle Kommand Records (by way of Southern Lord). Summoned by the mighty sludge of MELVINS, the mysticism of CELTIC FROST...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: E-Card Available

An e-card for FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH — the Los Angeles-based band featuring ex-W.A.S.P. guitarist Darrell Roberts, former MOTOGRATER vocalist Ivan Moody (Ghost),ex-U.P.O. guitarist Zoltan Bathory, former DEADSETT bassist Matt Snell, and drummer Jeremy Spencer — can be accessed at this location. As...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Added To FAMILY VALUES Tour

According to HardDrive Radio, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH — the Los Angeles-based band featuring ex-W.A.S.P. guitarist Darrell Roberts, former MOTOGRATER vocalist Ivan Moody (Ghost),ex-U.P.O. guitarist Zoltan Bathory, former DEADSETT bassist Matt Snell, and drummer Jeremy Spencer — has been confirmed f...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Signs With FIRM MUSIC

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, the Los Angeles-based band featuring ex-W.A.S.P. guitarist Darrell Roberts, former MOTOGRATER vocalist Ivan Moody (Ghost),ex-U.P.O. guitarist Zoltan Bathory, former DEADSETT bassist Matt Snell, and drummer Jeremy Spencer, has inked a deal with Firm Music, a branch of the hi...

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Anedonia

Italy's APOSTOLUM are clearly fans of atmospheric doom, albums by bands like early KATATONIA and PARADISE LOST certainly taking up space on shelves in their homes. Enjoying it and playing it are two complete different things though, and the band should probably stick to the former, as the 34-minute...

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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE's JOSH HOMME Rules Out KYUSS Reunion

Writer Joel McIver recently interviewed QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE/EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's Josh Homme for Music Mart magazine's June issue. Excerpts from the chat follow: On the frequent offers from concert promoters to reform his previous band, KYUSS: "The offers come in all the time. They're getting...

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Ex-EVANESCENCE Guitarist Says AMY LEE Is 'As Deep As The Shallow End Of A Child's Wading Pool'

Former EVANESCENCE guitarist John LeCompt has offered more details about his exit from the group. According to LeCompt, he was fired from the band. He also said drummer Rocky Gray had quit. In a posting on his blog, LeCompt wrote, "I've been getting your messages all morning and figured I would give...

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Former RIP Editor Joins 'Hairball John Radio Show'

As editor of RIP magazine from 1987 to 1994, Lonn Friend has volumes of stories to share from the "decade of decadence" that was Eighties metal and he now brings those stories to "The Hairball John Radio Show" with the weekly feature "Tales from Planet Rock". Each episode of "Tales from Planet Rock"...

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Incinerate

You can almost always count on the Germans to create high value thrash and DEW-SCENTED are about as reliable as it gets. You can argue that the band essentially creates the same album over and over again (an exaggeration, yet not totally inaccurate),but if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? "Inci...

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II

This is not what I expected from a band on the Ferret label in that hardcore, metalcore, or modern metal is not the order of the day. The second album from MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER is a tasty platter of southern-tinged hard rock strut and metallic boogie that succeeds both for its blazing .....

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Resurrection

CHIMAIRA is a rejuvenated band and they are about to release what is sure to stand as one of the best metal albums of 2007, "Resurrection". Though I have always appreciated the quintet's music, particularly the work subsequent to 2001's "Pass out of Existence", I found myself shocked at the excellen...

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BENEDICTION: Drummer NICK BARKER Has Not Left The Band

Long-running British metallers BENEDICTION have released the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "A lot of questions have been asked about [the status of BENEDICTION drummer] Nick Barker [formerly of DIMMU BORGIR and CRADLE OF FILTH]. Yes, he is still BENEDICTION's drummer, and yes, he is helpi...

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KISS: 'Kissology' Certified Quintuple-Platinum

KISS' "Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977" DVD box set has been cerfified quintuple-platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The set, which has sold more than 170,000 copies in the United States so far (according to Nielsen SoundScan),debuted at position No. 1 on Billboard's M...

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KING'S X Guitarist TY TABOR Unleashes 'Tacklebox'

Ty Tabor, guitarist/vocalist with legendary Texas trio KING'S X, has released "Tacklebox (The Ty Tabor Demos Vol. 1 & 2)", a specially priced two-disc anthology available exclusively from Molken Music. "Tacklebox" features two full hours of music (30 songs in all),including two previously unrel...