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CELLADOR Guitarist Comments On AVIAN Guest Appearance

CELLADOR guitarist Bill Hudson is scheduled to make a guest appearance on the new album from AVIAN, the melodic metal band featuring singer Lance King (BALANCE OF POWER, PYRAMAZE) and guitarist Yan Leviathan. Commented Hudson: I'll be heading to Minneapolis, MN tomorrow (Monday, November 5) to play...

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AVIAN Hard At Work On New Album

AVIAN, the melodic metal band featuring singer Lance King (BALANCE OF POWER, PYRAMAZE) and guitarist Yan Leviathan, has set "Ashes and Madness" as the title of its new CD, tentatively due in early 2008. Commented Yan: "I have three songs I have to get done by Monday so that when Bill Hudson [CELLADO...

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AVIAN Putting Finishing Touches On New Album

AVIAN, the melodic metal band featuring singer Lance King (BALANCE OF POWER, PYRAMAZE) and guitarist Yan Leviathan, has set "Ashes and Madness" as the title of its new CD, tentatively due in early 2008. According to the group, "Mattias Norén [EPICA, EVERGREY, INTO ETERNITY] has once again handled al...

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Hex

"…life is nasty, brutish, and short", wrote 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his book Leviathan, this abbreviated statement also aptly describing the music of underground legends NUNSLAUGHTER. After about a thousand (well, more like 110) releases of various shapes and sizes since forming in...

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The Ultimate Devotion

Former ILL NINO and current SOUFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo has just released his second mostly-instrumental solo album called "The Ultimate Devotion" on Shrapnel Records (Mascot in Europe). Instrumental guitar shred albums tend to appeal only to a specific group of folks; any number of albums on both S...

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'Metal: A Headbanger's Companion II' Due In September

Earache Records' sequel to this year's "Metal: A Headbanger's Companion" is due to be released next month. With a fresh collection of over 100 blistering Earache tracks spread over six CDs, all for the price of one CD, "Metal: A Headbanger's Companion II", housed in a sturdy box, gives value for mon...

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CHRIS BARNES' Pre-CANNIBAL CORPSE Band LEVIATHAN: Demo Available For Download

The 1987 "Legions of the Undead" demo cassette by New York's LEVIATHAN, featuring a young Chris Barnes (CANNIBAL CORPSE, SIX FEET UNDER) on vocals and Jeff Juszkiewicz (MALEVOLENT CREATION) on guitar, has been made available for download at the Bang! Bang! metal demo blog. According to the blog post...

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CRADLE OF FILTH: Moscow Concert Photos Available

Russia's Darkside e-zine has uploaded a number of photos of CRADLE OF FILTH's May 5, 2007 headlining concert in Moscow. Check them out at this location. CRADLE OF FILTH's setlist was as follows: 01. Intro: Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan 02. Dirge Inferno 03. Tonight In Flam...

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Report: Hard Rockers Struggle To Find Mainstream Success

Todd Martens of Billbord magazine reports: SHADOWS FALL may be the latest hard rock band to jump from the indie world into the major label system, but breaking out of the metal genre and winning a mainstream fan base won't be easy. Bands like MASTODON on Reprise and LAMB OF GOD on Columbia may have...

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Report: Black Metal Rises From The Shadows

Bob Gendron of the Chicago Tribune reports: "Black metal is not about life," says Wrest, the San Francisco-based musician behind the bands LEVIATHAN and LURKER OF CHALICE. "It is horrible, ugly and negative music. It reflects the negativity of the surrounding world and the disgust from within." True...

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HEATHEN DEITY Track To Be Used In Next DESIGN CONFEDERACY Film Release

Design Confederacy, makers of the cult black metal comedy "Legalize Murder", have chosen "Cornu (The Sign of the Horns)" from veteran U.K. black metallers HEATHEN DEITY's 2002 album "Walpergisnacht" as one of the songs to be included on their next production, "Serving Time in the Middle of Nowhere"....

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Psalm II: Infusco Ignis

I'm not sure about this whole black metal vision thing, but one-man band Skamfer (ex-ONDSKAPT) with his project HERESI has put together a hardy 28 minutes of ripping, if unoriginal, black metal. Skamfer plays all instruments on "Psalm II: Infusco Ignis" (originally released on Sweden's Total Holocau...

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NACHTMYSTIUM Nominated For PLUG INDEPENDENT Award

Chicago-area black metal act NACHTMYSTIUM's album "Instinct: Decay" (Battle Kommand Records) has been nominated for "Metal Album of the Year" by the Plug Independent Music Awards. Other nominees for this honor include CELTIC FROST's "Monotheist" and AGALLOCH's "Ashes Against the Grain". Cast your vo...

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WRITTEN IN TORMENT: Debut Mini-CD Out Now

"The Uncreation", the first release from U.K. black metal band WRITTEN IN TORMENT, has been made available via new Canadian label None More Black Records. Check out audio samples at this location. Composed and performed solely by WRITTEN IN TORMENT member The Leviathan and produced by Jonny Maudling...

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MASTODON: 'Colony Of Birchmen' Video Posted Online

MASTODON's video for the song "Colony of Birchmen" is availble for viewing online exclusively at MP3.com. The track comes off the group's latest album, "Blood Mountain", which came out in September via Warner Bros. Records. MASTODON will support TOOL in Europe throughout November. The group's drumme...