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PARAGON: Recording Update

Bassist Jan Bünning of the German power metallers PARAGON has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Drums, rhythm guitars and (almost) all bass tracks [for the new PARAGON album] are done by now. I still have to do two more cover versions and two of ouf our songs on Wednesda...

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DEINONYCHUS: 'You Will Get A Pure Black/Doom Metal Album'

Dutch doomsters DEINONYCHUS have started recording their seventh full-length album for a tentative early 2007 release via Italy's My Kingdom Music. Entitled"Morphium Replacement", the follow-up to 2004's "Insomnia" is being tracked at The Outer Sound Studios under the supervision of Giuseppe Orlando...

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It's Official: CYNIC To Reunite For European Festival Appearances, Possible U.S. Dates

Long-defunct Florida-based band CYNIC, whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, has confirmed plans to embark a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of f...

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Dark Songs of the Prairie

Lonesome winds howl, animals shiver in dank burrows, dust chokes dry river beds… the world of ACROSS TUNDRAS is a bleak, desolate prairie, inhospitable to travelers and as grim in its own way as any snow-choked Scandinavian forest. Somewhere between doom, sludge, the art-ravaged psych crunge of YOB,...

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KHANATE Calls It Quits

"Extreme doom" metal band KHANATE, the brainchild of Stephen O'Malley (THORR'S HAMMER, BURNING WITCH, SUNN 0))),LOTUS EATERS) and James Plotkin (OLD, SCORN, ATOMSMASHER),has disbanded. In a statement, Plotkin writes, "I have decided to leave KHANATE due to the lack of commitment of certain members...

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SYRACH Pens '10-Minute Hymn To Doom'

Norwegian doom band SYRACH is continuing work on its new album with producer Herbrand Larsen from ENSLAVED. "In addition to working in the studio, SYRACH has now composed a brand new 10-minute song, a magnificent hymn to doom!" the group writes on its web site. "The track is yet untitled. All drums...

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Swiss Doomsters PŸLON To Release Second Album This Week

Swiss doomsters PŸLON are scheduled to release their second album, "Th' Eternal Wedding Band", on September 26 via Quam Libet Records. The CD contains twelve original cuts, written by all three members/vocalists, plus the video for the instrumental "2046". "We enjoy trying out things and not having...

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MORGANA LEFAY: Basic Guitar Tracks Completed For New CD

Swedish "heavy doom progressive" metallers MORGANA LEFAY recently entered Soundcreation studio in Bollnäs, Sweden to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Grand Materia", tentatively due in late 2006/early 2007 via Black Mark Records. According to a posting on the band's web site, "The basic guit...

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MOONSPELL Nominated For MTV's 'Best Portuguese Act' Award

According to a posting on MOONSPELL's official web site, the band has been nominated in the "Best Portuguese Act" category at the MTV awards. "Tomorrow [Tuesday, Sept. 19] there will be a press conference where MTV is going announce it," the posting reads. "It's the first time a metal or heavy rock...

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Former MAYHEM Frontman's SKITLIV Project: Audio Samples Available

SKITLIV, the new doom/black metal project of former MAYHEM vocalist Maniac, has posted two songs on its official MySpace page. The first, "Densetsu" (the Japanese for "legend") is a rehearsal track, while the second, "Valley Below", is a rough mix, with drums and additional guitars still to be added...

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Greenland

Braving the frozen tundra, fighting to survive treacherous arctic conditions, the Viking settlement of Greenland was no picnic, and new arrivals' unwillingness to seek assistance from the Inuit on the ice fishing techniques didn't help the food situation. What in the hell am I talking about? Ask gui...

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Stigmata High-Five

Beginning as guitarist/founder Topon Das' one-man experimental grindcore project in the late 90s, Ottawa, Ontario's FUCK THE FACTS arrives with its Relapse debut, "Stigmata High-Five". After a slew of releases, including a handful of full-lengths (not the least of which is the grindcore-with-dance-b...

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REVEREND BIZARRE, MOURNING BELOVETH Confirmed For BELGIAN DOOM NIGHT IV

REVEREND BIZARRE, MOURNING BELOVETH, THE GATES OF SLUMBER and MIRROR OF DECEPTION have been confirmed for the Belgian Doom Night IV festival, set to take place Saturday, November 4 at The Frontline in Ghent, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: REVEREND BIZARRE (FIN) MOURNING BELO...

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KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE Members Join Forces In FIREGOD: Record Deal Announced

FIREGOD, the new Swedish/Danish "all-star" project featuring Hal Patino (bass; KING DIAMOND),Snowy Shaw (drums; ex-KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL),Mike Wead (guitar; KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE) and Simon Johannsson (guitar; MEMORY GARDEN, FIFTH REASON),has a inked a two-album deal with Vic Records. Th...

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THE ETERNAL Parts Ways With Bassist

Acclaimed Australian atmospheric/gothic/doom metal band THE ETERNAL have parted ways with bassist James Hunt. "It is with a heavy heart that I must announce my retirement from THE ETERNAL," Hunt writes in a statement. "For the last three years I have worked obsessively alongside Mark [Kelson, guitar...