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VADER: Working Songtitles Revealed

Polish extreme metallers VADER will spend four weeks at Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland starting on March 15 recording their new album, "Welcome To The Morbid Reich". The band will lay down a total of 12 or 13 songs for the CD, which will be mixed and mastered in May for a tentative late 2011 ...

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AVA INFERI: New Song Available For Free Download

"The Living End", a brand new song from AVA INFERI, the Portugal-based band whose lineup includes Norwegian guitarist Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. ex-MAYHEM guitarist/songwriter Blasphemer),is available for free download at this location. It can also be streamed using the audio player below. The track come...

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AVA INFERI Adds Female Bassist

AVA INFERI, the Portugal-based band whose lineup includes Norwegian guitarist Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. ex-MAYHEM guitarist/songwriter Blasphemer),has announced the addition of female bassist Joana Messias to the group's ranks. AVA INFERI will hold a CD-release party for its fourth album, "Onyx", on Sat...

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AVA INFERI Schedules 'Onyx' Release Party

AVA INFERI, the Portugal-based band whose lineup includes Norwegian guitarist Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. ex-MAYHEM guitarist/songwriter Blasphemer),will hold a CD-release party for its fourth album, "Onyx", on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at Side B Bar in Benavente, Portugal. The band will perform a lengt...

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AVA INFERI: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

AVA INFERI, the Portugal-based band whose lineup includes Norwegian guitarist Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. ex-MAYHEM guitarist/songwriter Blasphemer),will release its fourth album, "Onyx", on February 14 (February 15 in the U.S.) via Season Of Mist. The track listing is as follows: 01. Onyx 02. The Living...

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From the Devil's Tomb

This is a big deal. I mean the follow up to 2009's superb "Drakonian Paradigm", one of the best black metal releases of that year. It was the album on which vocalist/guitarist/leader Vetis Monarch established WEAPON as a force to be reckoned with on the planetary scene, owing to his mystical and uni...

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Former ABSU Guitarist AETHYRIS MCKAY Explains Decision To Join PANTHEON I

Norwegian extreme metallers PANTHEON I have announced the addition of former ABSU guitarist Aethyris McKay to the group's ranks. This is a surprise move from the band who recently announced a search for a new vocalist to give frontman Andre Kvebek a chance to concentrate more on guitars and leave th...

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ABSU Parts Ways With Guitarist, Prepares To Record New Album

Texas-based, mythological occult metal band ABSU will join the mighty IMMORTAL on their return to the U.S. for six shows early next year. The dates, announced earlier this week, will mark the first live performances for ABSU since the Scion Rock Fest in March of this year; the band completing two he...

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IMMORTAL To Tour North America In February

Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL will embark on a North American headlining tour in February with support from ABSU. The dates are as follows: Feb. 19 - New York, NY - Gramercy Theater Feb. 20 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar Feb. 21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's Theatre Feb. 22 - Chicago, IL - Bottom ...

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WOE: New Song Available For Streaming

"Quietly, Undramatically", the title track of the new album from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based black metallers WOE, is available for streaming at Stereogum.com. Due on October 12 via Candlelight Records, the CD was recorded at Gradwell House in Haddon Heights, New Jersey with additional tracking...

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TYRANTZ EMPIRE Signs With TAROT PRODUCTIONS

Tarot Productions, the label run by Proscriptor McGovern (a.k.a. Russ R. Givens),leader of the Texas-based mythological occult metal outfit ABSU, has just announced the signing of Dutch black thrashers TYRANTZ EMPIRE. The band recently completed work on its debut album, "Merauderz of the Monolith -...

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ABSU: Interview, Pro-Shot Performance Footage From SCION ROCK FEST Posted Online

Video footage of ABSU's performance at the Scion Rock Fest on March 13, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio — courtesy of the car company, Scion, who hosted the metal event — can be viewed below. Also available is an interview with the band. As previously reported, ABSU's "Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L" will be re-re...

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ELLIOTT'S KEEP Completes Work On New Album

Dallas metal doom trio ELLIOTT'S KEEP has finished recording its sophomore album, "Sine Qua Non". Weighing in at an hour of epic metal doom, the CD "delivers ELLIOTT'S KEEP's signature heavy riffage, varied time signatures and diverse vocals styles," according to a press release. ELLIOTT'S KEEP reco...

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WOE To Release 'Quietly, Undramatically' In October

Candlelight Records has set an October 12 North American release date for "Quietly, Undramatically", the new album from WOE. Recorded at Gradwell House in Haddon Heights, New Jersey with additional tracking completed at frontman Chris Grigg's BS1 in Philadelphia, the CD is the first to feature a ful...

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STARGAZER Completes Work On New Album

Australian avant-garde occult death metal band STARGAZER will release its sophomore effort and first full-length album in five years, "A Great Work Of Ages", in late August via Profound Lore Records. The follow-up to 2005's "The Scream That Tore The Sky" is described in a press release as "complex,...