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Summon Thy Demons

If you blinked, you probably missed MEZZROW's first act. Emerging from the Swedish metal scene in the late '80s, they released one excellent album — "Then Came The Killing" (1990) — and split up a couple years later. Aside from one brief reunion in 2005, little has been heard from them since, but th...
April 20, 2023
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Watch: COREY TAYLOR, LZZY HALE, GILBY CLARKE, MATT SORUM, BILLY DUFFY, Others Perform With KINGS OF CHAOS In Long Beach

All-star rock band KINGS OF CHAOS — with special guests — headlined the Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach's April 15 concert presented by Acura. The show took place at approximately 6:30 p.m. on the plaza in front of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center adjacent to the Long Beach Convention Center and...
April 17, 2023
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Black Medium Current

Even today, after 24 years of remorseless, avant-garde experimentation in the black metal underground, DØDHEIMSGARD's 1999 masterpiece "666 International" still sounds righteously batshit and light years ahead of its time. Ultimately, you've either got it or you haven't. The Norwegian mavericks have...
April 12, 2023
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Screem Writers Guild

For fans of infernally catchy hard rock performed by mutant gonks from outer space, LORDI have been an increasingly fertile source of delight in recent times. You might even say that Mr. Lordi has been spoiling us. The Finnish band's most recent album, "Lordiversity", was, in fact, seven albums in o...
March 30, 2023
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SATURNUS Announces New Album 'The Storm Within', Shares 'The Calling' Single

After years of anticipation, Danish doom legends are back: SATURNUS have released a performance video of the new track "The Calling" as the first single taken from their forthcoming album "The Storm Within", which has been slated for release on June 16, 2023. SATURNUS drummer Henrik O. Glass comment...
March 14, 2023
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I Am The Storm

After five epic and acclaimed albums with Ray Alder in the vocalist role (and one with Rick Mythiasin),  REDEMPTION made the task of choosing his replacement look (and sound) like the easiest, most natural next move in the world. A close friend of founder Nick van Dyk, EVERGREY's Tom S. Englund...
March 14, 2023
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Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

As much as PERIPHERY like a joke, there is an obvious ring of truth to this album's title. Jump back a decade and, despite the clumsiness of the term, djent was a decent enough way to describe the music that was starting to proliferate in PERIPHERY's imperious wake. 13 years on from the release of t...
March 9, 2023
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MATT SORUM To Be Joined By COREY TAYLOR, LZZY HALE, COREY GLOVER, Others For KINGS OF CHAOS Concert At 'Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach'

All-star rock band KINGS OF CHAOS — with special guests — will headline the Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach's Saturday night, April 15 concert presented by Acura. The show will take place at approximately 6:30 p.m. on the plaza in front of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center adjacent to the Long Be...
February 28, 2023
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Tales Of Demonic Possession

For a brief moment back there, CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC were musically earthbound. The NYC quartet's last release, "Cloud Covered", was a collection of covers, including a particularly inspired reading of CHICAGO's "If You Leave Me Now". Lockdown fever will do that, even to such dedicated space cadets....
February 2, 2023
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Feast Of The Repulsive Dead

Named after the hotel in cult director Lucio Fulci's grotesque classic "The Beyond", SEVEN DOORS proudly walk the well-trodden line between crushing, old-school death metal and mind-bending, bloody horror. This, it barely needs stating, is an excellent idea. The metal underground is awash with simil...
January 30, 2023
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WISHBONE ASH's Legendary Album 'Argus' To Be Released As Multi-Format Box Set For 50th Anniversary

Celebrating one of the most pivotal entries in the history of great British rock and prog albums, WISHBONE ASH's legendary LP "Argus" gets a 50th-anniversary multi-format box set release on April 14, 2023 through Madfish. Complete with its indelible Hipgnosis-designed album sleeve, 1972's "Argus" sa...
January 26, 2023
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KaliYuga

Liv Jagrell has always been a formidable presence. First emerging 20 years ago as frontwoman with the perennially excellent SISTER SIN, the Swedish singer oozed heavy metal integrity from the start. Since going it alone — albeit with the DIO-like caveat that LIV SIN is a band, not just a solo vehicl...
January 25, 2023
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At The Heart Of Wintervale

From the very start, TWILIGHT FORCE made it plain that their ambition knew no limits. On the surface, the Swedes were another symphonically inclined power metal band with a hard-on for the exploration of wild, fantasy realms, with additional LARP-ing possibilities for the truly devoted. Even on thei...
January 16, 2023
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Beyond The Black

Brimming with promise from the start, BEYOND THE BLACK began their career sounding not entirely distinct from the rest of the big-budget symphonic metal pack. Debut album "Songs of Love and Death" was full of great songs and vocalist Jennifer Haben had power and charisma in abundance, but this was s...
January 11, 2023
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FOO FIGHTERS, TOOL, AVENGED SEVENFOLD And KISS To Headline This Year's SONIC TEMPLE ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL

After a three-year hiatus, Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival returns to its home at the heartbeat of rock, the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Memorial Day Weekend — May 25-28, 2023 — with a spectacular lineup of rock heavyweights that make Sonic Temple's comeback one of the most antici...
January 10, 2023