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ZAO Drummer Confirms Guitarist COGDELL's Departure
ZAO drummer Jeff Gretz has released a statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding the rumored departure of guitarist Russ Cogdell and the group's plans for the future. His statement reads as follows: "Russ's departure wasn't officially released as a statement from the band because there is no statement...January 21, 2006
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ZAO Guitarist RUSS COGDELL To Leave Band?
Jeff Gretz, drummer for ZAO and frequent poster on the forum of ZAO fan site BleedZao.com, has confirmed that Russ Cogdell, longtime guitar player for the Pittsburgh post-hardcore outfit, is leaving ZAO. Russ is known for his crazy jumps on stage, landing on his knees — which apparently caused some...January 21, 2006
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GIANT SQUID Relocate To Austin
Sacramento, California's GIANT SQUID made the trek on Tuesday January 17 to their new home in Austin, Texas. Frustrated with the lack of live music venues and the insane housing costs of California's capital city, the band decided to relocate to the "live music capital of the world" where gigging op...January 17, 2006
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Breathe Fire
That drummer Joe of Chicago's RAISE THE RED LANTERN (RTRL) took over a house serving as residence for squatters and needle riders by writing a false eviction notice and turning it into band HQ and underground event venue makes sense when one hears the unhinged, post-hardcore-ish sounds of "Breathe F...January 9, 2006
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NEUROSIS: 'Our Commitment Has Never Wavered'
Long-running Oakland, California-based band NEUROSIS have issued the following statement via their official web site: "20 years ago the month of December, 1985 we sat in a room and began a conversation. After talking for a couple of weeks we had constructed a vision of where we wanted to go with our...January 5, 2006
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Prologue
Former HANGNAIL vocalist Heck Armstrong has been kicking around the scene for years, but he's still got that teen scream going on, the primal yowl of a pimply young Chris Cornell celebrating the onset of his first pubes by caterwauling along with his beat-to-shit ZEPPELIN tapes in the shower. It's a...December 26, 2005
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AGNOSIS: New York City Sludge/Doomsters Release 'Hecate' EP
New York City-based heavyweight sludge/doom band AGNOSIS have released a new EP, entitled "Hecate", through Dark Matter Recordings. Each copy of the EP is hand-numbered and can be previewed at www.agnosis-music.com. AGNOSIS are said to capture "the intensity and sonic density of sludge bands such as...December 23, 2005
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From Mars to Sirius
GOJIRA have, on their third album, unleashed an epic. This is a masterpiece on par with anything MESHUGGAH or MASTODON have released, that sort of massive, lumbering, seething wall of sound that the listener just can't help but become immersed in. "From Mars to Sirius" is a journey that'll take many...December 12, 2005
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The Galilean Satellites
Probably not the most festive Christmas music you could think of here, although you could keep your father busy for a while by getting him to sync up two stereos to play these two discs simultaneously, for the full effect of the work. Of course, then you'd have your grandmother pissing herself as sh...December 12, 2005
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ZAO Are 'Excited' About Upcoming Tour With IN FLAMES
Greensburg, Pennsylvania's ZAO will be supporting Sweden's IN FLAMES on their upcoming U.S. tour beginning in late January. Also on the tour will be buzz-making heavy music bands TRIVIUM and DEVILDRIVER. Commenting on their addition to the tour, ZAO guitarist Scott Mellinger said, "I listen to IN FL...December 7, 2005
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GIANT SQUID Re-Recording Debut Album
Northern California's GIANT SQUID spent the Thanksgiving weekend re-recording their 2002 independent release "Metridium Field" to serve as their debut for The End Records. Even though guitarist/singer Aaron Gregory is bogged down with studio and school work, he still found time to submit the followi...December 2, 2005
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CATTLE DECAPITATION To Enter Studio In February
Vocalist Travis Ryan of the San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION has issued the following update: "Since we've been home, we recorded the CANINUS split 7" and have so far written eight songs for our next album, which are turning out to be very bizarre (exactly how we like it). Picture the...December 1, 2005
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'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands
Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 U.S. and Canadian alternative metal, emocore, hardcore, math metal, metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands. In the mid-'90s, in the wake of grunge...November 30, 2005
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Kenose
"Mysterious," "Kvlt," and all those other underground black metal descriptors apply in the most sincere of ways to French act DEATHSPELL OMEGA. Southern Lord once again ensures that a quality black metal product is available to those living outside the northernmost forests and desolate cavernous reg...November 14, 2005
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ZAO To Record New Album In January
ZAO have written over ten songs and continue to accumulate material for their new full-length album, the follow-up to last year's landmark "The Funeral Of God". The band are demoing material in their hometown of Greensburg, Pennsylvania right now and will enter Chicago's Electrical Audio studio in J...November 12, 2005
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