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P.O.D.: 'Greatest Hits (The Atlantic Years)' Details Revealed

Spiritual rockers P.O.D. (a.k.a. PAYABLE ON DEATH) began their rise in the late '90s with their unique brand of inspiring lyrics and driving metal, hip-hop, tribal, and reggae influences. With a 14-year career under their belts, P.O.D. has logged a remarkable array of achievements, including worldwi...

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AS I LAY DYING's MANCINO On 'Drum Nation Volume 3' CD: Audio Available

Magna Carta Records has uploaded an exclusive track by AS I LAY DYING's thunderous drummer Jordan Mancino, taken from the recently released "Drum Nation Volume 3" CD, a compilation of the most provocative tracks ever tabled by drummers. Check it out at this location. "Drum Nation Volume 3" is supple...

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FAMILY VALUES TOUR CD/DVD To Arrive In December

More than 400,000 wildly enthusiastic fans turned out for The Family Values Tour, one of the hottest tickets of the summer. The 30-show trek — headlined and founded by KORN — boasted some record-setting attendance figures. Kicking off with a sold-out show of 17,000 rocking fans at Nashville's Starwo...

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CHAVIS/DA RECORDS Signs Distribution Deal With BCDmg

Chavis Records/DA Records (QUIET RIOT, HYDROGYN, TRIGGERSOUL) have announced that they have entered into a U.S. distribution deal with BCDmg Distribution. BCDmg is well known in the major music industry for distribution of gold and platinum rap and R&B artists. BCDmg has created a new branch for...

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ICED EARTH Guitarist ERNIE CARLETTI Faces Rape Charges

Terri Sanginiti of Wilmington, Delaware's The News Journal reports that a 31-year-old Elkton, Md., man by the name of Ernie Carletti — believed to be the same Ernie Carletti who joined ICED EARTH in July as the group's second guitarist — is awaiting extradition to Delaware to face charges in a ...

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Suffocation

American death metal's most consistent and punishing standard-bearers, SUFFOCATION sometimes get overlooked in the rush to deify other bands. While it could be argued that they've never been a particularly innovative act, there's something to be said for the songcraft, torturous bits of melody, and...

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RAVAGE To Make International Debut This Weekend

RAVAGE, the melodic heavy metal band from Boston, will make its international debut this Saturday, September 16 at Germany's Swordbrothers Festival in Adernach. The band will showcase a nearly hour-long set of their brand of blistering American-style melodic metal and will appear alongside the likes...

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eBay Banning Sale Of Black Metal Albums?

Paula Hogan of MANIC Music & Distribution and Candlelight Records USA has contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET to report that "eBay is [allegedly] currently starting a ban on black/extreme metal. A few of our vendors who have sizeable eBay stores are now finding their items pulled down by eBay directly. T...

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BLITZKRIEG To Play One-Off Date In Belfast

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends BLITZKRIEG have announced a one-off gig at Rosetta Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Friday, September 15. Support at the show will come from Belfast band FIRELAND and GAMA BOMB. As previously reported, BLITZKRIEG will support German metal queen DOR...

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ILL NIÑO: New EP Title, Track Listing Revealed

On October 24, ILL NIÑO, the world re-known bi-lingual Latino metal sextet, will release a new five-song EP, "The Undercover Sessions", comprised of three of their favorite cover songs from bands they loved growing up as fans, and two brand new songs — all overseen by legendary producer Andy Johns (...

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LORDI Cola Labels Revealed

Eurovision Song Contest winners LORDI will be honored with a cola named after them in their native Finland. According to BBC News, the hard rock group's singer, known as Mr. Lordi, has designed labels featuring the five members in their monster masks and one of the whole band. Check out pictures of...

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CITIZEN Signs To RELAPSE RECORDS

Relapse Records has announced the signing of political grindcore guerrillas CITIZEN. CITIZEN formed in 2004 when Matt Widener (CRETIN),Derrick Psaros, and Mike Mihalik decided to take political grindcore one step further. Widener explains: 'Most political bands explore the problems of the world, th...

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SUPERNOVA: More Tour Dates Announced

It is by no means clear who will be fronting America's most talked about new band, SUPERNOVA, but the band's three founding members, MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee, former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted and former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke announced they will be inaugurating their band wi...

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BESEECH Prepare To Record New Demo

Swedish "gothic metallers" BESEECH have hooked up with the Austrian booking agency Rock The Nation Bookings/Management which handles such bands as DEATHSTARS, GRAVEWORM, DISBELIEF, and KATALYSM. Commented the group: "We hope and think this cooperation will take BESEECH one step further when we talki...

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LORDI Continues Rocking German Charts

According to Metal-Online.com, Finnish metal band LORDI is continuing to rock the German single charts. The group's new single, "Who's Your Daddy", entered the chart this week at position No. 33. Meanwhile, LORDI's Eurovision Song Contest-winning song, "Rock Hard Hallelujah", is still in the Top 20...