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DARKSIDE: Second Czech Republic Concert Cancelled

Austrian death metal band DARKSIDE has been forced to cancel a second show in the Czech Republic after it was determined that the group's guitarist — Janos Murri, Italian guitar wizard of RESURRECTURIS — would be unable to make the gig. Commented the band: "Due to unavailability of seats in the plan...

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DARKSIDE: Prague Show Cancelled

Austrian death metal band DARKSIDE has issued the following update: "Due to the nationwide cancellation of trains and most of all flights from Milano today, our guitar player Janos cannot join us for tonight's [November 30] show in Prague and therefore we are sorry to tell you that we have to cancel...

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HUNDRED REASONS To Release 'A Sick Little Masquerade' Single In January

Fresh from the frantic and fun-filled ENTER SHIKARI tour that culminated with a raucous and sold out Brixton show at the beginning of November, HUNDRED REASONS have announced further details of their own headline tour in January. This tour takes place exactly 12 months after their incendiary last he...

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Last Rites

Brooklyn's INHUMAN has been bouncing around the East Coast punk/hardcore scene since 1995 and has apparently gotten a significant level of acclaim for past releases. Based on a handful of spins of "Last Rites", said acclaim would seem to have been well deserved. "Last Rites" does not necessarily cha...

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SIXX: A.M. Guitarist: Writing 'The Heroin Diaries' Songs Was Like Scoring A Movie

Amber Tomlinson of the Herald Journal reports: Most people's first response when looking at DJ Ashba (SIXX: A.M., ex-BEAUTIFUL CREATURES guitarist) is not thinking he is from Indiana. Ashba, who is covered in tattooos, wears rock star garb and sports numerous piercings, could be stereotyped as the a...

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NEMHAIN Parts Ways With Guitarist, Seeks Replacement

NEMHAIN, the British band featuring ex-CRADLE OF FILTH/AT THE GATES drummer Adrian Erlandsson and his wife, fetish model Morrigan Hel (a.k.a. Amber England),has issued the following update: "Stevie Lee [guitar] has decided to leave NEMHAIN, so we are looking for a suitable replacement. "We are look...

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FRANTIC BLEEP: New Album Update

Bassist Eywin Sundstrøm of Norway's FRANTIC BLEEP has issued the following update: "For the first time in a long while, the work on the new album is going steadily. Patrick [Scantlebury, guitar] and Lars Gunnar [Morastseter, guitar] have been working on finishing the guitar tracks, and they have one...

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NEMHAIN Recording New EP

NEMHAIN, the British band featuring ex-CRADLE OF FILTH/AT THE GATES drummer Adrian Erlandsson and his wife, fetish model Morrigan Hel (a.k.a. Amber England),has issued the following update: "Well, here we are at Club A.K. in deepest darkest Belgium, and we've been working all hours in various state...

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Pig's Head To Crown S.S.S. Performance At Brixton Tomorrow

Tomorrow night, Merseyside, UK thrashers S.S.S. will step out onto London's Brixton Academy stage as one of the support acts for U.S. metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE. In their true underground and frenetic style, S.S.S. look set to deliver a show-stopping performance to the 5,000-capacity London venue....

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KISS Guitarist Leads 50th Anniversary Beaverton Celebration Parade

Grand Marshal Tommy Thayer (KISS guitarist) and his wife Amber led the 50th anniversary Beaverton (Oregon) Celebration Parade in Tommy's hometown on Saturday, September 15. With great weather, the parade had the largest turnout on record. Tommy took time to sign autographs and take photos at a post-...

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Love Grenade

Five years ago TED NUGENT made an album called "Craveman" that shocked many long-time fans for the quality of songwriting and guitar-driven heaviness that had been missing from his albums for over a decade. One could say that its predecessor, "Spirit of the Wild", was the actual return-to-form album...

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When I was a Planet

The sounds of INVITRO's "When I was a Planet" are not typically heard in the musical neighborhoods through which I cruise. Still, I must tip my hat to the relatively creative, raucous, and punk-fueled racket going on here. In the way of background information, INVITRO involves ex-SNOT/SOULFLY guitar...

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Recognize No Authority [reissue]

After spending years on many metal collectors' must-have lists, with original CD copies going for ludicrous prices on eBay, there now seems to be an abundance of DÉTENTE — not only was their lone album, "Recognize No Authority", reissued by bassist Steve Hochheiser under the Cognitive Records name a...

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NEMHAIN 'Industriously Writing New Material'

NEMHAIN, the British band featuring ex-CRADLE OF FILTH/AT THE GATES drummer Adrian Erlandsson and his wife, fetish model Morrigan Hel (a.k.a. Amber England),has issued the following update: "Well, we're industriously writing new material at the moment, in preparation for finally sticking some of it...

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Xecutioner's Return

Simple to the point of atavism, and crackling with more energy than the band's been able to muster up in at least a decade, "Xecutioner's Return" is pretty much exactly what OBITUARY fans were hoping it'd be. It's a bone-basic tour de force of old-school death metal infused with a bleeding organic g...