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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...

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Exclusive: A Conversation With WINDS' ANDY WINTER And CARL AUGUST TIDEMANN

By: Scott Alisoglu The music of Norway's WINDS is not something that is easily classified. What one can say about it though is that it is magnificently composed and breathtaking in its delivery. Challenging, yet often soothing, melodic, yet unconventional, WINDS' combination of classical music, prog...

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Short Sharp Shock

There sure are a lot of youngster picking up ye olde thrash gauntlet and going the old school route. Considering Earache's grand slam in picking up the mighty MUNICIPAL WASTE it should come as no surprise that England's thrash punkers SSS have also found a home on the storied label. The strain of th...

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NEMHAIN Announces New Lineup, Schedules Tour Dates

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: "Massive apologies to everyone who was expecting to see NEMHAIN play in Prague. We had to cancel the show at...

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NILE: Entire New Album Available For Streaming

MP3.com is streaming NILE's fifth studio album, "Ithyphallic", in its entirety for seven days prior to the album's North American street date of July 17 at this location. Engineered by Bob Moore and produced by Neil Kernon (CANNIBAL CORPSE, NEVERMORE, DEICIDE),the CD was recorded at Sound Lab Studi...

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Build a Nation

It gives me no pleasure to trash a BAD BRAINS album. The band's importance in the hardcore, punk and metal genres cannot be overstated, and their body of work has remained impressive through years of personal turmoil. Despite reports of vocalist H.R. looking and sounding pretty haggard at recent reu...

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MELDRUM Begins Writing New Material

MELDRUM, the Swedish/American band led by former PHANTOM BLUE guitarist Michelle Meldrum (wife of EUROPE axeman John Norum),has issued the following update: "The girls are kickin' it back in Sweden, writing and recording for the new MELDRUM album. We know, the new album 'Blowin' Up The Machine' is...