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'Millennium Tribute To Kiss': Cover Art Revealed
On April 1, Versailles Records will return to stores with "Lick It Up: A Millennium Tribute to Kiss" is the first all-star KISS tribute of the millennium, and featuring current/former members of SKID ROW, DEEP PURPLE, ALICE COOPER, WHITE LION, WARRANT, PRETTY BOY FLOYD, KEEL, BRITNY FOX, ZEBRA, RATT...March 6, 2008
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Demon Entrails
What else can possibly be said about these legendary demos? Even if you're not as convinced as Tom G. Warrior and Martin Ain are of their avant-garde visionary genius, it's hard to deny that the tapes preserved here – primitive racket from depressed and morbid teens in a Switzerland bunker – set the...March 5, 2008
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IMMORTAL Confirmed For Belgium's GRASPOP METAL MEETING
Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have been confirmed for this year's Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 27-29, 2008 at De Boeretand in Dessel, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 36 CRAZYFISTS ALCHEMIST APOCALYPTICA AT THE GATES AVENGED SEVENFOLD BEHEMOTH BLEEDING TH...February 29, 2008
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'True Norwegian Black Metal' Book Due In May; More Details Revealed
American documentary photographer Peter Beste's book "True Norwegian Black Metal" will be issued on May 15 via Vice Books. In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called black metal has emerged in Norway. It has its roots in a heady blend of splatter movies, heavy metal musi...February 26, 2008
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IMMORTAL Schedules Australian/New Zealand In-Store Appearances
Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have scheduled the following Australian/New Zealand in-store appearances: Tuesday, March 11: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Melbourne Metal Mayhem 5/371 Flinders Street Monday, March 17: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Sydney Utopia Records 233 Broadway Ultimo Wednesday, March 19: 5:...February 25, 2008
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IMMORTAL: More Live Footage Posted Online
MetalKult.com has posted two more live videos from IMMORTAL, including "One By One" and "Sons of Northern Darkness". The footage was captured when the Norwegian black metallers — guitarist Abbath, drummer Horgh, and AURA NOIR's Apollyon on bass — hit New York on their 7 Dates of Blashyrkh tour on Ju...February 20, 2008
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AURA NOIR Working On New Material
Bassist/vocalist Apollyon (real name: Ole Jørgen Moe) of the Norwegian black/thrash metal band AURA NOIR has issued the following update: "Yes, it's still studio action in my basement. It turns out we have so much material that we're going to release an EP or whatever first; probably a couple of mon...January 28, 2008
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THEATRES DES VAMPIRES: New Album Title Announced
Italian gothic metal band THEATRES DES VAMPIRES has set "Anima Noir" as the title of its new album, tentatively due this summer. The group will enter Temple of Noise studio in Rome shortly with engineer Christian Ice to begin recording the new CD. On March 19, 2007, THEATRES DES VAMPIRES released it...January 25, 2008
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Report: Bad Blood In BOSTON
The Boston Globe reports that since BOSTON singer Brad Delp committed suicide last March, relations among members of the multiplatinum act have become poisonous, as evidenced by a lawsuit filed by the band's mastermind, Tom Scholz, against Delp's ex-wife Micki and Connie Goudreau, wife of BOSTON gui...January 14, 2008
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ANIMUS MORTIS: Debut Album Details Revealed
Chilean horde ANIMUS MORTIS will release its debut album, "Atrabilis (Residues From Verb & Flesh)", on January 31 via Debemur Morti Productions. According to a press release, the CD contains "eight ethereal exhibits of shrill, desolate black metal laden with an eerie, dark ambience." "Atrabilis...January 4, 2008
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CELTIC FROST Mainman: The Fall Of A Year
CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "The weeks seemingly merged into one continuous, viscous current of day and night and information increasingly difficult to bear. Emotions decreased to slow-motion speed, he began to subsist in the dark,...December 23, 2007
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MIKE PATTON Lends Vocals To 'I Am Legend'; Prepares First Film Score
Mike Patton (ex-FAITH NO MORE, MR. BUNGLE and currently of PEEPING TOM, FANTOMAS and MONDO CANE, amongst others) steps into the world of film with "I Am Legend" and "A Perfect Place". Patton's shape-shifting vocals will be heard in movie theaters across the country this month as he lends his voice t...December 4, 2007
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CELTIC FROST Mainman Ventures To 'The Godless Rural Settings Of HELLHAMMER's Rise'
CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "In the course of the past three weeks, while working on the manuscript of the HELLHAMMER book, I ventured twice to the godless rural settings of HELLHAMMER's rise in the early 1980s. I encountered an are...November 14, 2007
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HELLHAMMER Demos To Be Officially Released
There exist countless HELLHAMMER demo bootlegs, but they all utterly fail to capture the true aura, to represent the band as it actually was. They have been compiled from dismal multi-generation copies of the original tapes, and they are invariably riddled with factual and historical errors or outri...November 12, 2007
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Puerto Rico's FESTIVAL DE METAL BORICUA 4 Rescheduled For March
Festival de Metal Boricua 4, which was scheduled to take place November 17, 2007 at Coliseo de Cayey (Raul "Rolo" Colon),Cayey, Puerto Rico, has been postponed until March 22, 2008 due to "venue problems." The festival billing will remain the same: STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER HELSTAR CAGE SILVER F...November 11, 2007
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