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ACE FREHLEY At NYC's Hard Rock Café: Review, Photos, Video Footage Available

French KISS fan site Diamant Noir has posted the first report from last night's (October 31) Ace Frehley (KISS) concert at Eddie Trunk's Halloween Bash 2007 at the Hard Rock Café in New York City. According to the site, "the place was packed and the line outside the building grew very fast with ...

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FALL OF SERENITY: 'The Crossfire' E-Card Available

An e-card for the new album from German melodic death/thrash metal outfit FALL OF SERENITY, entitled "The Crossfire", is available at this location. Due on November 19 via Lifeforce Records, the CD will include an exclusive video clip for the song "Knife To Meet You". Commented singer John Gahlert:...

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II: Ruined

How does Profound Lore keep finding these amazing bands? This time it is the ugly, sustaining roar of England's doom/sludge masters ATAVIST. Honestly folks, "II: Ruined" is one of the ugliest sludge albums you are likely to hear this year, and at over 70 minutes in length it is one long exercise in...

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Beyond the Permafrost

It would be one thing if only the band's logo and artwork on its new album reeked of vintage heavy metal and ripping thrash, but considering that the music on "Beyond the Permafrost" actually comes with a metal-as-hell attack makes it required listening for the true ‘heads. Beyond the fact that Athe...

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KATATONIA Guitarist: 'We're Not An Energetic Power Metal Band'

In the Halloween issue of Metal Maniacs, KATATONIA guitarist Anders Nyström discusses the band's "Live Consternation" release and the perception of vocalist Jonas Renske as a "reluctant frontman." Excerpts follow. Metal Maniacs: Was there a point where you guys said, "Screw it, we got to get KATATON...

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Headbanger

On "Headbanger", SUPERCHRIST remind us of the power and passion of classic heavy metal, not to mention how to write a song with hooks and heaviness. Featuring metal journalist and PHARAOH member Chris Black (a.k.a. Professor Black, bass/vocals),along with Ron Rokken (guitar) and V. Dee (drums),"He...

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FALL OF SERENITY: New Album Title Announced

German melodic death/thrash metal outfit FALL OF SERENITY has set "The Crossfire" as the title of its new album, due on November 19 via Lifeforce Records. The CD will include an exclusive video clip for the song "Knife To Meet You". Commented singer John Gahlert: "We have worked hard to have these n...

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STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER, HELSTAR, CAGE Confirmed For FESTIVAL DE METAL BORICUA

STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER, HELSTAR and CAGE are among the confirmed bands for the Festival de Metal Boricua, set to take palce November 17, 2007 at Coliseo de Cayey (Raul "Rolo" Colon),Cayey, Puerto Rico. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: STEVE GRIMMETT's GRIM REAPER HELSTAR CAGE SI...

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BLACK DEMENTIA To Release Full-Length Debut

French/Danish horde BLACK DEMENTIA, which includes members of EXMORTEM, HORNED ALMIGHTY, SPECTRAL MORTUARY and GRIFFAR, will release its full-length debut, "Dictum of Negation", through Aura Mystique Productions. The CD consists of 11 tracks of intense black/death metal with thrash influences, and g...

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MANDY LION: 'DON ARDEN Represented Everything This Industry Should Be About But Rarely Ever Is'

WWIII frontman Mandy Lion has issued the following statement regarding the passing of music mogul Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father),who died on July 21 at the age of 81: "I am sad to let everyone know that one of the greatest men I ever knew died on Saturday... "Don Arden was more than just ...

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Closer to the Grave

You may need to take a shower after time spent with SPIRITUAL DECAY's "Closer to the Grave". The sound is old school, dirty, and primitive. No light shines in the cavernous world in which the quartet resides. It is not the greatest death metal release I've ever heard, but does have its moments and m...

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Room Full of Sinners

If New Jersey was ever gonna be used as an adjective, for anything besides bricks of dried toxic swamp gunk, it'd have to be busted out for THE CURSED. The prime movers in this side project are former HADES and NON-FICTION axeman Dan Lorenzo and inimitable OVERKILL vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth,...

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Breath of the Demiurg

The thing about early 1990s Swedish death metal (and the output from the rest of Europe too, really) wasn't always speed, and it wasn't about who could be the most ludicrously brutal (although that was often a quite enjoyable by-product). No, there was a dankness to the stuff, a primal murk, an atmo...

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Exacerbated Gnostic Manifestation

I swear, the death metal warriors in Latin America and Eastern Europe almost always get it right. This time the album that knocks the earth off its axis is "Exacerbated Gnostic Manifestation" by Chile's THORNAFIRE. It is yet another example of Ibex Moon head honcho and INCANTATION main man John McEn...

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VED BUENS ENDE Is 'Dead And Buried For Good'

The resurrected VED BUENS ENDE (Norwegian for "At the End of the Rainbow"),the Norwegian avant-garde metal band who split up in 1997 after after releasing only one full-length album (1995's "Written in Waters") through Misanthropy Records, has once again called it quits (as first reported by BLABBE...