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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...

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BEHEMOTH: Live Performance Video Of New Track Available

Polish extreme metal titans BEHEMOTH have posted a new live video clip for the new track "Christgrinding Avenue", taken from a recent performance at Club 13 in Tilburg, Holland. The track comes from their highly anticipated new album, "The Apostasy", which is set for a July release. Click here to ch...

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KOSMOS Featuring VOIVOD Drummer: Music Posted Online

KOSMOS, the new Montreal-based psychedelic project featuring VOIVOD drummer Michel "Away" Langevin, GRIMSKUNK bassist Vincent Peake, TRICKY WOO keyboardist/programmer Alex Crow and PARADISE guitarist Jetphil, has posted three tracks from its upcoming album on its MySpace page. Check out the songs "P...

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'Club Satan' Featuring DARK FUNERAL: Screenings Announced

The Satanic forces are uniting behind the first-ever Satanic porno movie, "Club Satan: The Witches' Sabbath". This film was overseen by an actual priest in the Church Of Satan, and includes a real Black Mass, the likes of which has not been caught on tape since Anton LaVey's "Satanis" more than 30 y...

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Reunited IMMORTAL At Norway's INFERNO FESTIVAL; More Video Footage, Photos Available

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL made their return to the live stage on Friday, April 6 as the headliners of this year's Inferno Festival, which took place April 5-7 at the Rockefeller Music Hall and John Dee in Oslo, Norway. Watch a dozen video clips of the band's performance on YouTube....

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Reunited IMMORTAL Makes Live Debut At INFERNO FESTIVAL; Video Footage, Photos Available

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL made their return to the live stage on Friday, April 6 as the headliners of this year's Inferno Festival, which took place April 5-7 at the Rockefeller Music Hall and John Dee in Oslo, Norway. Watch a couple of video clips of the band's performance on YouT...

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DARKTHRONE's NOCTURNO CULTO To Release 'The Misanthrope' DVD; Trailer Available

Peaceville has set an April 23 release date for "The Misanthrope". Described as DARKTHRONE stalwart Nocturno Culto's first-ever foray into the visual world, the film is said to be a documentary/fiction film which will show the Norwegian black metal scene in its element, particularly focusing on DARK...

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IMMORTAL To Guest On Norway's 'Headbanger's Ball' This Weekend

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL will be the featured guests on the Norwegian edition of MTV's "Headbanger's Ball" on Sunday, April 1 beginning at 22.00. Two full "Headbanger's Ball" episodes will be dedicated to Inferno Festival. The first show, "Inferno Vorspiel", will also be shown on...

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Harvest

It's official, Sweden's NAGLFAR is incapable of doing wrong, "Harvest" being the newest instance proving the point. The band has honed its sound somewhat since 2003's excellent "Sheol" by going for a more immediately impacting style of black/death metal, still unarguably ferocious, but with underlyi...

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Fucking Your Creation

Get ready for some howling black metal from Greece! One-man band DODSFERD is the project of Wrath and "Fucking Your Creation" is sure to be mentioned as one of the year's best black metal albums. Talk about a man that takes the hellish spew of the early Norwegian masters seriously! The album has got...

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Harmonic Tremors

For the most part, just the fact that "Harmonic Tremors" is released on Hydra Head should give you at least an inkling that it is an album that contains flourishes of ISIS' patented ethereal-tinged and earth moving approach. That the project was named for the 50-foot effigy burned annually at the Fi...