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Gloria

It's been a while since we've been given a front-row seat as a band self-destructs this spectacularly. MORGOTH going from bleak death metal to KILLING JOKE in the mid-1990s… the "black metal to weird industrial" metamorphosis of bands like MAYHEM and COVENANT a few years later… and of course, loomin...

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RAVENCULT Signs With DARK ESSENCE RECORDS

Greek black metal band RAVENCULT has inked a deal with Dark Essence Records. The group's debut album, "Temples of Torment", will contain "wicked, raw, grim and cold black metal," according to a posting on the Dark Essence web site. The cover artwork was handled by Stephen O'Malley (SUNN O))),KHANAT...

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Season in Hell

Hopped up on high-octane coffee, high on the herb, drunk on Wild Turkey, shuffling on Thorazine, you can take your pick as each will provide a state of mind at some point during the 28 tracks of grindcore and musical lunacy on 7000 DYING RATS' "Season in Hell". After a relatively long wait, the Detr...

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IMMORTAL: 'We Can't Wait To Finally Perform For You Again'

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have issued the following update: "Some months have passed since we announced our reunion shows and we would like to say thanks for all the fantastic feedback we have received. "Abbath and Apollyon rehearsed together last weekend, and with Horgh just back...

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The Deep and Dreamless Sleep

Never been a big fan of these Boston trad-metal water-treaders, from their somewhat plodding and generic major label days to their more recent, hopeless and low-buck efforts. And I wasn't expecting to change my mind based on the "Xeroxed tree" motif of the cover of "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep", or...

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Alive in Athens

If you were enthralled with ICED EARTH's live album, the three-disc "Alive in Athens", then you're in for a real treat with the DVD treatment of those same two shows filmed at the Rodon Club in January 1999. The look, the feel, and the all-around aura of the performance makes for pure heavy metal bl...

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Hang Out With METALLICA At Their San Francisco Studio

METALLICA will release "The Videos 1989-2004", the band's first-ever music video retrospective DVD, on December 5 via Warner Bros. To celebrate the release, one lucky fan and a friend will get to hang out with METALLICA at their headquarters in San Francisco. You will win two nights hotel and airfar...

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IMMORTAL Confirmed For France's HELLFEST

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have been confirmed as the co-headliners of the Hellfest, set to take place June 22-24, 2007 in Clisson, France. The show will mark IMMORTAL's only appearance in France in 2007. Upcoming IMMORTAL concerts: Apr. 5-7 - Oslo, NOR @ Inferno Festival Jun. 22-24...

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Between Two Worlds

How appropriate that this debut album from Abbath's I is called "Between Two Worlds". It is in a fact a fusing of the mammoth black metal anthems of the mighty IMMORTAL and a pronounced rock 'n' groove component that borrows from the likes of MOTÖRHEAD. However, "I" does not mimic the blackened rock...

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IMMORTAL Confirmed For Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR, Slovenia's METALCAMP

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have been confirmed as the co-headliners of the Tuska Open Air festival, set to take palce June 29-July 1, 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. The show willmark IMMORTAL's first appearance in Finland and their only Finnish date in 2007. The band has also been confi...

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Live at CBGB 1982

Everyone that thinks they understand the term "hardcore" needs to view this DVD. Watching Rastacore trailblazers BAD BRAINS destroy CBGB during a series of 1982 performances from a three-day hardcore festival at the legendary venue is downright inspiring. Alternating between frenetic hardcore and me...

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BACKYARD BABIES: European Tour Dates Announced

Swedish rock 'n' rollers BACKYARD BABIES have lined up the following European dates in November/December: Nov. 20 - Oxford (UK) - Zodiac Nov. 21 - Dudley (UK) - JB's Nov. 22 - Manchester (UK) - Academy 3 Nov. 23 - London (UK) - Mean Fiddler Nov. 24 - Aarchot (B) - Klinker Nov. 26 - ...

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Reunited Black Metallers IMMORTAL Launch Official Web Site

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have launched their official web site at this location. After 13 successful years as one of the pioneers of black metal, IMMORTAL disbanded in 2003 with a legacy of seven full-length albums, including the 2002 milestone, "Sons of Northern Darkness". Follow...

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Reunited IMMORTAL To Headline Norway's INFERNO FESTIVAL

Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL have been confirmed as the headliners of the 2007 edition of the Inferno Festival, set to take place April 5-7 at the Rockefeller and John Dee venues in Oslo, Norway. "It will be a great show in front of a good mixture of Norwegian fans and people form all...

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VED BUENS ENDE Mainman: 'We Are Back In All Senses Of The Word'

Guitarist/vocalist Carl-Michael "Czral" Eide (AURA NOIR, CADAVER, DØDHEIMSGARD) of the reunited 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...