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METUJA To Release New Album Next Month

Finnish hard rockers METUJA will release their new album, "Enimmäkseen Harmiton", on July 29 via Violent Journey Records. The CD was once again produced by Sami "Hannu" Koivisto (AMORPHIS, WALTARI) and features artwork by Juha Vuorma (WHIPLASH, AUTOPSY, USURPER). The album, which features Finnish ly...

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Former CELTIC FROST Mainman Interviewed For New TV Documentary

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "In the course of the production of a new documentary series about the evolution of music in the 1980s, German/French TV station Arte contacted me some time ago to arrange an intervie...

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Former CELTIC FROST Frontman Signs Publishing Deal For 'Only Death Is Real' Book

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "Work on TRIPTYKON's first album was temporarily and somewhat rudely interrupted early last week when I was forced to check into the hospital late at night to have my appendix removed...

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Crack The Skye

Any album that comes with its own built-in hype machine or slapped with the "next-big-thing" tag before proving its worth to the public should be met with a certain amount of caution and even skepticism. That goes doubly for metal bands that break through the underground and find themselves a part o...

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TOM GABRIEL FISCHER: 'One Year Ago Today I Left CELTIC FROST'

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "One year ago today I left CELTIC FROST. "I had seen the 'Monotheist' album as a mere beginning, and a tame one at that. There was a time when I was not alone with this view and ...

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TOM FISCHER's TRIPTYKON Performs CELTIC FROST's 'Synagoga Satanae'

Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update on his current TRIPTYKON project: "I always intended to make CELTIC FROST's 'Synagoga Satanae' part of TRIPTYKON's live set when the moment comes to take our group onstage, and I was thus going to begin playing it with...

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Former CELTIC FROST Mainman 'Deeply Intoxicated' By New TRIPTYKON Song

Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update on his current TRIPTYKON project: "Of course, my own opinion is biased, and of course I am not really entitled to rate the results of our own work. But it is difficult not to emerge from our sessions at TRIPTYKON's rehe...

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Stormlegion

Featuring in its ranks veterans of bands like USURPER, CIANIDE, and CORPSEVOMIT, Chicago's KOMMANDANT keeps it tremolo picked and blast beaten on "Stormlegion". Black metal with subtle dirty thrash undertones is the soup of the day. While the straightforward, no-frills approach has its merits, the s...

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NIGHTSHADE Cancels Chicago Concert

NIGHTSHADE, the new project featuring former USURPER guitarist Rick Scythe, has cancelled its previously announced February 21 concert at Metal Shakers in Chicago, Illinois "due to health reasons." Rick states, "I started to come down with what I thought was a cold over the weekend and when my sympt...

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Former CELTIC FROST Frontman: TRIPTYKON's Debut CD Will Be Dark, Heavy, And Fiercely Unique

Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update on his current TRIPTYKON project: "We played CELTIC FROST's 'Babylon Fell' for the first time with TRIPTYKON yesterday evening. I last performed this song with CELTIC FROST on the tour to support the 'Into The Pandemoni...

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MASTODON: 'Crack The Skye' Artwork Unveiled

The cover artwork for "Crack The Skye", the new album from Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON, can be viewed below. A teaser clip of the new MASTODON track "Oblivion" is available for streaming on the band's official web site. The song will appear on "Crack The Skye", which is tentatively due la...

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MASTODON's NAMM Schedule

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON will attend this year's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants),which is being held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Their schedule is as follows: Saturday, January 17: 12:00 noon - MASTODON band signing at Shure 1:...

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NIGHTSHADE Schedules CD/DVD-Release Show In Chicago

NIGHTSHADE, the new project featuring former USURPER guitarist Rick Scythe, has scheduled a CD/DVD-release show on Saturday, January 31 at La Costa Theater in Chicago, Illinois For more information, check out the poster below. NIGHTSHADE's debut album, "Autumnal Equinox", will be officially released...

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MASTODON: Free 'Crack The Skye' T-Shirt Offer

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON are hooking up their hardcore fans with a *free* "Crack The Skye" t-shirt ahead of their new album's release. The limited t-shirt is available only from www.mastodontshirtoffer.com using a special code. The first 50 BLABBERMOUTH.NET users who enter the code "bl...

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Former CELTIC FROST Mainman Working On Material For TRIPTYKON Debut

Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update on his current TRIPTYKON project: "Just returned home from an initially somewhat hampered but ultimately very successful rehearsal session with TRIPTYKON. It was the first session in a while, not least due to a hand inj...