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Why Was HELLFEST Cancelled?

Scott Frost of The Trentonian has published an in-depth report on the circumstances surrounding the cancellation of Hellfest 2005, the three-day festival of hardcore heavy metal and punk bands that was set for Aug. 19-21 at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey. Officials with Sovereign Ba...

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HELLFEST Officially Cancelled At Trenton's Sovereign Bank Arena

Hellfest 2005, a three-day festival of hardcore heavy metal and punk bands set for Aug. 19-21 at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, has been cancelled. A posting at Hellfest.com reads as follows: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, Hellfest has been cancelled. After a full day in...

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Former FEAR FACTORY, SPINESHANK Members To Appear On Hardcore Tribute To SLAYER

According to Punknews.org, Mediaskare has announced plans for a hardcore tribute to influential metal act SLAYER. The tentative list of participants includes Dino Cazares (ex-FEAR FACTORY),SILENT CIVILIAN (featuring former SPINESHANK frontman Jonny Santos),THE WARRIORS, ON BROKEN WINGS, NEW DEAD R...

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Paradise, Found

In a brave experiment gone horribly wrong, FIGHT PARIS' "Paradise, Found" tries in vain to be 33 minutes of sleazy rock 'n metal swagger with profanity-laced beer swillin' and hot chick chasin' lyrics. Instead, it sounds like a sub-par rock record with the wrong production, embarrassingly juvenile l...

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UNEARTH Announce Headlining Tour With THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN

UNEARTH will be embarking on a headlining club tour beginning September 16 in Erie, PA. NORA and A LIFE ONCE LOST will be opening for UNEARTH for the first two dates, with THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ZAO and A LIFE ONCE LOST providing support for the remainder of the tour. Commented UNEARTH vocalist...

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DIECAST To Embark On U.S. Tour With 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, IF HOPE DIES

DIECAST are currently preparing to embark on a national U.S. tour alongside 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and IF HOPE DIES late this month. The trek will be their first stateside run since January's acclaimed "Heavyweights of Hardcore" tour with HATEBREED and AGNOSTIC FRONT. The group recently completed a massi...

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BLOODHAG Want To Prove You Can Be 'Smart And Metal'

Madeleine Key of The Modesto Bee is reporting that BLOODHAG — who describe their music as "edu-core," or "educational hardcore" — play super short (under two minutes) heavy metal songs detailing the life and work of science fiction authors. The band will perform at the Stanislaus County Library down...

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SHATTER MESSIAH: New Live Date Announced

SHATTER MESSIAH, the new band featuring former NEVERMORE/ANNIHILATOR guitarist Curran Murphy and ANNIHILATOR drummer Robert Falzano, will be performing at The Pit in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday, August 13. The show starts at 9:00 p.m. SHATTER MESSIAH recently completed work on their debut EP, "Your...

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SEPULTURA To Premiere New Song During Hometown Performance

According to a posting on their official web site, Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA will premiere one new song during their performance with SLIPKNOT on August 23 in São Paulo, Brazil. SEPULTURA will enter Trama Studios in São Paulo on August 15 to begin recording the follow-up to 2003's "Roorback", en...

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IRON MAIDEN Bassist: We Love Playing In The U.S.

IRON MAIDEN founder Steve Harris recently talked in detail to www.classicrockrevisited.com writer Shelly Harris about why the band decided to play on the Ozzfest bill (despite otherwise being headliners worldwide since 1982) and other current events and musings about that tour and the band's real at...

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THE RED CHORD Frontman Gives Props To SLIPKNOT

Wormwood Chronicles recently conducted an in-depth interview with THE RED CHORD singer Guy Kozowyk. An excerpt from the chat follows: Wormwood Chronicles: It's very obvious to me that THE RED CHORD will never release the same album twice. How do you see yourself changing over time? Guy Kozowyk: "The...

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Vendetta

Based on my lukewarm feelings about "Haymaker", I was prepared to give THROWDOWN's "Vendetta" a mediocre review. I seem to be one of the few that weren't knocked on their asses by the 2003 release. The album has its moments, but seems to drag at times; something about those extra thick, breakdownish...

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Tales from the Strip

A band straight outta the '80s that never really went away, L.A. GUNS released some good 'n' sleazy hard rock with strong melodies over the years, belying the categorization of the act by some folks (I'm not one of them) as "just another hair metal band." As late as 2002, the group released a qualit...

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Moment of Reckoning

One gets the feeling that Texas-born JACKNIFE were once a lot more basic and hardcore-oriented, perhaps cut from the same cloth as PISSING RAZORS or HATEBREED. Then they discovered the likes of SHADOWS FALL and heard some "new wave of American metal", and that influence (or perhaps the same Swedish...

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The Battle of the Common

Once upon a time (2004 to be exact),five guys, including ex-members of BIGWIG and STALEMATE, got together and combined the aggression of hardcore with gang-chorus-infused street punk. A self-produced demo soon followed. Here in 2005, the band releases its full-length debut, "The Battle of the Commo...