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BLOODBATH Confirmed For Finland's PELLAVAROCK Festival

Swedish death metal "supergroup" BLOODBATH has been confirmed for the Pellavarock festival, set to take place August 9 in Lammi, Finland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLOODBATH HATEFORM KIUAS MYGRAIN RYTMIHIRI SOTAJUMALA TRACEDAWN BLOODBATH recently spent time at Park Studio in Sto...

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OBITUARY, UNLEASHED To Team Up For U.S. Tour

Florida's OBITUARY and Sweden's UNLEASHED will team up for a U.S. tour in September/October. Support on the trek will come from San Diego death metallers CARNIFEX. Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 16 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Sep. 17 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues Sep. 18 - Ft. Worth, TX @...

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BLOODBATH Back In The Studio For Third Full-Length Album

Guitarist Anders "Blakkheim" Nystrm of the Swedish death metal "supergroup" BLOODBATH has issued the following update: "BLOODBATH just spent the last week at Park Studio in Stockholm where Axe [drummer Martin 'Axe' Axenrot] put down an (un)healthy doze of all the basic ingredients and more to get th...

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SUN DESCENDS: Four New Tracks Posted Online

New York City thrashers SUN DESCENDS, who feature in their ranks EXUMER vocalist Mem von Stein, have posted four tracks off their new album, "The Entropy Formula", on their MySpace page. The 10-track CD, which is released on Khaosmaster Productions this month and via Twilight Distribution in the fal...

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BURZUM: 'Anthology' Due In May

BURZUM, the now-defunct band led by Varg Vikernes (a.k.a. Count Grishnackh) who is currently serving a 21-year Norwegian prison term for the August 1993 murder of MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous) will release "Anthology" in the U.S. on May 13 via Candlelight Records. According to...

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KULT OV AZAZEL: 'We Have Remained True To The Roots And Never Wavered From Our Approach'

Xaphan of the Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL has issued the following update: "Nine years ago this month, Xul and I formed what has become known as KULT OV AZAZEL. Over these years many members have come and gone yet this band has been consistent in our vision and to what KULT OV AZAZEL .....

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TED NUGENT To Release 'Sweden Rocks' CD, DVD

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release "Sweden Rocks" by Ted Nugent on CD May 13. The concert was captured at the 2006 Sweden Rock Festival, featuring the singer/songwriter/guitarist with drummer Mick Brown and bassist Barry Sparks. A DVD of the show will be released June 10. One would be hard-presse...

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Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival: Running Order Announced

The running order has been announced this year's edition of the Hole In The Sky festival, which is scheduled to take place August 27-30 in Bergen, Norway. It is as follows: Wednesday, August 27: DISMEMBER TOXIC HOLOCAUST URGEHAL OLD INQUISITION Thursday, August 28: EXODUS 3 INCHES OF BLOOD DEAD TO T...

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Graveyard

Sweden has always been a fertile ground for retro-minded rockers, with a crop of stoner bands in the 90's that arguably put the rest of the world to shame. Continuing that tradition is the laid-back, amiably psychedelic GRAVEYARD, fairly recently formed but already sounding like old souls steeped in...

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Feral Creation

Score another point for Denmark's Mighty Music. THORIUM's "Feral Creation" is not quite as monstrous as VICIOUS ART's "Pick up this Sick Child", but it is a fine death metal album in its own right. The new long player is actually the band's third and the boys formed in 1997, facts of which I had ...

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SUN DESCENDS To Release New Album In April

New York City thrashers SUN DESCENDS, who feature in their ranks former EXUMER vocalist Mem von Stein, will release their new album, "The Entropy Formula", in April via Khaosmaster Productions (Puerto Rico). The artwork will feature an illustration by Sean Taggart. The first song from "The Entropy F...

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GORGOROTH: Controversial Krakow Concert To Be Released On DVD

Video footage of GORGOROTH's infamous February 1, 2004 concert in Krakow, Poland will finally will see the light of day! Metal Mind Productions will release the first-ever GORGOROTH DVD, entitled "Black Mass Kraków 2004", featuring the legendary Polish concert, on June 9 in Europe and June 10 in the...

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KULT OV AZAZEL: New Album To Feature Guest Appearance By POSSESSED Frontman

Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have issued the following update: "We have spent the last week finalizing the new songs and laying down drum tracks for a pre-production demo of what will become our fourth album, 'Destroying the Sacred'. Over the next few weeks we will be recording guitar an...

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MAR DE GRISES To Release New Album In April

Chilean progressive/doom metallers MAR DE GRISES will release their new album, "Draining the Waterheart", on April 14 via Firebox Records. Two separate versions of the LP will be made available: the regular album and a limited-edition digipack (A5 format) that will include a bonus mini-CD, entitled...

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Former POSSESSED Guitarist MIKE TORRAO Joins San Francisco's INACAGE

Former POSSESSED guitarist Mike Torrao has joined the San Francisco-based metal band INACAGE. According to a posting on the INACAGE's MySpace page, Mike "wrote some of the sickest guitar riffs ever to come out in the metal scene as well as being the main songwriter for the band that led to their suc...