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KATAKLYSM Uploads First Song To 'Rock Band Network' To Feature Double-Bass Application

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have uploaded another song to the Rock Band Network, a downloadable content service designed by Harmonix Music Systems with the help of Microsoft to allow musical artists and record labels to make their music available as playable tracks for...

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'Black Metal: The Music Of Satan' Documentary Due Next Month

Due on January 11, 2011, "Black Metal: The Music Of Satan" is a no-holds-barred documentary on the black metal scene from the mind of Bill Zebub. Some people think of church burnings and murders when the hear the word "black metal." This documentary is not for them. Bill Zebub wanted to prove that a...

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KATAKLYSM To Release 20th-Anniversary DVD

Montreal-based extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have posted a new video update in which they discuss their "Spread the Venom 2010 - 2011 World Tour" and plans to release a 20th-anniversary DVD. Check out the eight-minute clip below. The North American leg of KATAKLYSM's "Spread the Venom 2010 - 2011 Worl...

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SODOM Announces New Drummer

German thrash metal veterans SODOM have announced the addition of drummer Markus "Makka" Freiwald to the group's ranks. Freiwald previously played for the German bands DESPAIR and FLAMING ANGER and was involved with the VOODOOCULT project. In addition, he played percussion as a session musician on t...

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PRIMEVIL: Four Complete Tracks Available For Streaming

PRIMEVIL — the new band featuring former VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar),Antony "Antton" Lant (drums; brother of VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant) and Tony "The Demolition Man" Dolan (bass, vocals) — is streaming four tracks in full via its official MySpace page: * Wake Up Dead * The 8...

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Jupiter

It will be a relief for many fans of ATHEIST's first three seminal albums — "Piece of Time", "Unquestionable Presence" and "Elements" – that comeback album "Jupiter" sounds pretty much what one would expect ATHEIST to sound like in 2010. Not that "Jupiter" is the next step forward from the extraterr...

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Twilight of the Gods

The pain…she's a comin' strong! That the blackening of the power source we call the sun is not the stuff of joyful celebration is inarguable. "Twilight of the Gods" by Glasgow misery mongers BLACK SUN is sludgy, abrasively post-punk, and noisy as hell. It is torment set to music. The players are voc...

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Infernal Earthly Divine

If you've not yet felt the tremors created by this one, you soon will. An album that registers this high on the Richter scale will not go unnoticed. One of the best Pulverised releases of at least the past year, CRUCIFYRE's "Infernal Earthly Divine" comes with at team of heavyweight death metal play...

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MAX CAVALERA Says PAULO JR. Didn't Play Bass On Any Early SEPULTURA Recordings

Cody Thomas of Revolver magazine recently conducted an interview with Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, SEPULTURA). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Revolver: A few years ago, you reunited with [your brother and former SEPULTURA bandmate] Igor to form the CAVALERA CONSPIRAC...

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BLOOD FOR BLOOD Guitarist Explains His Absence From 'Persistence Tour'

On Thursday, December 3, Boston's favorite white-trash, hardcore hooligans BLOOD FOR BLOOD will hit the road in Europe as part of the 2010 Persistence Tour. This will mark the first time since 2004 that BLOOD FOR BLOOD fans have been able to see the band live on stage. As previously announced, BLOOD...

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SODOM Parts Ways With Drummer

German thrash metal veterans SODOM have released the following statement: "After personal and private problems between Tom [bassist/vocalist Thomas 'Angelripper' Such] and Bobby [Schottkowski; drums], it was decided, by mutual agreement, to end the cooperation between SODOM and the drummer Bobby Sch...

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NERVECELL Completes Writing New Album

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based death/thrash metallers NERVECELL have completed writing the music for the as-yet-untitled new album, set for a release early next via Lifeforce Records (Europe) and Spellbind Records (Middle East). Stated the band: "We are really thrilled that the writing process fo...

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DIMMU BORGIR Has Always Been About 'Doing Stuff That No One Else Dares To Do,' Says Guitarist

Live-Metal.net recently conducted an interview with with guitarist Galder (real name: Tom Rune Andersen) of Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Live-Metal.net: A while ago, Vortex left the band and he had done a lot of the cleaner vocals...

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DECIBEL's 'Black Metal Hall Of Fame' Special Issue Now Available

Decibel magazine presents a "Black Metal Hall Of Fame" special issue featuring eight tales from black metal's vast crypt. The Decibel "Hall Of Fame" provides the definitive stores behind the making of extreme music's most important albums. Each month the expanded stories (upwards of 5,000 words) inc...

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KATAKLYSM Announces North American Tour

Montreal-based extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have announced the North American leg of their "Spread the Venom 2010 - 2011 World Tour". Joining them will be groove-laden death shredders ALL SHALL PERISH, technical/progressive death masters DECREPIT BIRTH, Sumerian Records' touring juggernaut CONDUCTING...