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Noise Chaos War

There are few metal journeyman that continue to work so hard for so little year and year and still manage to wake up every morning with the sole intent of devoting 100 percent effort into writing, recording, and/or performing the best thrash metal possible. That is Katon W. DePena to a "T". The road...

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A New Era of Corruption

I remember reviewing WHITECHAPEL's debut album "The Somatic Defilement" (Siege of Amida/Candlelight) for a revered, but sadly now defunct, print magazine and thinking that the Knoxville boys were really onto something, at least in terms of modern death metal was concerned. Today the term would be "d...

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Inner Receivings

I've leveled my fair share of criticism at what has been an avalanche of shoe-gazing in the black metal community; some of it justified, some of it based on inundation, and some, perhaps unfairly, based on the fact that too much of it bores the ever living shit out of me. However, those bands that ....

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Festival

Jon Oliva is one of the world's truly great rock music artists. Folks that disagree probably never heard his work in SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, or JON OLIVA'S PAIN. And it's not like I was ever a huge SAVATAGE fan. The simple fact is that from the moment I heard "Maniacal Renderings" I was...

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With Flesh Unbound

Throw a few rocks out your living room window and you're likely to hit a band playing old school and Sunlight-ed Swedish death metal (and I don't just mean bands from Sweden). That has definitely been the case these past couple of years and a massive upsurge has occurred within the last year. And wh...

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ANGRA: More 'Aqua' Details Revealed

Brazilian metallers ANGRA will release their seventh studio album, "Aqua" (a Latin word which means "water" in English),in Europe on September 29 and in the U.S. on October 12 via SPV/Steamhammer. A conceptual effort, the follow-up to 2006's "Aurora Consurgens" was recorded at Norcal Studios in São...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION Announces European Headlining Tour

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers WITHIN TEMPTATION have issued the following update: "We are very excited to make this announcement. "As you know, we have been very busy working on our new album in the past year. It isn't finished yet, but we're getting there! "We currently have the album sc...

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ENSLAVED: New Album Track Listing Revealed; Bonus Seven-Inch Single Detailed

Norwegian psychedelic post-black metal band ENSLAVED will release its new album, "Axioma Ethica Odini", in Europe on September 27 and in North America on September 28. The CD's cover artwork was created by the Norwegian artist Truls Espedal, who has painted every ENSLAVED album cover since 2001's "M...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO Tribute Album And Los Angeles-Area Concert In The Works

Former DEEP PURPLE vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes, who took part in this past weekend's tribute concert to Ronnie James Dio at the High Voltage festival in London, has revealed exclusively to Express & Star that there will be a Dio tribute album, "with some megastars," to raise funds for to the R...

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M.A.N To Film 'Don't Wake Up' Video

M.A.N — the group formed out of the ashes of Sweden's TRANSPORT LEAGUE (featuring former MNEMIC frontman Tony Jelencovich) — will film a video for the song "Don't Wake Up" this coming weekend. The clip will once again be directed by Gabriel Engberg, who previously worked with the band on the videos...

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NIGHTFALL: Two New Songs Available For Streaming

Two brand new songs from reformed Greek metallers NIGHTFALL — "Astron Black" and "Astronomica / Saturnian Moon" — are available for streaming at this location. The tracks comes off the band's new album, "Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants", which is scheduled for release on August 31 (one day earli...

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CYNIC's PAUL MASVIDAL Interviewed By METAL ASSAULT

On July 22, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Paul Masvidal of the reunited progressive rock/metal band CYNIC. You can now listen to the chat below. Decibel magazine and CYNIC recently announced the inaugural Hall of Fame tour! Historic in every...

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END OF GREEN: 'Goodnight Insomnia' Single Details Revealed

"Goodnight Insomnia", the first single off the forthcoming END OF GREEN album "High Hopes In Low Places", will be available for download from iTunes and all other digital music providers on July 30. In addition to the single version of "Goodnight Insomnia", you will get the radio version and the clu...

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DARK TRANQUILLITY To Support IRON MAIDEN In Bergen

According to Bergen Live, Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY will support British metal legends IRON MAIDEN on August 11 at Bergenhus Festning – Koengen, Bergen, Norway. DARK TRANQUILLITY recently completed a North American headlining tour with support from THREAT SIGNAL and MUTINY WI...

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HEAVEN & HELL Members Perform Tribute To RONNIE JAMES DIO At U.K.'s HIGH VOLTAGE Festival

Surviving HEAVEN & HELL members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice played a very special tribute to their fallen bandmate, Ronnie James Dio, earlier tonight (Saturday, July 24) at this year's High Voltage festival at Victoria Park in London, England. The musicians were joined by legendar...