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'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 U.S. and Canadian alternative metal, emocore, hardcore, math metal, metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands. In the mid-'90s, in the wake of grunge...

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BLEEDING THROUGH: New Songs Available For Preview

Three songs from BLEEDING THROUGH's upcoming album, "The Truth", have been made available for listening online. Check them out at the following links: "For Love and Failing" (audio) "Kill to Believe" (audio) "Tragedy of Empty Streets" (audio) The follow-up to the Orange County, CA-based sextet's bre...

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Former PANTERA Manager: PHILIP ANSELMO 'Was Beyond Anybody's Control'

In the February 2006 issue of Revolver magazine (web site),several of PANTERA's former business associates recount the band's amazing rise to the status of the biggest extreme metal act in the world and the circumstances that led to their eventual break-up. Though it would be unfair to blame PANTER...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: 'I Would Have Taken A Bullet' For DIMEBAG

Former PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has spoken exclusively to Revolver magazine (web site) about the death of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, Anselmo's much-rumored substance-abuse problems and the role the heavy metal media has played in PANTERA's eventual demise, among many other topics. Several exce...

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Method of Execution

Jason Blachowicz (ex-MALEVOLENT CREATION) encountered some bumps in the road, including the demise of Olympic Recordings and some good old shit-slinging, but he still managed to deliver DIVINE EMPIRE's fourth album, "Method of Execution". At 58 minutes, the disc is chock full of raging Florida death...

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Finnish Metal Musicians To Take Part In DIMEBAG BEYOND FOREVER Tour

A dozen or so Finnish metal musicians will be taking part in the "Dimebag Beyond Forever Tour", set to kick off in early December. A posting at the trek's official web site, www.dimetour.com, reads as follows: "Once again it is the time to raise our hands and salute our fallen brother Dimebag Darrel...

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KIRK HAMMETT: 'METALLICA Have A Lot More To Say'

In the latest issue of Guitar World, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of METALLICA's landmark "Master of Puppets" album, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett gets quizzed by the magazine readers and a host of metal luminaries, including MASTODON, LAMB OF GOD, EXODUS, EVERY TIME I...

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DIABLO: New Single Available For Streaming

DIABLO's new single, "Mimic 47", is available for streaming at this location. The song is the title cut of the Finnish metallers' new album, due in Finland on January 18, 2006 via Gaga Goodies/Poko. The album's first single, "Mimic 47" is backed with a cover of DURAN DURAN's "A View to a Kill". ...

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Report: Investigating The 'Death Metal' Murders

Sam Bagnall, producer of the "Death Metal Murders" special which is scheduled to air tonight on BBC Two, has issued the following report via the BBC News web site: One man's relentless search for his missing son led him to uncover one of the most shocking crimes in post-war Italy — a tale ...

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DARK FUNERAL: Japanese Edition Of 'Attera Totus Sanctus' To Feature Bonus Tracks

According to a posting on DARK FUNERAL's web site, the Japanese edition of the group's new album, "Attera Totus Sanctus" — due on December 21 via Soundholic Ltd. — will include two bonus tracks: "an instrumental version of the dark and extremely powerful 'Atrum Regina' and a newly recorded version o...

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Twilight

One of those black metal projects so primally fucked and ruthlessly inaccessible, it'll be hated garbage-can noise to most of the world, and a new religion to a select few. TWILIGHT is a sort of U.S. black metal supergroup, featuring Malefic of XASTHUR and some other subterranean evildoers, and thei...

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AMENRA Sign With HYPERTENSION RECORDS

Hypertension Records has announced signing of Belgian noisegiants AMENRA. The CD version of the group's latest effort, "Mass III", will be issued on February 15, 2006. "Mass III", which is already drawing critical acclaim from some of Europe's leading rock and metal press, was produced by The Dice,...

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SIX FEET UNDER Frontman CHRIS BARNES Joins Finland's TORTURE KILLER

Finnish death metallers TORTURE KILLER have announced the addition of SIX FEET UNDER/ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist Chris Barnes to the group's ranks. In a statement posted on their MySpace.com page, the band write, "Well, we never would've expected where we would stand with this band in 2005 when we f...

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The New Age of Chaos

Those hanging around the death metal insider's club have always known that VILE is a class act, one of the premiere bands on a Unique Leader roster that has little in the way of also-rans. "The New Age of Chaos" should bring VILE a new level of notoriety (at least in the death metal community),...

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LECHEROUS NOCTURNE: New Pre-Production Recordings Posted Online

LECHEROUS NOCTURNE, the Greenville, South Carolina-based extreme metal band featuring NILE guitarist Dallas Toler-Wade on drums, have uploaded two new pre-production songs for their upcoming album. Check out the tracks "Kompagne" and "Adoration of the Blade" at this location. LECHEROUS NOCTURNE's de...