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SUPREME PAIN: New Album Artwork Unveiled
Dutch brutal death metal band SUPREME PAIN has unveiled the cover art for its upcoming second full-length album, "Nemesis Enforcer". Check it out below. The group will enter Soundlodge Studio in Germany next month with producer Jorg Uken (SINISTER, DEW-SCENTED, OBSCENITY, GOD DETHRONED) to begin rec...January 16, 2009
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The Age of Nero
If you haven't liked SATYRICON's grimward slide toward dry, minimalist, sardonic post-genre permafrost, you're gonna just keep on hating them for "The Age of Nero". Stylistically, it picks up where "Now, Diabolical" left off, all brittle, haughty vocals and skeletal bare-wire riffing. But if that's...January 12, 2009
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DARKEST HOUR: New Shows Announced
Washington, D.C.'s DARKEST HOUR will take a short break from writing and recording pre-production demos for its next album to play the following dates: Jan. 20 - Washington, DC - The Black Cat ("Demand In DC") Jan. 30 - Harrisonburg, VA - Rockingham County Fairgrounds (w/ AS I LAY DYING) Jan. 31 - R...January 11, 2009
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BEHEMOTH Preparing To Enter Studio
Polish extreme metal veterans BEHEMOTH are in the final stages of the songwriting process for their upcoming, as-yet-untitled album. The record is tentatively expected sometime in the fall via Metal Blade (USA) and Nuclear Blast (Europe). BEHEMOTH mainman Adam "Nergal" Darski and his bandmates are p...January 5, 2009
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DARKEST HOUR: Documentary Of Homecoming Show Available
DCist, the most popular blog in Washington, D.C. covering all the goings-on in the Capitol, has uploaded a "documentary" of local metallers DARKEST HOUR as they prepared for their annual homecoming D.C. show. Watch the clip below. DARKEST HOUR is about to enter Baltimore, Maryland's Salad Days Studi...December 26, 2008
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WATAIN Mainman: 'MAYHEM Was Revolutionary'
Darren Cowan of Blistering.com recently conducted an interview with WATAIN mainman Erik Danielsson. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Blistering.com: The plans that [former MAYHEM members] Dead and Euronymous started died after they were gone, and no one really carried on those ideas. GORGO...December 25, 2008
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VITAL REMAINS, DEBAUCHERY, WOLFCHANT Confirmed For Germany's WALPURGIS METAL DAYS IX Festival
VITAL REMAINS, DEBAUCHERY and WOLFCHANT have been confirmed for next year's Walpurgis Metal Days IX festival, set to take place May 1-2, 2009 at Festplatz in Hauzenberg, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ARTAS DEBAUCHERY DISBELIEF DORNENREICH ENTHRONED FJOERGYN FLESHLESS GRAILK...December 24, 2008
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TANKARD, FJOERGYN Confirmed For Germany's WALPURGIS METAL DAYS IX Festival
TANKARD and FJOERGYN have been confirmed for next year's Walpurgis Metal Days IX festival, set to take place May 1-2, 2009 at Festplatz in Hauzenberg, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ARTAS GRAVE DISBELIEF DORNENREICH ENTHRONED FLESHLESS FJOERGYN GRAILKNIGHTS IN SLUMBER POPPY...December 18, 2008
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Black Faith Inquisition
I really struggled with this one. I'd go back and forth between assessing "Black Faith Inquisition" as an epic tour de force of melodic black metal and a painstakingly long, verbose black metal album that tries to do too much. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. There is no question that...December 15, 2008
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Your Drug of Choice
Here we have the (eighth? ninth? do we count that remix album?) full-length effort of muscled down, grown up thrash metal from these Swiss scene veterans (anyone remember POLTERGEIST, besides me and whoever empties the dumpsters at Century Media?). GURD may have zero profile here in the States, but...December 15, 2008
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DARKEST HOUR Guitarist Checks In From Studio
Washington, D.C. metallers DARKEST HOUR are about to enter Baltimore, Maryland's Salad Days Studio with producer Brian McTernan to begin recording their new album for a spring 2009 release via Victory Records. Things have come full circle for the band, which recorded its 2000 seminal debut "Mark Of...December 12, 2008
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HAMMERFALL Guitarist To Guest On New JADED HEART Album
Guitarist Pontus Norgren (HAMMERFALL, ex-THE POODLES, TALISMAN, GREAT KING RAT) will make a guest appearance on the new album from German melodic hard rock masters JADED HEART. Pontus has also written a song for the follow-up to 2007's "Sinister Mind", which is being recorded with producer Chris Lau...December 12, 2008
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VADER Confirmed For Germany's WALPURGIS METAL DAYS IX
Polish extreme metal veterans VADER have been confirmed for the Walpurgis Metal Days IX festival, set to take place May 1-2 at Festplatz in Hauzenberg, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: ARTAS GRAVE DISBELIEF DORNENREICH ENTHRONED FLESHLESS GRAILKNIGHTS POPPY SEED GRINDER SI...December 4, 2008
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CROCELL: Two New Songs Posted Online
CROCELL, the new Danish death metal band featuring current and former members of COMPOS MENTIS, ADVERSARY, SLUGS, DEMOLITION INC. and MARE CRISIUM, has posted two new tracks — "We are the Dead" and "The Chosen" — to its MySpace page. The songs come off the group's 11-track debut album, "The God We D...November 20, 2008
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SLAGMAUR's Original 'Domfeldt' Demo Released In Digipack Version
"Domfeldt", the third in the "Protocols of Fosen" trilogy from Norwegian black metallers SLAGMAUR, has now been re-released in digipack format by Inferna-Profundus under licence from the band's own label Nekk Brekk Productions. The digipack version differs from the original demo with the guest track...November 19, 2008