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ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET: 'The Dark Epic' European Release Date Announced

"The Dark Epic", the fourth full-length album from ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET — the Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN vocalist Johan Lindstrand — will be released in Europe on February 25, 2011. The CD is currently being recorded at Black Lounge studios in Avesta, Sweden with producer...

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GLOOMY GRIM Covers MERCYFUL FATE On New Single

Finnish black metallers GLOOMY GRIM have completed work on a new two-track single containing a cover version of the MERCYFUL FATE classic "Black Funeral" and a new song, "Let My Enemy Suffer As I Do!" The cover art was created by Mario E. López M. (IRON MAIDEN, BURNING DARKNESS, HANGMAN). GLOOMY GRI...

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ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET: 'The Dark Epic' Artwork Unveiled

The cover artwork for "The Dark Epic", the fourth full-length album from ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET — the Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN vocalist Johan Lindstrand — was created by Björn Goosses of Killustrations and can be viewed below. The CD is currently being recorded at Black L...

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WELTER IN THY BLOOD Signs With DUSKTONE RECORDS

Los Angeles, California-based three-piece bleak ambient black doom act WELTER IN THY BLOOD has inked a deal with the Italian label Dusktone Records. The group will enter the studio later this month in Portland, Oregon to record the follow-up to "Through The Fields Of Mourning". "Through The Fields O...

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ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET Begins Recording New Album

ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET, the Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN vocalist Johan Lindstrand, has entered Black Lounge studios in Avesta, Sweden with producer Jonas Kjellgren (SCAR SYMMETRY, CARNAL FORGE) to begin recording its fourth full-length album, "The Dark Epic", for an early 20...

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ANGEL WITCH, SODOM, DORO, MAYHEM, THE HAUNTED, Others Confirmed For France's HELLFEST

ANGEL WITCH, BAD BRAINS, DORO, THE HAUNTED, MAYHEM, SODOM, THERION and TRIPTYKON are among the confirmed bands for next year's edition of Hellfest, set to take place June 17-19, 2010 in Clisson, France. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANGEL WITCH BAD BRAINS BELPHEGOR CHURCH OF MISERY...

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Tenebrae... / Krohm

As far as atmospheric/suicidal/depressive black metal experiences go, this 42-minute split release from Italy's TENEBRAE IN PERPETUUM and Numinas' (a.k.a. Dario Derna, also of USDM quarter DRAWN AND QUARTERED) one-man U.S. band KROHM is more than a fair and musically solid representation of the form...

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GALLHAMMER Parts Ways With Guitarist, Prepares To Enter Studio

Guitarist/vocalist Mika Penetrator has left GALLHAMMER — the Japanese extreme metal group that draws on black metal, doom metal, and crust punk — to concentrate on her other band. The remaining members of GALLHAMMER — Vivian Slaughter (vocals, bass) and Risa Reaper (drums, vocals) — plan to continue...

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Eparistera Daimones

Sickened, haughty, lurching, three weeks long and drenched in pretentious, glowering atmosphere, TRIPTYKON picks up right where CELTIC FROST's brilliant "Monotheist" left off. It's at once highbrow and lo-fi, art and brutality, and it places Tom Gabriel Fischer's "new" band immediately in the vangua...

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From Surface to Suffocation

I don't generally rag on bands for their production choices, but this record sounds like it was recorded behind a wall of wet cotton. The guitars are scooped out and gutless, the low end is weak, and all the vocals sound like they're being sung through a toilet paper tube. The production here is low...

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PURIFIED IN BLOOD: 'Under Den Svarte Himmel' Video Released

"Under Den Svarte Himmel", the new official video from Norwegian metallers PURIFIED IN BLOOD, can be viewed below. The song comes off the group's sophomore full-length album, "Under Black Skies", which was released on June 7 via Spinefarm Records. The CD was produced by Ashley Stubbert (a U.S. produ...

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SOULLESS Recording New Album

Cleveland, Ohio-based thrash/death metallers SOULLESS have issued the following update: "We tracked the drums for the new [SOULLESS full-length album] at Spider Studios with producer/engineer Ben Schigel earlier this year. From there we moved on to Big Metal Dave's Bad Back Studios to finish trackin...

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Witchkrieg

There is always some bated breath involved when a new WITCHERY album is about to drop. It's not like the all-star quintet has ever disappointed, but the bar was set so high with the raw thrash power of those first three albums in particular that I'm always wondering whether the other shoe will drop....

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Ascending in Triumph

I hope you've no desire to experience anything related to adrenaline rushes or fits of OCD-driven housecleaning rage because "Ascending in Triumph" will offer you no help whatsoever in that regard. Sixty-three minutes of generally slow — though not funereally plodding — doom majesty is what NOX AURE...

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Black Medicine

Here is one that almost escaped the detection of my radar system. If you appreciate well written black metal that is relatively diverse and tuneful, yet still in touch with the style's barbaric roots, then "Black Medicine / Fekete Orvosság" from Hungary's AETHERIUS OBSCURITAS is the album for you. Y...