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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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SUPREME PAIN Signs With METAL AGE PRODUCTIONS

Dutch brutal death metal band SUPREME PAIN has inked a deal with Metal Age Productions from Slovakia for the release of its second full-length album. The group is currently writing material for the CD, which has a working title of "Nemesis Enforcer". In February 2009, SUPREME PAIN will enter Soundlo...

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Tank Gasmask Ammo

And the Swedish death metal just keeps on coming in waves. It once again begs the question: what the hell is going on over there anyway? Speculation points to a covert government operation that has resulted in the releasing of an as yet unidentified chemical into the water that stimulates the little...

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Vertebrae

It's weird; in one way, ENSLAVED have traveled light-years beyond the chainmail trappings that defined their early attempts at progressive black metal. They're full-on psychedelic nutters now, creating otherworldly soundscapes using layered madrigal vocals, minimalist guitar washes and fluid, expres...

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GRAVE, GRAILKNIGHTS Confirmed For Germany's WALPURGIS METAL DAYS IX Festival

GRAVE and GRAILKNIGHTS have been confirmed for the Walpurgis Metal Days IX festival, set to take place May 1-2 at Festplatz in Hauzenberg, Germany. Meanwhile, GOD DETHRONED has cancelled its participation in the event. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: DISBELIEF DORNENREICH ENTHRONE...

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South Africa's A WALK WITH THE WICKED Prepares To Record Debut EP

Cape Town, South Africa's A WALK WITH THE WICKED is currently in pre-production for its first release, a five-track EP, tentatively due in early 2009 via Middle Finger Records. The CD will be recorded with Cape Town's Dean Bailey (THE HORROR CAST, MARCHING DEAD) at Dean Bailey Productions and will b...