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The Nihilist Demos

If you're any kind of death metal fan, you recognize some of those song titles above as classic ENTOMBED cuts. NIHILIST was the band that spawned not only ENTOMBED, but UNLEASHED (formed by Johnny Hedlund upon NIHILIST's breakup in 1989). In the span of a short two years, before morphing into ENTOMB...

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THE GITS Documentary To Premier At SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Seattle punk-rock band THE GITS, whose lead singer, Mia Zapata, was murdered in 1993, are the subject of a new documentary, "The Gits Movie", which is scheduled to premier on Friday, May 28 at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) at the Egyptian Theater on Capitol Hill. There will be a sec...

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VILE Putting Finishing Touches On New CD

Californian brutal death metallers VILE are putting the finishing touches on their third full-length album, "The New Age of Chaos", tentatively due in September. "We are recording the final two vocal and bass tracks right now," the band write in a statement. "Mixing of the other songs is now in prog...

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CHAOSBREED Pull Out Of GRAVE Tour

Finnish death metallers CHAOSBREED have officially cancelled their participation in the upcoming Finnish tour by Sweden's GRAVE. This latest development comes on the heels of the band's recent announcement that they have parted ways with guitarist Esa Holopainen (AMORPHIS) and vocalist Taneli Jarva...

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MNEMIC Confirmed For Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Festival

Danish modern metallers MNEMIC have been confirmed for the eighth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to be held July 15-17 at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland. The Danes just recently played their first show in Finland at the Finnish Metal Expo and will now return to perform to larger cro...

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SENTENCED: Video Interview With VILLE LAIHIALA Posted Online

France's VS-Webzine.com has uploaded a video interview with SENTENCED frontman Ville Laihiala. In the interview, Ville discusses each SENTENCED CD and talks in greater length about the group's upcoming album, "The Funeral Album". Download the interview at this location. According to a posting on SEN...

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The Funeral Album

Well, the poor bastards finally went and did it. No veiled threats and no pathetic cries for attention, just a recognition that SENTENCED had run its musical course. I'll miss those wonderfully morbid lyrics and the chilly, hook-laden hard rock and metal of the Finnish suicide kings. As much as "The...

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ANGEL BLAKE: Former THE CROWN Guitarist Signs New Deal With METAL BLADE

ANGEL BLAKE, the new Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN guitarist Marko Tervonen and TRANSPORT LEAGUE frontman Tony Jelencovich, have inked a deal with Metal Blade Records. Regarding his decision to form ANGEL BLAKE, Tervonen said, "When THE CROWN split up, I took a heavy trip into soulsearch l...

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SENTENCED: 'Ever-Frost' Single Due Next Week

According to a posting on SENTENCED's official web site, the group's new single, "Ever-Frost", will be released in Finland on April 27. In addition to the "single edit" version of the title cut, the CD will include the song "Despair-Ridden Hearts". The single will be released in Finland only, but fa...

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SENTENCED: New Song Available For Download

A brand-new SENTENCED track, entitled "May Today Become the Day", has been made available for download at this location. "May Today Become the Day" comes off the Finnish metallers final album, "The Funeral Album", due on May 31 via Century Media Records (one day earlier internationally). The follow-...

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CHAOSBREED To Play Upcoming Shows With 'Original' Incarnation

Despite an earlier announcement that CHAOSBREED have officially parted ways with guitarist Esa Holopainen (AMORPHIS) and vocalist Taneli Jarva (ex-SENTENCED, THE BLACK LEAGUE),the Finnish death metal supergroup will try to play their upcoming shows with their original incarnation, according to a po...

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THRESHOLD To Release New Fan Club CD

U.K. progressive metallers THRESHOLD plan to release a new fan club CD in the summer, featuring the band's concert in Switzerland last September. The album is expected to be a double CD featuring the following setlist: 01. Mission Profile 02. Ground Control 03. Freaks 04. Into The Light 05. Echoes O...

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ENTOMBED: Live Video Posted Online

A live video of ENTOMBED performing "Retaliation" and "I For An Eye", recorded in Rochester, New York, has been posted online in the "Video" section of the UMTV.info web site. To access the video file directly, click here (Windows Media). As previously reported, Threeman Recordings has set an April...

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Another Prison Sentence Handed Down In Italian Satanic Heavy Metal Murders

Italy's AKI is reporting that following the conviction earlier this year of the ringleader and a second member of the so-called "Beasts of Satan" heavy metal cult for the gruesome murder of three friends — a teenage couple and the main culprit's own girlfriend — a Milan juveniles court on Monday ...

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DIO, DOMINE And ONKEL TOM Confirmed For Italy's TRADATE IRON FEST

DIO, DOMINE and ONKEL TOM have been confirmed for the Tradate Iron Fest, a five-day event set to take place June 1-5 at Campo Sportivo in Tradate (VA),Italy. The billing for the festival is shaping up as follows: Wednesday, June 1: MERQURY BAND (QUEEN tribute) EUROSMITH (AEROSMITH tribute) Thursday...