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Longtime Metal Journalist Pays Tribute To Fallen VOIVOD Guitarist
Longtime metal journalist and BLABBERMOUTH.NET contributor Don Kaye has issued the following statement regarding the passing of VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour: "It was almost exactly twenty years ago that I first met the members of VOIVOD, including guitarist Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour. I had bee...August 28, 2005
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Awaken the Guardian (reissue)
While their eternal doppelgangers QUEENSRŸCHE did more to popularize "thinking man's metal", and onetime disciples DREAM THEATER turned prog-metal into a cottage industry, FATES WARNING are no less deserving of their place in progressive metal history. Their 1986 set, "Awaken the Guardian", hit a pi...August 21, 2005
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ABSU: North American Release Date Announced For Two-CD/LP Anthology Of Rarities
The End Records has set an October 11 North American release date for a new double CD/LP anthology from Texan occult metallers ABSU, entitled "Mythological Occult Metal: 1991-2001". The collection of songs, compiled by Equitant and remastered by Proscriptor, will feature tracks recorded by the band...July 29, 2005
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Black Grimoire
Somewhere between nihilistic ambience and crushing brutality, BLOOD RITUAL set up shop in a murky corner of death metal, informed and influenced by early black metal. Sole member Tim Bishop treads the same dark paths of primeval murk as IMMOLATION and INCANTATION, though his music is less technical...July 19, 2005
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Terrorist – Nekronaut Pt. 1
In the incestuous, freewheeling black metal scene, side projects come and go faster than anyone with a life can keep up with them. NATTEFROST is on his second solo album, and this member of CARPATHIAN FOREST spends his time here gleefully taking the piss (at times literally),mocking black metal (th...July 5, 2005
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CRISIS: Tales Of Haunted Clubs And Tornadoes
CRISIS have posted the following message on their official web site: "What an incredible and surreal experience we had last night. "The circumstances surrounding our show and the events that ensued were strange indeed and when going over it we realized that what we had lived had the makings for a re...June 14, 2005
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CERBERUS: New Album Track Listing Revealed
Los Angeles thrashers CERBERUS have announced the track listing for their new album, "The Cage of Existence", due on June 24 via Hell and Death Records. It is as follows: 01. Fractured Extraction 02. From Within 03. Hostility 04. The Cage of Existence 05. Brutal Remains 06. The Path... 07. The Gates...June 7, 2005
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ABSU To Release Two-CD/LP Anthology Of Rarities
Osmose Productions has announced the release of ABSU's "Mythological Occult Metal: 1991-2001", a double CD and LP anthology, due out in September 2005. The collection of songs, compiled by Equitant and re-mastered by Proscriptor, will feature tracks recorded by the band never featured on any of ABSU...May 26, 2005
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COMBAT RECORDS To Relaunch
KOCH Records has announced the relaunch and resurrection of the classic Combat Records label brand, the birthing place of hard rock and hard core titans like VENOM, EXODUS, MEGADETH, POSSESSED, C.O.C., NUCLEAR ASSAULT, DEATH, DARK ANGEL and many more. The new venture will focus on developing new ban...May 13, 2005
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LEON HENDRIX Says He Is Channeling His Dead Brother's Spirit Into Lyrics And Guitar Solos
Corey Kilgannon of The New York Times has issued the following report: Jimi Hendrix's younger brother, Leon Hendrix, says he took up the guitar several years ago after a purple flame shot out of the sky and possessed him in bed, revealing a vision of his brother floating above him. "I could see ...April 22, 2005
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BATHORY Tribute Album: Final Track Listing Revealed
Germany's Black Goat Productions have finalized the track listing for the upcoming BATHORY tribute album, "A Tribute from the Hordes to Bathory", tentatively due in June. "A Tribute from the Hordes to Bathory" will feature 25 tracks and 24 bands from 12 countries. The cover will be designed by Itali...April 19, 2005
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Tyranny of Souls
There's a silent majority of us out here in IRON MAIDEN fandom. Sure, we're happy when Steve Harris warms up a plate of reheated past glories, hires a community college dropout to whip up some artwork (that "Dance of Death" cover… sheesh!) and graces us with another increasingly clunky, bloodless, s...April 14, 2005
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'Extreme Metal II' Guide To Thrash/Black/Death Metal Due In April
A new book, "Extreme Metal II", is due for global publication in April 2005 by Omnibus Press. The author is Joel McIver, whose best-selling 2004 opus, "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica", was the first book to express in depth the disappointment that thousands of metal fans feel about the b...February 15, 2005
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Angel Of Retribution
One of the most eagerly awaited (and pre-ordained) reunions in metal history has finally taken place, and the recorded results are here at last. The first JUDAS PRIEST album in nearly 15 years to feature original vocalist Rob Halford, "Angel of Retribution" may not be the masterpiece some were expec...February 13, 2005
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OVERKILL: Early Albums To Be Reissued On One CD
Megaforce Records will re-release OVERKILL's two classic early albums, "Fuck You and Then Some" and "Feel the Fire", on one CD February 22, 2005. These albums not only showcase the early years of the band, but also represent some of the finest early thrash metal. New York thrash quartet OVERKILL for...February 9, 2005
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