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THE CLAY PEOPLE: 'Supersonic Overdrive' Video Posted Online

Albany, NY's THE CLAY PEOPLE has posted its video for the new song "Supersonic Overdrive" at YouTube. The track is the first single off the group's new album, "Waking the Dead", due on May 22 via Overit Records. The band spent about a year and a half recording and re-recording and mixing the ...

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MEGADETH Mainman: 'I've Never Told Any Of Our Fans How To Vote, I Just Say Do Vote'

Caustic Truth's Morley Seaver recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A few excerpts follow: On having political lyrics: "Well, MEGADETH has had political records forever. All you need to do is look at the titles: 'Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?!', 'The System Has Failed...

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What We See When We Shut Our Eyes

In a review of WITH PASSION's debut album, "In the Midst of Bloodied Soil", I noted that it seemed the band's technical death/metalcore style lacked some direction, although impressive from the aspect of musicianship. Though in no way a bad album, a slight lack of songwriting focus and seeming confu...

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Threads of Life

Will there be a metal release under more of a critical microscope this year than the new SHADOWS FALL? The band is, tangentially at least, tied to a metalcore scene that's seen as glutted and past its expiration date. And they're making their major-label debut after slogging it out for years at the...

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DISFEAR To Enter Studio In August

DISFEAR, the Swedish "crust rock" outfit featuring former AT THE GATES/THE CROWN vocalist Tomas Lindberg and ex-ENTOMBED guitarist Ulf "Uffe" Cederlund, will enter the studio this summer to record the follow-up to 2003's "Misanthropic Generation". This as-yet-untitled full-length effort will be reco...

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TRENT REZNOR Says Drugs Kept NINE INCH NAILS Down

Launch Radio Networks reports: NINE INCH NAILS leader Trent Reznor told Gigwise.com last week that using drugs had impaired his ability to write music, which is one of the reasons there were gaps of five or six years between some of the band's previous records. Reznor explained, "I had made writing...

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Original SHOK PARIS Drummer Passes Away

Original SHOK PARIS drummer Bill Sabo (photo) suffered heart failure and passed away on March 16. Sabo was 46 years old and is survived by wife Erica (39) and sons Drew (19) and Cameron (7). A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 31 at United Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (4200 Pearl...

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The Novella Reservoir

Doom metal purists, never friends to this powerful U.S. band anyway, will be especially incensed upon the release of "The Novella Reservoir". On this, their sixth album, NOVEMBERS DOOM evolves further away from the tenets of the genre that birthed them, and embraces more fully their own unique and c...

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SCARS OF TOMORROW Calls It Quits

Orange County, California-based metalcore act SCARS OF TOMORROW has announced plans to split up following its upcoming West Coast tour, which will culminate in a May 5 appearance at the Showcase Theatre in Corona, California. "We believe though the time of SCARS OF TOMORROW is finished and are going...

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GUNS N' ROSES Crew Responds To DIE MANNEQUIN Singer

A recent interview with the lead vocalist of the Canadian indie band DIE MANNEQUIN has managed to rub several members of the GUNS N' ROSES touring staff the wrong way. DIE MANNEQUIN opened a few shows during the 2006 GN'R North American tour, and in a recent interview with Chart magazine, the singer...

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THE CLAY PEOPLE: New Album Track Listing, Release Date Announced

Albany, NY's THE CLAY PEOPLE has spent about a year and a half recording and re-recording and mixing its new album, "Waking the Dead", with producer Neil Kernon (QUEENSRŸCHE, CANNIBAL CORPSE, DECIDE). Due May 22 via Overit Records, the CD marks the band's first full-length release since 1998 and its...

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MEGADETH's New Version Of 'A Tout Le Monde' To Feature LACUNA COIL's SCABBIA

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has revealed that the first single off the group's upcoming "United Abominations" album will be a re-recorded version of the band's "Youthanasia" classic "A Tout Le Monde". The 2007 version is a duet with LACUNA COIL's Cristina Scabbia and is said to be more uptempo th...

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SHADOWS FALL Frontman: 'We Just Wanted To Write A Full-On Metal Record'

"We just wanted to write a full-on metal record," says Brian Fair, lead singer of SHADOWS FALL. "We were like, 'I don't care what's going on, nowadays — let's write some fucking metal!' I mean, that's always been our attitude, but this time we went even further into our rock and thrash roots." "Thre...

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SHADOWS FALL: New Single Available For Streaming

SHADOWS FALL's new single, "Redemption", is available for streaming at www.threadsoflife2007.com (free e-mail sign-up required). The cover artwork for the single has been posted online at The Syndicate. The song is available for purchase at iTunes, beginning today (Tuesday, February 20). Later this...

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Mechanics of Dysfunction

In 2005, a little known Canadian death metal band called BENEATH THE MASSACRE surfaced with a short EP on Galy Records called "Evidence of Inequity". The quick-hitter left more than its fair share of scars and a rather bloody wake, resulting in more than a few critics dubbing them a band to watch. P...