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The Hand Of Violence

Extreme metal is a lot like sports, in many ways: the endless contests to decide who wields the nastiest riffs, the sickest beatdowns, the fastest blasts or the most absurdly guttural or otherwise otherworldly vocals. Not that most credible acts are purposefully getting involved in a virtuoso pissin...

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Watch KROKUS Perform At Switzerland's ROCK THE RING Festival

Fan-filmed video footage of KROKUS's June 21 performance at the Rock The Ring festival in Hinwil, Switzerland can be seen below. As previously reported, KROKUS will extend its last-ever tour to include dates in USA, Canada and Mexico. Back in September 2018, the Swiss hard rock legends announced tha...

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The Blind Leading The Blind

Formed just over five years ago by a gaggle of Ukrainian underground metal veterans, 1914 immediately sound like a band with a bright future. Heavy music doesn't need to be complicated, and this band are not inclined to stray from the extreme metal basics, but there is something undeniably fresh and...

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KROKUS To Embark On Final North American Tour In 2020

KROKUS will extend its last-ever tour to include dates in USA, Canada and Mexico. Back in September 2018, the Swiss hard rock legends announced that they were going to be embarking on a farewell tour dubbed "Adios Amigos" before calling it a day. At the time, they said their final show would take pl...

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CHRIS REIFERT Says AUTOPSY Will Hit Studio Later This Year

Stephanie Jensen of Infernal TV recently conducted an interview with drummer Chris Reifert of veteran death metallers AUTOPSY. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether AUTOPSY has anything special planned for the 30th anniversary o...

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OCEANHOARSE Releases First Single With New Singer JOONAS KOSONEN

Helsinki-based heavy metal quartet OCEANHOARSE has issued a new single called "Death Row Center". The song marks the band's first release with singer Joonas Kosonen, who joined OCEANHOARSE last year. Guitarist Ben Varon (ex-AMORAL) states: "When Joonas joined the band in October, we started to work...

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Posthumous Humiliation

Death metal album covers have long been impressive works of art in their own right. The quality of the music that lies within, however, doesn't typically reach the high-water marks of the teasing visual aesthetic. Philadelphia's PISSGRAVE has a reputation for the overwhelming gruesomeness of its alb...

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AVANTASIA's TOBIAS SAMMET: 'Once You're Successful, People Want You To Repeat Your Formula'

The "Everblack" podcast recently conducted an interview with AVANTASIA mastermind Tobias Sammet about the band's forthcoming "Moonglow" studio album. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether he ever sets a limit in terms of how man...

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Ex-JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist K.K. DOWNING Doesn't Regret Anything He Has Said About His Former Bandmates

Steve Goldby of Metal Talk recently conducted an interview with former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing. You can now watch the chat in four parts below. Asked if he thinks some publications have used things he has said in some of his recent interviews to make "overly sensationalist headlines," K....

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KROKUS To Embark On 'Farewell' Tour: 'We Will Keep Our Word And Pull The Plug At The End Of 2019'

KROKUS will embark on a "farewell" tour next year. The Swiss hard rock veterans announced their plan to pull the plug on their four-decade-plus career in a Facebook post, writing: "KROKUS shows have always been special and should stay that way. That's why we decided to stop when it's still really go...

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Queen of Time

Similar to Norway's ENSLAVED, Finnish metal legend AMORPHIS has ridden a long, sometimes strange journey on its search for progression from the ashes of its charred death metal foundations. AMORPHIS has been so daring it's come close to becoming more prog than death metal (delving in pure rock on 20...

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PHILIP ANSELMO On Solo Career: 'It's Me Flexing The Freedom Of Being A Free Agent And Being Able To Play Any Kind Of Music I Want'

Colombia's El Santuario Del Rock recently conducted an interview with former PANTERA and current DOWN/SUPERJOINT frontman Philip Anselmo about his solo band, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the wr...

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DIMMU BORGIR Frontman On Eight-Year Gap Between Albums: 'We Were Feeling That We Were Losing A Little Bit Of Our Identity'

Vocalist Shagrath of Norwegian black metallers DIMMU BORGIR recently spoke to Lords Of Metal about the eight-year gap between the release of the band's last studio album, "Abrahadabra", and the arrival of the follow-up effort, "Eonian". He said: "[It's] strange to have been away for quite some time;...

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LIGHT THIS CITY Releases 'A Grotesque Reflection' Single From 'Terminal Bloom' Album

Reactivated Bay Area melodic death metal outfit LIGHT THIS CITY has unleashed the first single from its fifth LP, and first in a decade, "Terminal Bloom". As the album nears release through Creator-Destructor Records in May, "A Grotesque Reflection" has been made available alongside preorders for th...

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ERIC CUTLER Doesn't Think AUTOPSY Has Evolved: 'We're The Same Scumbags We Have Always Been'

"Metal Magdalene With Jet" show on Metal Messiah Radio recently conducted an interview with guitarist Eric Cutler of veteran death metallers AUTOPSY. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how he got to know AUTOPSY drummer Chris Reifert...