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AVULSED: 'Let Me Taste Your Flesh' Video Available

Spanish extreme metallers AVULSED have uploaded a video for the song "Let Me Taste Your Flesh" at this location. The performance footage was shot at the band's June 2005 show in Paris, France. AVULSED will enter the studio in early February to record a mini-CD, "Reanimations", featuring two brand ne...

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Former OCCULT Frontman Explains Decision To Change Name To LEGION OF THE DAMNED

LEGION OF THE DAMNED frontman Maurice Swinkels has issued a statement explaining or first time the band's decision to change their name from their previous moniker OCCULT. His statement reads as follows: "I started OCCULT in 1990 together with our drummer. We worked hard to get our band to some poin...

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La Muerte

GOREFEST always had a certain charisma. Their musical evolution, while interesting, wasn't any more innovative than the bigger names of the scene, but their riffs were always killer, their tone a perfect mix of Skogsberg sludge and biting clarity. Jan-Chris de Koeijer's vocals were deep and gruff, b...

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FLAMETAL Flamenco/Metal Hybrid Band Featuring WHITESNAKE Bassist To Make Hollywood Debut

Hotly tipped San Francisco-based flamenco/metal hybrid band FLAMETAL will be making their Southern California live debut this Saturday, December 17 at Bar Sinister, 1652 N. Cherokee Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028. For more info call: 323-769-7070. FLAMETAL who combine the flamenco shred of Paco DeLucia w...

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BALLET DEVIARE Featuring Music Of OPETH, MY DYING BRIDE, ARSIS To Debut In January

"Seven", a special Ballet Deviare production set to the music of such artists as OPETH, MY DYING BRIDE, ARISIS (Jim Malone will be playing the 13-minute version of "A Diamond for Disease" live),JaKa featuring ELEKTROKILL, CRAIG ANDERSONIC and MARA'S TORMENT, will be presented on January 6 at 8:00 p...

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IMPALED NAZARENE Finish Recording New Album

Finnish extreme metallers IMPALED NAZARENE have finished recording their ninth studio album, "Pro Patria Finlandia", at Sonic Pump studio with producer Tapio Pennanen and will mix the CD in January. The album will be mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox studios for a tentative March 28, 2006 release...

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Attera Totus Sanctus

Those wondering whether the long awaited full-length, "Attera Totus Sanctus", from Sweden's DARK FUNERAL is a major departure from the mostly one-tempo (fast) albums of the past can stop wondering. In a general sense, this is no major departure, but it is a somewhat more memorable DARK FUNERAL album...

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SINISTER To Enter Studio Next Week

Reunited Dutch death metallers SINISTER will enter Stage One studio in Germany on December 5 to begin recording their new album, "Afterburner", for an early 2006 release through Nuclear Blast Records. The recording sessions are expected to last two weeks. SINISTER's current lineup consists of Aad Kl...

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SIX FEET UNDER Frontman CHRIS BARNES Joins Finland's TORTURE KILLER

Finnish death metallers TORTURE KILLER have announced the addition of SIX FEET UNDER/ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist Chris Barnes to the group's ranks. In a statement posted on their MySpace.com page, the band write, "Well, we never would've expected where we would stand with this band in 2005 when we f...

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ZAO To Record New Album In January

ZAO have written over ten songs and continue to accumulate material for their new full-length album, the follow-up to last year's landmark "The Funeral Of God". The band are demoing material in their hometown of Greensburg, Pennsylvania right now and will enter Chicago's Electrical Audio studio in J...

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Meet Winners Of SLIPKNOT Mask Contest

Georgette Braun of the Rockford Register Star has issued the following report: Benjamin Schuster is known for two things at work: Doing his job as a machinist at Janssen Machining in Loves Park and drawing during down time. Staff at the shop suggested he enter our contest to draw a mask he'd like .....

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Holy Hell

Thanks to labels like SPV and Candlelight, albums like "Holy Hell" that would have once been consigned to import purgatory are seeing the light of day in the USA (albeit months after their release elsewhere). And thank the metal gods for it! Former IMPELLITTERI and AXEL RUDI PELL vocal powerhouse Ro...

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DRAGONLAND: 'Be Ready For Mystery And Revelation Of Cosmic Proportions'

DRAGONLAND guitarist Olof Mörck has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "DRAGONLAND are currently knee-deep in the process of writing our fourth, as-yet-untitled, album, and halfway through completion things are looking marvelous! Inspiration has never come in such an abundance, and you c...

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Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds that Go Undone

England's AKERCOCKE are in a class by themselves, one of those bands that remains rooted in a death metal style without ever being limited by it. Those choosing to walk the path of the band's sinister and overtly Satanic tapestry of extremity were richly rewarded by albums like the brilliant "Choron...

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ROB ZOMBIE: 'Hellbilly Deluxe - Deluxe Edition' Details Revealed

ROB ZOMBIE's 1998 macabre masterpiece "Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales Of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside The Spookshow International" debuted in the Top 5 and was a certified triple platinum smash. A realization of his vision of the darkside — a mix of classic horror films and sleazy pop culture, creativity...