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VENOM Confirmed For Spain's ATARFE VEGA ROCK Festival

British black metal pioneers VENOM have been confirmed for the Atarfe Vega Rock festival, set to take place December 1 at Coliseo Ciudad Atarfe in Atarfe, Granada, Spain. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BELLADONNA EXCITER GRAVE DIGGER KATATONIA LACRIMOSA LIZZY BORDEN MAYHEM MY DYING B...

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'Murder Music': Black Metal Documentary Available For Free Viewing Beginning This Friday

"Murder Music: A History of Black Metal", an in-depth documentary about the history of black metal, the most controversial and misunderstood arm of heavy metal's complex genealogy, will be free to view for the first time since its release on Rockworld.TV from Friday, October 5. "Murder Music: A Hist...

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DEVILDRIVER Frontman Says He Owes VENOM's CRONOS A 'Lashing': 'He's Nothing But An Old Man'

Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara. An excerpt from the chat follows: Metal-Rules.com: DEVILDRIVER was supposed to tour with VENOM last year. How disappointing was that when that got cancelled? Dez: Really bad and really fucking disappointing in the...

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VIOLENT FORCE's 'Malevolent Assault Of Tomorrow' To Be Reissued

Metal Mind Productions will release a remastered edition of VIOLENT FORCE's "Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow" album on October 15 in Europe and November 5 in the U.S. (via MVD). According to a press release, the LP is "a first-class thrash experience, with insanely fast guitars and aggressive, energe...

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PENTACLE Mainman Discusses 'Under The Black Cross' Release On IBEX MOON RECORDS

Wannes Gubbels (vocals/bass) of PENTACLE has released this statement about the band's upcoming release on Ibex Moon Records: "As was the case with its predecessor 'Ancient Death', our new album 'Under the Black Cross' is again a very honest and raw-sounding death metal offering. Don't expect somethi...

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'Heavy Metal Box' Animated Product Shot Available

An animated product shot for the upcoming "Heavy Metal Box" (due on October 2 via Rhino Records) can be viewed below. The four-disc, 70-song set boasts classic tracks from IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, MOTÖRHEAD and SLAYER, among dozens of others. Arranged chronologically from 1968 to 1991, the compila...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: The Making Of DOWN's 'Over The Under' Part III

To chronicle the past five years leading up to the release of DOWN's new album, "III - Over The Under", singer Philip Anselmo (ex-PANTERA) has been issuing periodic installments leading up to the release of the record. This is Philip's personal communication to the band's loyal fan base and gives a...

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Pittsburgh Thrashers MELTDOWN Release Full-Length Debut

Pittsburgh thrashers MELTDOWN have just released their debut album, "Executioner". Starting in mid-2004, MELTDOWN's sturdy foundations were formed by a group of wayward teenagers. A developing aggression for brainwashed peers met by a growing passion for heavy metal brought the band together. The Eu...

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GLOOMY GRIM Signs With ANTICULTURE RECORDS

Anticulture Records has announced the signing of the Finnish black metal project GLOOMY GRIM. According to a press release, "It all began in 1984 as HELLSTORM. Agathon (vocals) got his first influences as a teenager from the bands like VENOM, HELLHAMMER and BATHORY. HELLSTORM ended quite soon, but t...

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SEPULTURA: Video Footage Of ANDREAS KISSER's U.K. Clinic Available

SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser visited the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in Leeds, England last month to host a guitar clinic as part of the Metal Hammer Weekender. Watch video footage of his guitar skills at this location. Kisser stated about the clinic: I didn't have with me all...

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VOIVOD Drummer Hopes To Perform Tribute To PIGGY

Chad Bowar of HeavyMetal.About.com recently conducted an interview with VOIVOD/KOSMOS drummer Michel "Away" Langevin. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: HeavyMetal.About.com: What's the latest with VOIVOD? Have you began putting together an album with the rest of Piggy's songs? Michel "Away"...

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"…life is nasty, brutish, and short", wrote 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his book Leviathan, this abbreviated statement also aptly describing the music of underground legends NUNSLAUGHTER. After about a thousand (well, more like 110) releases of various shapes and sizes since forming in...

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Classic SLAYER Videos Available For Download

MetalKult.com has posted live videos from a 1985 performance by SLAYER. The videos were shot on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York City during the Combat Tour Live, which also included VENOM and EXODUS (the show was recorded/filmed and later released as part of the "Ultimate Revenge" video on th...

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THROWDOWN Frontman Says Being Compared To PANTERA Is 'An Honor And A Privilege'

FMQB recently conducted an interview with THROWDOWN frontman Dave Peters. An excerpt from the chat follows: FMQB: It sounds like you went for a more straight ahead metal sound on this album with less of your usual hard core vibe. Dave Peters: We really didn't go for anything specific. We had a lot ....

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LIZZY BORDEN: 'Appointment With Death' Details Revealed

LIZZY BORDEN was created in 1983 in Hollywood California. Spitting venom, stage blood and dripping grease paint while breathing life into bizarre characters bred precisely for the stage. Theme-oriented creations such as "Love You to Pieces" (1985),"Menace to Society" (1986),"Visual Lies" (1987),"...