The new project featuring SEPULTURA founding members Max (guitar, vocals) and Igor Cavalera (drums) alongside vocalist Joe Duplantier (bass) of the French progressive death metallers GOJIRA and SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo has launched its official MySpace page. Tentatively dubbed INFLIKTED (a name which may or may not stick due to countless bands that ...
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German melodic metal masters JADED HEART are putting finishing touches to their brand new studio opus, entitled "Sinister Mind". The band welcomes on board for the first official recording session the new guitar player Peter Ostros. He contributed to the songwriting of the new record and brought a lot of fresh new ideas on the ...
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Metal Hammer writer Jerry Ewing spoke to SOULFLY/ex-SEPULTURA Max Cavalera about his new collaboration with his brother Igor (ex-SEPULTURA). Metal Hammer: Who made the first moves to get in touch between you and Igor? Max: "Igor made the contact. I was touring Europe doing a lot of festivals and I got a phone ...
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LAMB OF GOD's Mark Morton, SHADOWS FALL's Brian Fair, TWELVE TRIBES' Adam Jackson, ANTHRAX's Scott Ian and ex-MEGADETH bassist Dave Ellefson are among the guests that are set to appear on Brooklyn rapper NECRO's upcoming album "Death Rap", due on September 11. Necro's story begins much like your typical hip-hop story. Raised in the Glenwood ...
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Guitarist/vocalist Joe Duplantier of the French progressive death metallers GOJIRA will play bass on the debut CD from the new project featuring SEPULTURA founding members Max and Igor Cavalera. Recordings for the album began this past weekend in Los Angeles with producers Dirty Icon (Logan Mader [ex-MACHINE HEAD, SOULFLY] and Lucas Banker). A late 2007 ...
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The reunited original lineup of the California hardcore band STRIFE will perform at the Roxy in Hollywood this Saturday, July 14. Also scheduled to appear are HOTWIRE and EYEAGAINST. The afterparty will take place at On The Rox and will feature a DJ set by MIXHELL — the DJ/hip hop/electro project featuring former SEPULTURA drummer ...
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At last weekend's (July 6-7) Magic Circle Festival in Bad Arolsen, Germany, bassist Joey DeMaio of MANOWAR — who organized the event — reportedly announced that the festival will be held annually from now on. On the first day of next year's gathering, MANOWAR will sign as much stuff as they can and will give ...
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Guitarist/vocalist Joe Duplantier of the French progressive death metallers GOJIRA will play bass on the debut CD from the new project featuring SEPULTURA founding members Max and Igor Cavalera. Recordings for the album began this past weekend in Los Angeles with producers Dirty Icon (Logan Mader [ex-MACHINE HEAD, SOULFLY] and Lucas Banker). A late 2007 ...
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SOULFLY's official web site, Soulfly Web, has been updated with a new question-and-answer session with the group's leader, Max Cavalera. It follows here in its entirety: Soulfly Web: Can you tell us what what you're going to be up to this month? Max: Yeah, man, this week is actually really exciting. The date ...
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IF MIDNIGHT COMES, the new band featuring guitarist Mike Casavant (BURN IN SILENCE), bassist Max Lavelle (BURN IN SILENCE) and drummer Justin Wilson (REVEILLE), is seeking a "dynamic singer, someone in the vein of Lajon Witherspoon (SEVENDUST) and Corey Taylor (STONE SOUR)." An instrumental track, "This Ever Laughter", is available for streaming on the group's ...
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SOULFLY drummer Joe Nunez has sent along this update from Chicago, where he is working, playing, resting, and preparing for the band's next album: "This summer I've been working construction and rehearsing with my side project SLAMPEDE. Our new singer/guitar player, Kevin Kowalski, is the latest addition to our band and we've been shredding ever ...
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KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono has issued the following update: "Yesterday [Monday, July 2] I met up with J-F [Dagenais; guitar] at his new big house — he just bought a new house next to Steph [Stéphane Barbe; bass] and Max [Duhamel; drums] and it's real nice — and he is building his studio downstairs where ...
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Former SEPULTURA drummer Igor "Iggor" Cavalera makes an appearance on the new album and in the new video from the São Paulo, Brazil-based hardcore band QUESTIONS. QUESTIONS recently released its second CD on Liberation Records, entitled "Fight for What You Believe". Cavalera can be heard in the track "Conscience", for which the band recently shot ...
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Howard Jones (KILLSWITCH ENGAGE), Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, SEPULTURA), and HR and Darryl Jenifer (BAD BRAINS) are among the guest musicians who appear on the new album from Brooklyn's own ILL BILL. Due on September 11 via Uncle Howie Records/Perfect Game Recording Co., "The Hour of Reprisal" features cover art by Larry Carroll, the man behind ...
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According to Brazil's Bizz magazine, the as-yet-unnamed new project featuring SEPULTURA founding members and brothers Max and Igor Cavalera will enter a Los Angeles studio in July to begin recording its debut album for a late 2007/early 2008 release via Roadrunner Records. Although it has not yet been confirmed, it is rumored that ...
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After recently coming off the Face of Aggression tour with SKINLAB, ANKLA and PAIN PRINCIPLE, San Francisco Bay Area metal band HOSTILITY has parted ways with drummer Andrew Holzbaur due to "musical differences." Comments the group: "We've been the same lineup since we were 14 years old, [but] unfortunately we just could not move forward ...
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Fifteen of rock's hottest bands have contributed cover versions of classic songs for the second instalment of Kerrang! magazine's free "High Voltage" CDs (free with this week's Kerrang! magazine). Below, all of the bands who contributed to this project talk about what tracks they chose to cover and why. LOSTPROPHETS – "Davidian" (MACHINE HEAD) Ian ...
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Michael Fischer of KNAC.COM recently conducted an interview with famed British recording engineer/producer Max Norman (OZZY OSBOURNE, Y&T, LOUDNESS, MEGADETH, MALICE, LYNCH MOB, FATES WARNING, SAVATAGE, GRIM REAPER). An excerpt from the chat follows: KNAC.COM: How did you hook up with Y&T? Norman: I quite like doing that record "Black Tiger". That was ...
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HEARSE is the Swedish "death 'n' roll" band featuring former ARCH ENEMY singer Johan Liiva and ex-FURBOWL drummer Max Thornell, will release its fourth album, "In These Veins", in North America on September 18, 2007 via Candlelight Records. The follow-up to 2005's "The Last Ordeal", "In These Veins" was recorded and mixed by Dan Swanö ...
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MIXHELL — the DJ/hip hop/electro project featuring former SEPULTURA drummer Igor "Iggor" Cavalera and his wife Laima Leyton — is featured in a new Brazilian commercial for Nokia in which five DJs come together to perform live using only mobile phones. Watch the three-minute commercial at YouTube. Igor Cavalera left SEPULTURA in June ...
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SOULFLY's official web site, Soulfly Web, has been updated with a new question-and-answer session with the group's leader, Max Cavalera. It follows here in its entirety: Soulfly Web: First of all, we probably should discuss "Inflikted" [the new SOULFLY demo track which was recently released in very raw form] because that is what ...
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Brooklyn, New York metal/hip-hop "death rapper" NECRO shot a video this past week for the song "The Pre-fix for Death" with acclaimed director David Brodsky (GWAR, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, THE RED CHORD) of MyGoodEye. In between his recent appearance at the Download festival in the U.K. and his upcoming U.S. run on the entire Sounds ...
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SEPULTURA founding members and brothers Max and Igor Cavalera have confirmed that they are collaborating on new music for the first time in more than 10 years. According to reports, the material will be released as a completely new project, separate from Max's work in SOULFLY. Jose Mangin of Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack just ...
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British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH have issued the following update: "Just a quick note as we busy ourselves preparing for our show at the Download festival this coming Sunday to tell you that we will be heading down to South America in October as the final part of the 'Smear Campaign' world tour draws to ...
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SOULFLY's web site has been updated with the following message: "Last month Max [Cavalera] gave us the permission to release one of his newest songs, the 'Inflikted' four-track demo, for the world to hear in its unfinished form, many months before it has even had the chance to be properly recorded for an album. Max ...
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Woodstock, NY-based band THREE (3) will release its new album "The End Is Begun" in Europe on July 23 via Metal Blade Records (July 20 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy). The CD was mixed by Toby Wright, who has previously worked with ALICE IN CHAINS, METALLICA, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY and FEAR FACTORY, among many ...
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German heavy metal band MAD MAX will make its first-ever appearance in Greece at the Deutsche Assault Festival, set to take place November 24 at AN Club in Athens. Also scheduled to appear are PARADOX, ZED YAGO and WIZARD. Several Greek acts will also be added to the event. Tickets are 25 euros. ...
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The next Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp (RRFC) will take place in New York City between August 30 and September 3 and will feature Paul Stanley (KISS), Ted Nugent, Bruce Kulick (KISS), Scott Ian (ANTHRAX), Kip Winger (WINGER), Alan White (YES) and Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE), among others. Camp Highlights: * Write and record your ...
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German guitarist AXEL RUDI PELL's performance at this year's Rock Hard Festival, which is scheduled to take place May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, will be filmed for an upcoming DVD, tentatively due in early 2008. AXEL RUDI PELL recently entered the studio to record a "covers" album, entitled "Diamonds Unlocked". He previously stated about the ...
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German/British melodic hard rock band PINK CREAM 69 has scheduled the following tour dates: Jul. 19 - Saarbrücken, GER - Garage Jul. 20 - Karlsruhe, GER - Das Fest Jul. 21 - Aalen, GER - Greuthalle (Angeldays Festival) Jul. 27 - Seebronn, GER - Rock of Ages Festival With FREEDOM CALL and MAD MAX: Oct. ...
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