"Bondage Goat Zombie", the new video from Austrian extreme metallers BELPHEGOR, can be viewed below. The clip was shot with acclaimed Austrian director Florian Werner. Commented BELPHEGOR's Helmuth: "The video to 'Bondage Goat Zombie' delivers a four-minute sound wall of total destruction and melodic riff explosions. The title track hymn relates to the BELPHEGOR trademark ...
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Legendary doomers CANDLEMASS have issued a statement regarding the recent reports in the Swedish media that the group's guitarist, Mats "Mappe" Bjrkman, has been sentenced to two years in prison for grand theft. The musician was convicted of stealing CDs worth approximately $490,000 from the distribution warehouse of Entertainment Network Scandinavia AB, where ...
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Austrian extreme metallers BELPHEGOR recently shot a video for the title track of their forthcoming album, "Bondage Goat Zombie", with acclaimed Austrian director Florian Werner. Check out photos from the video shoot at this location. A video trailer for the upcoming clip can be viewed below. The song "Bondage Goat Zombie" is available ...
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Austrian extreme metallers BELPHEGOR recently shot a video for the title track of their forthcoming album, "Bondage Goat Zombie", with acclaimed Austrian director Florian Werner. Check out photos from the video shoot at this location. The song "Bondage Goat Zombie" is available for streaming on the BELPHEGOR MySpace page. "Bondage Goat ...
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Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Night Eternal", due in Europe on May 19 and in the U.S. on June 10 via SPV/Steamhammer. The follow-up to 2006's "Memorial" was recorded at Antfarm studios in Denmark with producer Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, DARK TRANQUILLITY, HALFORD). There will be, at first, ...
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Dutch death metallers THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE will headline the Battle Against Cancer II benefit concert, set to take place September 20 at De Groene Engel in Oss, Holland. Also scheduled to appear is the Portugese death metal act CIBORIUM. More bands will be announced soon. For more information, visit www.battleagainstcancer.nl.nu. THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE's ...
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Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have issued the following update: "We have spent the last week finalizing the new songs and laying down drum tracks for a pre-production demo of what will become our fourth album, 'Destroying the Sacred'. Over the next few weeks we will be recording guitar and bass tracks for the ...
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Long-running extreme metallers ANGELCORPSE will team up with ARKHON INFAUSTUS and REVENGE for a European tour in April/May. The following dates have been announced: April 24 - Arnhem, Nehterlands - Willemeen April 25 - Torhout, Belgium - Club de B April 26 - London, UK -Elektrowerkz April 27 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - Baroeg April 28 ...
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Mainman Gorgoth of the Swedish black metal band VANMAKT has issued the following update: "Well, as you might now, we have been rehearsing new songs for a forthcoming album as well as letting our new guitarist find his place in the VANMAKT camp. We are really looking forward to record a new album since we ...
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Austrian extreme metallers BELPHEGOR have issued the following update: "BELPHEGOR just finished another part of the infamous 'Pestapokalypse VI' world tour, which was the third USA promotion trip for 'Pestapokalypse VI' album. "BELPHEGOR would like to thank all die-hard metal demons for showing up to the events, the great response and sharing a great time ...
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Texas black metal trio AVERSE SEFIRA has announced two additional dates following the conclusion of the Lucifer Over America Tour: March 22 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with WATAIN at the Dawn of Destruction Festival held at the MacEwan Hall Ballroom; and a headlining engagement on April 12 in Juarez, Mexico, at the New Rainbow Bar. ...
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Dutch metallers MOTHER OF SIN, featuring Eduard Hovinga (ex-ELEGY) on vocals/guitar, have been confirmed for the Dokk'em open-air festival, set to take place August 9, 2008 in Raard (near Leeuwarden), Netherlands. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANGER AS ART (USA) AWAKE (UK) BLAZE BAYLEY (UK) DIAMOND HEAD (UK) DYLATH-LEEN (FR) HEIDEVOLK (HOL) ...
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Helmuth and Serpenth of Austrian extreme metallers BELPHEGOR will be the featured guests on Indie 103.1 FM's specialty metal program "Chaos with Full Metal Jackie" this Sunday (February 24) at 10:00 p.m. PST (1:00 a.m. EST Monday morning). In addition to taking part in an interview, they will premier new music from the upcoming BELPHEGOR ...
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Dutch death metallers THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE have been confirmed for the Dokk'em open-air festival, set to take place August 9, 2008 in Raard (near Leeuwarden), Netherlands. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLAZE BAYLEY (UK) DIAMOND HEAD (UK) TANKARD (D) TRAIL OF TEARS (NO) VENGEANCE (NL) ANGER AS ART (USA) HEIDEVOLK (NL) VORTEX ...
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Long-running Colorado metal band SATAN'S HOST, whose classic 1986 debut, "Metal from Hell", featured lead vocals by JAG PANZER's Harry Conklin, will release its new CD, "Great American Scapegoat 666", on February 12 via Moribund Records. The CD was recorded late last year at Flatline Audio studios and features the following track listing: 01. Invocation...666 ...
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Greek extreme metallers ROTTING CHRIST will embark on a South American tour in May/June. The dates are as follows (venue details to be announced): May 29 - Conception, Chile May 30 - Santiago, Chile May 31 - Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun. 01 - Asuncion, Paraguay Jun. 03 - Lima, Peru Jun. 04 - Bogota, Columbia ...
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Metal Command recently conducted an interview with CRIMSON GLORY bassist Jeff Lords. An excerpt from the chat follows: Metal Command: Can you give us an update on CRIMSON GLORY? What's the latest news for the band? Do you have songs for a new album as it's rumoured? Jeff Lords: "We are on hiatus ...
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Long-running extreme metallers ANGELCORPSE will team up with ARKHON INFAUSTUS and REVENGE for a European tour in April/May. So far the following dates have been confirmed: Apr. 24 - Arnhem, NL - Willemeen Apr. 25 - Gent, B - Frontline Apr. 26 - London, UK -Elektrowerkz Apr. 27 - Rotterdam, NL - Baroeg Apr. 28 ...
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Legendary death metal titans IMMOLATION kick off a massive a month-long North American tour dubbed the "Lucifer Over America Tour" on February 4 alongside ROTTING CHRIST, BELPHEGOR and AVERSE SEFIRA. The group's new video for the track "World Agony" (view clip below) is set to make its MTV2 debut on "Headbanger's Ball" this Saturday, January ...
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Dutch thrashers IZEGRIM have inked a deal with Rusty Cage Records. The group's new album, "Tribute to Totalitarianism", will be released as a digipack on February 29. According to the label, fans should expect "an IZEGRIM-style thrash/death metal hybrid with quite a few stoner influences and faint Gothenburg-style melody, accompanied with some ferocious polemics that ...
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Vasilis Mazaris and Elena Mihailidou of Metalzone.gr recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Magus Wampyr Daoloth of the Greek black metal pioneers NECROMANTIA. Magus talks about the band's latest album, "The Sound of Lucifer Blasting Heaven", his musical/lyrical influences, and how difficult it's been to embody his vision in music that is played ...
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Austrian extreme metallers BELPHEGOR recently entered Andy Classen's Stage One Studios in Kassel, Germany to begin recording their new album, "Bondage Goat Zombie", for an April 11, 2008 European release via Nuclear Blast Records (April 15 in North America). The follow-up to 2006's "Pestapokalypse VI" was recorded in three separate sessions lasting through the middle ...
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Metalzone.gr's Vasilis Mazaris and Elena Mihailidou recently conducted an interview with mainman Sakis Tolis of the Greek extreme metallers ROTTING CHRIST. Sakis talks about the group's upcoming DVD (which was shot in December 2007), the group's touring plans and the band's aspirations for the future and his view on the scene today. Sakis ...
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Sam Korvus, creator and frontman of UK black metal band KORVUS, has made a guest appearance on "Opaque Liquid Soul", the debut track from EVERLASTING DESCENT. Formed in 2006, EVERLASTING DESCENT is the side project of Elle Torry (WORMS OF SABNOCK, THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL) and Sander Wessels (THE WOUNDED). The song "Opaque Liquid Soul" ...
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Swedish black metal band VANMAKT has posted the track "Brethren of Lucifer", taken from the group's recently released three-song promotional CD. Check it out on the VANMAKT MySpace page. The track listing for the promotional CD is as follows: 01. Brethren of Lucifer 02. Gathering Beneath the Moor 03. The Second Key VANMAKT's ...
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So I'm a little late with this one, but I would be remiss if I let an album by one of Seattle's finest go without a review on this site this year. "Merciless Hammer of Lucifer" is the fifth full-length album from DRAWN AND QUARTERED and it is about time you started paying attention to ...
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Night of the Vinyl Dead will reissue SAXON's "Dogs of War" and MERCYFUL FATE's "Into the Unknown" albums on limited-edition vinyl this month. The details are as follows: SAXON - "Dogs of War" (originally released by SPV in 1995) * Limited-edition sandy vinyl plus bonus SAXON stickers set * Hand-numbered 333 copies Side A: 01. ...
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Swedish black metal band VANMAKT has posted a 60-second clip of the track "Brethren of Lucifer", taken from the group's recently released three-song promotional CD. Check it out on the band's MySpace page. The track listing for the promotional CD is as follows: 01. Brethren of Lucifer 02. Gathering Beneath the Moor 03. ...
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Swedish cult metallers NIFELHEIM have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXEL RUDI PELL AXXIS CARCASS CHILDREN OF BODOM ...
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Greek extreme metallers ROTTING CHRIST filmed their December 8, 2007 concert in Athens, Greece for an upcoming DVD. According to Metalzone.gr, the group's setlist was as follows: 01. Intro 02. The Sign Of Prime Creation (Theogonia) 03. Keravnos Kivernitos (Theogonia) 04. Athanatoi Este (Sanctus Diavolos) 05. Enuma Elish (Theogonia) 06. King Of A ...
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