Keyboardist Philippe Giordana of the French symphonic metal band FAIRYLAND has issued the following update: "Anthony [Parker; guitar], Vincent [Kreyder; drums], Tom [Cesario; guitar, bass] and Max [Leclercq; vocals] have decided to leave FAIRYLAND and go on with their own project. The reasons for their departure have not been clearly expressed, and the way they ...
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BLACK MARKET HERO, the band featuring members of FLAW and 40 BELOW SUMMER, has posted 10 more recent and previously unreleased tracks along with ringtones on their MySpace page. The full-length tracks have been appropriately titled the "Demo Collection." They are also available through www.isounds.com. BLACK MARKET HERO has been busy writing and ...
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Reunited Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH played their first European show last night (Sunday, July 29) at The Scala in London, England. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. The American Way 02. Administrative Decisions 03. Violent Solutions 04. Love…Hate 05. Ignorance 06. Crimes Against Humanity 07. Who’s to Blame 08. State of Emergency 09. One ...
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SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo has added two more songs from his upcoming solo album "The Ultimate Devotion", which is due on July 31 through Shrapnel Records in the U.S. and Mascot Records throughout Europe. You can hear "The Riddle of Steel" and "Angelina Song" as well as the previously released vocal track "All for Nothing" ...
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Professionally shot photos of SACRED REICH's July 21, 2007 concert at the Venue of Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona have been posted at this location. As previously reported, fan-filmed video footage of SACRED REICH's Scottsdale show has been posted at YouTube. "Ignorance": Video "The American Way": Video The original lineup ...
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SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo has scheduled a record-release party for his new album, "The Ultimate Devotion", on July 31 at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. All MI students are welcome, plus Rizzo's publicist be giving away 75 pairs of free tickets to the public. To win a pair of free tickets, just write to ...
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Reunited Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH have been confirmed for the 11th annual D-Low Memorial concert, set to take place August 31 at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona. The billing for the event is shaping up as follows: SOULFLY SACRED REICH CAR BOMB SIOP HERE LIES TREACHERY TALE OF A MASSACRE The D-Low show is ...
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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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