Quality fan-filmed video footage of WATAIN's December 13 performance at the Eindhoven Metal Meeting at Effenaar in Eindhoven, The Netherlands can be seen below. WATAIN's fifth full-length, "The Wild Hunt", which sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD was released on August 19 in Europe and ...
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Australia's The Rock Pit recently conducted an interview with bassist Rex Brown (KILL DEVIL HILL, PANTERA, DOWN). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Rock Pit: Was there much that you did differently this time around compared to the first [KILL DEVIL HILL] album in the writing and recording process? ...
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Quality fan-filmed video footage of Swedish black metallers WATAIN performing the song "The Wild Hunt" on December 5 at the Club Academy in Manchester, England can be seen below. WATAIN's fifth full-length, "The Wild Hunt", which sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD was released on ...
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Quickly turning into ol' reliables of the neo-thrash circuit, SKELETONWITCH make next to no modifications to their turbulent speed routine for their fifth album, "Serpents Unleashed". If you've heard their 2007 breakout "Beyond the Permafrost" or their previous recording, "Forever Abomination", then you'll find little, if any, surprises to "Serpents Unleashed". Consider this one more ...
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Scandinavian black metal horde CURSED 13 has some unfinished business. They could still use plenty of tightening up, but at least there's a dedication to chaos that prevails throughout their sinister album "Triumf" which will appeal to their longtime fans who have been waiting for a proper full-length to emerge. "Triumf" covers a hefty period ...
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"Outlaw", the new video from Swedish black metallers WATAIN, can be seen below. The clip was produced by WATAIN and Johan Bååth, who previously helmed the band's "Opus Diaboli" DVD in 2012. Comments WATAIN: "The 'Outlaw' video is a knife stab in the face of today's clean and witty metal scene and yet another step ...
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Delaware/New Jersey sextet I AM HERESY has inked a worldwide deal with Century Media Records. The band will release its second full-length album, "Thy Will", on March 4, 2014 (one day earlier internationally). The CD was engineered and produced by John Ferrara at Portrait Studios, who also helmed I AM HERESY's "O Day Star, Son ...
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A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered on the November 18 edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter and will be released digitally on December 10. The bandmembers, who only released their latest album, "Temper Temper", in March of this year, recorded ...
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Following the recent proclamation that defunct metalcore pioneers BLOODLET will make a special one-time appearance — reuniting for the A389 X Bash in January — the label also confirmed two special pending releases from the band in 2014. First up, A389 will release an unreleased BLOODLET demo, recorded in 1994. The track, called "Embrace", was ...
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A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered on the November 18 edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter and will be released digitally on December 10. The bandmembers, who only released their latest album, "Temper Temper", in March of this year, recorded ...
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A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered on last night's (Monday, November 18) edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter. A low-quality rip of the track can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck stated ...
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A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" will be premiered on the November 18 edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter. "Words cannot express how excited I am for the world to hear #RaisingHell," says BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck via Twitter. ...
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Thomas Stanley Orwat Jr. of RockMusicStar recently conducted an interview with Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, SEPULTURA, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. RockMusicStar: You have recently written an autobiography. When will it be released? Max: Yes, it's coming out in February in America. It's called "My Bloody Roots", ...
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Auburn Records, WJCU 88.7 FM and Iron Ingo Stührenberg present the fifth annual Cleveland Metal Holiday Food Drive. The event will feature two benefit concerts for the Cleveland Foodbank, Friends Of The Cleveland Kennel and Lake Humane Society on December 6 and December 7, 2013 at The Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio. The billing is ...
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From the beginning in their late teens, TRIVIUM had a vision of success and few bands in the early 2000's wanted it more than these guys. Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu have proven to be a first-rate tag team of virtuoso guitarists and songwriters since starting their journey in impressive fashion with "Ember to Inferno". ...
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Brazilian publisher Benvirá, a subsidiary of corporate giant Saraiva, will release a biography of SEPULTURA before the end of the year. Written by American author Jason Korolenko ("The Day I Left"), the book documents the band's storied career beginning in the streets of Belo Horizonte and São Paulo in 1984, and culminating on the eve ...
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The Mighty Z of Capital Chaos TV conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Erik Danielsson of Swedish black metallers WATAIN when the band played at the Oakland Metro Opera House in Oakland, California on October 25. You can now watch the chat below. WATAIN's fifth full-length, "The Wild Hunt", sold around 2,700 copies in ...
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Drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE tells Billboard.com in a brand new interview that the band has "already started writing for the next album, which is completely different from [this year's] 'Temper Temper'." "It's definitely more of a step towards our first two records," Thomas says. "We always ...
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Andrew Epstein of AlanCross.ca conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Erik Danielsson of Swedish black metallers WATAIN prior to the band's October 12 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. WATAIN's fifth full-length, "The Wild Hunt", sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of ...
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Bay Area Backstage conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Erik Danielsson of Swedish black metallers WATAIN when the band played at the Oakland Metro Opera House in Oakland, California on October 25. You can now watch the chat below. WATAIN's fifth full-length, "The Wild Hunt", sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first ...
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Hunow TV recently conducted an interview with bassist Jason James and drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. You can now watch the chat below. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE released its fourth album, "Temper Temper", earlier this year but is already laying the groundwork for its next studio effort. Frontman Matt ...
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Los Angeles-based underground metal veterans and DIY enthusiasts MY RUIN — featuring vocalist Tairrie B., her husband and multi-instrumentalist Mick Murphy and bassist Luciano Ferrea — have premiered the music video for the song "Heretic Dreams", taken from the band's latest album, "The Sacred Mood", which is out now and available digitally worldwide via iTunes ...
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Former THE HAUNTED and current AT THE GATES guitarist Anders Björler will release his first solo album, "Antikythera" (formerly "The Antikythera Mechanism"), on November 6 via Razzia Notes, the label headed up by IN FLAMES frontman Anders Fridén. The CD was mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studio in Aarhus, Denmark. The artwork ...
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Currently on the road in North America, vocalist/bassist Erik Danielsson and drummer Hakan Jonsson of Swedish black metallers WATAIN checked in with Grand Rapids, Michigan's WZZM TV13 "Take Five And Company" for an exclusive interview about the trek in support of their fifth full-length, "The Wild Hunt", as well as the emergence of Swedish bands ...
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Acclaimed British metal act SACRED MOTHER TONGUE has announced that its forthcoming co-headline tour with VOODOO SIX will be the last shows it will ever play. Having released its second album, "Out Of The Darkness", to rave reviews earlier this year on both sides of the Atlantic, but been unable to reach the wider audience ...
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Cult Swedish black/death metal act NECROPHOBIC has officially parted ways with vocalist Tobias Sidegård. A Swedish appeals court last month reduced the prison sentence for Sidegård, who was accused of beating his wife multiple times between September 2011 and April 2013. Sidegård was originally sentenced to 18 months in prison for "gross violation of a ...
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Niclas Müller-Hansen of Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with former HANOI ROCKS singer Michael Monroe. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metalshrine: [Your new album] title, "Horns And Halos", makes me think of those old cartoons where the character's got the devil on one shoulder and an angel on ...
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Cult Swedish black/death metal act NECROPHOBIC will release its seventh full-length album, "Womb Of Lilithu", on October 29 (four days earlier in Europe) via Season Of Mist. A digital single featuring the new song "Splendour Nigri Solis", taken from the forthcoming CD, was released exclusively through Spotify on August 19 (September 3 in North America). ...
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Cult Swedish black/death metal act NECROPHOBIC will release its seventh full-length album, "Womb Of Lilithu", on October 29 (four days earlier in Europe) via Season Of Mist. A digital single featuring the new song "Splendour Nigri Solis", taken from the forthcoming CD, was released exclusively through Spotify on August 19 (September 3 in North America). ...
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A Swedish appeals court has reduced the prison sentence for NECROPHOBIC vocalist Tobias Sidegård, who was accused of beating his wife multiple times between September 2011 and April 2013. Sidegård was originally sentenced to 18 months in prison for "gross violation of a woman's integrity," and offense that was first introduced into the Penal Code ...
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