Just in case you missed the whiff of stale beer in denim and heard the sound of creaking leathers, the Heavy Artillery label is reminding you with all the subtlety of a boot to a poseur's face that thrash is back. Rising up from the American underground (particularly in the Latino community, for some reason), ...
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GOATWHORE has been added to the remaining Sounds of the Underground 2007 tour dates, including last night's (Friday, August 10) concert at Pop's in Sauget, Illinois and tonight's gig at Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. As a result, the band was forced to cancel its August 10 headlining show at Red 7 in Austin, ...
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EXODUS frontman Rob Dukes has issued the following update: "My dream came true yesterday. I was on a cartoon — myself and all the guys from EXODUS got to be in an episode of [the animated series] 'Metalocalypse', the greatest cartoon of all time. If I died today it would be all good. All the ...
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Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers EXODUS played two brand new songs — "Bedlam 123" and "Funeral Hymn" — during their appearance last night (Wednesday, August 8) at the Showcase Theater in Corona, California. Watch video footage of both tracks below. EXODUS has completed work on its new album, tentatively due before the end of ...
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Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers EXODUS will embark on a North American headlining tour in January/February. Support on the trek will come from GOATWHORE, ARSIS and WARBRINGER. Confirmed dates are as follows: Jan. 20 - Bakersfield, CA @ Studio 99 ** Jan. 21 - West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues Jan. 22 - ...
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In an era when vintage metal t-shirts are en vogue and bands worshiping at the altar of every crossover band that released a demo or EP in the '80s are crawling out of the woodwork, Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER are cauterizing the competition with a sound that recalls all the classics without being derivative. Never ...
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Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers EXODUS will embark on a U.S. tour in January/February. Support on the trek will come from GOATWHORE, ARSIS, and WARBRINGER. So far the following dates have been leaked: Jan. 22 - San Diego, CA @ house of blues Feb. 04 - New York, NY @ B.B. King Blues Club ...
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EXODUS, HELSTAR and VICIOUS RUMORS are among the confirmed bands for the Burning Star Metal Fest 2007, set to take place August 4-5 at The Jumping Turtle in San Marcos, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday, August 4 (show starts at 2:00 p.m.) EXODUS HELSTAR PATHS OF POSSESSION DARK FAITH MUDFACE ...
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Inspired by the legendary 1980s compilation series which showcased some of the era's heaviest hitters such as METALLICA, VENOM, SLAYER, CELTIC FROST, POSSESSED etc., "Speed Kills… Again" stands as a tribute to the past as well as a testament to the return of true heavy metal and thrash that is currently exploding worldwide. According to ...
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Inspired by the legendary 1980s compilation series which showcased some of the era's heaviest hitters such as METALLICA, VENOM, SLAYER, CELTIC FROST, POSSESSED etc., "Speed Kills… Again" stands as a tribute to the past as well as a testament to the return of true heavy metal and thrash that is currently exploding worldwide. According to ...
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Underground metal champions HIRAX have been added to the following dates on the DESTRUCTION/SADUS North American tour: Jan. 21 - Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxy Theater Jan. 23 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's Jan. 24 - San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle Feb. 13 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit Feb. 14 - ...
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A new HIRAX track, entitlted "Lucifer's Inferno", is available for download at this location. "Lucifer's Inferno" and "City of the Dead" are slated to appear on the compilation "Speed Kills Again", to be released on Heavy Artillery, a subsidiary of Punk Core Records. Three other tracks, "Summon the Death Dealers", "Assassins of War", ...
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HIRAX has returned from the Mexican leg of their 2006 tour. The band played to their rabid metal fans across the border on October 28 at Cocktail Bar Live in Leon, Mexico and October 29 at Circo Volador in Mexico City. "The show in Leon gathered a lot of die hard metal brothers and sisters," ...
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Thrash metal icons HIRAX will enter the studio in October to record the first new material since 2004's "The New Age of Terror". The band is scheduled to begin recording four new tracks on October 13 at Shiva Industries Studio in Santa Ana, California. John Haddad will produce the tracks "Lucifer's Inferno" and "City of ...
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