Polish black metallers HELL-BORN, featuring former members of BEHEMOTH and DAMNATION, have posted the following update at their official web site: "A lot of time passed, we were very busy during these months, so now we have couple of news from HELL-BORN horde… As you already know, or not, in February/March 2005 the band went ...
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CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "One of the major merchandisers in the music industry, one whose work had been recommended to us by other bands and whom we favored up to this point to become an imminent partner to CELTIC FROST, deemed it appropriate to ...
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Veteran British female hard rockers GIRLSCHOOL are the latest confirmed act for next year's installment of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 14-15, 2006 in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: BLITZKRIEG GIRLSCHOOL GOATHORN ICARUS WITCH IVORY TOWER MARTYR METAL INQUISITOR MILES BEYOND OCTOBER 31 ORDER ...
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ANNIHILATOR guitarist Jeff Waters has posted the following statement on the band's web site responding to questions about a possible ANNIHILATOR/JUDAS PRIEST North American tour in support of their upcoming release, "Schizo Deluxe": "I've had quite a few people ask if ANNIHILATOR was supporting the mighty JUDAS PRIEST again on their second leg of the ...
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MINISTRY will be teaming up with REVOLTING COCKS and SPYDER BABY for the MasterBaTour 2006 beginning in early May of next year. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: May 05 – Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theatre May 06 - San Antonio, TX @ Sunset Station Lonestar May 07 - Fort Worth, TX @ ...
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GOATHORN (Canada), VISIONS OF ATLANTIS (Austria), IVORY TOWER (Germany), PYRAMAZE (USA) and MILES BEYOND (USA) are the latest confirmed acts for next year's installment of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 14-15, 2006 in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: BLITZKRIEG (UK) GOATHORN (Canada) ICARUS WITCH ...
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Long-running Canadian metallers ANNIHILATOR have finalized the track listin for their eleventh studio album, "Schizo Deluxe". The CD is scheduled for release on the following dates: Japan (Marquee Inc.) on October 21; North America (Locomotive/Warner) on November 8; and Europe (AFM Records) on November 14. "Schizo Deluxe" (view cover at this location) track ...
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Finnish death/thrash metal act DEATHCHAIN have uploaded several audio samples from their upcoming sophomore album, "Deathrash Assault", at their official web site. The follow-up to 2004's "Deadmeat Disciples" is scheduled for release on October 12 in Finland and October 31 in the rest of the world. "Deathrash Assault" track listing: 01. Return of the Nemesis ...
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Think heavy metal started with KORN? Confused about why people smash into each other at a concert? Know who originally spawned the sign of Satan? Well ask yourselves these questions no more. Fuse TV's "Uranium" is bringing you all of the answers to the questions you're too afraid to ask. Miss Juliya, along with guest ...
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NWOBHM legends BLITZKRIEG and SATAN, along with ORDER OF NINE, are the latest confirmed acts for next year's installment of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 14-15, 2006 in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are ICARUS WITCH, OCTOBER 31, MARTYR, TRINAKIUS and METAL INQUISITOR. More information is available at
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Former GORGOROTH drummer Erlend Erichsen (who played on the "Incipit Satan" album) has finished work on his debut novel, entitled "Nasjonalsatanisten", which is scheduled to be released in October via Damm Forlag (major Norwegian publisher). The story of the novel is set in the early/mid-Nineties, when Norwegian black metal started to expand. Although the story ...
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Michael Logan of The Budapest Times has issued the following report: U.S. shock-rocker MARILYN MANSON stirred up religious ire last Tuesday as church groups accused the singer of Satanism and corrupting young people ahead of the Budapest leg of his Against All Gods tour. The Christian Public Life Academy issued an open invite ...
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ANAL CUNT frontman Seth Putnam has posted the following message on his official web site: "ANAL CUNT are headlining the 'Sick Shit' festival in Albany, New York on August 27th. It is at a place called Valentine's. This will probably be the last show until I make a full recovery from my drug overdose last ...
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MINISTRY will be teaming up with REVOLTING COCKS and SPYDER BABY for the MasterBaTour 2006 beginning in early May of next year. The dates so far are as follows: May 06 - San Antonio, TX @ Sunset Station May 07 - Fort Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theatre May 08 - New Orleans, LA @ House ...
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Billboard.com has published the final track listing for MINISTRY's upcoming 25th anniversary collection, entitled "RaNtologY". Due September 27 via Sanctuary, "Rantology" includes remixes/reworkings of such favorites as "Jesus Built My Hotrod" and "N.W.O.", along with live versions of "Psalm 69", "Thieves" and "The Fall", plus a new song, "The Great Satan", which will ...
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An audio sample of "The Great Satan", a previously unreleased MINISTRY track, taken from the group's upcoming 25th anniversary collection, entitled "RaNtologY", has been posted online at this location. As previously reported, "RaNtologY" is scheduled for release on September 27 via Sanctuary Records. The 15-track release features "redux, remixes and alt mixes" by ...
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Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have announced that they will return to the U.S. alongside GOD FORBID, THE HAUNTED and MNEMIC as part of the Fury of the Fall tour this October. "We're finally coming back to tour the U.S.!" MESHUGGAH said in a statement. "We think it's a great package and since it's been ...
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An audio sample of the track "No W Redux", taken from MINISTRY's upcoming 25th anniversary collection, entitled "RaNtologY", has been posted online at this location. As previously reported, "RaNtologY" is scheduled for release on September 27 via Sanctuary Records. The 15-track release features "redux, remixes and alt mixes" by MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen ...
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Sanctuary Records has set a September 27 release date for MINISTRY's 25th anniversary collection, entitled "RaNtologY". The 15-track release features "redux, remixes and alt mixes" by MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen and the previously unreleased "The Great Satan", heralding the forthcoming 2006 MINISTRY release, "Rio Grande Blood", according to a posting on the group's web site. ...
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The final track listing has been announced for the MELVINS tribute album, "We Reach: The Music of the Melvins", due on August 23 via Fractured Transmitter Records. It is as follows: MARE – "Nightgoat" THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "Honey Bucket" MASTODON - "The Bit" STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - "Zodiac" PIG DESTROYER - "Claude" HIGH ...
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MINISTRY will be teaming up with REVOLTING COCKS and SPYDER BABY for the MasterBaTour 2006, a two-month trek set to kick off May 2006. Tickets for the Seattle show on May 28, 2006 go on sale today (July 20, 2005) at 10:00 a.m. from MINISTRY's official web site. As previously reported, MINISTRY mainman ...
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Somewhere between nihilistic ambience and crushing brutality, BLOOD RITUAL set up shop in a murky corner of death metal, informed and influenced by early black metal. Sole member Tim Bishop treads the same dark paths of primeval murk as IMMOLATION and INCANTATION, though his music is less technical than the former, less oppressively crushing than ...
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Scotsman.com has interviewed legendary rock photographer Ross Halfin about his new exhibition, Made of Metal, at Proud Galleries in London, which displays more than 50 of Halfin's images taken over the last 30 years. "When you photograph a band member or celebrity, 10 per cent is taking the picture, 90 per cent is ...
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Reunited classic Canadian metallers PILEDRIVER have uploaded full-length MP3 files of four new demo tracks from their upcoming album, "Metal Manifesto", at this location. The songs available for download are as follows; 01. Blood Bath 02. Metal Manifesto 03. Battle Axe 04. Road Pigs According to the Internet heavy metal encyclopedia BNR, PILEDRIVER ...
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PyroMusic.net has posted over 200 images taken this past weekend's Bloodlust V festival, which took place at Blacktown RSL in Sydney, Australia. The show ran from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. the following morning and featured 17 of Australia's best extreme bands, including DENOUNCEMENT PYRE, CAULDRON BLACK RAM, RAVEN BLACK NIGHT, REV. KRISS HADES, GOSPEL ...
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Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH have released the updated itinerary for their upcoming European tour with 1349. Confirmed dates are as follows: Nov. 02 - La Locomotive - Paris, FRA Nov. 03 - Mephisto - Barcelona, SPA Nov. 04 - Caragol - Madrid, SPA Nov. 05 - Stereo club - Alicante, SPA Nov. 06 - Sala ...
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A new VENOM tribute album has been made available through Madskull Records. Entitled "Mayhem Without Mercy - A Hardcore Punkrock Tribute To Venom", the album features punk bands paying homage to the black metal pioneers. The complete track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. THE FELCHERS - Mayhem With Mercy 02. THE SHINING ...
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Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH have posted the following update on their official web site: "The recordings of the upcoming album, 'Ad Majorem Satanhas Gloriam', progress steadily. Infernus [guitar] and King [bass] have been in a studio in Spydeberg (Norway) for the past weeks where they have recorded bass and guitar. They have brought the tapes ...
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According to a posting on the GORGOROTH web site, the promoters of the band's previously announced August 13 show in London have cancelled the gig "due to financial reasons." The group's next live appearance will take place on July 2 at the With Full Force festival in Leipzig, Germany. GORGOROTH recently spent time in the ...
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According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, METALLICA's "Enter Sandman" was cited in a City Journal magazine story about the treatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of prisoner Mohammed al-Qahtani — known as the 20th hijacker on Sept. 11 — as having been used during Qahtani's interrogation, saying it brought him to tears "because he thought he was ...
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