Paul Mazurkiewicz has defended CANNIBAL CORPSE's infamously violent lyrics and artwork, saying that people who take exception to the band's brutal and bestial imagery are overreacting. The Florida-based death metal outfit has long been criticized for its graphic lyrical topics, with some detractors claiming the group's albums desensitize people to violence. During a recent appearance ...
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Metal Wani's Jessie David recently conducted an interview with SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera about the band's "Point Blank With Soulfly" tour, where SOULFLY is performing NAILBOMB's lone studio album, 1994's "Point Blank", in full. "Point Blank" saw the then-SEPULTURA frontman team up with FUDGE TUNNEL's Alex Newport for a dense, industrialized offering that included a ...
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"Kings Of The Nightworld", a brand new song from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's eighth full-length album, "Nightbringers", which will be released on October 6 via Metal Blade Records. Rather than meticulously plan things out or stick rigidly to any kind of template, when it ...
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Rob Botten of Metal Master Kingdom conducted an interview with frontman Mikael Stanne of Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY prior to the band's September 18 show at The Mod Club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On DARK TRANQUILLITY having ...
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Swedish-based occult outfit GHOST wrapped the tour cycle for 2015's "Meliora" album and last year's "Popestar" EP with a concert Saturday night (September 30) in Gothenburg that ended dramatically with singer Papa Emeritus III getting forcibly removed from the stage by two men. A short time later, an elderly person wearing Papa-like attire of a ...
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Cassandra from Australia's Silver Tiger Media recently conducted an interview with frontman Mille Petrozza of veteran German/Finnish thrash metallers KREATOR. You can listen to the full chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his favorite songs from the band's new studio album, "Gods Of Violence": Mille: "I like ...
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Josh Rundquist of That Drummer Guy recently conducted an interview with drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz of brutal death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the writing process for the band's forthcoming "Red Before Black" studio album: Paul: "It's been the same as ...
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"Matriarch", a brand new song from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's eighth full-length album, "Nightbringers", which will be released on October 6 via Metal Blade Records. Rather than meticulously plan things out or stick rigidly to any kind of template, when it comes to writing, ...
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"Code Of The Slashers", the brand new video from Florida-based death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE, can be seen below. The clip was directed by Zev Deans, who previously worked on BEHEMOTH's "Messe Noire", GHOST's "Square Hammer" and PORTAL's "Curtain" videos. Deans comments: "After crawling through abandoned buildings, crashing our van into a tree in the middle ...
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"Code Of The Slashers", the new video from Florida-based death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE, will receive its world premiere tonight (Monday, September 18) at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, New York. The clip was directed by Zev Deans, who has previously worked with GHOST and BEHEMOTH, among others. "Code Of The Slashers" is taken from CANNIBAL CORPSE's ...
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Florida-based death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE will release their new studio album, "Red Before Black", on November 3. The follow-up to 2014's "A Skeletal Domain" was recorded at Mana Recording Studios in Saint Petersburg, Florida with producer/engineer Erik Rutan (SOILENT GREEN, BELPHEGOR, HATE ETERNAL), who previously worked with CANNIBAL CORPSE on 2006's "Kill", 2009's "Evisceration Plague" ...
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Alex from Heavy New York conducted an interview with frontman Marc Hudson of extreme power metallers DRAGONFORCE prior to the band's July 20 show at the Highline Ballroom in New York, New York. You can watch the full chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the touring cycle for the band's new ...
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This November/December, Knoxville, Tennessee death metallers WHITECHAPEL will embark on a North American tour dubbed "Decade Of Defilement", to commemorate the tenth anniversary of "The Somatic Defilement". Featuring CARNIFEX, RINGS OF SATURN, ENTHEOS and SO THIS IS SUFFERING as support, the trek will include a setlist with select tracks from "The Somatic Defilement" — some ...
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KORN frontman Jonathan Davis has defended BABYMETAL against online criticism, saying that the Japanese pop metal act is "entertaining as hell." Established in 2010, BABYMETAL is the offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and heavy metal. BABYMETAL's members — Suzuka Nakamoto (a.k.a. Su-Metal, ...
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This fall, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will embark on a North American tour in support of its upcoming album, "Nightbringers", due out October 6 via Metal Blade. The trek will run from October 6 through November 11 with a stop at this year's edition of Ozzfest Meets Knotfest on November 5. Support will be provided ...
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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will release its eighth full-length album, "Nightbringers", on October 6 via Metal Blade Records. The official music video for the disc's title track can be viewed below. Rather than meticulously plan things out or stick rigidly to any kind of template, when it comes to writing, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER prefer ...
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Josh Rundquist of That Drummer Guy recently conducted an interview with Metal Blade Records founder and CEO Brian Slagel. You can listen to the full chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how his forthcoming "For The Sake Of Heaviness: The History Of Metal Blade Records" book came to fruition: Brian: "We ...
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Anthony Morgan of Metal Forces recently conducted an interview with DECAPITATED guitarist Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On the style of new DECAPITATED album, "Anticult": Vogg: "We thought the album should be a very extreme metal album, but at the same time with lots of melodies ...
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Florida death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE have completed work on their new album, due this fall via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2014's "A Skeletal Domain" was recorded at Mana Recording Studios in Saint Petersburg, Florida with producer/engineer Erik Rutan (SOILENT GREEN, BELPHEGOR, HATE ETERNAL), who previously worked with CANNIBAL CORPSE on 2006's "Kill", ...
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CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher joined AMON on stage last night (Friday, July 21) at the Brass Mug in Tampa, Florida to peform a couple of DEICIDE classics. Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below. AMON is the resurrected Florida-based death metal band featuring former DEICIDE members Eric Hoffmann (guitar) and ...
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Oran O'Beirne of Ireland's Overdrive recently conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Joseph Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Overdrive: There was a slight worry amongst critics when [the new GOJIRA album, "Magma"] was released because of the slightly different direction that you took on the album. ...
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Progressive death metallers FALLUJAH have announced the departure of their vocalist Alex Hofmann. The band said in a statement: "A decade-long journey has just ended for one of our founding members, and now he begins a new path separate from our own. His dedication and creativity have been a vital part of FALLUJAH for the ...
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A PERFECT CIRCLE, KORN, ANTHRAX, STONE SOUR and BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE are among the confirmed bands for this year's edition of the Knotfest Mexico festival, set to take place October 28 at Foro Pegaso in Toluca, Mexico. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: A PERFECT CIRCLE KORN ANTHRAX STONE SOUR BULLET FOR ...
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South Carolina-based extreme technical death metallers NILE have written five songs so far for the follow-up to 2015's "What Should Not Be Unearthed" album. The upcoming effort, which is tentatively due in early 2018, will mark NILE's first release with new guitarist/vocalist Brian Kingsland, who replaced Dallas Toler-Wade earlier in the year. Speaking to Metal ...
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SUFFOCATION broke ground with its absolutely gargantuan early material. A progenitor of technical death metal, the group's competition has become as stiff as a corpse in the years since then. Bands as varied as CRYPTOPSY, OBSCURA and NECROPHAGIST have pushed the envelope in their own respective ways, but the New York group has remained relevant ...
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SOULFLY — the long-running band led by former SEPULTURA frontman Max Cavalera — has confirmed dates for its upcoming North American tour during which it will perform the NAILBOMB album "Point Blank" in its entirety. The 31-date trek begins October 6 in San Diego, California and wraps up November 8 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Support ...
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KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque was interviewed by Metal Jacket Magazine the day after his May 16 performance in Zagreb, Croatia as a guest at a concert of Zele Lipovača, longtime guitarist of the Bosnian heavy metal band DIVLJE JAGODE. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by ...
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German thrashers KREATOR will reissue their first four albums from the Noise Records years through BMG this June. 1985's "Endless Pain", 1986's "Pleasure To Kill", 1987's "Terrible Certainty" and 1989's "Extreme Aggression" have all been remastered with the CD versions containing a whole host of extras: EPs, previously unheard tracks from demos and ...
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In a brand new interview with Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show, former CANNIBAL CORPSE and current SIX FEET UNDER frontman Chris Barnes was asked about the "disconnect" between the aggression of the music he makes and the relaxed aspect of his personality. He said (hear audio below): "Well, I'm highly medicated… [Laughs] Cannabis ...
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Brooklyn's TOMBS will release its fourth full-length, "The Grand Annihilation", on June 16 via Metal Blade Records. Produced once again by Erik Rutan (CANNIBAL CORPSE, SOILENT GREEN, BELPHEGOR, HATE ETERNAL), the disc remains rooted in the blackened, post-metallic sound that the band has become known for since 2007's self-titled EP, while also being their most ...
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