San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB have been confirmed for the second annual Slaughter By The Water festival, set to take place Saturday, June 25 in Richmond, California at The Craneway Pavilion, the 45,000-square-foot faculty that floats on 25 breathtaking waterfront acres with a 180-degree view of the entire Bay. The festival billing is shaping ...
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Californian thrashers BONDED BY BLOOD recently wrapped up a European co-headlining tour with LAZARUS A.D., and are now back home and preparing for a North American trek supporting SEPULTURA. BONDED BY BLOOD has announced that Brandon Gulling (MALUS REX, AVENGER OF BLOOD) and Ben Bennet (SMOG, WARBRINGER) will be filling in on the tour for ...
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Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER will enter the studio on Monday, April 18 with producer Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SYMPHONY X, SEPULTURA, HATEBREED) to begin recording their third album for a late 2011 release via Century Media Records. "Our goal with this record is to make something beyond a run-of-the-mill metal CD," explains guitarist ...
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The first in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the third album from Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER can be viewed below. The band will enter the studio later this month to begin recording the CD for a late 2011 release via Century Media Records. WARBRINGER recently announced the addition of ...
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Bassist Ben Bennett (ex-WARBRINGER, SMOG) has joined forces with New Jersey rock and roll thrashers LETHAL STRIKE to record a four-song EP. The CD will be tracked in April with Rob Moschetti (GENERATION KILL, ex-PRO-PAIN, M.O.D.) at the helm. LETHAL STRIKE will play its first two shows with Ben on Saturday, March 19 at Liquid ...
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NUCLEAR ASSAULT and WARBRINGER have been confirmed for the second annual Slaughter By The Water festival, set to take place June 25 at San Francisco, California's Craneway Pavilion, the 45,000-square-foot faculty that floats on 25 breathtaking water front acres with a 180-degree view of the entire Bay. Also scheduled to appear are CATTLE DECAPITATION, AUTOPSY, ...
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Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER have announced the addition of drummer Carlos Cruz (HEXEN) to the group's ranks. "After years of putting forth nothing but blood, sweat, and tears into my tireless ambitions for playing music, I have finally found an outlet where no more time is wasted. It was flattering to have been approached by ...
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Resurrected late '80s/early '90s death metallers PESTILENCE kicked off their South American tour this past Wednesday, February 9 at Moulin Rouge in Caracas, Venezuela. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below. Also available is video footage of the interview PESTILENCE gave to the La Mega 107.3 FM radio station the day before ...
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Since coming off the road in late November, Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER are spending time at home writing their third album, to be recorded this spring. Taking some time off from playing live shows is difficult for a band which, for the last three years, has performed 300 dates annually on average, including a handful ...
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The first-ever video podcast from resurrected late '80s/early '90s death metallers PESTILENCE can be viewed below. The seven-minute clip features behind-the-scenes footage from the band's November 20, 2010 concert at club Tochka in Moscow, Russia. In other news, PESTILENCE will embark on its first-ever tour of South America in February. So far the following dates ...
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On December 8, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with lead singer John Kevill of Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER on December 17, 2010 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles during the band's tour with HALFORD and PHILM. You can now watch the chat below. WARBRINGER last year parted ways with ...
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Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have uploaded behind-the-scenes footage from their recently completed six-week North American tour with NEVERMORE, WARBRINGER and BLACKGUARD. You can check out the three clips below. Commented HATESPHERE: "We met fantastic fans, fantastic bands and made many friends — we quite simply had a blast. A special thanks goes out to NEVERMORE plus ...
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Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER will headline Thrashgiving, the heavy metal benefit concert to feed the needy, on Saturday, November 20 at Cheyenne Saloon in Las Vegas, Nevada. Commented the event organizers: "Two years ago we debuted the concept of Thrashgiving bringing together out-of-state and local artists performing thrash metal music for the benefit of the ...
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Los Angeles thrashers HEXEN have inked a deal with Singapore's Pulverised Records. The band is preparing to enter the studio to begin recording its second full-length album for a 2011 release. According to a press release, HEXEN's brand of blistering thrash metal caught the metal community by storm with their intellectual and thought-out songwriting, and ...
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Swigged! TV has uploaded quality video footage of Los Angeles thrashers WARBRINGER performing the song "Total War" on October 13, 2010 at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out the clip below. WARBRINGER last year parted ways with bassist Ben Bennett and was rejoined by Andy Laux. Andy played on the group's debut, "War Without ...
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Seattle metallers NEVERMORE will take part in a meet-and-greet on November 6 between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. at Scrape Records in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The band will perform later that night at The Red Room in Vancouver with WARBRINGER and BLACKGUARD. For more information, visit www.scraperecords.com or call (604) 877-1676. Professionally ...
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based sympho/black/folk/power metallers BLACKGUARD (formerly PROFUGUS MORTIS) have confirmed their new deal with Victory Records. The band states, "At first (and second) glance this might seem like an odd pairing, but Victory is a very hard-working label that we are all 100% behind. The Victory staff has welcomed us with open arms and ...
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On September 28, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with vocalist Esben "Esse" Hansen of Danish thrashers HATESPHERE at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Hansen joined HATESPHERE as the band's new singer in June. In addition, ...
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On September 28, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with guitarist Jeff Loomis of Seattle metallers NEVERMORE at the Key CLub in West Hollywood, California. You can now watch the chat below. NEVERMORE has just kicked off its first North American headlining tour in almost three years. The trek, which ...
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Video footage of Seattle metallers NEVERMORE performing the song "Beyond Within" with a special guest appearance by female singer Christine Rhoades on September 28, 2010 at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California can be viewed below (video by Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal for Metal Assault). NEVERMORE has just kicked off its first North American headlining ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of PESTILENCE's performance at the Elsrock festival, which was held August 28, 2010 in Rijssen, The Netherlands, can be viewed below (courtesy of "letthedeathmetalflow"). High-quality photos of the event are available at Metal-Experience.com. PESTILENCE guitarist/vocalist Patrick Mameli recently revealed to Mexico's Search & Destroy web site that the ...
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Professionally filmed video footage of NEVERMORE's performance at this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival — which was held May 21-23, 2010 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany — can be viewed below. (Note: The footage originally aired on WDR's [German public TV] series "Rockpalast".) "The Obsidian Conspiracy", the new album from NEVERMORE, sold ...
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Andrew Koran of Metalpaths conducted an interview with guitarist Jeff Loomis of Seattle metallers NEVERMORE when the band played in Thessaloniki, Greece on May 27, 2010. Watch the chat below. "The Obsidian Conspiracy", the new album from NEVERMORE, sold around 4,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to ...
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Rock My Monkey recently conducted an interview with vocalist Warrel Dane of Seattle metallers NEVERMORE. The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. "The Obsidian Conspiracy", the new album from NEVERMORE, sold around 4,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position ...
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Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have recruited Esben "Esse" Hansen of AS WE FIGHT as the group's new vocalist. In addition, the band has parted ways with bassist Mixen Lindberg and has temporarily replaced him with returning HATESPHERE member Mikael Ehlert (who will remain with the group until the end of 2010). Commented Esben "Esse" Hansen: "It ...
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On June 15, 2010, Jason Saulnier of the "Good Time Metal Oldies" radio show conducted an interview with guitarist Jeff Loomis of Seattle metallers NEVERMORE. You can now listen to the chat below. "Good Time Metal Oldies" airs Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. EST on CIFA 104.1 FM in Nova Scotia and Tuesday nights at 7:00 ...
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Sick Drummer Magazine has uploaded drum-cam footage of Yuma Van Eekelen of resurrected late '80s/early '90s death metallers PESTILENCE performing the song "Resurrection Macabre" on June 8, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Watch the clip below. PESTILENCE guitarist/vocalist Patrick Mameli recently revealed to Mexico's Search & Destroy web site that the band's forthcoming ...
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Video footage of NEVERMORE members Warrel Dane (vocals) and Jeff Loomis (guitar) "interviewing" each other for the German edition of Metal Hammer magazine can be viewed at this location. "The Obsidian Conspiracy", the new album from NEVERMORE, sold around 4,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut ...
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"The Obsidian Conspiracy", the new album from Seattle metallers NEVERMORE, sold around 4,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 134 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 1 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums ...
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Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with guitarist Jeff Loomis of Seattle metallers NEVERMORE on June 15, 2010. You can now listen to the chat in two parts below. "Emptiness Unobstructed", the new video from Seattle metallers NEVERMORE, can be viewed below (courtesy of Bloody-Disgusting.com). The clip, which was filmed ...
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