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Promoters of the Maryland Deathfest have announced that Godflesh will be added to the 2012 Maryland Deathfest X during Memorial Day weekend. Also added to the lineup is Winter. You can expect more bands to be announced in the coming months. MORBID ANGEL GODFLESH (UK) ELECTRIC WIZARD (UK) SAINT VITUS ANVIL (Canada) MORGOTH (Germany) SUFFOCATION …
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Blackened Doom Metal beasts Höllenlärm have inked a deal with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions who will release their debut album Hellish Noise on CD format June 13th. Below is the official description: A blaze in the northern sky that follows the voice of blood to a blackened sea of Sabbath! Drawing influence from southern Doom, …
Re-issue of ‘Storm Before Calm’ out now remastered including bonus-DVD ‘Live At Summer Breeze 2004! Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have just released the reissue of their classic Storm Before Calm album in Europe. The album is available in a remastered version as a double digipak with new artwork. The package also contains the bonus-DVD …
CLUTCH has been confirmed for next year’s edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AGENT STEEL BUCKCHERRY CLUTCH DAN REED BAND DESTRUCTION ELECTRIC WIZARD FLÄSKET BRINNER GHOST GROUNDHOGS HELLOWEEN JASON & THE SCORCHERS …
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British doom metal band ELECTRIC WIZARD will release its long-awaited new album Black Masses in North America on January 18, 2011 via Rise Above Records. The legendary group’s seventh studio album and first since 2007’s Witchcult Today, Black Masses was recorded with Grammy Award-winning British recording engineer Liam Watson (The White Stripes) in London’s Toe …
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Over the past decade the “stoner rock” sub-genre of metal has made a huge push into popularity. With it’s heavy, down-tuned, fuzzy guitar riffs and it’s slow, crushing tempos, the live experience is unlike anything else most people have ever experienced. This is helped out tremendously by small venues. Playing smaller places keeps the sound …
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New York crossover legends LIFE OF AGONY will headline the Jagermeister Stage at this year’s Damnation Festival with an exclusive performance. The group will bring their emotional blend of heavy rock and alternative metal to the UK for the first time since their sold-out show at London’s Koko in 2005 following a series of dates …
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Grindcore supergroup LOCK UP will headline this year’s Terrorizer Stage in what will be their only show of 2009 and likely the band’s last ever live appearance. The almost mythical extreme metal behemoth – which will feature AT THE GATES frontman Tomas Lindberg, Anton Resisenegger of PENTAGRAM on guitar, NAPALM DEATH bassist Shane Embury and …
Doom heavyweights ELECTRIC WIZARD will level the Jagermeister Stage at this year’s Damnation Festival. And the UK standard-bearers of crushing, down-tempo metal will be joined by the Conan-inspired slabs of doom delivered by Indianapolis’ GATES OF SLUMBER. The skull-scrapingly heavy combo are added to a bill which already includes Therapy?, Destruction, Jesu, Rotting Christ and …
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‘Occult Horror Doom’ metal band MOSS has completed work on its new album. The sinisterly titled Tombs of the Blind Drugged will drop in North America on July 7 via Rise Above Records. Hailed as, “the bleakest, darkest doom metal ever recorded”, MOSS. It was recorded at Wales’ Foel Studios (My Bloody Valentine, Blue Cheer, …
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