RHAPSODY OF FIRE

Turilli opens recording studio, band's activity suspended!

Luca Turilli, guitar player of the Italian symphonic metal masters RHAPSODY OF FIRE, has opened his own new recording studio in Italy. On that occasion he issued the following update:... More...

Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen

Slayer Mag Diaries Anthology Book Announced

Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen and Bazillion Points books are proud to announce that work has begun on a compendium of the best material representing twenty-five years of outrage from Metalion's infamous Slayer Mag. In addition to rare archival material unseen in decades, the book will include unreleased and exclusive interviews and artwork, historical photographs from Metalion's personal archive, and never-before-seen portrait photography taken by Metalion himself during the 2000s... More...

EVILE

Guitarist fractures his jaw during tour with SATYRICON

Ol Drake, lead guitarist of UK thrashers Evile fractured his jaw after the band's show in Rotterdam, Netherlands supporting Satyricon. The band was forced to pull out of the tour.... More...

DARK FUNERAL

The battle is over!

DARK FUNERAL guitarist Lord Ahriman has issued the following update: "DARK FUNERAL vs MNW/No Fashion Records dispute finally over! Seven years of pure bullshit has finally come to an end…..un-fuckin'-believable!!!"... More...

ORDER OF ENNEAD

Debut album of DEICIDE's drummer side project!

Floridian extreme metal act ORDER OF ENNEAD's self-titled debut album is available in Europe now. The album was recorded at Audio Hammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with Mark Lewis (TRIVIUM, CHIMAIRA, BURY YOUR DEAD), and consists of 11 tracks of blasting death metal intensity, mixed with touches of black metal melodrama.... More...

INEVITABLE END

New band in Relapse Records

Swedish death metallers INEVITABLE END have inked a deal with Relapse Records. The band is currently working on its full-length debut after two previously self-released EPs. A preview track "Dreamsight Synopsis", from their upcoming full lenght album is available here.... More...

HATESPHERE

New record deal

Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have inked a deal with Napalm Records. The group's new album is tentatively due next spring. Band's previous album "Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes" was released in 2007 through SPV Records.... More...

SEPULTURA

New studio album details revealed

Brazil's SEPULTURA announce some details concerning band's newest studio album. On their newest release, "A-Lex", guitarist Andreas Kisser, Derrick Green (vocals), Paulo Jr. (bass) and new addition Jean Dollabella (drums), have dedicated themselves to Anthony Burgess's book "A Clockwork Orange", creating an awesome thrash metal opus around this timeless and exciting subject.... More...

SEANCE

Awakening of the Gods!

Hailed as one of Sweden's biggest export and yet remarkably underrated bands of all time, technical Death Metal masters SEANCE have just released their long awaited third album "Awakening Of The Gods". Never abandoning their technicality-infused style and now peppered with a mammoth dose of thrash elements, this is undoubtedly an album that will remain as another classic album in many years to come. A lesson in sonical violence indeed!... More...

MY DYING BRIDE

For Lies I Sire- the tenth full lenght album!

"For Lies I Sire" is the title of the forthcoming opus of MY DYING BRIDE, their tenth studio album. No official release date has yet been given. The album will be released in early 2009 through Peaceville. The follow-up to 2006's "A Line of Deathless Kings" was recorded with longtime producer Mags.
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HAMMERFALL

New album details revealed

Swedish melodic metallers HAMMERFALL have set "No Sacrifice, No Victory" as the title of their eighth full-length album, due on February 20, 2009 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded in part at Andy La Rocque's (KING DIAMOND) Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden. ... More...

THIS ENDING

New album "Dead Harvest" in January!

THIS ENDING, the Swedish death metal band featuring AMON AMARTH drummer Fredrik Andersson, will release its second album, "Dead Harvest", on January 30, 2009 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy; and February 2, 2009 in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records.... More...