ENSEMBLE SALAZHAR, the studio project founded by guitarist Ronald Bekking and former PESTILENCE bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling, have uploaded "draft samples" of the group's recent studio sessions at www.jeroenthesseling.com. Complete demo tracks will follow soon. ENSEMBLE SALAZHAR was formed "with the intent to bring world music into dialogue with other modern music styles," ...
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Canadian death metallers CRYPTOPSY have uploaded their video for the track "The Pestilence That Walketh in Darkness (Psalm 91:5-8)". Check it out in Quicktime format: Low (7.8 MB), High (25.2 MB). In other news, CRYPTOPSY have announced the details of their tour of Australia and New Zealand in May. The dates ...
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CRYPTOPSY drummer Flo Mounier will conducting a drum clinic at the Long And McQuade's Missisauga, ON location (address: 900 Rathburn Road West; tel.: 905-273-3939) on Monday, March 6. Start time is 7:00 p.m. As previously reported, CRYPTOPSY have been nominated in the "Favorite Metal Artist/Group" category at The Indies, the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards, ...
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MISERY INDEX, the Baltimore-based quartet is comprised of founder Jason Netherton (bass, vocals), John "Sparky" Voyles (guitar), Adam Jarvis (drums) and Mark Kloeppel (guitar), have announced two shows in Puerto Rico in early March. The group's itinerary is shaping up as follows: Feb. 04 - Marietta, GA - The Darkside Feb. 05 - Baltimore, MD ...
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Relapse Records has announced the signing of MISERY INDEX. MISERY INDEX are currently recording their as-yet-untitled Relapse debut full-length in Atlanta, GA with producer/engineer Eyal Levi. Some early track titles include "Conquistadores", "Outsourcing Jehovah", "Breathing Pestilence", "Dystopian Nightmares" and "Meet Reality". A May 2006 release is expected. The Baltimore-based quartet is comprised of founder Jason ...
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I guess I should have paid more attention to Seattle's HIMSA in the past, assuming that albums like 2003's "Courting Tragedy and Disaster" are as solid as "Hail Horror". I suppose one could make an argument for a vague metalcore sound on "Hail Horror", but most of what I am hearing is modern, Swedish-inflected American ...
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Quebec-based death metallers CRYPTOPSY have been nominated in the "Favorite Metal Artist/Group" category at The Indies, the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards, Canadian Music Week Festival (CMW), being held on Wednesday, March 1 in Toronto, Ontario. Vote for the band at this location. Based in Montreal and founded in 1992, CRYPTOPSY have sold ...
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CRYPTOPSY drummer Flo Mounier will be performing at the NAMM show 2006 in California on January 22 at 11:00 a.m. This performance will take place at the Pearl booth at Anaheim Convention Center. As previously reported. CRYPTOPSY will be showcasing during the Canadian Music Week Festival (CMW) on Saturday, March 4 in Toronto, Ontario. The ...
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MISERY INDEX, the Baltimore, Maryland-based band featuring Jason Netherton (bass/vocals, ex-DYING FETUS) and Sparky Voyles (guitar, ex-DYING FETUS, M.O.D.), have posted the following message on their official web site: "As we already mentioned we are still confirmed to go in the studio on January 14 to record our next full-length, which will be the follow ...
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Canadian death metallers CRYPTOPSY will be showcasing during the Canadian Music Week Festival (CMW) on Saturday, March 4, 2006, in Toronto, Ontario. The band have been nominated for CMW's "The Indies" music award in the "Best Metal/Hardcore" catagory. More information is available at this location. CRYPTOPSY recently completed a U.S. tour in support ...
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CRYPTOPSY drummer Flo Mounier has made his "Extreme Metal Drumming 101" DVD available through his official web site. This two-DVD set by features approximately three and a half hours of instructional content and live performances. A video excerpt of Flo's performance at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto, Canada, June 2005) can be downloaded ...
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Swedish mythological black metallers THY PRIMORDIAL have officially split up. A posting at the group's web site reads as follows: "THY PRIMORDIAL is no more ...the glorious days are over... to ruin and decay. Greatest of hails to all & everyone that has, during the years, crossed our path. Thanks. In monumental honour we leave ...
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Canadian death metallers CRYPTOPSY have recruited Christian Donaldson from MYTHOSIS to fill in on second guitar during the band's current North American tour with SUFFOCATION, ABORTED and DESPISED ICON. The group expect to tour Europe in February and Australia in April. In other news, CRYPTOPSY filmed a video for the track "The Pestilence That Walketh ...
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Canadian death metallers CRYPTOPSY have announced the final track listing for their fifth album, "Once Was Not", due on October 18 via Century Media Records. The new CD, featuring the long-anticipated return of vocalist Lord Worm, was recorded at Studio Vortex in St-Constant, Canada by producer Sebastien Marsan, and again infuses extreme music with awe-inspiring ...
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DEATH BY DAWN, the German death metal band featuring legendary vocalist Martin Van Drunen (ex-PESTILENCE, ASPHYX, BOLT THROWER), have uploaded a new track, entitled "Parliament of Decadence", at their official web site. Download it at this location. "Parliament of Decadence" comes off the group's recently completed new mini-CD, which was reportedly recorded during ...
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Relapse Records has announced the forthcoming reissue of the entire recorded works of seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST. ATHEIST was one of the first truly adventurous bands to break out of the late '80s death metal underground. In addition to ATHEIST's albums (1989's "Piece of Time", 1992's "Unquestionable Presence", and 1993's "Elements") being benchmarks of ...
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PROJEKT TABUN, the new studio project founded by former PESTILENCE bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling and KING LOCUST guitarist/producer Niels Drieënhuizen, has been forced to delay the release of their first recordings due to Thesseling's involvement in the recording sessions of ENSEMBLE SALAZHAR. Former PESTILENCE singer Martin Van Drunen, who was originally supposed to take part ...
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BOLT THROWER's official web site, BoltThrower.com, has published singer Karl Willetts' first interview since rejoining the band late last year. A few excerpts from the interview follow: Bolt Thrower.com: What were your reasons for originally leaving the band? Karl: "Well, there for a variety of reasons for leaving the band back in 1994... after doing ...
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Former PESTILENCE members Martin Van Drunen (vocals) and Jeroen Paul Thesseling (bass) have teamed up in a brand new band called PROJEKT TABUN. PROJEKT TABUN was founded by Thesseling and KING LOCUST guitarist/producer Niels Drieënhuizen. The band, who recently spent time at at studio Het Lab in Schaarsbergen, the Netherlands, are describing their sound as ...
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BOLT THROWER bassist Jo Bench recently spoke to Sweden's Global Domination webzine about the return of original vocalist Karl Willetts and the group's upcoming follow up to 2001's "Honour, Valour, Pride", tentatively due later in the year via Metal Blade Records. Several excerpts from the interview follow: Global Domination: So, Karl is back ...
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Dutch death metal outfit SEVERE TORTURE will release their final album for Karmageddon Media (formerly known as Hammerheart Records), "Blood Letting", on February 7, 2005. "This album is NOT the new SEVERE TORTURE full-length but a live-album with bonus material including our '98 demo," the band write on their web site. "Blood Letting" (view cover ...
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Legendary German death metallers MORGOTH will release a posthumous "best of" collection in January 2005 via Century Media Records. MORGOTH was one of the first, best and most important death metal bands from Germany. Their first demo was recorded in 1987 and their first tour was with AUTOPSY and PESTILENCE in 1990, the same year ...
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Former PESTILENCE bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling is currently preparing a flamenco-oriented studio project dubbed PROJEKT TABUN. The recording sessions are planned for December 2004, according to a posting on Thesseling's official web site. Jeroen, who played on PESTILENCE's fourth album, "Spheres" (1993), joined the flamenco ensemble of the Dutch virtuoso guitarist Peter Kalb, ...
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CKY guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller has issued the following update on the highly anticipated DEATH tribute album "Within The Mind - In Homage To The Musical Legacy Of Chuck Schuldiner", his FOREIGN OBJECTS side project (featuring legendary ex-DEATH/TESTAMENT guitarist James Murphy) and the upcoming CKY album: "It's been a while since anyone has heard an update ...
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DEATH BY DAWN, the German death metal band featuring legendary vocalist Martin Van Drunen (ex-PESTILENCE, ASPHYX, BOLT THROWER), have announced the addition of second guitarist Ingo "Fusel" Fussangel (ex-SUDDEN DEATH) to the group's ranks. Fussangel made his live debut with the group on October 2 at R17 near Enkhuizen, The Netherlands. DEATH BY DAWN's current ...
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Dutch death metal outfit SEVERE TORTURE have announced the termination of their cooperation with Karmageddon Media, formely known as Hammerheart Records. "After four years, it was time for a change," the band write in a statement. SEVERE TORTURE are currently finishing up songs for the next album, which is tentatively set to be recorded in ...
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NILE guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders will release his debut solo album, "Saurian Meditation", on October 26 through Relapse Records. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Awaiting the Vultures 02. Of the Sleep of Ishtar 03. Luring the Doom Serpent 04. Contemplations of the Endless Abyss 05. The Elder God Shrine 06. ...
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Former PESTILENCE bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling is currently available for progressive and technical bands or (studio) projects, according to a posting on his official web site. Jeroen, who played on PESTILENCE's fourth album, "Spheres" (1993), joined the flamenco ensemble of the Dutch virtuoso guitarist Peter Kalb, EL PERIQUIN, in 2003. "The live performances ...
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A live video of DEATH BY DAWN, the German death metal band featuring legendary vocalist Martin Van Drunen (ex-PESTILENCE, ASPHYX, BOLT THROWER), performing the track "Legal Usury" at OT-Heim in Steinfurt-Borghorst, Germany on March 19, 2004 has been posted online at this location (scroll all the way down to the bottom of the ...
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Guitarist James Murphy (ex-DEATH, OBITUARY, TESTAMENT) has issued the following update regarding the status of the upcoming tribute CD, "Within The Mind - In Homage To The Musical Legacy Of Chuck Schuldiner": "Hi everyone, I have some recent progress on the DEATH tribute project, 'Within The Mind', to report. I have recently gathered the performances ...
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