Swedish death metallers GODHATE have revealed the cover artwork and track listing for their new album, “Equal In The Eyes Of Death”, which will be released this month via Metal Age Productions.
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LAMB OF GOD’s song “Laid To Rest”, from the band’s 2004 album “Ashes Of The Wake”, is featured in Rhapsody’s latest ad, which can be viewed below.
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SACRED REICH and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM will perform at a memorial show in honor of their late soundman Nino Notaro (who also worked with SEPULTURA for over 10 years) in January (exact date to be announced) at Club Stratus in Phoenix, Arizona.
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MEGADETH and SLAYER will join forces to co-headline “American Carnage”, the most blistering, the most explosive, and the most eagerly anticipated mega-tour of the winter.
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Marin Independent Journal reports that METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield has donated to Marin County a 330-acre agricultural conservation easement near his home on land overlooking Lucas Valley.
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’80s underground thrash metallers HELLHOUND have reformed and are currently recording their first new material in over 20 years.
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BLACK SUN AEON ? the new “dark, death, doom” project from Tuomas Saukkonen (BEFORE THE DAWN, THE FINAL HARVEST, DAWN OF SOLACE) ? entered the studio on December 6 to begin recording its second CD, “Routa” (Finnish for “ground frost”).
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Metal Mark of SkullsNBones.com conducted an interview with Savannah, Georgia’s BARONESS before the band’s December 11, 2009 concert in Atlanta, Georgia with PIG DESTROYER.
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Danish metallers IRON FIRE will record a song for the upcoming VIRGIN STEELE tribute album, “By The Gods: A Noble Tribute To Virgin Steele”.
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Rock singer/musician John Mayer performed a medley of “hair-metal” ballads ? SKID ROW’s “I Remember You”, EXTREME’s “More Than Words” and WARRANT’s “I Saw Red” ? while warming up for an exclusive Sirius XM performance.
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A trailer for SLIPKNOT’s upcoming video/short film for the song “Snuff” can be viewed below.
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TURMION KÄTILÖT and DOOM UNIT have been confirmed to perform at the sixth annual Finnish Metal Expo, which will be held February 19-20, 2010 in Helsinki.
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Turku, Finland-based “melodeath” band BLIND STARE has parted ways with bassist Kalle Lahti.
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