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Metal Life Magazine editor Terry Bunch recently interviewed The Browning at the House of Blues in San Diego, CA. They discussed the band’s new album, touring, what they do in their off time and the perfect timing of drummer Cody Stewart’s arrival when the band was asked what’s your favorite beer…   Check out ‘Gravedigger’ from the album “Hypernova”   Eskimo Call Boy also did their own remix of ‘Gravedigger’:   ‘Hypernova’ will be released October 7th. Recorded at Planet [...]

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Metal Life Magazine editor Terry Bunch recently interviewed Doris Yeh from Chthonic, an extreme metal band from Taiwan. They discussed the band’s new album, music videos, Doris almost getting severely injured and then a new idea was suggested to Doris to help the band reach a broader audience.   CHTHONIC’s seventh studio recording, Bú-Tik, was recorded at Sweden’s Sweetspot Studio by producer Rickard Bengtson, who also worked on 2011’s critically-lauded Takasago Army full-length. Centered around the story of the 228 [...]

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Massacre Records is happy to welcome SILENT OPERA from France to the family! The band was formed in 2007 by Olivier, Laure and Romain. They started writing their first songs and were soon in need of great musicians to complete the line-up. Jon and Steven later joined the band and SILENT OPERA entered the Laguna Records Studio to record their debut album. They released “Act One” in 2010 and presented it live during a tour in France in March 2011. [...]

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Legendary Bay Area thrash metallers DEATH ANGEL have announced a CD release show for their upcoming 7th full-length release! Catch the band October 18th at Slim’s in San Francisco, CA with special guests 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, BATTLECROSS and REVOCATION. Everyone that purchases a ticket will also receive a copy of the new DEATH ANGEL album at the show! Tickets now on sale at http://tickets.slims-sf.com/events/338248 DEATH ANGEL recently wrapped recording the follow up to their 2010 release, Relentless Retribution, at [...]

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At San Diego Comic Con 2013, Metal Life Magazine editor Terry Bunch interviewed Joe Maddalena from Profiles in History, the memorabilia auction house featured in the hit TV series Hollywood Treasure. They talked about upcoming auctions, another season of Hollywood Treasure and how Joe got involved in the crazy business of buying and selling movie and TV memorabilia. Joe even offers advice on how to get started collecting yourself. Here is some footage of the Profiles in History booth at [...]

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Artsploitation Films, the rising American film distribution company, continues to deliver edgy international movies to North American audiences with its first-ever horror release, a Swedish tribute to Sam Raimi’s horror classic, Evil Dead. WITHER is a bloody, scary tale of demonic possession. A group of naive young people come to find that their carefree weekend in an isolated country house goes off the hinges when one of them accidentally unleashes a mysterious and murderous creature trapped in the basement. As [...]

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Bluntface Records is proud to announce a new partnership with Rusty Halo Audio, a music specific production company based out of Manchester NH. Rusty Halo Audio is a full service mixing & mastering company that primarily specializes in Metal, Industrial, Electronic and Experimental genres of music. The goal of Rusty Halo is to offer professional, high quality mixing & mastering services at affordable rates, so that all underground, unsigned and independent artists can afford them. We believe that all artists, no [...]

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Relentless touring and soul-soaring live performances saturated with fist-pumping anthems that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit have long been synonymous with Sweden’s epic metal specialists SABATON.  Their spine-tingling experiences in Poland – the country that has adopted them as honorary citizens – is now captured on Swedish Empire Live, SABATON’s live DVD/CD due out in North America on October 1st. With the largest live production in the history of the band and filmed in front of 600,000+ enthusiastic [...]

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Syfy and The Asylum today announced the first ever Sharknado merchandising program with Earthbound LLC, a leading direct to retail and brand licensing agency, which will extend the Sharknado pop culture and social media phenomenon into a wide range of potential merchandise, from fashion tees, bags, posters, accessories and costumes to gaming, among other areas. A social media phenomenon that has generated unprecedented press coverage, Sharknado was the most social telecast in Syfy’s history, generating nearly a half-million mentions when [...]

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AVATARIUM, the new band by Swedish doom metal pioneer Leif Edling (CANDLEMASS), is the latest addition to Nuclear Blast’s worldwide roster.   AVATARIUM features Edling on bass, EVERGREY guitarist Marcus Jindell, Lars Sköld of TIAMAT on drums, Carl Westholm of KRUX and JUPITER SOCIETY on keyboards, and Jennie-Ann Smith on vocals.   “AVATARIUM has only been around for about eight months, so we are thrilled to begin the mix of our first album and bring our special dark/heavy/poetic metal music [...]

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Newly formed American heavy metal trio ASHES OF ARES featuring vocalist Matt Barlow (ex-ICED EARTH), drummer Van Williams (ex-NEVERMORE), and guitarist/bassist Freddie Vidales (ex-ICED EARTH) have posted a new album trailer   Drummer Van Williams calls the band’s upcoming self-titled debut release “a solid metal album good for a lot of headbanging.”  Williams also created the album’s artwork.  “Fire is very bold. Why not light that sucker [the band logo] up?”   About the album title, vocalist Matt Barlow states: [...]

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ORIGINAL, OUTRAGEOUS AND ALWAYS ODD: ALL NEW SEASON OF ODDITIES: SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERES ON SCIENCE CHANNEL THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 3RD AT 9PM   – All new season of the spin off series ODDITIES: SAN FRANCISCO airing every Saturday at 9PM ET/PT throughout the summer–   The eccentric antique shop, Loved to Death opens its doors to Science Channel for a second season of ODDITIES: SAN FRANCISCO. The store’s colorful owner Audra, and her employee Wednesday, are joined by newcomer Lincoln [...]

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901 Tequila, noted for its award-winning and critically acclaimed 901 Silver, and Palm Bay International, one of North America’s premier wine and spirits importers, are proud to introduce 901 Reposado and 901 Anejo to North America. Co-founded by Justin Timberlake, CEO, and Kevin Ruder, President, 901 Tequila, is produced by distiller Destileria Santa Lucia. Triple-distilled using the most innovative distillation methods, 901 Tequila is made using only 100% Blue Weber Agave grown in the heart of Jalisco. Perfected through three [...]

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CORONATUS are going to release their new album soon and have shared quite a lot of information with us! They’ve entered the Klangschmiede Studio E in late May, with Markus Stock as sound engineer and producer. Ally “The Fiddle” Storch (Haggard, ASP, Schandmaul, Umbra Et Imago) will once again appear as guest musician on CORONATUS’ new album “Recreatio Carminis”! You���ll hear a familiar voice on the new album as well, because Carmen Lorch, who was the soprano voice on the [...]

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Join Nuclear Blast and the boys from Relapse recording artists EXHUMED at The Joint in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 8th, for a night of metal and debauchery! We’ll be celebrating the release of their new album Necrocracy, while spinning the album in its entirety and making it available for purchase at a reasonable price. Guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey will also be in attendance that night for a special guest DJ set. Necrocracy will be released via Relapse Records in North [...]

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blessthefall‘s new album Hollow Bodies is now available for digital pre-order today on iTunes.   With each digital pre-order of Hollow Bodies, fans will receive an instant download of new song ”Déjà Vu” which Altpress.com premiered yesterday. Listen to “Déjà Vu” and check out pre-order bundles in the video below.   Noted as one of Alternative Press’ Most Anticipated Albums of 2013, Hollow Bodies is set to release on August 20th and features guest vocals from Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red, Jesse Barnett of Stick To Your [...]

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WORLD PREMIERE SERIES THE UNEXPLAINED FILES INVESTIGATES BIZARRE PHENOMENA AND MYSTERIOUS CASES THIS SUMMER ON SCIENCE CHANNEL   –THE UNEXPLAINED FILES Premieres on Science Channel August 28th at 9PM/ ET/PT– (Los Angeles, Ca.)–From strange abductions, to mutated species, to bizarre occurrences, there are some phenomena that science cannot – or will not – explain.  This summer Science Channel unveils some of these shocking and mind-boggling cases from around the world in the world premiere series THE UNEXPLAINED FILES. From mysterious [...]