Alabama's HASTE hasmade available for download a new demo track, entitled "Revenge Tastes Like Blood And Broken Teeth", via its official web site at this location. ...

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Los Angeles, California-based STIGMA, featuring former DEPSWA drummer Colin Torres and TRAK 13 vocalist Jeff Zazueta, will be entering the studio tomorrow to record two new tracks, one of which will feature a guest appearance from former INCUBUS turntablist DJ 1987 (a.k.a. DJ Lyfe). Both songs are expected to be made available for download via ...

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Initial concert ticket sales for the first GUNS N' ROSES tour in nine years are going reasonably well, even though the tour was a bit of an unknown entity going in. "Given the skepticism, we've definitely surpassed expectations," Mitch Rose, GN'R's responsible agent at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles told Billboard. "Of the 20 ...

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Holland's WITHIN TEMPTATION has announced plans to release its first-ever live DVD on Nov. 22. Dubbed "WITHIN TEMPTATION: Mother Earth Tour", the DVD will contain a full live concert as well as a unique backstage documentary, a "Making of..." of the album "Mother Earth" and its cover sleeve, interviews with the band, the music videos ...

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MAYHEM guitarist Blasphemer has spoken to Kerrang! magazine about his new side project, MEZZERSCHMITT, featuring fellow MAYHEM drummer Hellhammer and RED HARVEST keyboardist Lrz. According to Blasphemer, German magazines have refused to review the band's debut EP, "Weltherrschaft" (which translates as "World Rule"). "Germany said 'Fuck off,' , because it's too brutal, because I fuck ...

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CADAVER INC., the Norwegian black metal act, is in the process of preparing the follow-up to its 2001 debut, "Discipline". Says frontman Apollyon: "The new record is going to be much worse than the first! We're all into old-school AUTOPSY, CARCASS and INFERNO, and keeping it brutal and underground." CADAVER INC.'s as-yet-untitled second album will ...

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Germany's BRAINSTORM have commenced the pre-production process for their next studio CD, tentatively due in June 2003. "Besides that, we additionally have some really cool stuff in the works that will hopefully see the light of day with the new CD," states a message on the band's official web site. "Watch out for a real ...

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HORTUS ANIMAE, the prog-black metal project of ANCIENT drummer Diego "GroM" Meraviglia, have signed a deal with Greek label Black Lotus Records. The group's upcoming album, titled "Waltzing Mephisto", will be completed in January at Alpha-Omega Studios in Como, Italy (where ANCIENT recorded their "God Loves The Dead" EP) for a May release. ...

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OSI (OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INFLUENCE) — the new "prog" supergroup featuring DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, FATES WARNING guitarist Jim Matheos, CHROMA KEY/ex-DREAM THEATER keyboardist Kevin Moore, and GORDIAN KNOT/ex-CYNIC bassist Sean Malone — has finished mastering its self-titled debut album for an early 2003 release through Inside Out Records. A limited-edition two-disc set, containing ...

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