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Metallica Live in New York
Amidst an ongoing "World Magnetic Tour," Metallica played back-to-back nights to sold out crowds at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Megadeth: Endgame Review
Bang your head and lift the beers high, thrash metal is alive and well.
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Machines of Grace Realease Self Titled Debut CD
Zak Stevens (Savatage) and Jeff Plate (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Metal Church) have formed Machines of Grace and released a self titled debut album.
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Through The Eyes Of The Dead @ Chain Reaction
Orange County's Chain Reaction got a taste of sweat, angst and Death Metal
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Rammstein's creativity morphs into desperation
While Rammstein's newest music video - entitled Pussy - may appeal to North America's oversexed youth, fans of the band's older material are left puzzled.
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Slayer and Megadeth Play Sydney
Thrash metal fans don't have the best reputation, but at the Slayer and Megadeth concert in Sydney the only stereotype they conformed to was in dress sense.
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Steel Panther Want You to Feel The Steel
This will come as no surprise to anyone who has passed by The Key Club, a prominent bar/venue in West Hollywood, on any given Monday night for the past decade or so.
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Metallica Concert Review
On October 4, 2009, legendary heavy metal band Metallica rocked over 20,000 fans with an incendiary performance at Philips Arena.
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Evile Live At Islington Academy
Hotly-tipped UK metallers play the intimate surroundings of the Islington Academy, defying a curfew and thrasing like it's 86!
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Flight Patterns and Machines of Grace
Flight Patterns and Machines of Grace were the supporting acts for Stryper's 25th Anniversary Tour in Cleveland, Ohio at the House of Blues.
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Rockumentary Review
Anvil! The Story of Anvil' is a Documentary film about the career of Canadian Metal veterans Anvil. Follow the band through its ups and downs and many struggles.
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Alestorm: Black Sails At Midnight
Oh look, there goes subtlety disappearing off into the horizon...
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Shadows Fall Retribution Review
Proving once and for all that losing a major label deal is no death knell, Shadows Fall unleash an absolute juggernaut of a comeback album.
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CD Review: Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Party-crazy alcoholics? Or perhaps hipster smart-alecks lampooning vintage metal? Surprise, surprise - Municipal Waste just honestly love playing 80s crossover thrash!
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CD Review: Megadeth - Endgame
Megadeth may be known for leader Dave Mustaine's antics or for being a perpetual also-ran to Metallica's throne, but they slay 'em all with this new thrash masterpiece.
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CD Review: Caliban - Say Hello To Tragedy
While the oft-maligned metalcore badge is primarily worn by bands from the States, Caliban show that Germany can riff and whine with the best of them.
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CD Review: TENET - Sovereign
Talented Strapping Young Lad guitarist Jed Simon has joined forces with an A-Team of metal heavyweights to deliver his long awaited thrash throwback project.
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What is Death Metal? History, Origins, Genres
Death metal is a subgenre of heavy metal which emerged during the 1980's, typically seen as having split off from the burgeoning thrash movement exemplified by Slayer.
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Devildriver: Pray For Villains
More metal than an articulated lorry being impaled on a steel girder, Devildriver's new album sees the Americans slowing down but retaining all the heavy goodness.
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Amon Amarth Live At Hellfest
An explosive finish to the Rock Hard Stage on Sunday, the high champions of Viking flavoured death metal slay a crowd of thousands!
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Destruction Live At Hellfest
Veteran German thrashers bring a moody cloud of doom to the main stage on day three of Hellfest.
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Machine Head Live At Hellfest
Let Hellfest ring with a shotgun blast!
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Gojira Live At Hellfest
Returning to a heroes welcome, Gojira put on a phenomenal performance on the second day of Hellfest.
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Soulfly Live At Hellfest
The war drums are sounding, Max Cavalera and the Soulfly tribe live in France!
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Devildriver Live At Hellfest
Dez Fafara and his California wrecking crew whip up a storm on the main stage!
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Gama Bomb Live At Hellfest
They work for OCP! And OCP runs the Cops! Irish thrashers get the party started on the second day of Hellfest!
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Down Live At Hellfest
"We're Down, from New Orleans Louisiana." 'Nuff said.
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August Burns Red And Misery Index
American hardcore and ferocious grind, live on the smaller stages at France's best metal festival
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Backfire And All Shall Perish Live At Hellfest
American hardcore and death metal bands unleash the fury on the fourth stage
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God Forbid Live At Hellfest
New Jersey metalheads God Forbid wake up the crowd on the first day of France's premier extreme music festival.
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Evarest - Fear
Evarest's debut album "Fear", is a interesting new arrival in the melodic power/speed metal arena.
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Iron Maiden - Flight 666: The Film (review)
A brilliant new look at a veteran band that is anything but dead or dying...
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Warbringer: Waking Into Nightmares
As heavy as thrash can get without turning into death metal, Warbringer's second album is a sign of things to come. The future's bright for these five young Americans.
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CD Review: Livin' Out Loud, by Johnny Lima
Independent artist Johnny Lima's fourth album lives up to the title.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great, the last track of the 1986 album Somewhere in Time, is a perfect rock opera by Iron Maiden, and indeed one of the best rock opera songs.
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Getting Started with the Post-Metal Genre
Nearly twenty years ago, new sounds began to rumble form the amps of metal musicians. At the turn of the millennium, the post-metal have been nothing short of brilliant.
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Alice In Chains in Studio to Record New Album
14 years after their last album, Alice in Chains finally return the the studios to record their first new material since the death of singer Layne Staley.
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Getting Started with Doom Metal (1985-1994)
Fuzz rumbles full stacks of amplifiers as doom metal shakes the musical earth to simple, loud volumes, creating music that stretches in distance instead of time.
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The Amenta, NoN, Album Review
Brooding industrial metallers improve their game with a new vocalist, and an album that shows they are swiftly finding their own sinister but well polished sound.
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Iron Maiden Rock Opera
There is a long song in every Iron Maiden album; the tracks are kind of rock opera with epic lyrics and music.
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Byzantine: And They Shall Take Up Serpents
The anti-christ has a Southern drawl in Byzantine's classic second album, a CD that belongs in any self-respecting metalhead's collection.
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The Legendary World of Iron Maiden
Steve Harris, the founder and frontman of Iron Maiden, has kept the band creative in the course of several member changes.
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The Second Wave of Stoner Rock (1998-2008)
After a small decline in the stoner rock stock, a new batch of rockers return to the riff-filled land. With bands building upon all the past, it thrives again.
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Fear Factory Reunite for Live Tour : History and Background
Four years since their last album, Fear factory announce their return, and are billed to play at Sonishpere Festival and Bloodstock in the UK this coming August.
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Brotherhood Of The Lake - South West heavy metal
Article reviewing a rising UK metal band - focusing on the bands direction, past tour with The Bled, details of line-up changes, band members and label and EP release
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All That Remains: Overcome Album Review
The Average Joe's of American metal continue their battle against the Purple Cobras of Killswitch Engage and Lamb Of God.
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God Forbid: Earthsblood Album Review
You're not the chosen band anymore Killswitch, God Forbid just drank your milkshake! They drank it all up!
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Lamb Of God: Wrath Review
Subtle as a rattlesnake in the face and just as nasty, Lamb Of God have made perhaps their best album to date.
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Canadian Thrash Metal Pioneers Anvil
A brief history of the pioneering thrash metal band Anvil, profiled in Sacha Gervasi's recent documentary, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
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Malefice, Dawn Of Reprisal, Album Review
British metal once again proves to the world what it's capable of. Dawn of Reprisal is latest offering from the pummeling and sinister sounds of Malefice
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