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February 18th, 2010
RELAPSE Records Podcast!!!

Relapse Records have re-launched their label podcast online, now at Relapsepodcast.com. New podcasts will be posted every month, highlighting brand new songs from Relapse artists, exclusive interviews, and classic Relapse tracks.
The first of the relaunched podcasts is available now and includes an interview with TOXIC HOLOCAUST’s Joel Grind as well as exclusive TOXIC HOLOCAUST material [...]

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February 18th, 2010
The Tyrants of Evil Tour feat. Mutiny Within, Arsis, Exodus, and Arch Enemy

It’s a first time for everything am I right? Well for me this particular line-up was, starring Mutiny Within, Arsis, Exodus, and Sweden’s finest death metallers to date, Arch Enemy.
On February 9, 2010 Hollywood’s House of Blues had welcomed with open arms, Mutiny Within a progressive melodic death metal wannabe whose performance attics weren’t at [...]

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February 17th, 2010
Win 2 CDs from Lithuania’s INFERNA PROFUNDUS RECORDS

We are pleased to announce the five winners of the 2-CD package from Inferna Profundus Records featuring Argharus and Poccolus.
The winners are:
Angela Born (NC) | Favorite Lithuanian band: Argharus
Brad Ewalt (NE) | Favorite Lithuanian band: Katedra
Shawn Brucker (MO) | Favorite Lithuanian band: Conscious Rot
Erik Scott (CA) | Favorite Lithuanian band: [...]

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February 17th, 2010
MORNE – Untold Wait (Feral Ward)

by George Pacheco
Time has seen much in the way of progression for this Bostonian band since their 2005 inception. Though Morne was founded by ex-Grief/Disrupt axeman Jeff Hayward and Filth of Mankind’s Milosz Gassan, the band’s lineup has now expanded to include keyboardist Ian Schultz and famed skinsman Erik Larson, who has spent time within [...]

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February 17th, 2010
ARSIS – Starve for the Devil

by Natalie Perez
Arsis is America’s outlook on what technical death metal is all about and this time around it’s taken these Virginia Beach go getters, two years in the making to unleash their fourth installment to date, “Starve for the Devil”. Of which deals with the past battling scenarios that guitarist James Malone has suffered [...]

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February 17th, 2010
Ringleader Benny Santoro Brings the Venetia Fair to Town

by Natalie Perez
If The Used’s first album had met My Chemical Romance’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” and both had merged with Panic At The Disco’s first record while on acid – and then you added a Circus twist to it for flavor, you’d wind up with The Venetia Fair. Benny Santoro spoke to me [...]

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February 16th, 2010
WOLD – Working Together for Our Privacy

By Brian Krasman
Somewhere between sleep paralysis and the effects of medicine head lies Wold. The first two swallowed together make a scary combination, and that’s before Obey and Fortress Crookedjaw even enter the picture. Jarred from the midst of REM sleep, though not entirely, unable to move an inch, experiencing visions you never imagined the [...]

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February 13th, 2010
Brandon Declares World Domination and the Destruction of Teddy Bears?

by Natalie Perez
When all of the ghosts, goblins, and witches had come out to play back in October there was nothing to be afraid of but now that, that holiday has decreased why must we talk about some ghoulish phantoms? Perhaps there was one more ghoulish demon that was not put to rest. Brandon Thomas [...]

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February 12th, 2010
From the Obsidian Throne- with Xaphan

by Isiamon of Immolith

In this second installment of From the Obsidian Throne, I contacted one of the true legends in the black metal scene for the last 11 years Xaphan of the mighty Kult ov Azazel. The time was right for Xaphan as he’s recently returned from Europe where he toured with Malevolent Creation as their [...]

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February 12th, 2010
WELCOME TO HELL! Volume 2

I’m fucking TIRED of the term NEW OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL.

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Exclusive Interview with ZAKK WYLDE
WELCOME TO HELL. Volume 8.
Interview with Charlie Benante of ANTHRAX!
THE BLACK VEIL BRIDES’ Army Has Risen, Have You Signed Up Yet?
A Conversation with PROSANCTUS INFERI
Ralf Hauber of Mystical Music Mag. Feature Interview and Review.
ABOMINANT : WHERE DEMONS DWELL . 2010 DEATHGASM RECORDS.
IT WAS JUST A FADED DREAM:SHURGUARD STORAGE AND THE ORANGE COUNTY SCENE.
Interview With Matt Harvey of EXHUMED.
Interview with OPHIS
FLESHROT – Traumatic Reconfiguration
HUMANGLED – Fractal (Abyss Records 2010)
DENOUNCEMENT PYRE – World Cremation (HHR 2010)
SVART – Forlorad
ABOMINANT : WHERE DEMONS DWELL . 2010 DEATHGASM RECORDS.
BLASPHEMY RITES – Hideous Lord
ACROSS TUNDRAS – Old World Wanderer
RITUAL COMBAT “OCCULTUS REQUIEM” CD Review. 2010 Hate War Records.
YAOTI MICTLAN – Dendro del Manto Gris de Chaac
PROFANATICA – Disgusting Blasphemies Against God (Hells Headbangers 2010)