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Website: The Gothic Box There are scores of classic gothic song compilations on the market. And for every compilation, there’s a kid who made their own mix CD for their car or to share with friends. There’s not much more helpful for shaping cliche-laden and embarrassing kindergoths into people who understand and respect the history [...]

Website: The Gothsicles Plenty of people laugh at the community. As a community, it’s about time they acknowledge why and accept it for the stereotype that it certainly can be — not to mention the geeks hiding beneath the elaborate makeup. Enter The Gothsicles. Track one of NESferatu says it all: “I Can Tell You [...]

Northern Silence Productions will release a tribute double album to KATATONIA on December 12. The set includes no less than seventeen bands covering eighteen songs from the early and mid-’90s-era KATATONIA and has a running over 100 minutes. The 20-page booklet will feature artwork by Kristian “Necrolord” Wahlin. The release will be available as limited [...]

As reported by Blabbermouth: According to an interview with LORDI in the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, the band is being inundated with sex offers from its fans. The group’s mainman, Mr. Lordi (real name: Tomi Putaansuu), reportedly told the paper, “The Germans seem pretty crazy about having sex with me in my masks.” Drummer Kita added [...]

WHAT THEY SAY: FIREMASS, a horror rock band based in the New England area, has risen from the depths of darkness to bring you ghoulish lyrics, haunting melodies, and a theme of horror. Mixing heavy rock with elements of goth, metal, and punk, Firemass sounds like the dead have risen from their graves to haunt [...]

YouTube is fabulous as it is, but it’s even better when you can find great metal videos. It’s hard enough to find them on MTV, that’s for certain. Metal Blade has joined the YouTube craze hosting videos for Six Feet Under, Unearth, Cattle Decapitation, Cannibal Corpse, As I Lay Dying, Amon Amarth, and plenty of [...]

What? Read that headline again. It’s not a foreign language and I have no idea where the logic came from on this one. Story from Blabbermouth: Yesterday (Tuesday, September 19) 2,000 bags of KISS Army Blend Coffee were sent to the Rhode Island National Guard serving in Iraq, compliments of the KISS Coffeehouse and Mills [...]

Website: Amon Amarth Ahhh, the familiar red/black/yellow/flames covers. Unlike their power-metal counterparts, Sweden’s Amon Amarth has spent their long history performing folklore-ridden death metal while preserving the Scandinavian culture for youth and beyond. It’s viking metal for those who prefer to avoid noodly keyboard overzealotry and bombast. Though recording since 1996, 2002′s Versus the World [...]

From Blabbermouth: Terri Sanginiti of Wilmington, Delaware’s The News Journal reports that a 31-year-old Elkton, Md., man by the name of Ernie Carletti — believed to be the same Ernie Carletti who joined ICED EARTH in July as the group’s second guitarist — is awaiting extradition to Delaware to face charges in a 3-year-old rape [...]

It’s Gigantour time again. This year, Megadeth is taking along Lamb of God, Opeth, and Arch Enemy, among many others. For more info, check out the Gigantour website. In the meantime, a two-disc live DVD from last year’s Gigantour has hit the shelves. Check out a couple of previews: Megadeth performs “She Wolf” Dream Theater [...]