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This is your fair warning to get a head start — plug your ears. From Blabbermouth: You may not get to sing to 70,000 at Wembley Stadium… You may not get to power slide across the stage at Download… But you can jump around your living room in your pants! The first-ever “Kerrang! Karaoke” presents [...]

Website: Grave Digger Germany’s Grave Digger refuses to die after over twenty years of recording. Liberty or Death, their sixteenth effort, continues their legacy of battle-weathered power metal and penchant for storytelling. One thing Grave Digger has going for them: these guys can write a memorable hook. “The Terrible One” and “Silent Revolution” are ridiculously [...]

Eurovision continues down the road of stupidity. Imagine that. From Blabbermouth: One of the candidates to represent Finland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is a 22-year-old female singer by the name of KATRA, whose track “Tietuja” bears more than a passing resemblance to the WITHIN TEMPTATION cut “Jillian”. To hear the choruses to the [...]

I may have another cause to whore soon as well. Last night Brooke approached me about joining her as co-host of the forthcoming ’80s show on Emancipation Radio. Yeah, it’s just Internet radio, no big deal. But when the two of us get together babbling about ’80s music, we’re worse than Valley Girls straight out [...]

So I received a promo copy of Kissology Vol 1, 1974-1977 and have been working my way through it. Jesus fuck, three hours of Kiss is too much Kiss. AND THAT IS JUST DISC ONE, I STILL HAVE ONE MORE TO GO. Christ. Even at half that viewing time I was bored stupid and did [...]

We discovered Scott Ian’s signature crapola guitar being sold at Sam Goody. For only $149, you can help poor Scott Ian defeat Gene Simmons in their apparent shameless money pit building competition! Man, if they teamed up, Jews really would control the media.

Website: Mnemic With a sound ever-evolving closer to Fear Factory (who they do cite as an influence), is it a surprise that Christian Olde Wolbers produced the band’s third effort, Passenger? Is it too harsh to say “listen if you like Fear Factory” without pidgeon-holing the band? Yes, there are many differences, and there’s a [...]

From the Blabbermouth: ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has issued the following statement via the band’s official fan club site, CDC: “Finally, we’re going back to work. We’re going to Chicago to work our asses off and write a record. It’s time. We’re ready. One problem… no singer. “We were offered a direct support slot on [...]

Website: When We Fall Sweden’s When We Fall looks to jump in with both feet into the overcrowded, bland hardcore scene with their introductory EP A Cry in Despair. With a pedigree featuring former members of punk bands Bowser, The Whole Nine Yards, and Noir, these seasoned musicians combine traditional hardcore styles with the complexity [...]

Website: Therion How can one describe Therion’s sound? Considering it changes and broadens from album to album — leaving some fans behind while acquiring new ones — to say the very least, it’s complicated. Evolving to eventually include a full orchestra, tales from Scandinavian folklore, and a wide cast of operatic vocalists, it’s as though [...]