Technical metal pioneers Shadows Fall have been added to this year’s Sounds of the Underground Tour. The band will play the final co-headline slot, alternating with already announced bands Chimaira and Every Time I Die and headliners Gwar.
“It is going to be another summer of insanity for the boys in Shadows Fall and we couldn’t [...]

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It’s another slow week for new metal, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing that’ll frazzle your synapses. Case in point, the gurgle-icious new Vomitory album, Terrorize, Brutalize, Sodomize (Metal Blade). The band’s fourth disc is their first in 15 years to not feature guitarist Ulf Dalegren. He has been replaced by Peter Östlund, and to [...]

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The best metal band that never existed, Spinal Tap, will reunite at London’s Wembley stadium to perform at the Live Earth concert on July 7.
“They’re not that environmentally conscious, but they’ve heard of global warming,” director Rob Reiner, who co-wrote and directed the legendary 1984 film, “This is Spinal Tap,” told the Associated Press. “[Guitarist] [...]

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England’s dark, ultra-heavy goth-metal band My Dying Bride aren’t scheduled to play these shores any time soon, but thanks to a heads-up from Blabbermouth.net, we can point you to a full live concert from April 20 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, Holland.
The show features songs spanning My Dying Bride’s career, from their first full-length album, [...]

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The correct answer is c) Sargatanas Reign.
The Swedish band began in 1997 when guitarist Kristoffer Andersson, Marcus Lundberg and drummer Stefan Kronqvist got together and started playing run-of-the-mill black metal as Sargatanas. Before long, they added bassist Johan Ericsson and their music evolved into a more original form of technical death metal. Tragedy struck when [...]

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