DevilDriver aren’t the only band to get exasperated with hotshot handicapped producer Jason Suecof in the studio. Chimaira got so frustrated with Suecof blowing off sessions and changing subjects six times a minute that they threw him into his swimming pool, wheelchair and all. But like Chimaira, who wound of creating one of the best [...]

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How many thrash fans know that before Overkill became a contending New York thrash band, the members donned face paint and goth eyeliner and lead singer Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth wore a vampire cape onstage? Or that the group’s early dungeon stage set was composed largely of supermarket milk crates? And while everyone knows Metallica [...]

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Nice mirror image thing and all, but c-mon guys! Most Norwegians can piss stuff in the snow that’s more legible than that. It would probably be easier to read Chinese subtitles on a static-filled TV screen. With the two little mouth or lightning bolt things at the top, it reminds us of what the dragons [...]

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Noisy Christians Norma Jean’s scorching video for “Songs Sound Much Sadder” will receive its MTV2 debut this week on Headbangers Ball. The track is from the band’s latest album Redeemer, which came out last September.
The surreal video was directed by PopCore Films and features the band members dressed as doctors in surgical masks observing [...]

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In October 2001, Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and singer Burton C. Bell got into a fistfight on the band’s bus that spelled the beginning of the end. About a year later, Bell walked into a rehearsal and told his bandmates he was quitting. Unable to continue without their vocalist, Fear Factory broke up — [...]

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