The answer to yesterday’s indecipherable logo is Fiendish Gloom.
The death metal quartet is from Mechernich, NRW, Germany and has recorded two albums to date.
Fiendish Gloom formed in 1993 and released their first demo in 1994. For the next three years they banged around the club scene, but broke up in in 1997. The band reformed [...]

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The results are in from our viewer’s poll of the top Headbangers Ball videos of the year and, we gotta say, they differ significantly from our own top choices.
Voters chose Mushroomhead’s “12 Hundred” for the top video slot. The horror-themed clip is grisly and bizarre, appealing to fans of damp basements, dangling chains, long needles [...]

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The final MTV2 Headbangers Ball Blog podcast of 2007 will be an interview with Throwdown frontman Dave Peters. With the release of their new album (third for Trustkill), Venom & Tears, Throwdown spread beyond the insular boundaries of hardcore and delved more vehemently into thrash metal. The move paid off, and the band have been [...]

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I’ve been a big hockey fan since I was six and my dad got season tickets to the games. That was the Bobby Hull, Tony Esposito era when they were a great team. We wound up with seats in the 300 section because my dad was a blue-collar guy and that’s all he could afford. [...]

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Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow
December is a time for remembering the highlights of the year, but it’s also a month to reflect upon the musicians and other supporters of metal who are no longer with us. Sadly, we lost a lot of headbangers this year from various causes: murder, accident, overdose, illness and undisclosed reasons. [...]

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