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SLIPKNOT .5: The Gray Chapter: Album Review
With the release of 2008′s All Hope Is Gone, many people began to talk about how much Corey Taylor’s other project, Stone Sour, had begun to permeate Slipknot’s sound. There was the ballad-like track,...
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Heavy Metal News Week In Review: 10/17/14
THE DEFILED Likes Jägermeister Ice Cold, Gigged on Iceberg METAL DESCENT’s WEEK IN REVIEW This had to be the BIGGEST, most #metal week of the entire year so far. So many new albums dropped that we...
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The Top 8 New Metal Music Videos Of The Week: 10/17/14
Photo Credit: Tom Barnes We’ve got another solid week of new metal videos and songs for you to check out. There are some great new tracks from underground acts like Atriarch and Shadowsphere as well...
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Interview: Mark Vollelunga of NOTHING MORE
Photo credit: That Guy Photography/Timothy Reese I interviewed Mark “He Called Me Mam’n” Vollelunga, guitarist and back up vocalist for NOTHING MORE while they were in Baltimore. Seriously, he called...
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This Week’s New Heavy Metal Album Releases: 10/21/14
Amaranthe – Massive Addictive (Power Metal) Album available HERE Slipknot – .5: The Gray Chapter (Alternative Metal) Album available HERE Allen/Lande – The Great Divide (Root Metal)...
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Sounds From The Heavy Metal Underground: 10/20/14
PYRES | Photo courtesy of Facebook page I.O.’s PICK OF THE WEEK PYRES Year of Sleep (Medusa Crush Recordings) This is the most intricately put together sludge metal I’ve heard. There’s a progressive...
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Heavy Metal News Week In Review: 10/24/14
REVOCATION’s Deathless hit the Billboard Charts NEWS HAMMERFALL Teams Up With NHL Hockey Team MINNESOTA WILD Minnesota Wild logo The players of the NHL team MINNESOTA WILD began the 2014-15 season...
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AT THE GATES At War With Reality: Album Review
Kids, this is how it’s done! Any melodic death metal band that has come out in the last ten plus years should take notes on how this record was written and executed. When most of us heard that At...
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The Top 8 New Metal Music Videos Of The Week: 10/24/14
This was a great week for new metal music and videos. It was extremely hard to order this week’s picks as we liked all the songs almost equally. We would even go as far as to say that we had two...
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MEGADETH Youthanasia: Album Review (20 Years Later)
Today, October 24, 2014, Megadeth celebrates the 20th anniversary of its sixth album, Youthanasia. Of every album I’ve ever owned, Megadeth’s Youthansia is the one that I’ve listened to the most by...
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Rapid Review: DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT Z²: Sky Blue and Dark Matters
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT has generated a double album, one called Sky Blue and a Ziltoid-saga called Dark Matters combined under the title Z2. I think what surprised me about my first listen is that my...
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The Week’s New Heavy Metal Album Releases: 10/28/14
Abysmal Dawn – Obsolescence Album available HERE At The Gates – At War With Reality Album available HERE Devin Townsend – Z2 Album available HERE Obituary – Inked in Blood Album...
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Sounds From The Heavy Metal Underground: Battle of the Bands Round III
We are now on Round III of the Heavy Metal Underground Battle of the Bands. Readers are encouraged to listen to the following six I.O.’s Pick of the Week and vote for their favorite. Voting will close...
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Heavy Metal News Week In Review: 10/31/14
NEWS SLAYER Fan Spoofs Matthew McConaughey Lincoln Commercial By now, most of us who watch the NFL have seen the Lincoln commercial featuring actor Matthew McConaughey. For most, it is a ridiculous...
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The Top 8 New Metal Music Videos Of The Week: 10/31/14
This week features new songs mostly from lesser known or underground metal acts like The Flight Of Sleipnir, Sahhr, Hammercult, Cripper and The Crown. There are also some new music videos from a...
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Interview: Chad Gray of HELLYEAH
Chad Gray of HELLYEAH | Photo credit: That Guy Photography, Timothy Reese A never-wanted-to-be-a-rock-singer metal vocalist and a still-wet-behind-the-ears journalist walk into a bathroom… Yes, a...
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Wayne Static Of STATIC-X Dead At 48
Wayne Static (real name Wayne Richard Wells), lead singer and founding member of popular industrial/nu metal band Static-X, has passed away at the age of 48. There are no details yet on his death but...
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This Week’s New Heavy Metal Album Releases: 11/04/14
Not a lot of big releases to speak of this week but if you are a fan of black or death metal, there is definitely a lot of new stuff to check out. We recommend taking a listen to the new EPs from...
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Sounds From The Heavy Metal Underground: 11/03/14
ADIMIRON | Facebook cover photo I.O.’s PICK OF THE WEEK ADIMIRON Timelapse (Scarlet Records) The arrangements are lush, guitar heavy and melodic. A blend of experimental and progressive metals,...
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Heavy Metal News Week In Review: 11/07/14
Reed Mullin and Karl Agell to Perform Blind (COC) at Benefit for Katherine Ludwig Vocalist Karl Agell, who sang on CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s 1991 seminal Blind full-length and founding drummer Reed...
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