PELICAN: new album details
The mighty PELICAN are in the studio putting the finishing touches on their fourth studio album, entitled What We All Come To Need. What guitarist Laurent Lebec has dubbed the…
ECHOES OF ETERNITY – Debut New Track + Announce New Rhythm Guitarist
Los Angeles' female-fronted progressive metallers ECHOES OF ETERNITY have debuted a new track entitled “Ten Of Swords” on the bands official MySpace page.
www.myspace.com/echoesofeternity
The song is the lead-off track from their…
SONATA ARCTICA – Revamped Myspace Page Launches!
SONATA ARCTICA have just launched a revamped version of the bands MySpace Page in celebration of their upcoming release, The Days of Grays.
Keep an eye out on the bands MySpace…
EPICA – Design Your Universe – Album Details Revealed
Details of the new album, Design Your Universe, from Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA are now available to the world!
The artwork was created by Stefan Heilemann.
Due in Europe on October…
DECAPITATED – Announce New Addition To The Band
Guitarist Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka of the Polish extreme metallers DECAPITATED has tapped Austrian drummer Kerim “Krimh” Lechner (of THORNS OF IVY) as the replacement for Witold “Vitek” Kieltyka, who died…
TESTAMENT – To Take Part In Sirius XM 'Artist Confidental' Series
SIRIUS XM Radio is assembling a small audience of friends and listeners of TESTAMENT for a special performance on the evening of August 10, 2009 in New York City (Manhattan).
The…
BELPHEGOR – Post Images From 'Making Of' Video To 'Der Geistertrtiber'
Austrias black/death metal artists BELPHEGOR have finished filming the video for the track “Der Geistertreiber” off their upcoming new album, Walpurgis Rites Hexenwahn.
A worldwide premiere of the video is…
IMMORTAL – Unveil Cover Art For: All Shall Fall
Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL will release their new album, All Shall Fall, in in Europe on September 25, 2009 and North America on October 6, 2009 via Nuclear Blast…
PELICAN Announces New Album Details
Instrumental Quartet Readies Fourth Full-Length Album; First Release On Southern Lord.
The mighty PELICAN are in the studio putting the finishing touches on their fourth studio album, entitled What We…
PANTHEON I: New Video For “Serpent Christ” Unveiled
Norwegian extreme metallers PANTHEON I have unveiled the new video for Serpent Christ, a track taken from the band's recently released full-length, Worlds I Create. Serpent Christ, which shows PANTHEON…
OZZY might replace Zakk Wylde
Paul Marshall, afternoon radio personality and program director for 98.9 The Rock in Kansas City, Missouri, conducted an interview with Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) earlier this week….
Season of Mist Records signs Ace Frehley's SPACEMAN
Season of Mist Records made the following announcement via their Myspace page:
The whole Season of Mist staff is immensely proud to announce we inked a deal with legendary guitarist ACE…
BEHEMOTH streams “Evangelion” on Myspace Page
“Evangelion”, the ninth full-length studio album from Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH, is available for streaming in its entirety on the band's MySpace page. Due on August 7 in Europe via…
TOXIC HOLOCAUST announces tour with SATYRICON
TOXIC HOLOCAUST is getting ready to hit the road this week as part of the month-long “Decimation Of A Nation” tour. TOXIC HOLOCAUST will join HATEBREED, CHIMAIRA, DYING FETUS and…
MASTER – Interview with bassist/vocalist Paul Speckmann
There is old school death metal and there is MASTER. The Chicago, Illinois outfit first emerged in 1983a time when death metal still went by the generic term, metal. MASTER served as an influence for many of the death metal bands of today. These bands gained recognition as the fathers of death metal, and even though they cited MASTER as an influence, MASTER rarely received this honor by the press and fans alike. Even the mighty DEATH, who eventually coined the term Death Metal, sought MASTER for early inspiration.
Part of the reason MASTER never gained the proper accolades was their inability to get mass exposure. The group didnt find a label to release a full-length and gain national attention until signing to Nuclear Blast in 1990. Nuclear Blast released the groups first full-length. This first self-titled offering helped establish the band as a steadfast act on Nuclear Blasts early roster.
MASTER founder-vocalist-bassist, Paul Speckmann took MASTER to the Czech Republic in 1999. He has remained a Czech citizen ever since. Although MASTER has largely remained in the underground, the group has pushed on, never bowing to the latest scene trend. Before taking the stage in Austin, Texas with another veteran death metal band, GOREAPHOBIA, Paul Speckmann spoke to Metal Centre on the bands colorful history, as well as current events in the MASTER camp.
NILE discusses new album
NILE guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders recently spoke to Greg Pratt of Exclaim! magazine about the recording process for NILE's new album, which is due in November via Nuclear Blast Records.
“Gruelling. Exhausting,”…