Unsilence Vocalist Leaves

British doomsters UNSILENCE have posted the following update:

"Our longtime vocalist, Andrew Hodson has left the band. This is due to a general lack of interest. It's a perfectly clean split with no hard feelings whatsoever.

We have pledged to continue and are now looking for a replacement. If interested then contact: KrnThy@aol.com"

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New Dusk Ov Shadows Demo For Download

Canadian funeral doom project Dusk ov Shadows has a new demo out, "Ashen Angels". The sound has changed from the previous demos, and is somewhat Skepticism-like this time. Go here to download it.

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Throwdown Set To Record "Vendetta" Next Month

California's Throwdown will be entering the studio next month with producer Zeuss (Hatebreed, Shadows Fall) to record their new full-length album, "Vendetta." The effort will consist of thirteen tracks, including the following:

Shut You Down
Burn
I'd Give My Life
This Discipline
And We Rise

Here's what vocalist Dave Peters says about the new album: More...

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Shadows Fall To Shoot Video This Month

Shadows Fall will film a video for the track "Inspiration On Demand" later this month. Shooting will take place in Puerto Rico with director Zach Merck (Converge, Atreyu) and the video should premiere this spring.

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Ephel Duath Set To Record New Album

Italy's Ephel Duath will be in the studio in February recording their next album. The group expects to finish tracking drums, bass, and guitar by March 9th, with vocal and brass recording to begin on March 20th. The album is titled "Pain Necessary To Know," and will (tentatively) include the following tracks:

Few Stars
No Refrain And A Cigarette
Crystalline Whirl
Pleonasm
New Disorder
Vector
Vector ? Second Movement
Imploding
Vector - Third Movement
I Killed Rebeccah

Here's what Ephel Duath founder Davide Tiso says about the new songs:

"I'm so proud of the new material. It has been my first thought in this year and half of composition and recording... it means also close a circle. I'm a little bit nervous, sometimes it scares me. In these months I've tortured my mind with thousand of questions, doubts, and worries. But after this [recent] tour, my mind seems to be clearer and my enthusiasm, if it is possible, [has] grown. Now a silence... we'll return soon with a noisy present for you."

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Vince Neil Explains Broken Ankle

Motley Crue singer Vince Neil took part in an online chat with fans on MSN on January 4th, and was asked about his recent appearance with crutches on VH1. "I slipped and fell like a moron and broke my ankle," Neil explained. "It wasn't anything exciting or anything, I was cleaning the windows of my Ferrari and slipped and fell. (laughs) And when I fell I went to brace myself with the side view mirror and ripped it off."

Read the full article at MSN.

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Reunited Hellwitch Schedule Live Performance

Legendary death/thrash metal band HELLWITCH have scheduled a live performance with INCANTATION and MORTICIAN on Saturday, January 15 at the Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale. Also appearing on the bill are THE CHASM, ARSIS, FUNERIS and MATRIARCH. HELLWITCH's current lineup includes original member Pat Ranieri (guitar, vocals), longtime bassist Craig Shattuck, recently returned JP on rhythm guitar and Joe Schnessel (drums; who started playing in the band in 1989 and recorded their "Syzgial Miscreancy" LP and "Terrasymmetry" EP).

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Mortal Sin Inducted Into Australian Metal HoF

Australia's Kerrang! magazine is holding its first ever Australian Heavy Metal Awards on February 4 in conjunction with the country's premier metal festival, Metal from the Brain.

The ceremony, which is expected to become an annual fixture in the Australian metal calendar, celebrating the best the local scene has to offer, will feature the induction of MORTAL SIN into the "Hall of Fame". MORTAL SIN will also perform a special live set on the night. Vocalist Mat Maurer says they will be performing several new songs from the upcoming release "Far from Extinction" for the first time, as well as a medley that includes "Blood Death Hatred", "Women in Leather", "Into the Fire", "Liar" and "Mortal Slaughter" - songs from "Mayhemic Destruction" that were last played in the set back in 1988.

The band, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary since they began in 1985, are looking forward to a big year which should see the band back in Europe.

On January 15, MORTAL SIN begin recording demos for the album with engineer Greg Clarke and will also record their first-ever video clip for release to music networks.

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Nightclub Shooter Had 35 Rounds of Ammo When Shot

The gunman who shot Damageplan (and former Pantera) guitarist, 'Dimebag' Darrell, and three others to death got off 15 shots and had 35 more rounds of ammunition when a Columbus police officer fatally shot him, authorities said. Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, shot and killed guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three others when they tried to intervene during a concert Dec. 8 at the Alrosa Villa nightclub.

Investigators said Thursday they think Gale fired 10 shots, reloaded and fired five more before Officer James Niggemeyer killed him with a single blast from a 12-gauge shotgun.

Gale used a Beretta 9mm semiautomatic handgun with a magazine that held 10 rounds. He reloaded once during the shootings. Gale had five rounds in his gun and was carrying 30 live rounds when he was killed, police said.

Investigators said Gale said nothing to Abbott during the attack. Since the shooting, friends and family have described Gale as an obsessed fan of the Damageplan guitarist's former band Pantera.

Alrosa Villa is scheduled to reopen Friday night for a benefit concert to raise money for the families of the two victims from the Columbus-area.

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Even Heavy Metal Can Ease Pain According To Study

Music's not just a distraction: study; Universite de Montreal research suggests sounds you like can cut pain by 15 per cent. Even the head-bobbing beat of a hip-hop track can offer pain relief to the genre's fans, a new study suggests.

Music has long been known to calm and relax. But research at the Universite de Montreal suggests it doesn't merely provide a distraction from pain.

It induces an emotional reaction among listeners that can diminish their pain by up to 15 per cent, the study found.

The impact reflects an individual's musical tastes. Jazz fans may be best soothed by the trumpet sounds of legend Miles Davis, while classical aficionados may find comfort in an orchestral masterpiece.

"Our analyses showed that music the subjects liked had a significant effect on reducing their pain," said Mathieu Roy, 24, a doctoral student in neuropsychology.

Roy exposed 80 university students to pain by attaching hot electrodes to their forearms. Various levels of discomfort were applied while subjects listened to six instrumental music pieces.

The students said the pain diminished most in songs they liked and least when songs with harsh sounds were played or no music was played at all.

"We think that by having a better understanding of the way by which music influences pain, it might help to be integrated into the clinical setting," said Roy, who next wants to study the impact of music on brain activity.

Music therapy is just one of many nonpharmaceutical ways millions of Canadians get relief.

Read the full article at Montreal Gazette.

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Devildriver Set to Release New Album

Devildriver have set an early spring release for the follow up to their self titled debut. Devildriver has entitled the album "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand".

Dez Farfara, the band's vocalist, and vocalist from Coal Chamber says “ We all stepped it up for this album. It is way heavier and much faster. Expect brutality.”

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A Perfect Circle's "Passive" Featured In Film

A Perfect Circle are to have the song 'Passive' featured in the new Keanu Reeves thriller 'Constantine'. The track originally appeared on the APC album 'eMOTIVE'.

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Power Quest To Begin Work On New Album

Anglo-Italian power metalheads Power Quest are about to start work on new album 'Magic Never Dies'. It will be produced by Karl Groom and Richard West of Threshold. The record marks the debut of new drummer Francesco Tresca.

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Korn Covers Album Tracklisting Revealed

According to fansite www.childrenofkorn.net, metal magainze "Revolver" have revealed a number of covers set to show up on Korn's forthcoming covers album, "Korn Kovers". Tracks said to be appearing include:

Prince - "Erotic City"
Motley Crue - "Shout At The Devil"
Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way"
Public Enemy - "Fight The Power" (Feat. Lil' Jon)
Faith No More - "We Care A Lot"
Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like A Hole" (Feat. Chester Bennington)
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Diary Of A Madman"

Also said to be featured on the disc are the bands two previously released covers, one being Cameo's "Word Up" and the other being Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall: Parts 1,2,3". Expect a release later this year.

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Otep Singer Has Altercation With Nick Carter?

Recently, when Nick Carter, the former Backstreet Boy, was dating Paris Hilton, they were reportedly in an altercation with the singer from OTEP at an EMI party. Apparently, Nick got jealous when Paris and Otep Shamaya seemed to buddy up and a fight started.

Nick was said to be so drunk, that he was easily pushed to a couch by Otep who was heard saying, "break it down for me backstreet". Nick was led away by his members of management. Several Paparazzi took photos of the incident but, mysteriously, none have surfaced.

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Download System Of A Down's New Song, "Cigaro"

A brand new SYSTEM OF A DOWN track, entitled "Cigaro", has been made available for download in MP3 format at this location.

"Cigaro" is one of several tracks completed towards the group's forthcoming album "Mesmerize/Hypnotize", which is currently being mixed at a Los Angeles studio by Andy Wallace (KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, DISTURBED, SEPULTURA).

As previously announced, "Mesmerize/Hypnotize" will be released as a two-disc set, the first disc ("Mesmerize") dropping in the spring, the second disc ("Hypnotize") coming out roughly six months after that.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN plan to spend the next couple years on the road. Their first stop is Auckland on January 21, where they will kick off a six-day stint at New Zealand and Australia's annual traveling festival, Big Day Out.

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Ozzy Cancels Jay Leno Appearance Due to Illness

Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon cancelled their visit to "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Thursday night (Jan. 13) due to Ozzy being sick. Sharon stopped by as a surprise anyways to sign Jay's motorcycle which is going to be auctioned off for tsunami relief. "Ozzy's on the toilet as we speak," Sharon told Jay. "He's got a very, very bad tummy, and I think he's better on the toilet there than here."

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