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Metal News for October 4, 2001

Last updated on October 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM ET

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Down-time

Nope, it's not a clever play on band names this time... If you're reading this, the site is back up (duh!). But at the time of posting this, we are experiencing connectivity problems, courtesy of AT&T, and the only way I can post to this is because I am on the local network to the webserver. I hope the site is/was not down for too long and I offer my apolgies to our visitors for the inconvenience.

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Contests

  • Strength Beyond Strength is giving away the following: Pantera - Far Beyond Driven (CD), Clawfinger - Clawfinger (CD, 1998), Limp Bizkit - Significant Other (CD), Sepultura - Attitude (CD Single) and The Crow (Brandon Lee, VHS, European PAL) + 5 compilation CDs for 5 runners up.

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Shadeworks Demo

Belgian metal band Shadeworks released a demo CD entitled "Sooty Limbs". It includes four professionally recorded songs of "Weird Atmospheric Metal" with Fae on guest female vocals. Contact anicolas777@lycos.com for more details.

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Daily Interviews

Digital Metal delivers six new interviews this week:

And Vampire Magazine has a bunch of new interviews:

  • Kreator (Ger) - Return to Coma of Souls...
  • Lykathea Aflame (Cz) - Atmospheric Death/Grind...is that possible?
  • Shadowbreed (Hol) - Pagan death metal
  • Exposing Innards (Hol) - Brutal death metal
  • Akercocke (Uk) - Extreme blending of black and death metal
  • Gurthang (Bel) - Atmospheric black/death metal from Bellgium
  • Criminal (Chi) - Thrash in the vein of Chaos A.D. from Chile
  • Julie Laughs Nomore - Original bandname, original music!

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Daily Reviews

Digital Metal has a half dozen new reviews:

Corridor Of Cells also has a butt-load of new reviews:

  • Xandria "Kill The Sun"
  • Agalloch "Of Stone, Wind And Pillor"
  • Akercocke "Goat Of Mendes"
  • Dark Funeral "Diabolis Interium"
  • Homicide Hagridden "Dead Black Sun"
  • In Flames "The Tokyo Showdown"
  • Slayer "God Hates Us All"
  • Veil Of Sorrow "Dark Rivers Of The Heart"
  • Wykked Wytch "Angelic Vengeance"
  • 2 Ton Predator "Boogie"
  • Altar "Red Harvest"
  • Andromeda "Extension Of The Wish"
  • Brodequin "Instruments Of Torture"
  • Carahter "Carahter"
  • Illdisposed "Kokaiinum"
  • Hypocrisy "10 Years Of Chaos And Confusion "
  • Kalmah "Swamplord"
  • Sigh "Imaginary Sonicscape"
  • Terminal Sound System "RH-8SB"
  • Entwine "Gone"
  • Sceptic "Pathetic Being"

And Electric Basement reviews the latest from Ozzy, Alice Cooper, Boetz and Riffmaster General.

Vampire Magazine reviews Kreator, Rebealliun, Diabolical Masquerade, Rakoth, Hollethon, Double Dealer, Wizard, Diabolic and more.

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