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Metal News for May 7, 2001

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Live Albums: Filler or a Necessity?

This is the title of an editorial over at Metal-Rules.com, in which each of their staff members gives their opinion. It's an interesting read, so check it out...

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Reviews @ Metal-Rules.com

Metal-Rules.com has a ton of new reviews up for the month of May also:

  • Anchor - Pain Inside
  • Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
  • Blessed By The Night - The Dark Metal Compilation
  • Boy Hits Car - s/t
  • Cadaver Inc. - Discipline
  • Chaos Theory - s/t
  • Company Of Snakes - Here They Go Again
  • Darkane - Insanity
  • Devolution - Self-Made Monster
  • Dominion Caligula - A New Era Rises
  • Edguy - The Savage Poetry (Special Edition)
  • Elektrik Mistress - s/t
  • Evolution - Subterranean Sweatshop
  • Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
  • Kamelot - Karma
  • Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
  • Lost Angel - Psychosomatic
  • Lost Horizon - Awakening The World
  • Nebula - Charged
  • Patton - War Declared
  • Powerhouse - What Lies Ahead
  • Racer X - Superheroes
  • Sacrifice - Forward To Termination
  • Scornage - Ascend
  • Sisthema - The Fourth Discontinuity
  • Sloth Frenzy - Slow Murder
  • Spitvalves - Fine Print At The Bottom
  • Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
  • Tempered Steel - In Your Face
  • The Centre of Gravity - Leave the Past Behind
  • The Dismal - Make Your Mind Up
  • Threshold - Hypothetical
  • Vanden Plas - Spirit of Live
  • Veil of Maya - Not Ordinary Dreams
  • Vick Lecar - Vick Lecar`s Blue Moon
  • Vision - Best of Vision
  • Zanister - Fear No Man

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Interviews @ Metal-Rules.com

Three new interviews are up at Metal-Rules.com:

  • Mike Wead and Andy la Rocque of King Diamond
  • Martin Steene, vocalist for Iron Fire
  • Nypon & Blylod - The mighty Nypon

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Katatonia Returns to UK to Tour

Hot on the heels of some top UK live reviews from the Peacefests, Katatonia return to cement their relationship with blighty. More...

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