This settles it. I’ve GOT to move to Norway! So many good things are coming out of Norway and Nekromantheon is another one. “Rise, Vulcan Spectre” is just sick! January 13th is going to be a banner day! That’s the day “Rise, Vulcan Spectre” is...

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Thrash legends Slayer are to perform their 25-year old classic “Reign In Blood” album in its entirety in London next May.

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Volbeat & Black Spiders At Academy 2, Manchester Friday 28th October, 2011 The sense of anticipation and impatience was tangible at the doors of Manchester Academy 2 as the crowd was going to be embraced with some good rock and metal, and beer or two,...

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Halloween 2011, marks the release date for two albums from two of metal’s titans. Two of The Big 4 will unleash their latest offerings to the masses. One is a car crash; a collaboration that further pushes the self destruct button for Metallica, the other...

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Not to be confused with the Swedish band of the same name, the Norwegian Shining on “Blackjazz” miraculously managed to fuse the ethic of punk, free form jazz, progressive rock and industrial into an extraordinary combination of violence and aggression within the context of multifaceted...

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Venom, the hugely influential UK outfit now celebrating a full 30 years since the release of their ‘Welcome To Hell’ debut, will have a brand new studio album "Fallen Angels" released in November

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Big 4-itis is rife across Knebworth, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer have already spread the disease to epidemic proportions, but now as the Metallica Juggernaut thunders in, anyone not yet infected; anyone with any shit left, will lose it big time. Metallica are the sixth form...

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US thrashers Slayer are no strangers to Sonisphere having graced the Apollo Stage last year with a face-melting set but this year the ante has been upped as they return as part of The Big Four. As with Anthrax they are missing one of their...

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The person whose job it was to choose the running order of The Big 4 must have had sleepless nights about it… Third on The Big 4 bill were Megadeth, Dave Mustaine and the boys could have easily been chosen above Slayer but had to...

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So, finally the day arrived that the Big 4 hit the UK on the same stage for the first time, the hype surrounding the show has been huge since it was announced. Big 4 t-shirts were everywhere to be seen and every other man and...

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Co-authored by Mark Wrigley. Back in October 1990 The Clash Of The Titans Tour hit the UK. It was a lineup heavier than a herd of concrete cows encased in lead. Slayer, Megadeth, Testament and Suicidal Tendencies were the four bands making grown men seriously...

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Sweden's THE HAUNTED are back with a new studio album at last! After touring Europe with Slayer earlier in 2010 and releasing their fabulous DVD/live album "Road Kill", THE HAUNTED are set to release "Unseen" via Century Media Records in March 2011

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* THE BIG 4 COME TO THE UK FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! * * SONISPHERE BRINGS METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH & ANTHRAX TO HEADLINE FRIDAY NIGHT * With two exciting announcements already made, SONISPHERE KNEBWORTH 2011 – which takes place 8th – 10th July 2010...

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Latin America is slowly but surely becoming a hotbed of metal. The passion for all things heavy has been clear for years and now the fruits of those passions are starting to make themselves heard across the world. At the forefront of this wave of...

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So we were finally there, after two postponements due to Tom Araya’s bad back and then, ultimately, surgery to rectify his back. The show cancellations haven’t dampened the enthusiasm for, thrash metal veterans, Slayer’s return to these shores, in fact, they seem to have stoked...

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I have been compiling this list for what seems like forever... 2009 was the year I re-found my love of music, for the past few years I had all but forgotten what music really meant to me!

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