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Andy Whale and Karl Willetts are old-school members of the U.K.’s Bolt Thrower. They played together for years before the band granted Whale an “honourable discharge” in 1994. In Birmingham early this year, Continue reading Info on Memoriam (and an interview with Bolt Thrower: From the Vault)
Pleiades’ Dust is the new record from Gorguts, out now on Season of Mist, and it’s been getting very strong notices. It’s high time, then, to run a cleaned-up version Continue reading From the Vault: Gorguts interview
After six years, Extreme Noise Terror is coming out with a self-titled album. Longtime frontman Dean Jones said in a press release, “Our best album yet. If this doesn’t blow Continue reading Extreme Noise Terror is back (and we bring back a classic interview—From the Vault)
Megadeth has been in the metal news lately with announcements about pre-orders on a new album and a new lineup featuring Chris Adler from Lamb of God on drums and Kiko Loureiro on guitar. Continue reading From the Vault: a look back at Megadeth
“Atheist Will Make You Believe in Tech Metal,” we announced in one of our archive zine issues. The Florida band is certainly a pioneer in that, going all the way back Continue reading Another round of Atheist reissues; another interview From the Vault
“Rocktronica” is the phrase the British band Pitch Shifter uses to describe itself. But its old records through the mid-1990s were in the vein of what metalheads would call industrial. In Continue reading Pitch Shifter: and now for something completely different (From the Vault)
The longstanding metal band from California, Armored Saint, has a new album called Win Hands Down came out on June 2 on Metal Blade. There’s digital, CD, vinyl, and a box Continue reading New Armored Saint album: “Win Hands Down” and From the Vault interview
Unleashed’s new album, Dawn of the Nine, is out now on Nuclear Blast, and a new lyric video from it, “Defenders of Midgard,” is below. We posted before about the Continue reading Unleashed: (another) new video and (another) old interview—From the Vault
Unleashed, the self-styled chief vikings of Swedish death metal, has a new album coming out called Dawn of the Nine and a new lyric video of one of the songs, Continue reading Unleashed post new video; we post old interview From the Vault
D.U. got into the tape trading scene around 1990 or so, and got out of it some years later. In any case it’s high time we started posting some clips Continue reading From the Vault: Pestilence video, 1990