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11 Feb 2008

ARCH ENEMY - russian dates announced

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10 Feb 2008

SCUM - 'Gospels For The Sick' available on limited-edition vinyl

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09 Feb 2008

NORTHER - 'We Rock' video online

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09 Feb 2008

'Music By People Like Us' Hardcore Compilation Due In March

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07 Feb 2008

NACHTMYSTIUM - new song available online

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07 Feb 2008

MOONSORROW - 'Tulimyrsky' EP details revealed

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06 Feb 2008

ETERNAL DEFORMITY - new song posted online

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05 Feb 2008

MANEGARM - to play russia in April

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05 Feb 2008

DIVINITY - pictures from 'Plasma' video shoot

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04 Feb 2008

FOLKEARTH Preparing To Release 'Father Of Victory'

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04 Feb 2008

Ex-DIMMU BORGIR Drummer Records With Venezuela's NOCTIS IMPERIUM

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03 Feb 2008

MAYHEM - best Norwegian metal album

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01 Feb 2008

LACRIMOSA in russia in June!

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31 Jan 2008

DISMEMBER - another new song posted online

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23 Jan 2008

AVANTASIA: "The Metal Opera - Gold Edition" Due In March

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09 Jan 2008

Fans Trying To Get DIMEBAG Statue In Dallas

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09 Jan 2008

Keith Baxter (ex-SKYCLAD,ex-3COLOURS RED) died at 36

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24 Dec 2007

SEPULTURA Takes Part In Charity Soccer Game

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24 Dec 2007

DEMONICAL Parts Ways With Singer

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18 Dec 2007

WALDEMAR SORYCHTA To Attend ENEMY OF THE SUN CD-Release Party In New York

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18 SEPT

1970

BLACK SABBATH released their second album, "Paranoid," in Britain on September 18th, 1970, through Vertigo, with the American edition following on Warner Bros. in January 1971. Rodger Bain produced it at Regent Sound and Island Studios in London, and the band needed only two days in June to record it. It carries "War Pigs," "Iron Man" and "Planet Caravan" alongside the title track, written in minutes as filler and released as a single that reached number four in the UK — the band's only top twenty hit. Tony Iommi's riffs did more to define what heavy metal would sound like than any other record in the genre's history, and the album topped the British chart, a feat SABBATH would not repeat until "13" in 2013. Rolling Stone ranked it first among the hundred greatest metal albums ever made.

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