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SALEM - to perform with MAYHEM vocalist

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22 Nov 2005

DARK TRANQUILLITY: Live Video Posted Online

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20 Nov 2005

GRENOUER - Reckless of consequences

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ENSIFERUM To Release 'Dragonheads' In February

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GORGOROTH Explain Gig Cancellations

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20 Nov 2005

OPETH Frontman: We Hope

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KEEP OF KALESSIN to Support EXODUS, HYPOCRISY

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15 Nov 2005

SoulFlesh Collector announced the first release!

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15 Nov 2005

New FATES WARNING' DVD

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15 Nov 2005

Concept of new VANDEN PLAS's album is based on Dumas' novel

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KAIPA - "The Decca Years 1975 - 1978"

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News from STREAM OF PASSION

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06 Nov 2005

ENSIFERUM To Film 10-Year Anniversary Show For Upcoming DVD

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05 Nov 2005

Interview with Jesper Strömblad of In Flames

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05 Nov 2005

'Lords Of Chaos' Norwegian Black Metal Movie To Go Into Pre-Production

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05 Nov 2005

Interview with Cadaveria on Metal-Temple.com

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02 Nov 2005

Ex-ANCIENT Vocalist Explains How She Became A Follower Of Islam

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01 Nov 2005

CD-Maximum Releases - Oct 28-31

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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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