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18 Jul 2004

STORMWITCH on Nuclear Blast

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18 Jul 2004

CRADLE OF FILTH - new updates on "Nymphetamine"

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18 Jul 2004

BLACK SABBATH bassman works solo

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18 Jul 2004

EPHEL DUATH - another delay

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18 Jul 2004

WOLVERINE on marching!

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18 Jul 2004

CARNIVAL IN COAL sign with Earache

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14 Jul 2004

SAXON - nab STRATOVARIUS drummer

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10 Jul 2004

DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - announced 5th album

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03 Jul 2004

THE BERZERKER’s DVD is out now

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03 Jul 2004

THE CHASM complete recording

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03 Jul 2004

CATHEDRAL unlock ’The Serpent’s Gold’

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03 Jul 2004

MORBID ANGEL: Headbanger’s Ball Guest Hosts

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19 Jun 2004

ACCEPT – a new blast from the past

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17 Jun 2004

BESTIAL - "Satanic Metal"

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17 Jun 2004

FESTERGUTS and TVANGESTE - soundtracks for "Sinners And Saints"

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01 Jun 2004

CHILDERMAS - ChilderMiss-2004 competition

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01 Jun 2004

EVERLOST - Bitterness Of The Triumph

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31 May 2004

EVERLOST – «Bitterness Of The Triumph»

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31 May 2004

ALONE IN THE DARK – the ghosts will howl familiar

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31 May 2004

THERION – widen the borders of metal music once more

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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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