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12 May 2005

IRON MAIDEN To Release 'The Trooper' Single?

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11 May 2005

Original METAL CHURCH frontman has passed away

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09 May 2005

DYING FETUS - drummer quits

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09 May 2005

ROYAL HUNT - "Paper Blood" audio samples

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09 May 2005

GORGOROTH - Infernus is jailed

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06 May 2005

HOUR OF PENANCE's new album

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06 May 2005

CANDLEMASS: “Black Dwarf” video posted online

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06 May 2005

SLAYER guitarist to take part in online chat

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06 May 2005

ROTTING CORPSE

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05 May 2005

PAIN CONFESSOR: 'Ton Of New Tunes' Ready For Upcoming Album

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05 May 2005

AFTER FOREVER Drummer Recovering From Cancer

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05 May 2005

STRATOVARIUS To Release New Album In September

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03 May 2005

SIX FEET UNDER - 'Shadow Of The Reaper' video posted online

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03 May 2005

CHEKa – tour start

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03 May 2005

DARKANE -

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29 Apr 2005

News from CANNIBAL CORPSE

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29 Apr 2005

A message from GOREFEST official web site

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29 Apr 2005

THE GATHERING: new album and DVD's

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28 Apr 2005

SATARIEL Finish Mixing New Album

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28 Apr 2005

VIRGIN STEELE Begin Recording New Album

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27 MAR

2007

On March 27, 2007, MACHINE HEAD released "The Blackening" via Roadrunner Records — the album that transformed them from groove metal survivors into modern thrash titans. Produced by the band themselves at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California, "The Blackening" was a monumental artistic statement: seven tracks averaging nearly ten minutes each, built on complex arrangements, blistering solos, and Robb Flynn's most ferocious vocal performance to date. Opening track "Clenching the Fists of Dissent" alone clocked in at over ten minutes of escalating fury. "Aesthetics of Hate," written in response to a callous article mocking Dimebag Darrell's murder, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. Critics and fans hailed it as the best metal album of 2007, drawing comparisons to METALLICA's "Master of Puppets." "The Blackening" revitalized MACHINE HEAD's career and stands as one of the defining thrash records of the twenty-first century.

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