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08 Feb 2006

Chris Caffery

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07 Feb 2006

WARHEAD: New Songtitles Revealed

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07 Feb 2006

RAMMSTEIN

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03 Feb 2006

Bad news from MANOWAR

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03 Feb 2006

THE LEGION

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03 Feb 2006

STEEL ATTACK: New Album Track Listing Revealed

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02 Feb 2006

VANDEN PLAS new album had to be postponed

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02 Feb 2006

STREAM OF PASSION will do an European tour at the end of January

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31 Jan 2006

News from THE ETERNAL

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30 Jan 2006

PANZERCHRIST Begin Recording New Album

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30 Jan 2006

SAATTUE Complete Work On New Promo CD

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29 Jan 2006

DOLORIAN - New Album

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29 Jan 2006

ADAGIO: 'Dominate' To Receive French Release In March

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29 Jan 2006

MENTAL DEMISE without drummer...

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27 Jan 2006

THEE PLAGUE OF GENTLEMEN news

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27 Jan 2006

RIGOR SARDONICUS reissue their early demo

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27 Jan 2006

YOB disbanded

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27 Jan 2006

LAKE OF DEPRESSION, NOCTURNE, QUASAR и SOURCE OF DEEP SHADOWS split coming soon

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21 Jan 2006

Wolfsong Compilation

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20 Jan 2006

THEATRE OF TRAGEDY

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22 APR

1961

On April 22, 1961, guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As a co-founder and lead guitarist of VENOM, Mantas helped create the sonic template for black metal, thrash metal, and extreme metal as a whole. His raw, distortion-drenched guitar attack on seminal albums "Welcome to Hell," "Black Metal," and "At War with Satan" was deliberately primitive yet devastatingly effective, prioritizing atmosphere and aggression over technical polish. The very name "black metal" comes from VENOM's 1982 album, making Mantas one of the architects of an entire genre. His riffing style, combining MOTÖRHEAD's speed with a darker, more sinister edge, influenced countless bands from BATHORY and CELTIC FROST to MAYHEM and DARKTHRONE. Despite VENOM's lineup turbulence over the decades, Mantas remains one of extreme metal's most important founding figures.

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