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MACHINE HEAD have been the definition of heavy metal since Robb Flynn first took up his guitar in that name, and here is the video to prove it. Dating pre signing to Roadrunner for the release of their debut Burn My Eyes, this is a self made video for the track ‘Fuck It All’ (titled Block on the aforementioned release)/. Utter freakin’ GENIUS that has continued until the current day with the release of last years THE BLACKENING.

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DEVILDRIVER are currently on the road in the US, tearing various places now arseholes and no doubt scaring numerous security personel with their giant mosh pits. Bassist Jon Miller recorded the following update on the

CAVALERA CONSPIRACY have had part 2 of their exclusive video interview with Metal Hammer TV posted up on the site!

Head to THIS location to check it out!!!

As well as releasing debut album ‘Inflikted’ last month to a chorus of approval from the critics, the guys have also been added to this years Download festival bill!!

You can check out tracks from the guys HERE and can buy the album online now by clicking on the following links:
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KILL HANNAH hit the road last week with Aiden on a massive UK and European tour. We caught up with guitarist Johnny to see how things have been going and he had this message…

Hello, everyone! Jonny here!
We’re just about two weeks in to our UK/European tour with Aiden, and so far, it’s gone exceptionally well. The tour kicked off at the Pyramid Center in Portsmouth to a packed house filled with rabid fans. Honestly, playing such an intense show for all those energetic kids was truly the perfect remedy for my jetlag! The next few shows were equally as intense. We hit Cardiff (first time playing/visiting Wales), Bristol (LOVE ‘The Hatcher Inn’, little pub right across from the venue), Dublin (had to have a Guinness!), Glasgow (played an acoustic set on XFM radio before the sold out show, and had a rad dj gig later that night at a popular night club), and of course, MANCHESTER. That city is a band favorite. The shows are always sold out, the fans are violently obsessed (which is a good thing 🙂 ) and most of our favorite bands come from Manchester. We had a good day full of press/interviews and sight seeing before the show, and afterwards, hung out at the famous ‘Big Hands’ pub. The next night was Oxford (lovely city, and the fans are wonderful), followed by Norwich (first time playing there, and judging by the crowd response, definitely NOT the last time), and finally, Rock City in Nottingham. Nottingham, like Manchester, has ALWAYS been a great city for us to play. This entire tour has been a blast. It’s great to see familiar faces, but also so many new faces at these shows. The UK has definitely welcomed Kill Hannah with ‘open arms’. Thank you!! Ciao for now!

The guys also recorded some interviews for some of our friends over at Kerrang! and Sugar, talking about various things- check them out!

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Kill Hannah’s new album UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT OF US is in stores now, and you can pick it up online by visiting the links below:
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Our favourite rockers from Canada NICKELBACK have announced an extra London date for their upcoming UK tour. The guys will now be playing WEMBLEY ARENA on Sunday 21st September in addition to their O2 date, as with the ongoing closure of parts of the Jubilee tube line on weekends, it would have been difficult for folks to find transportation to a second show at the O2. Tickets priced

3 INCHES OF BLOOD have announced that they have added some dates to their headline run around the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH tour with OPETH and DEVILDRIVER. Their full list of headline dates is now as follows:

Sun 27th Apr – Swindon Furnace
Mon 28th Apr – Brighton Freebutt
Wed 30th April – Sheffield Corporation
Thu 1st May – Peterborough The Park
Fri 2nd May – Leeds Rios
Sat 3rd May – Edinburgh Studio 24

Check out the video to their current EP TRIAL OF CHAMPIONS HERE

Current album FIRE UP THE BLADES is in stores NOW and you can buy online at the following locations:
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Scuzz TV has teamed up with DOWN this week to give one of you the chance to see them live in London on April 13th! Not only that but you will also be given the chance to help create your very own guitar courtesy of Krozka Sharpe! And all you gotta do is tell them what pioneering metal band is Phil Anselmo also associated with! An absolute DODDLE!! Sling your arse over to Scuzz.com to enter the comp!!!

Check out the full list of tour dates HERE

You can pick up their latest album ‘OVER THE UNDER’ online at the following locations:

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CAVALERA CONSPIRACY released debut album INFLIKTED last week to a chorus of critical approval. Just check out the METAL HAMMER and KERRANG! reviews below…

The Rapprochement of the Cavalera brothers – Max and Iggor – has everyone awaiting the expected announcement of a Sepultura reunion. Inevitable? Perhaps, at some distant point. But, right now, the guitarist/singer and drummer respectively aren’t thinking about such weighty matters. And to some extent it shows, with a project that definitely doesn’t try to second-guess where the Seps should be in 2008.
Obviously, there’s a great deal of the past locked into ‘Inflikted’. Nobody would suggest that the pair were ever going to remove all hint of their own heritage, and this is very much a return to the raw metal of the late 1980’s, infused with lashings of a hardcore attitude. If you take the Seps’ 1987 album ‘Schizophrenia’ as the starting point, then you’ll get an immediate feel for what’s involved. However, this is far from a retreading of old routes. The foundations might have been set two decades ago, but the power, the atmosphere and the focus belong to the modern age. Together with Gojira’s Joe Duplantier on bass and Soulfly guitarist Marc Rizzo, the Cavalera caucus have created a modern extreme metal experience.
From the moment the riotous title track and the brutal ‘Sanctuary” rise up and bite, you’ll be overwhelmed by torrential post-thrash downpour. And, for the most part, the band do embrace hyper-drive, with ‘Hex’ and ‘Never Trust’ the equal of anything being delivered by the new-generation thrashers currently sweeping through metal. The latter, in particular, makes its mark as Max bellows a list of those types of people whom he has found unpalatable over the years. The snarl of retribution is obvious.
But this is far from being a one-paced blur. Like all top-class metalheads, Cavalera Conspiracy understand the need for variation. So ‘Terrorize’ is built on a concussively supple guitar sound, ‘Black Ark’ is the closest we get to the ‘Roots’ era of Sepultura, and ‘Must Kill’ is an anthemic tirade, with a climactic guitar tornado.
But the most impressive moments come on ‘Heart Of Darkness’ and ‘Bloodbrawl’. The former has a classic metal stride that brings to mind Judas Priest, being multi-faceted, yet never losing intensity. The latter is the album’s masterwork. It veers from uber-mania to a softer rhythm, within a structure that’s both stern yet also intimate. It’s here that the band’s propensity for spontaneity is clearest. They take a basic song discipline and stretch out, reveling in their musical freedom. It’s a monumental achievement.
‘Inflikted’ is a strong start from a new band with a spectacular history. Much was expected, and a great deal is delivered. But the real triumph is that, ultimately, not only have the Cavaleras used Sepultura as a springboard, they’ve made talk of a Seps reformation just a touch irrelevant. For the moment. METAL HAMMER

It’s good to go away, but nothing beats coming home. If Inflikted is what happens when brothers reunite after a decade apart, then just maybe the rift has been worth it – in artistic terms, at least. Cavalera Conspiracy is anything but tokenistic. Remember the first tribal blast of Soulfly, the moment you realized the game might ultimately be up for the previously untouchable Sepultura? That’s the impression you get here. Inflikted sidesteps both Soulfly’s samba percussives and the corrosive distortion of early Sepultura, but at the same time it rebirths that shock and awe heaviness, the streewise riffing of the Cavalera’s first band, adding only a bigger production. That extra studio dynamic merely throws open the doors to let the storm roar in.
Some storm it is too. Max Cavalera’s coals have probably never cut through with more controlled brutality than here. The title-track opens in a squall of synthesized biomechanical feedback, and seconds later Iggor Cavalera’s tubs rifle in, marshalling the familiar crunch of his brothers guitar. This isn’t power for the sake of it – Cavalera Conspiracy (completed by Soulfly guitarist Mark Rizzo and bass from Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier) build songs from rolling, concrete riffs, each pounding out simplistic, upper cut hooks.
“I don’t give a fuck if everybody dies tonight” seethes Max in Sanctuary following a disconcerting spiral of guitar noise, before a churning time change hits you in the gut. Hex and Nevertrust are similarly aggressive, short bull-shaped nuggets of hardcore mangled metal designed purely to stun. There’s more ambition in Black Ark and Bloodbrawl, but Inflikted is an album that never deviates far from its central thrust – a simple equation of heaviness, groove and melody worked to perfection.
One thing that separates Inflikted from previous Cavalera projects is the occasional suggestion of synths. Purists need not furrow their brow – machines drop in only scarce and shadowy embellishments to the carnage up top. Inflikted is not a Fear Factory record. It is a modern spin on an old theme, a polished, updated but no less bellicose take on the Sepultura of old. These are killing fields of metal, a precursor just possibly to a Sepultura reunion, and a fine debut in its own right.
DOWNLOAD: Sanctuary, Nevertrust.
FOR FANS OF: Sepultura, Machine Head. KERRANG

If you are yet to check out the latest material fromMax and Iggor Cavalera, then check out their ARTISTS SECTION ta sample a couple of tracks and you can buy now, online, at the phollowing locations:

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In celebration of the upcoming DOWN headline UK tour, the following clubs will be holding Down themed club nights!! Check them out!!!

April 4th – Subway City in Birmingham
April 4th – Cathouse in Glasgow
April 5th – Carling Academy in Birmingham
April 5th – UEA in Norwich
April 11th – Satans Hollow in Manchester

The DOWN tour kicks off this coming Monday (7th April) in support of current album OVER THE UNDER and if you move fast, you may be able to grab yourself a ticket!!
Tue 8th Apr – Glasgow Academy
Wed 9th Apr – Birmingham Academy
Thu 10th Apr – Norwich UEA
Sat 12th Apr – Manchester Academy – SOLD OUT
Sun 13th Apr – London Brixton Academy
Tue 15th Apr – Dublin Ambassador Theatre

Pick up your copy of OVER THE UNDER online NOW:

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