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Two dynamic German forces have merged to co-headline a North American Teutonic Terror Attack in the most high-powered touring bill of 2012: Kreator and Accept. Opening the 23-show trek through the U.S. and Canada will be Finland's Swallow the Sun...

German thrash titans Kreator have revealed 'Phantom Antichrist' as the title of the bands upcoming album. The album was produced by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Amon Amarth) in Örebro, Sweden. 'Phantom Antichrist' marks the band's debut for Nuclear Blast and is set to be released on June 5. Fur...

1986 was a very good year for trailblazing thrash metal and quirky musical tangents that would have long-lasting impact. That year, young lions Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer usurped the original old-school British masters, first on the streets and then in the record stores...

Los Angeles black/thrash metal band Lightning Swords of Death will release their second full-length album, 'The Extra Dimensional Wound' on May 25. The album was recorded in Corona, Calif. at Trench Studios and was produced by band guitarist Jeremy 'Roskva' Stramaglio...

The last Exodus album, 2007's 'The Atrocity Exhibition -- Exhibit A,' was a scathing condemnation of organized religion and the millions of lives that have been extinguished in the name of God. For the follow-up, 'Exhibit B: The Human Condition,' lyricist and main songwriter Gary Holt telescoped his venom on the inherent brutality of man, religion notwithstanding...

Ex-Spineshank vocalist Jonny Santos is leading the charge for the Los Angeles metalcore band Silent Civilian, whose second album, 'Ghost Stories,' is scheduled to drop May 18. Aside from Santos, the album features an entirely new lineup than the musicians who played on the band's 2006 debut, 'Rebirth of the Temple...

There's nothing like a three-week tour of South America with German thrash kings Kreator to psych a band up to create and destroy. Just ask Gary Holt, guitarist and songwriter for San Francisco thrash veterans Exodus. "Playing down there Kreator was amazing...

Even though he was busy with his side project Ex Deo for much of 2009, that didn't delay Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono from digging into songs for his main band's next album. Kataklysm have just finished the writing process for the record, 'Heaven's Venom,' which is tentatively scheduled for release in the fall of 2010...

"Bow down to the thrashers" is how Evile frontman Matt Drake started off the band's mighty set at New York City's Nokia Theater on March 6. For a band that hasn't even been around for a decade, they received an intense crowd response. As soon as lights hit the band, people literally ran from the merch area to the center of the venue...

"Good evening New York City. We are Kre-a-tor!" frontman Mille Petrozza told Nokia Theater on March 6. Kreator were in New York City celebrating their 25th anniversary. It's their second round back in less than a year -- the German band last toured North America in April 2009 with Exodus and Warbringer...