EXHUMED: A rare demo from true Norwegian black metallers Urgehal will be seeing a rerelease courtesy of Folter Records. The 'Rise of the Monument' album was originally released in 1995 on tape and then as a limited 2006 picture disc, but will now be seeing the light of day in CD format and feature a bonus 45-minute live set from the Under the Black Sun Festival in 2008.
NEW BLOOD: Swedish pagan metal
Remember a week or so ago, when Five Finger Death Punch announced that guitarist Zoltan Bathory had gone missing in Las Vegas? Well, Zoltan's finally speaking about what really went down over those three days the band couldn't track him down. Not surprisingly, w
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