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Kai Swillus One of the pioneering acts of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, Saxon is set to return with 'Call to Arms,' their 19th studio album. If you're looking for anthemic songwriting and powerhouse vocal performances, the record delivers in spades...

Beissert -- the German metallers that refer to their music as "Saxon:Blood:Rock" and are perhaps best described as a Teutonic version of Corrosion of Conformity -- will release their second album, 'The Pusher,' on May 25 on Agonia Records. According to a press statement, "'The Pusher' is a scraggly, lunatic witches cauldron filled with elements of metal, doom, hardcore, stoner, noi

Black Breath, 'Heavy Breathing' (Southern Lord): The Catholics say deliver us from evil in the Lord's prayer, but Seattle's Black Breath deliver us some evil with 'Heavy Breathing,' a fast slab of garage-metal and crusted-over punk that'll leave you with a case of tinnitus after one full listen...

The second participant (i.e. victim) for our new column, 'Your iPod Is Showing,' is Dimmu Borgir guitarist Silenoz. One of the most commercially successful Norwegian black metal bands, Dimmu play pummeling songs suffused with enticing melodies and Wagnerian keyboard swells...

From so-called 'heavy metal day' to straight-up glam, Rocklahoma 2009 featured four days of non-stop music, fans ... and excruciating heat. Held annually in Pryor, Okla., Rocklahoma attracts music fans from around the globe. This year, the event took place July 9-12, with bands like Anthrax, Overkill, Twisted Sister, Danger Danger, Kix, Stryper, Ratt and many more entertaining the crowd ... Read

The third annual Rocklahoma festival is slated for July 9-12 in Pryor, Oklahoma. Yeah, you read that right: Oklahoma. Pryor is a sleepy town of a few thousand residents nearly an hour from Tulsa. The desolate locale makes the perfect setting for a long weekend of rock and roll hijinks...