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29 Nov 2004

DEIMOS - release on Wroth Emitter

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29 Nov 2004

ANCIENT - side project to see light of day

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27 Nov 2004

WITHIN TEMPTATION - new album on top of dutch album chart

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27 Nov 2004

NOVEMBERS DOOM - new album

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26 Nov 2004

NORTHER name new EP

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26 Nov 2004

THE WILDHEARTS live DVD

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26 Nov 2004

SALEM: live videos available for free download

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26 Nov 2004

THE GATHERING continue writing

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25 Nov 2004

MINDGRINDER - the rebel coismocraty

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25 Nov 2004

HALCYON WAY are working on a new album

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25 Nov 2004

WORLD BELOW are to start recording of the new album

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25 Nov 2004

MORS PRINCIPIUM EST have born the unborn

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25 Nov 2004

BEYOND TWILIGHT - the synopsis

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24 Nov 2004

SIX FEET UNDER - to release new album

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24 Nov 2004

DARKSEED - complete work on new album

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24 Nov 2004

STURMGEIST - Cornelius Jakhelln (SOLEFALD) goes solo

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24 Nov 2004

ACTIONJACKSON - ex-MORGOTH members’ band

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23 Nov 2004

IRON MAIDEN top the rock’n’roll fashion stakes chart

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23 Nov 2004

ZARAZA have come on writing a new album

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23 Nov 2004

GUNS’N’ROSES - Chinese Democracy

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2017

On March 31, 2017, MASTODON released their seventh studio album "Emperor of Sand" through Reprise Records — a conceptual masterpiece exploring terminal illness, mortality, and the passage of time through the metaphor of a man sentenced to death by a desert emperor. The album was deeply personal: drummer Brann Dailor's mother had recently been diagnosed with cancer, guitarist Bill Kelliher's mother was battling the disease, and bassist Troy Sanders's wife had undergone treatment. This collective grief infused every note with devastating emotional weight. Musically, "Emperor of Sand" represented MASTODON at their most refined, balancing their progressive sludge metal roots with accessible songcraft on tracks like "Show Yourself," "Sultans Curse," and "Steambreather." The album debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "Sultan's Curse" — a crowning achievement for one of the twenty-first century's most important metal bands.

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