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22 Nov 2004

AURA NOIR - new music available for download

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22 Nov 2004

HANKER - seek bassist replacement

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22 Nov 2004

IRON MAIDEN - drummer performs with tribute act

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20 Nov 2004

SIX FEET UNDER’s video premiere

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18 Nov 2004

MAYHEM - sometimes they come back again

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18 Nov 2004

PARADISE LOST - 10th album in February

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18 Nov 2004

DISBELIEF - "66 Sick"

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18 Nov 2004

BOLT THROWER - the return of Jedi

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16 Nov 2004

BLOOD DUSTER - a DVD teaser is available

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16 Nov 2004

THY MAJESTIE - new singer is aboard

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16 Nov 2004

LACUNA COIL will start recording of a new album

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16 Nov 2004

HATESPHERE will kill with EP!

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16 Nov 2004

Tony Iommy & Glenn Huges - Deep Black Purple Sabbath

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16 Nov 2004

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - in the Arms of God

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15 Nov 2004

GRENOUER/TARTHARIA - mixing of new promos

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15 Nov 2004

SOILWORK - new album details

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15 Nov 2004

AGENT STEEL - prepare to enter studio

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15 Nov 2004

POISON - singer’s guitar stolen

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13 Nov 2004

BLEED THE SKY have inked a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast

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13 Nov 2004

Refutation from FIREBIRD

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31 MAR

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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