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11 Nov 2004

CANDLEMASS are dead... Viva CANDLEMASS!

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11 Nov 2004

In memoriam... NOTRE DAME

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10 Nov 2004

BATTLELORE - to enter studio in March

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10 Nov 2004

IN BATTLE - working title of new album

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09 Nov 2004

SOLUTION 13 - new singer

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09 Nov 2004

AETERNUS - new album recorded

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09 Nov 2004

GORGOROTH strike the headlines again

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09 Nov 2004

HYPOCRISY’s Horgh on recording the new album

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09 Nov 2004

Rob Zombie - the rejected devil at works

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09 Nov 2004

Mike Terrana - the Man of the World

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09 Nov 2004

NIGHTWISH - "Once" Platinum Edition

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09 Nov 2004

EDGUY are to release "best of" double album

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09 Nov 2004

FRAGMENTS OF BECOMING - a new man aboard

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09 Nov 2004

MACHINE HEAD drummer goes "full-on metal"

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08 Nov 2004

KINO - new prog star

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08 Nov 2004

KING’S X - «Live All Over The Place»

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08 Nov 2004

PAIN OF SALVATION - DVD/CD version of "Be"

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08 Nov 2004

IQ - 20 years

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08 Nov 2004

AYREON - "Actual Fantasy: Revisited" re-release

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08 Nov 2004

ASIA - release the single

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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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