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02 Sept 2004

Sonic Age Records - in the name of heavy metal

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02 Sept 2004

OMNIUM GATHERUM - "that trendy-pop-death-metal-crap"

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02 Sept 2004

MARILYN MANSON - a new video posted online

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02 Sept 2004

EPICA - the DVD release is expected

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02 Sept 2004

AGNOSTIC FRONT - a new platter is at the doors

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01 Sept 2004

FORCE OF EVIL record a sophomore album

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01 Sept 2004

USURPER unleash cryptobeast

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01 Sept 2004

BOLT THROWER part ways with vocalist

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01 Sept 2004

ANTIMATTER - side-project mania

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01 Sept 2004

Timo Kotipelto collaborates with orchestra

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01 Sept 2004

PANDEMIA - looking for a label

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01 Sept 2004

GWAR make a war party

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01 Sept 2004

DEINONYCHUS - a step short to insomnia

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01 Sept 2004

VARATHRON are back!

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01 Sept 2004

SONATA ARCTICA top the charts

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31 Aug 2004

Kari Rueslatten - a new album soon

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31 Aug 2004

DAATH in making a new album

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31 Aug 2004

WRUST - a breakthru from Botswana

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30 Aug 2004

BloodWorks wed metal and horror

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30 Aug 2004

METALLICA were named Best Band on the Planet

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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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NERVOSA

Thrash Metal · Napalm

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GREEN CARNATION

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