"Extreme Metal", the heavy metal video program which aired on the Italian satellite music channel Rock TV, has been officially shut down. The host of the show, ANCIENT/FAUST guitarist Aleister, was dismissed from Rock TV after a musician that made a guest appearance on "Extreme Metal" professed his belief in Satanism while responding to a text message sent in by one of the home viewers. The text message read: "I would like to ask you if the various occult symbols you use have a true meaning for you or you do it just for show." The response by the guest in question was: "It isn't for show — we believe in it, and I feel that the beliefs of pe ...

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Punk bands NICOTINE (Japan) and SUN EATS HOURS (Italy) have teamed up to record a split album, "Metal Addiction", featuring covers of heavy metal classics.

Due on November 15, "Metal Addiction" (cover) will contain the following track listing:

01. It's My Life (BON JOVI) - NICOTINE
02. I Was Made For Loving You (KISS) - NICOTINE
03. Future World (HELLOWEEN) - NICOTINE
04. I Remember You (SKID ROW) - NICOTINE
05. Valhalla (BLIND GUARDIAN) - NICOTINE
06. The Final Countdown (EUROPE) - NICOTINE
07. Rain ( ...

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FINNTROLL is currently putting the finishing touches to its fifth, as-yet-untitled album, at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki for a tentative March 2007 release via Spinefarm. This will be the group's first release with new vocalist Mathias Lillmåns (a.k.a. Vreth; TWILIGHT MOON) following the departure of Tapio Wilska (SETHIAN, ex-WIZZARD, former session vocalist for NIGHTWISH) this past spring. Lillmåns is reportedly 24 years old, and like FINNTROLL's original vocalist, Katla Mathias, is Fenno-Swedish, with Swedish as his mother tongue.

FINNTROLL parted ways with Wilska in January ...

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Please join us in welcoming Ross as the latest addition to the MetalReviews.com staff. With much experience under his belt in terms of reviewing, Ross is eager to get started. We hope that he enjoys writing for MetalReviews.com!

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Random scraps of metal news...

• Max Samosvat (vocals) is no longer a member of Mechanical Poet. The band is searching for a suitable replacement before finishing the recording of their upcoming third album, Creepy Tales For Freaky Children.



• Finnish metallers Tarot have updated their official website to coincide with the release of Crows Fly Back (out now). A new media player allows you to stream full-length tracks from each of the band's seven albums.



• Trail Of Tears will release their fifth album, "Existentia", in the U.S. on J ...

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Due Process, the new label formed by longstanding webzine Aversionline, has announced the release of the complete discography from one of Boston's finest and most revered late-'80s thrash metal acts FORMICIDE. The self-titled CD — mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering — contains 15 tracks spanning 1987 to 1989, totaling nearly an hour's worth of raw, classic old-school thrash.

Criminally short-lived, FORMICIDE's recordings have never been officially released... until now.

"Formicide" track listing (click links for MP3 samples):

01. ...

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REDEMPTION, the prog-metal band featuring the legendary Ray Alder (FATES WARNING) on vocal, has uploaded a new track called "The Suffering Silence" to their official MySpace page. The tracks comes off the bands upcoming album, The Origins of Ruin, due in early 2007.

Primary songwriter and guitarist/keyboardist Nicolas van Dyk recently commented on the release:

"Well, after an exciting six-week adventure with the German and U.S. postal services, I can at long last confirm that I have the master recordings of 'The Origins of Ruin' in my possession. They sound terr ...

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Metal Mind Productions will re-release two albums from Texas doom legends SOLITUDE AETURNUS — "Into the Depths of Sorrow" (1991) and "Beyond the Crimson Horizon" (1992) — on November 13. Both titles will be reissued in new digipack editions on golden discs, digitally remastered using the 24-bit process and containing bonus tracks, biography, liner notes by guitarist/mainman John Perez and more. Each title is limited to 2,000 copies.

"Into the depths of Sorrow" reissue track listing:

01. Dawn of Antiquity (a Return to Despair)
02. Opaque Divinity
03. Transcending Sentinels
04. Dream of Immortality

This week, we are pleased to announce the arrival of two new reviewers to our staff. Please join us in welcoming Dylan & Andrew to MR.com. We hope that both of them enjoy being a part of this site!

We are still reviewing the many applications we received in response to our ad for new reviewers. As MR.com continues to grow, keep an eye out for new additions in the near future!

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The complete details have been revealed for SENTENCED's upcoming "Buried Alive" DVD, which captures the Finnish band's final performance in their hometown of Oulu, Finland on October 1, 2005. Directed by Mika Ronkainen of Klaffi Productions, the two-disc set features the entire concert, including a special guest appearance by former SENTENCED vocalist Taneli Jarva.

"Buried Alive" DVD (view artwork at this location) track listing:

DVD1:

"The Farewell Performance":

01. Intro
02. Where Waters Fall Frozen
03.