As most of you know, since I started writing for this blog I have expanded the range of metal that I listen to. I try to open my mind and see what else is out there constantly. Sometimes It takes me a few times listening to a specific sub-genre or band for me to get into them. Two bands that I tried to get into before but just couldn’t because I was deep into something else at the time are Children Of Bodom and Dimmu Borgir.

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I would like to say that picking the winner of this contest was easy, but honestly I knew It was over when I received the winners entry. Why was it so easy? Because I only had two entries. Not to discredit the winner though, I was blown away when I got this one because I didn’t know what to expect. It’s simple, very eye catching but not overdone. Click read more to see who won!

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Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage, Devil Driver, and Soilwork will be on Fuse’s Talking Metal tonight at midnight EST.

Lamb Of God talk about touring with Heaven And Hell. Dinner with Killswitch Engage. Devildriver discuss mosh pit world records, and a metal lesson from soilwork. (Source: Directv guide)

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Here is a picture I found at Naturesgraffiti.com. The picture is kind of big so you’ll have to click “read more” to see the picture full size.  You’ll see in the picture the resemblances that the Dethklok characters have compared to real metal musicians. Coincidence?

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Here is the New King Diamond Video for Give Me Your Soul…please. Enjoy

I am going to announce the iPod contest winner Friday night. It’s going to be automated, meaning I’m going to get the results announcement worked out tonight and have it ready to post tomorrow night. Why? I’m heading to Virginia after work tomorrow to see Sourvien. There is still time to get your entry in….you have until about 10pm tonight to get it sent to my e-mail address.

Better have something really good if you want to win cause honestly I have only had two entries and I have already chosen the winner. Like I said…there is still time so if you have something to enter, it better be some original ground breaking shit!

Click on the Contest link to the right for full rules and such…time is ticking!!

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Here is the Bands list as we no know it for Germany’s Wacken Open Air Fest 2008.

3 Inches of Blood
As I Lay Dying
At the Gates
Autumn
Avantasia
Axel Rudi Pell
Axxis
Before the Dawn
Carcass
Children of Bodom

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True Norwegian Black Metal By Peter Beste is a book to be released in May by Vice Books. Beste takes a look into the dark world of Black Metal, documenting this extreme metal Sub-genre and it’s roots. Visit Peterbeste.com for more info.

“In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called black metal has emerged in Norway. It’s roots stem from a heady blend of horror films, extreme heavy metal music, Satanism, pagan mythology, and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990’s, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards. What started as a juvenile frenzy came to symbolize the start of a war against Christianity, a return to the worship of the ancient Norse gods, and the complete rejection of mainstream society.”

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Death Angel’s long awaited new recording Killing Season Is out in stores and online today on Nuclear Blast Records. You had the chance to hear the entire CD streamed on their Myspace, now you can own it.