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First to Gorgoroth: Original Gorgoroth guitarist, Infernus has won the court battle for rights to the name.  The Norwegian court deemed King Ov Hell’s Gorgoroth name patent invalid. I don’t know how the rest works, but I assume Infernus will ensure that he has exclusive trademark property of the name. Let me catch you up to speed on this whole drama case.

• Infernus starts Gorgoroth in 1992.
• Gaahl comes on as vocalist in 1998
• King Ov Hell comes on Bass in 1999
• In 2007 things started to get shaky and Gaahl and King tried to fire Infernus, and register a trademark patent for the name behind Infernus’s back.
• Infernus claims the trademark patent is illegal and takes them to court
• Norwegian courts deem the patent invalid and it looks like Gaahl and King Ov Hell will have to find another name to go by.

Varg Vikernes: If you’re really in to Black metal then you probably already know the story behind Varg Vikernes of Burzum murdering Mayhem guitarist Euronymous in 1993. Some say it was self defense, but who really knows besides the two involved and one can’t tell his side of the story. He’s also been suspected of church burning in Norway.

Varg was serving a 21 year sentence for the murder and it was announced on March 10th that he has been approved for parole and will be release soon. He served 16 years of the sentence and was denied parole 4 times. During this 16 years he has been allowed to leave the prison and have conjugal visits with his wife of whom he has a baby with. Varg also has a 16 year old daughter.

Does this mean that Varg, or Kristian Larsson Vikernes as his family knows him, will continue Burzum? Varg claims that he is settling on his farm in Telemark with his family, but hasn’t entirely ruled out music.

“I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books and be with the wife and kids around the clock — and live a normal life. I have received tremendous support from my family. It means a lot.”

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• Byzantine breaks up…3 days after they release Oblivion Beckons.
• Light This City break up before releasing the last record.
• Arsis changes members more than their underwear.
• The Black Dahlia Murder lose a guitarist…steals one from Arsis.
• Phil Demmel of Machine Head passes out twice on stage.
• DJ Sid from Slipknot breaks both of his feet…keeps on trucking.
• Joey Jordison breaks an ankle, cancels UK shows.
• Nachmystium gets booted from the Opeth tour for undisclosed shenanigans.
• Kristen Randal shows her boobs…and they’re only slightly better than Amy Winehouse’s.
• Winds Of Plague drummer Jeff Tenney abruptly leaves the band mid-tour. Says he’s tired of seeing Kristen Randall’s boobs.
• Gwen Stacey singer Bobby Oakley leaves the band…cites that he’s going to sing for Mary Jane Watson.

• All That Remains Cancels remaining US tour dates Thanksgiving week due to vocal issues with Phil Labonte.
• Gorgorath’s Gaahl almost, slightly, kind of admits that he is a homosexual.
• Axl Rose released Chinese Democracy.
• Scar Symmetry loses a singer…hires two more.
• Metallica released an album that wasn’t really all that bad.
• Divine Heresy fires Tommy Cummings and an alleged assault takes place later on.
• Tommy Cummings is hired by funk-metal band Snot to fill the shoes of the late, great Lynn Strait. (That was a totally unintentional rhyme)
• Limp Bizkit reunion rumors float around…for a day.
• Celtic Frost break up again.
• Gas prices rise to over $5.00 a gallon and bands start to drop off tours left and right.

The list goes on but these are just the ones I could think of right now. If you can think of some more, please feel free to fill it in the comments section. Other than that, it’s been a great year in metal. 2009 can only get better!

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Want to know more? Swing on over to Metalsucks or Blabbermouth and get the rest of the scoop.

By the way, if you haven’t noticed….it’s a slow news day. There is a lot of news but it’s a lot of irrelevant garbage.

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