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Mastodon has had a tough couple of years. First, singer / guitarist Brent Hinds suffered a severe brain hemorrhage, following a backstage incident at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards that reportedly involved System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian. Then, in fall of 2008, guitarist Bill Kelliher was hospitalized just days into a European tour with Slayer -- forcing the band, who formed nine...
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In the late 1990s you couldn't turn on the radio with out hearing Orgy's cover of the New Order song 'Blue Monday." But what do you do when the electro-dance-pop hit that made you platinum, cross over rock stars just isn't quite electro enough? Well, if you're original [URL=http://www.punkstatikparanoia.com/...

In the late 1990s you couldn't turn on the radio with out hearing Orgy's cover of the New Order song 'Blue Monday." But what do you do when the electro-dance-pop hit that made you platinum, cross over rock stars just isn't quite electro enough? Well, if you're original Orgy guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh, you form Julien-K, a side project that isn't really...
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Drummer to the stars, Josh Freese, is selling himself to sell his new album, Since 1972. Inspired by the value-added packages offered by his buddy Trent Reznor for the last Nine Inch Nails release, Freese has come up with his own gift-with-purchase plan -- only his is...

Yay, it's Pi Day today! (3.14 - get it?).

To mark the day I suggest that you do something either irrational or transcendental or even better something that is both since these are characteristics of the mathematical constant we call Pi () that expresses the relationship between a circle's diameter and its circumference. Those that are rather particular about their favorite ratio observe Pi Minute...
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Drummer to the stars, Josh Freese, is selling himself to sell his new album, Since 1972. Inspired by the value-added packages offered by his buddy Trent Reznor for the last Nine Inch Nails release, Freese has come up with his own gift-with-purchase plan -- only his is a whole lot wackier.

Those that are willing to pay a little more than the base price...
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He's been variously known under monikers such as Buck Satan, Alien Dog Star and Alien Jourgensen and is the brain trust behind such thought-provoking band names as Ministry, Revolting Cocks and 1000 Homo DJs. But Al Jourgensen, who cut a frightening figure with these bands' even more provocative industrial...

He's been variously known under monikers such as Buck Satan, Alien Dog Star and Alien Jourgensen and is the brain trust behind such thought-provoking band names as Ministry, Revolting Cocks and 1000 Homo DJs. But Al Jourgensen, who cut a frightening figure with these bands' even more provocative industrial music when they emerged in the late eighties and early nineties, is a surprisingly friendly and...
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Despite crashing and burning in a cloud of youthful excess at a point when they'd barely begun, Thomas Anselmi's first band of note, Slow, left an indelible mark on the Canadian music scene. The punk rock band are still considered to be one of Canada's all time greats, nearly a quarter century on from...

Soilwork are one of the originators of the Swedish melodic death metal sub-genre. The band formed in '95 in Helsingborg, a rigorous international touring schedule being the route to their global success. But life on the road took its toll, and a decade on, much to the disappointment of fans, songwriter...

Geoffrey Rickly has been singing for the critically acclaimed, post-hardcore band Thursday for over ten years. But only now could he release an album as acomplished as Common Existence. Finding a balance between his bookish smarts, taste for social and personal awareness, and a decade of being in a band,...