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3 hrs ago | The Village Voice

Five '70s Metal Bands Who Are Better Than Black Sabbath

OK, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there's a whole big world out there of '70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that.

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Related Topix: Geezer, Music, Entertainment

4 hrs ago | KLZZ-FM Saint Cloud

Metal After Midnight: Mercyful Fate 'Nightmare Be Thy Name'

"Mercyful Fate", for better or worse, was one of the biggest influences of the Black Metal scene that openly worships Satan.

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Related Topix: Mercyful Fate, King Diamond

Wed May 22, 2013

104.7 WIOT

System Of A Down bassist accuses frontman Serj Tankian of holding up new album

It turns out System of a Down 's Shavo Odadjian is just as upset about the band's lack of new music as the fans.

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Related Topix: System of a Down, Serj Tankian

/film

'Metallica: Through the Never' Trailer: Fire and Riffs Trump Plot

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Related Topix: Metallica, Email Spam

Firstshowing.net

Dane DeHaan, Metal & Fire in 'Metallica Through the Never' Trailer

A first look at the IMAX 3D concert feature film Metallica Through the Never showed Chronicle star Dane DeHaan in some sort of strange seemingly post-apocalyptic world where he plays one of the band's crew members sent out on a mission during Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena.

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Related Topix: Chronicle, Metallica, Dane DeHaan

IcNetwork

Inquest hears of mafia fears of pilot who jumped to death from M4 bridge

CCTV footage from the scene ruled out other people being on the bridge, as the coroner records a verdict of suicide A pilot who suspected his partner was a member of the Bulgarian mafia jumped to his death from a motorway bridge, an inquest heard.

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Related Topix: Suicide, World News, Germany, Coroner, Cardiff County, Wales, United Kingdom,

Oracle

Debugging Hadoop using Solaris Studio in a Solaris 11 Zone

I've found Orgad Kimchi's How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones to be very useful, however, for a development environment, it is too complex.

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Related Topix: The Setup

Mi2n

Happy 200th Birthday Richard Wagner (5/22/13), Genius Opera Composer, ...

Email: karent@thomas-pr.com Website: http://www.greatkat.com Music: http://www.greatkat.com/04/wagnerride.mp3 HAPPY 200th BIRTHDAY RICHARD WAGNER , GENIUS OPERA COMPOSER, From THE GREAT KAT GUITAR SHREDDER! The Great Kat SHREDS GUITAR & VIOLIN on WAGNER'S "THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES' with Symphony Orchestra and Opera Singers! LISTEN Now at: ... (more)

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Related Topix: The Great Kat, Wagner, Opera, Arts, Richard Wagner, Symphony, World News, Germany

Independent Weekly

How Southern metal supergroup Down earned that title

The "super-" prefix attached to supergroup used to mean something, man. But thanks in part to the democratization allowed by the Internet, just about any chucklehead can pen a half-baked garage jam, chuck it onto Bandcamp and label the project a supergroup if they'd like.

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Related Topix: Down, Pantera

KLZZ-FM Saint Cloud

Metal After Midnight: Leatherwolf 'The Calling'

" Leatherwolf " had a pretty strong following for awhile in the mid-80's. Perhaps their problem was they were too pretty to be a serious "Metal" band but yet too heavy to be a true "Hair" band.

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Related Topix: The 80'S, Pop/Rock, Metallica, Slayer

Billboard

Metallica Has 'Enough' Songs For Next Album

But before they can record their first set since 2008, the metal icons are preparing the Orion Music festival and a 3D movie.

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Related Topix: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Metallica

NME

Metallica: 'Our album is taking ages because we keep analysing everything'

Metallica have given an update on the progress of their new album and forthcoming 3D movie.

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Related Topix: James Hetfield, Metallica

WLTI-FM Syracuse

Ai Weiwei Heavy Metal Video Rants Against State Control

The opening moments of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's new video set the tone for the next five minutes and 13 seconds.

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Related Topix: Metallica

Patch.com

Police: Man Charged with Having a Switchblade, Marijuana

A Dorchester man was arrested for carrying a switchblade amoung other charges. Brookline Police saw a white Honda Accord traveling eastbound on Washington Street with an invalid inspection sticker and pulled them over.

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Related Topix: Switchblade

Ultimate-guitar.com

Former White Zombie Drummer Found Dead [News]

Former White Zombie and Last Crack drummer Phil Buerstatte was found dead over the weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, Blabbermouth reports.

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Related Topix: White Zombie

Examiner.com

Ghost B.C. pack Saint Andrews Hall for theatrical metal show

Swedish doom metal band, Ghost B.C. , are easily the most over-the-top metal act out there these days and they don't apologize for it.

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Related Topix: Mercyful Fate

Northern Territory News

'Crash was like Cyclone Tracy'

THE sole survivor of a horrific crash that killed three friends likened the sound of the impact to the Cyclone Tracy chamber at the museum - crushing metal, screeching and shattering glass, an inquest has heard.

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Related Topix: Coroner

Tue May 21, 2013

Examiner.com

Hurt, Blood on the Dance Floor, and more new concerts announced

Today, a number of new concerts were announced for Des Moines Metro area venues.

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Related Topix: Pantera

Salon

Welcome to the jungle: The definitive oral history of '80s metal

MA tley CrA1 4e, Slash, Lita Ford, Dokken and more share the wildest stories from the heyday of L.A.'s Sunset Strip While the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was taking over the club scene in the UK and Europe, a batch of bands in and around Los Angeles - triggered by a love for KISS, Van Halen, and glam groups like the New York Dolls and the Sweet ... (more)

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Related Topix: Dokken, us Travel, North America Travel, Los Angeles Travel, Travel, Ronnie James Dio, Pop/Rock, Judas Priest, Heavy-Metal

Salon

Cannes: Directing 101 with James Franco

James Franco hardly counts as a newcomer to filmmaking, having directed at least six or seven features since 2005.

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Related Topix: Cinema, Drama Movies, My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, As I Lay Dying