METAL MANIACS Magazine relaunches online

Metal Maniacs Magazine returns to a new online format after closing the doors to its print operation in February 2009.
Resurrected by the owner of Metalhit.com, with a site developed by Reh3 Design (www.reh3.com / www.mouthforwar.net), the new Metal Maniacs features regularly updated content and features from the latest in underground metal.
The site boasts an exhaustive [...]

Unrestrained Magazine Final Issue

Unrestrained Magazine, extreme metal magazine which recently closed doors due to sad passing away of Adrian Bromley, the publisher, coordinator, and co-editor of the magazine. Tate Bengtson has offered the last issue, #39, as free download. Unrestrained! #39 has been released by Adrian’s friends and family as a tribute to him in PDF [...]

Metallica New Track Available For Streaming

Metallica’s new track ‘The Day That Never Comes’ is available for streaming on the band’s Myspace page. The epic track is the first single to be released from their forthcoming release ‘Death Magnetic’ and is available for purchase through iTunes. The band has filmed a video for the track with Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg.
Listen [...]

Download Live Metallica Tracks Legally

LiveMetallica.com has offering many of the thrash legends, Metallica, live tracks as free downloads (1982 – 2003) legally. Head over to LiveMetallica.com to download the entire tracks. You will need to create a free login in order to download the tracks.
Download tracks here.

German Tribute To Metallica

Blabbermouth reports:
Five German bands have recorded cover versions of classic METALLICA songs for the first-ever “German Tribute to Metallica”. Between now and August 18, a new track from the tribute will be made available for free download each Tuesday and Friday via www.tribute-to-metallica.de.
To download the first song — KILLIANS‘ version of “Hero of the Day” [...]

Listen to Krisiun’s Southern Storm Online

Metalkult, Guitarworld’s blog, is streaming Brazilian death metal Gods, Krisiun’s latest album, Southern Storm, online on their website. Tracklisting of the album is :

Slaying Steel (4:11)
Sentenced Morning (3:59)
Twisting Sights (4:05)
Minotaur (3:51)
Combustion Inferno (4:23)
Massacre Under The Sun (4:43)
Bleeding Offers (3:24)
Refuse / Resist (SEPULTURA cover) (3:00)
Origin Of Terror (4:05)
Contradictions Of Decay (4:08)
Sons Of Pest (4:47)
Black Wind (0:48)
Whore [...]

Heavy Metal Monk

(Photo courtesy Reuters)
Brother Cesare, a 62 year old monk from Milan hinterland, has a heart of metal and is the lead singer in a heavy metal band. The monk fell in love with metal some 15 years ago when he attended a Metallica concert. Brother Cesare, also known as Brother Metal, started playing and [...]

LOLMETAL

Similar to ICANHASCHEEZBURGER, Carlh, the author of blog the WAREHOUSE has put some funny quotes on the photos of Black / Death metal bands. Check out the photos and user submitted photos here and here

Chordvine Reviews Ark Of Gemini

Chordvine, an online music magazine from India, has reviewed the latest works of Kryptos, melodic thrash metal band from Bangalore. The review contains track by track review and gets a 9/10. Read the entire review here.

Listen To Judas Priest’s ‘Nostradamus’ Online

The Metal Gods’, Judas Priest, latest offering ‘Nostradamus’ is available to listen online at MTV’s The Leak. ‘Nostradamus’ is a double album of razor sharp metal and will be available in shops on June 17.
Here is the tracklisting of Nostradamus:

Dawn of Creation
Prophecy
Awakening
Revelations
The Four Horsemen
War
Sands of Time
Pestilence And Plague
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