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When it comes to flying the flag for classic hard rock and heavy metal, nobody flies it higher and prouder than Eddie Trunk. He has become the king of metal media, with That Metal Show on TV, radio shows on both terrestrial and satellite stations, a popular website, and now a book. Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal has just been released.

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His day job and passion is as a high school physics teacher, but Dave Schalek's obsession is extreme and underground heavy metal.  Every Monday he holds class in the depths of his underground laboratory, bringing you brief reviews of the latest black, death, grind and other extreme releases.  And since he is a teacher, each CD earns a grade.

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Every Friday I turn the blog over to Dan Marsicano for his Retro Recommendation, giving you a chance to learn about underrated and overlooked gems from metal's past.  This week, Cannibal Corpse is in the spotlight.

Cannibal Corpse has always been reliable when it comes to punishing death metal with violent undertones. They are also one of the top-selling death metal bands of all time. Hell, what other band could make the Billboard charts with an album cover featuring maggots coming out of a decrepit man (1996's Vile)? Before the band shocked the mainstream, they were a small Florida act looking for a big break. Metal Blade gave it to them with their 1990 debut Eaten Back To Life, which would begin a long-standing relationship between the label and the band that is still ongoing, as of early 2011.

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Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund is in so many different bands you almost need a scorecard to keep up. Probably his best known group is Borknagar, but he's also in several others, including his namesake band Vintersorg. Jordpuls is the latest release from the folk/progressive metal band. Hedlund gets us up to speed on Vintersorg's new one along with updates from his other projects and his musical beginnings.

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The eleven tracks on My Blood showcase both the strengths and weaknesses of the band, and probably go a long way to explaining why Artillery has never really succeeded in climbing the next rung on the ladder. In terms of musicality, there is little to fault. Everyone in Artillery knows their way round their instrument and the riffs of twin guitarists Michael and Morten Stutzer are suitably concise and catchy. Too often though, the sum of the individual parts fails to add up to anything out of the ordinary.

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Even though this week's Livecast was without Noa and Sean, it was still all over the place. We were of course joined by Buz McGrath of Unearth, about 45 minutes into the show. Buz talked about the band's upcoming release, including revealing the title of the record. He also spoke about touring this summer on ...

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Woah! Woah! Woah! We've already seen the cover art to Devy's lighter album, Ghost, and today Devy tweeted the artwork for his heavier album coming out in June, Deconstruction and wow, that is a fucking awesome album cover. The artist behind the work is Anthony Clarkson, and he did quite a stellar job. Both Ghost ...

While it was silly of me to assume that there would only be one worst video this year, the fine gents at MetalSucks have found a new contender, in a band so terrible, just their name elicits hate from me. The band's name is Make Me Famous. Gross! Now imagine ever cliche you hate about ...

Leave it to a couple heavy metal giants to create the latest supergroup. Black Sabbath guitar god Tony Iommi and Deep Purple's vocalist Ian Gillan have joined forces to form a new group called Whocares, recording a couple songs to help out the people of Gyumri, Armenia in rebuilding the town's music school. Both men ...

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Every now and then a tour comes along where it's hard to find a weak point where you can go outside and smoke a J. This is one of those tours. Just announced: Children of Bodom will headline a summer tour taking out some extremely awesome bands with him including The Devin ...

It's Tuesday, Tuesday…nobody parties on Tuesday. But everybody rocks out. Here is a collection of new music that recently surfaced to help you get through your lunch break: Amorphis have released a new track on their Facebook page, and you don't even have to "like" them to hear it. You can hear "You I Need" ...

Well this is lame. Late yesterday we got a note from Century Media that Nevermore have officially withdrawn from the upcoming Symphony X tour. No official reasoning was given, although a full statement from the band was promised soon. What's worse, is they aren't even the first band to drop off! Soilwork was forced to ...