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GORGUTS: ‘Colored Sands’ Title Track Available For Streaming

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"Colored Sands", the title track of the fifth album from Canadian technical death metallers GORGUTS, can be streamed using theSoundCloud widget below (courtesy of Decibel magazine). Due on August 30 in Europe and September 3 in North America via Season Of Mist, the CD will be made available will be available as a digipak CD limited to the first pressing, regular black LP, transparent clear LP and red/yellow colored LP. "Colored Sands" track listing: 01. Le Toit Du Monde 02. An Ocean Of Wisdom 03. Forgotten Arrows 04. Colored Sands 05. The Battle Of Chamdo 06. Enemies Of Compassion 07. Ember's Voice 08. Absconders 09. Reduced To Silence GORGUTS guitarist/vocalist Luc Lemay previously told Zero Tolerancemagazine about "Colored Sands": "It's a whole concept album, so I've been reading books for a year a year and a half for the lyrics to know what I'm going to talk about.
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PHILIP ANSELMO: ‘I Feel Very Blessed To Have Had Such A Great, Insane Fanbase’

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Steel For Brains recently conducted an interview with former PANTERA and current DOWN singer Philip Anselmo. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Steel For Brains: From the moment you knew this was what you wanted to — where you knew music was a part of your heart and soul — what's that journey been like for you up to this point? Anselmo: You know, honestly, I think if you look at anybody's life, everybody's gonna have ups and downs, highs, lows, etc., and all of that. Believe me, it's well documented that I've been there, and that is absolutely the case. But, right now…at this juncture in my career, I gotta say, you know, aside from the obvious lows that have been, once again, well documented in the past and very well known, right now I'm at a very sturdy place. I'm in a very comfortable-in-my-skin place, and I feel very, very blessed to have had such a great, insane fanbase. No matter what fucking band it's been a part of. It's the fans really,
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ANTHRAX Featuring JON DONAIS, JON DETTE: Athens Fan-Filmed Video Footage Available

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Fan-filmed video footage of ANTHRAX's July 28 performance at Gagarin 205 in Athens, Greece can be seen below. ANTHRAX's current touring lineup includes SHADOWS FALL guitarist Jon Donais, who has been touring with ANTHRAX since Rob Caggiano's departure in January, and former TESTAMENT/SLAYER and currentANIMETAL USA drummer Jon Dette, who is filling in for Charlie Benantewhile Charlie is "dealing with personal issues." Dette previously filled in for Benante on ANTHRAX's European tour last fall as the support act for MOTÖRHEAD and Australia's Soundwave Festival in February/March. Asked how he landed the ANTHRAX gig, Dette told "The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show": "Actually, Jason Bittner from SHADOWS FALL, who was filling in for Charlie on this last ANTHRAX run last year, couldn't do one of the tours that was coming up and called me and asked me if I would be available to do it. And I said, 'Of course. It would be great.' And the next day Charlie called me — which, Charlie is one my biggest influences ever, next to [Dave] Lombardo [of SLAYER], so it was kind of a surreal moment for me to get a call like that, saying, 'Hey, can you help me out?' Which, of course, I said, 'Absolutely"
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Cuba’s First Heavy Metal Band To Defect: ‘We Didn’t Expect Things To Happen The Way They Did’

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HIPNOSIS guitarist/vocalist Giovany Milhet spoke to Miami New Timesabout the Cuban heavy metal band's decision to request political asylum after arriving in Miami last Monday morning (July 22). According to Milhet, he and his bandmates declared political asylum as they were waiting in line with the representative from the Cuban government that was traveling with them. "It was a very difficult thing [requesting asylum]," Milhet said. "We didn't expect things to happen the way they did. We made the decision because the girl [from the Cuban government] who came with us was very uncomfortable. When we arrived at the airport in Miami, she told us: 'You can't go out of the airport, or the police will arrest you.' "What the fuck, man? She tried to put all of us in fear," Milhet said. "You'd have to be stupid to believe that."
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BLAZE BAYLEY: ‘Soundtracks Of My Life’ Compilation Track Listing Revealed

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British heavy metal singer Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) will release a career-spanning double-disc collection, "Soundtracks Of My Life", on October 31. The track listing is as follows: Disc 1 01. Man Who Would Not Die 02. Ghost In The Machine 03. Stare At The Sun 04. Robot 05. Kill & Destroy 06. Silicon Messiah 07. The Brave 08. The Launch 09. King Of Metal (Remixed by Rick Plester) 10. Rainbow Fades To Black 11. Samurai 12. Blackmailer 13. Watching The Night Sky 14. Speed Of Light 15. Soundtrack Of My Life Disc 2 16. Russian Holiday (acoustic feat. Thomas Zwijsen) 17. Clansman (acoustic feat. Thomas Zwijsen) 18. Voices From The Past 19. Tenth Dimension 20. Blood And Belief 21. 10 Seconds 22. Leap Of Faith 23. Tough As Steel (Blaze version) 24. Comfortable In Darkness 25. Living Someone Elses Life 26. The Day I Fell To Earth 27. Motherfuckers R Us 28. Wonderful Life (SINNERGOD feat. Blaze Bayley) 29. Hatred (new song) 30. Eating Children (new song) v
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MANOWAR Back In The Studio

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A sneak peek at MANOWAR's latest recording session is available below. More details will be revealed soon. MANOWAR has released highlights of its "The Lord Of Steel World Tour"on a live EP, featuring performances from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia and Sweden. "From the first show in Zaragoza/Spain to the last show in Yekaterinburg/Russia, 'The Lord Of Steel' world tour was a terrific experience," said MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio. "Performing new songs for the first time in front of your audience is the ultimate test of the power of the songs to connect to the only people that matter. Our fans were totally brutalized and went wild as you will hear on this new EP. 'The Lord Of Steel Live' is a thank you to our amazing fans; it will forever immortalize this tour and those who attended it." The album was mixed and mastered at MANOWAR's own studios Hell and Haus Wahnfried by Joey DeMaio personally with longtime MANOWARengineer Dirk Kloiber.
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Manos Spanos (Metalpaths' co-editor-in-chief), eight years in this site but still can't be characterised as a metalhead.