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This subject of this week's bi-weekly debate column with Noisey.com: Should established artists record and/or perform covers?

Two openings in two separat bands; one for guitar and one for vocals. Are you (wo)man enough? Apparently having open auditions for bands now is a thing? First we'll look at Xerath, who just lost their guitarist Owain Wilson pretty suddenly. From what I've heard, Wilson will continue with the band for the next album, ... The post Try Out To Be A Member Of Either XERATH or THE CONTORTIONIST! appeared first on Metal Injection .

Earlier this week, the folks over in charge of Tech-Fest 2013 made their first line-up announcement - and they weren't messing about. 25 bands, including all three major headline acts, were all covered in the first batch of names. That's the kind of festival announcement we can get behind, and the kind that we're making the subject of this week's Sunday Spotify Slaylist. No doubt more bands will be added to the Tech-Fest 2013 line-up in the coming weeks, but the beauty of Spotify is that [...]

Tech-Fest  is returning to the UK for 2013, and blimey, they've gone and announced 25 bands as part of their first announcement.  Heading up the line-up are three of headliners for the four-day ( four-day! ) festival - Scar Symmetry, Veil of Maya, and the band of which our very own James Monteith is a member , TesseracT. Technically Monuments are headlining the Thursday night, but that's kind of a half-day anyway, so we guess they don't get full headliner props. [...]

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The Pandemonium Metal Festival was originally scheduled to be a two-day affair with Indian rock giants Parikrama on the bill. However, issues with the venue of the gig ( Nazrul Manch, Kolkata ) have resulted in the festival turning into a single-day event (slated for Saturday, December 8 ), and as a result, the cancellation of some performances. The festival is being organised by Amistad Events  and will feature performances by two international metal bands -  Xerath and Bloodshot Dawn  - along with Indian vets Demonic Resurrection (pictured) and a few other local acts. [...]

Thrash ​ Hits' resident Euro metal geek ​Tom Dare​ ​is having great fun with the long, long, long-awaited second album from Finnish widdlers ​Wintersun ​. But he thinks it's much more than that – he thinks it's a landmark. When Wintersun announced back in 2006 that work  composing album number two was underway, hopes were high. But as the years rolled by,  Time seemingly joined the likes of  Chinese Democracy and the mythical third Necrophagist record in the “when hell freezes [...]

The Kohima Metal Festival will join the list of other one - day metal festivals that are popping up in the North-East. The festival will be headlined by two international metal acts and will see performances by four local metal bands. The event is taking place on December 10, only a few days after Nagaland's annual Hornbill Rock Contest ( details ) that will run for a period of seven days and see performances by a number of bands from all around the country. The Kohima Metal Festival will take place at [...]

The time was the early 2000s and the venue was Razzberry Rhinoceros. Metal bands got together and played their music at Razz ("Rhinoceros" is just too inconvenient to say) in Mumbai, and more often than not you would see a band that would completely confound you and your notion of metal. Bands such as Naked Earth, Pin Drop Violence, and  Demonic Resurrection  would take the stage and the audience would impatiently wait for the next moshpit to appear. Finding new metal was a limited experience and, at the time, it was almost always confined to specific locations such as Razz. [...]

Xerath has been making quite a splash since it's inception in 2007. The band started out with an experimental sound that incorporated progressive metal and various other metal sub-genres. The founding guitarist, Andy Phillips quit but the rest of the band soldiered on and managed to add new members as well as launch two albums which were met with critical acclaim. Xerath plays a genre of music which the band likes to call 'orchestral groove metal' - a prog metal foundation with orchestral elements. They played at Spring Spree 2012 at NIT Warangal and another show in New [...]

Every year we go to Candlefest. The Underworld, with all its delicious beer and heavy metal, is a wonderful way to spend an autumn day. We rocked it.

Let's do some maths. Whats's £15 divided by 8? It's £1.88, if you round up to the nearest whole penny. What's that got to do with Candlefest 2011? Well, tickets for Candlefest 2011 cost £15, there are (at least) 8 bands on the bill, and that figure of £1.88 is how much you'll be paying [...]

It's been a bit of a slow news day, but thankfully Damnation Festival have come to rescue by announcing the final seven bands of their 2011 line-up, chief among them being Grand Magus. Joining the Swedish metal outift in he final brace of bands to be added to the bill are Cerebral Bore, Conan, A Forest Of Stars, Humanfly, Talons, [...]

It was a mere 49 seconds into our interview with Xerath that the band's frontman, Rich Thomson, unleashed THAT laugh. You know the one (click here if for some reason you need reminding). The backstage area at Bloodstock Open Air 2011 was never quite the same again. Check out the rest of our Bloodstock Open [...]

Ever since Anso DF raved about Xerath when he took over the site for a couple of days while Axl and I were off cavorting with Colombian druglords out of town in April, I've been hooked. Here's Sir Studliness DF himself on the stealth, baby aardvark-impaling qualities of their new album II: Xerath [fuse] slamming [...]

Well, well, well - for once, the most interesting band announced in a festival line-up announcement isn't the biggest or best-known name. Damnation Festival have announced that leading Brit-thrashers Evile, Finnish battle metallers Turisas, djentish-types Xerath, and the curiously titled A Man Called Catten will all be performing at this year's Damnation Festival in Leeds. [...]

Last year (and the year before) I got way too busy with this thing called life and missed out on a lot of quality music. I am here to rectify the error of my ways, month by month. Here are the May 2011 releases that got under my skin, burrowed their way into my brain, made [...]

Anaal Nathrakh may have been around for over a decade, but for most of that time they were a studio-only project. So when they came to London to tour their vicious, putrid and generally despicable new album Passion we rushed down to the dingy hall of the Underworld to bathe in their filth. Mmmmm, filth-bathing. [...]

New releases from Wormrot (available for free download!), Before the Dawn, Leaves Eyes, Samael, While Heaven Wept and Xerath officially see the light of day today. Vic Vaughn takes a look at each after the jump. Before The Dawn – Deathstar Rising (Nuclear Blast) The sixth album from melodic/symphonic metal band Before The Dawn is [...]

Remember that time that you were trying to watch Once Upon A Time In The West while your roommate was blasting Meshuggah in the next room? Then you're ready for UK's Xerath, who fuses slamming prog-tinged death metal with soaring, tasteful film score symphonics. For some bands, this melange may stay a gimmick, an excuse [...]