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LIVE! | 70,000 Tons of Metal: Day 3

by Chris A. Staff Writer — A Trip to Hell: The 70,000 Tons Of Metal Day 3 The Cayman Islands On Wednesday, the heavy metal sailors woke up to find the ship slipping into its anchoring position off the coast of the Grand Cayman Islands. Small tenders soon shuttled several hundred black-clad [...]

LIVE! | 70,000 Tons of Metal: Day 1

by Chris A. Staff Writer — Rocking the Boat: The 70,000 Tons of Metal Day One As the ship pushed away from its berth and headed into the Caribbean sea, amps were powered up, lights dimmed, and the heavy metal sailors started to fill the various on-board venues. By 6:30 p.m., the first bands [...]

Samael Above

by Matthew Hoffman Staff Writer Switzerland’s dark black metal purveyors have returned with a new full length effort (the bands 9th) entitled Above which has ten tracks lasting forty minutes. Above was mixed by Fredrik Nordstöm at Sweden’s now classic Studio Fredman (Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, At [...]