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As you should already know, from having read the studio report latest issue of the world's baddest assest extreme metal magazine, I travelled to the Romanian capital of Bucharest at the end of January to spend some quality time with wild dogs, indoor smoking, curiously polite mosh pits, antisemetic taxi drivers, flights full of gypsies, and most importantly, drummer/percussionist NEGRU and NEGURA BUNGET's glorious ne

Following their return as a live band at last year's Terrorizer-sponsored Damnation Festival, grindcore supergroup LOCK UP, featuring Napalm Death's Shane Embury, Disfear and former At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg, former Pentagram guitarist Anton Reisenegger and prolific drum monster Nick Barker have announce their intention to record three new songs for a split with the mighty Brutal Truth. Shane let us in on the band's first material since 2002's 'Hate Breeds Suffering'.

The spiritual successor to '80s Aussie horror classic 'Razorback', with an extra dash of the subversive 'Twin Peaks' for good measure, Korean film 'CHAW' tells the story of a seemingly idyllic, yet downright perverse rural community plagued by a giant wild boar, happy to knock back red hot chunks of human flesh like it's popcorn. Out on DVD March 1 through Optimum Home Entertainment, director JUNG-WON SHIN kindly fielded a few questions about why he chose to bring home the bacon.

Lurching from the grave, Californian death metal legends AUTOPSY are reborn, fifteen years on from their final record ‘Shitfun’, ready to teach a whole new generation of shambling young things the true horror of the zombies at Maryland Deathfest, May 28-29 at the Baltimore Sonar.Read more

Scene veteran ANDRÉS PADILLA saw 'Swedish Death Metal' and wondered why he couldn't do the same thing for Chile. So he did, writing its impressive Spanish-language counterpart, 'RETROSPECTIVA AL METAL CHILENO (1983-1994)'.

It finally ends, with Jill Mikkelson snapping at my heels and José Carlos Santos cheering me from the finish line, my final five albums that made up my deeply subjective and highly arbitrary take on 2009 are here for all to see. Read, enjoy and keep an eye out for more. Fancy something a mite more substantial?Read more

With the collected Terrorizer Albums Of 2009 sitting proudly inside the latest issue of the world’s number one extreme metal unhallowed text, I unleashed my own list, proving these last twelve months the ones I rediscovered hardcore, disappeared up my own arse into a grind cul-de-sac and completely opted out of any genre that hasn’t claimed Napalm Death as a member.

With the collected Terrorizer Albums Of 2009 sitting proudly inside the latest issue of the world’s number one extreme metal unhallowed text, I unleashed my own list, proving these last twelve months the ones I rediscovered hardcore, disappeared up my own arse into a grind cul-de-sac and completely opted out of any genre that hasn’t claimed Napalm Death as a member.

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