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• Aborted
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• Shoving a dirtied, well-placed syringe straight through the heart of expectation, ABORTED further remove themselves from the Carcass homage of old on their sixth release Strychnine.213 . While most bands are content releasing the same record every other year, this...

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• The Agonist
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• It is extremely rare to find an up-and-coming metal band taking strong political stands, much less one that’s led by a dominating, beautiful, edgy female. But it is exactly this unique dynamic that led Century Media Records to sign Montreal’s THE AGONIST (formerly...

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• The Agony Scene
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• Delving ever deeper into the loathsome and hellish world of singer Mike Williams’ mind, THE AGONY SCENE is firing on all cylinders on its inspired and lovingly titled Century Media debut, *Get Damned*, produced by Andreas Magnusson (Black Dahlia Murder, Scarlet)...

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• Arch Enemy
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• Metal titans ARCH ENEMY, whose dynamic mixture of melody and aggression has earned them massive critical acclaim, a rabid worldwide fanbase and a slot on last year's Ozzfest , return with *Live Apocalypse*, their stunning first DVD release. The *Live Apocalypse*...

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• Arsonists Get All The Girls
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• Despite their humble beginning as a joke in a friend’s garage, Santa Cruz’s most degenerate six-piece, ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS, have quickly developed into a juggernaut ready to annihilate anything in their path, and their Century Media debut, *The Game...

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• At All Cost
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• The variety of artists on Century Media Records throughout the last decade prompted the label to coin the phrase “Diversity In Extremes," and this is more evident than ever before upon welcoming AT ALL COST to its worldwide family. This group encompasses the...

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• Behemoth
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• BEHEMOTH have always pushed the limits of their abilities and defied the boundaries of death and black metal. Now, the Polish metal kings have returned to rule on earth once more with Demigod! Originally formed by a teenage Nergal (guitars/vocals) in 1991,...

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• Blessed By A Broken Heart
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• Your teenage years, a time when there isn't a care in the world and the party never stops, where there is always a soundtrack that accompanies each memory, and as you get older, hearing a particular song, will quickly find yourself reliving that special moment...

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• Caliban
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• Not even a year has passed since CALIBAN’s last release, The Undying Darkness, and now they are already back with their most cohesive and dynamic offering yet. Despite the fact that they have been touring most of the time, the guys, including mastermind and main...

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• Celtic Frost
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• Formed from the remains of seminal death/black metal pioneers Hellhammer in June 1984, Swiss-American hybrid Celtic Frost continue to be a pivotal influence on both the extreme metal and gothic metal genres. Establishing many of the musical elements that have since...

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• Cryptopsy
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• Reinventing and redefining metal's boundaries, CRYPTOPSY, recognized worldwide for infusing extreme music with awe-inspiring precision, rabidly dynamic rhythms, and mouth-foaming viciousness, have earned music fans respect inside and outside the metal community....

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• Dark Tranquillity
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• DARK TRANQUILLITY holds the esteemed distinction as being one of the bands responsible for founding an entirely new genre of death metal music in the early '90s, which came to be known as "The Gothenburg Sound." Throughout each release, the band would explore the...

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• Despised Icon
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• After catching people’s attention with 2005’s acclaimed The Healing Process, the Montreal-based death/grindcore six-piece DESPISED ICON have upped the ante with The Ills of Modern Man, a savage and uncompromising yet dynamic new effort that is sure to resonate...

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• Devian
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• Transcending both supergroup clichés and easily identifiable genre tags, Sweden’s most promising new band DEVIAN is poised to bridge the gap between the extremity of modern metal and the melody of days of yore on its debut album, *Ninewinged Serpent*. Brimming...

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• Divine Heresy
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• After a five-year hiatus, Dino Cazares (co-founding member of the revolutionary band Fear Factory) has triumphantly returned with a new group that is quickly going to force the entire genre to take notice. This new juggernaut is DIVINE HERESY whose members feature...

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• Dream Evil
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• Sweden's DREAM EVIL, "power metal at its finest" (*Metal Maniacs*), return to spread the word of metal: *United*. Reminding fans to raise their fists, bang their heads, wipe the intense death metal frown from their faces, stop taking themselves so seriously and...

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• Embrace The End
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• EMBRACE THE END are a deadly five-headed beast bent on eradicating all those who so carelessly use the words "brutal" and “heavy” to describe other bands' music. Once subjected to the apocalyptic abandon these Sacramento natives churn forth, it's clear they're...

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• Eyes Of Eden
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• While working behind the scenes as chief producer and sometime co-songwriter for Lacuna Coil, Sentenced, Moonspell and Samael, Waldemar Sorychta developed a signature sound that would make him the point man for bands looking for sweeping song structures and pitch...

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• Finntroll
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• With renewed vigor and a fiery new frontman, FINNTROLL crawl up from their clammy cavern clutching their fifth full-length, *Ur Jordens Djup*. After many nights of drunken debauchery at Sonic Pump studios, where they certainly overstayed their welcome, the Finnish...

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• Firewind
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• There is an unstoppable force exploding out of Greece that is sure to satisfy all of the needs and desires of any fan of heavy music with its powerful, epic metal assault, melodic hooks and bombastic guitarwork. This phenomenon is better known as FIREWIND, led...

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• Fu Manchu
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• If life is a highway, FU MANCHU is its soundtrack. Over the last dozen years, the Southern California quartet has perfected the art of the riff, mastered the depth of the groove and sharpened the edge of the hook, and as their 10th album *We Must Obey* proves,...

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• God Forbid
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• GOD FORBID triumphantly return with IV: Constitution Of Treason , their most dynamic and devastating offering yet, one which will undoubtedly solidify their position as one of the genre's elite. This mighty New Jersey-based quintet have now forged their own unique...

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• The Haunted
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• Swedish titans THE HAUNTED have returned with a stunning new offering, *The Dead Eye*, that is sure to surprise and possibly even overwhelm the entire metal community. Since inception, the group have been pigeonholed as a thrash unit, a moniker further solidified...

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• Heaven Shall Burn
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• After four highly acclaimed releases, German metal titans HEAVEN SHALL BURN have returned with Iconoclast (Part1: The Final Resistance), a scathing and pummeling assault that bludgeons the listener with sheer intensity. The album was recorded and produced once...

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• Hellhammer
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• "The most terrible, abhorrent, and atrocious thing 'musicians' were ever allowed to record." Hellhammer Review, Rock Power fanzine, Germany, 1984 "Demon Entrails" is a collection of all demos from Switzerland's HELLHAMMER, arguably one of the most influential...

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• Himsa
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• Century Media is extremely proud to welcome HIMSA to its worldwide family. The Seattle-based metal quintet's ferocious blend of melodic, unrelenting thrash speed mixed with old-school influences resulted in a savage, unique and uncompromising sound that was welcome,...

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• I Wrestled A Bear Once
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• Eliciting a wide array of responses from adoring fans and haters alike, a leak permeated the online community last week suggesting that the Louisiana grind/electronic band IWRESTLEDABEARONCE had just signed under the dotted line with Century Media Records. Many...

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• Immolation
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• Improving on the foundation of technical, neck-snapping death metal that they helped build beginning in the late 1980s, IMMOLATION lumber forth with the seventh chapter in their legendary career, *Shadows in the Light*. The group recorded their latest collection...

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• In This Moment
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• Few individuals throughout this world have the drive to create their own fate in life, resiliently defying all obstacles in their way. IN THIS MOMENT are a group of five people on the path to doing just that, with an eye on carving out their own destiny and refusing...

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• Into Eternity
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• Breathing new life into a tried and true genre comes Canada's INTO ETERNITY. One of the most critically acclaimed bands of 2004 and definitely one of 2005's hardest working, INTO ETERNITY have returned and delivered their defining moment in metal history. Borrowing...

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• Intronaut
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• Very few bands can effectively mix intelligence with intensity like Southern California’s INTRONAUT, which is one of the biggest reasons Century Media Records quickly signed the quartet to a worldwide deal. INTRONAUT essentially walks a fine line between psychedelic...

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• Krisiun
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• "The living definition of death metal" (Outburn), Brazil's KRISIUN deliver *AssassiNation*, their sixth full-length release. The mighty metal brothers have returned with twelve smoldering tracks filled with death metal's eternal fires. Pouring forth with ferocious...

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• Lacuna Coil
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• There is no better indication that greatness can be achieved through a resilient work ethic than Lacuna Coil, whose aggressive touring and extensive critical praise have now poised them for mainstream domination. The group initially left their mark on the hard...

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• Nachtmystium
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• Few bands today embrace their own individualism to ultimately craft something truly unique and genre defying regardless of its sales potential. Enter the Chicago-based NACHTMYSTIUM who embrace the true spirit of individuality and intolerance forming solely as an...

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• Naglfar
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• Through trenchant seas the seasoned crew on the ship NAGLFAR deliver their fifth and most accomplished slab of melodic black metal, *Harvest*. Perfectly fusing the raw energy of their earlier works with the inspired and cutting melodicism of 2005’s *Pariah*,...

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• Napalm Death
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• "Unquestionably the most influential band in extreme music's ferocious history." Albert Mudrian, the author of *Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal & Grindcore* Two decades after inventing grindcore, Napalm Death continue to demonstrate that...

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• Nevermore
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• And on the open road we came to a sign... Seattle's NEVERMORE welcome you to *This Godless Endeavor*, a grand overture where musical tapestries are fascinatingly complex while entirely accessible. Interwoven, multi-faceted melodies ceaselessly crisscross...

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• Nocturnal Rites
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• When it comes to power metal, there are only a handful of bands sticking to a tradition of heavy, mind-melting riffs while also bringing their sound into the 21st Century. NOCTURNAL RITES is one of those bands, and their eighth full-length, appropriately titled...

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• Opiate For The Masses
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• EVERYBODY KNOWS OPIATE FOR THE MASSES… Often they know a band member or two personally but they always know the band professionally. This could be because the band has been making music and touring for the last 9 years. It could be because all the members...

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• Paradise Lost
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• In a career that has spanned two full decades, Paradise Lost have sold a staggering two million albums worldwide. Their constant reinvention and brazen attitude to musical experimentation has always allowed them to maintain a constant relevance despite the myriad...

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• Poisonblack
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• As Sentenced fade into the cold white light a new shadow of despair unfolds upon the gloomy Finnish landscape, which is sure to haunt the soul with its somber and melancholic composite. This abundance of sorrow is better known as Poisonblack, who feature ex-Sentenced...

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• Satyricon
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• As is true for all musical genres, black metal has its share of cliche. Enter stage left: the devil himself, hailed by cacophonous guitar riffs, swathed in pompous keyboard orchestrations, a grotesque pandemonium of noise and blasphemous imagery, worshipped by...

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• Stick To Your Guns
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• [**STYG DIGITAL BOOKLET DOWNLOAD LINK**](http://mp4.centurymedia.com/STYG/STYG_Booklet_CFTH.zip) **DOWNLOAD STICK TO YOUR GUNS BOOKLET** *High quality Print Images (26MB). If you prefer to have a physical copy write to* [styg@centurymedia.com](mailto:styg@centurymedia.com) Stick...

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• Strapping Young Lad
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• Canadian extremists STRAPPING YOUNG LAD have returned with *The New Black*, a stunningly well-defined and more diverse effort that is soon to be a landmark in the epic pantheon of heavy metal. The group, led by singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend, have...

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• Suicide Silence
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• Century Media Records is proud to announce SUICIDE SILENCE as the newest addition to its worldwide family. This devastating quintet from Riverside, Calif. immediately separated themselves from the underground through an undying work ethic and undeniable live performance....

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• Sworn Enemy
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• SWORN ENEMY have returned with a scathing new assault, Maniacal, that is unquestionably their most impressive and destructive release yet. Featuring a newly reinvigorated lineup and new home at Century Media, this 10-track offering takes the group’s sound to...

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• Terror
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• The tireless and tour-hungry hardcore loyalists in LA’s TERROR, spearheaded by the endless enthusiasm of frontman Scott Vogel, have earned quite a reputation since forming at the turn of the millennium. Their melding of no-frills breakneck hardcore and the fervor...

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• Terrorizer
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• The year was 1989. Los Angeles? TERRORIZER release an album and influence a generation of Grindcore bands. That album was *World Downfall*, a blistering assault of pummeling blast beats, searing vocals and war-like guitar rhythms wrapped in the seminal recording...

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• Turisas
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• All the more impressive considering heavy metal’s diverse landscape, the Finnish warmongers in TURISAS continue to establish their definitive brand of battle metal on their sophomore effort, *The Varangian Way*. The album was co-produced by the band’s own Warlord...

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• Venomous Concept
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• One look at VENOMOUS CONCEPT’s roster is all it takes to know that the band’s corrosive mix of grind, hardcore and punk is without equal on their sophomore effort, Poisoned Apple. Exploring heavy music’s darkest, most dangerous avenues for over 20 years is accomplishment...

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• Vital Remains
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• Extreme metal titans VITAL REMAINS have returned with a vicious new slab of blasphemy that promises to strike fear in the heart of the masses. The much-anticipated new album, *Icons of Evil*, was produced by the renowned Erik Rutan (Cannibal Corpse, Goatwhore)...

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• Warbringer
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• In an era when vintage metal t-shirts are in vogue and bands worshiping at the altar of every crossover band that released a demo or EP in the ’80s are crawling out of the woodwork, LA thrashers WARBRINGER are cauterizing the competition with a sound that recalls...

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• Warrel Dane
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• One of metal’s most defining and revolutionary vocalists, Warrel Dane, has triumphantly returned with his highly anticipated inaugural solo effort, Praises To The War Machine, which sees him further honing his craft to perfection. Dane, who first shattered the...

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• Winds of Plague
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• A dark ominous cloud has been cast upon the Southern California landscape as the ferocious WINDS OF PLAGUE prepare to unleash their wrath across the U.S. with their much anticipated sophomore release. The stunning slab of brutality entitled Decimate The Weak does...

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• Zimmers Hole
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• Vancouver's ZIMMERS HOLE have signed a worldwide deal with Century Media Records and will be entering the studio today to begin tracking their third full-length release. This band are no strangers to the underground metal community, as the lineup features Byron...

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