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Raging Metal Updates

Things have been relatively quiet on the site front for a while. �So just an update to let people know that some changes are in the works and we're still alive.

The Rage Radio Podcast has once again been fixed and will resume. �New radio shows are in the works.

The Pub Archives are now online. �These are the archives of Raging Metal's old Forums, retaining all old posts on the vBulletin & original UBB forum software. �It has archived all members & posts/topics/threads, from it's closure in March 2009 and going right back to it's launch in September 2001.

For the time being, some minor cosmetic changes have been made to the site's design. �The new site theme is nicknamed "V6 Frostbite", basically going for a more classic "Raging Metal" colder look, reducing the amount of garish red throughout the site & darkening some fonts to make it easier on the eye overall. �Over the next few days, the site's logo, plus other site graphics will be undergoing some minor makeovers too.

But the changes do not end there...

New Side Project for Prophet (St. Madness/Vox) Releases Maiden Acoustic Album

January 23, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Prophet, lead vocalist of US Thrash Metal band St. Madness has released a (mostly) acoustic solo album, titled 'The Edge,' and recorded as PROPHET & THE COWBOYS OF APOCALYPSE. 'The Edge' has a distinctly Outlaw Southern Rock vibe, lyrically touching on subjects ranging from 'dear to the heart' to 'horror comedy'. 'The Edge' also features musical and vocal additions from some great, guest artists.

Fans can stream the entire album at http://www.myspace.com/prophetandthecoa. Prophet is also releasing the entire tracklist free in mp3 format upon request. The physical CD, including album art, will be available for retail sale beginning February 1, 2010.

Web: http://www.myspace.com/prophetandthecoa
Mail: prophet667@aol.com

Management: Marge Johnson/AmendmentOne Management
Mail: mjohnson@amendmentone.com
www.stmadness.com

Innerfate new work

Innerfate is a band formed partially by three ex-members of Forever Slave. They just recorded new songs for our work "Unleashed", which you can listen to on their MySpace our download here.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YCJHCFLG
www.myspace.com/innerfateband

The band was formed after three main members of Forever Slave found themselves forced to leave their band after 5 years of continuous work and dedication. Five years during which they composed most of the music, recorded two albums and had the immense honor of playing at Wacken Open Air, Metal Female Voices Fest and tour around Europe with Kamelot and Firewind.
The three musicians are then joined by Mara (ex-singer of Gal�ctika, collaborations with Y3K and Paral.lel 84) and Kike, a talented bassist.
The band is recording a video for their new single "Circles of Despair".

At the moment they're looking for a label and booking angents.

Glasstone Records sign NEVERBORNE

NEVERBORNE write adrenaline-soaked metal that combines melody & brutality, harmony and chaos, hope & despair.

NEVERBORNE, originally hailing from South Africa, now reside in Surrey (UK), and their 5 track debut EP 'In Absence Of Fear' was produced at Surrey's THIN ICE STUDIOS by Karl Groom (Dragonforce, Hammerfall).

NEVERBORNE are currently writing for their full length record which will also be recorded with Karl Groom, and mastered by Tue Madsen (Soilwork/Sharp End First/Mnemic) or Goran Finnberg (Opeth/Dark Tranquillity/In Flames).

NEVERBORNE have featured in Zero Tollerance, Devolution Magazine, on the Underground City Show on a Belgium radio station called Quartz FM amongst many web stations such as Top Rock Radio.

South Africa's most prolific rock DJ over the past 2 decades, Barney Simon, has been consistently playing tracks from 'In The Absence Of Fear' on his weekly rock show on Tuks FM.

* NEVERBORNE have shared the stage with Katatonia, OMT, and Pure Negative.

NEVERBORNE's mini album features elements of punk, rock, death, and hardcore. DEVOLUTION magazine describes NEVERBORNE as "blistering underground UK metal that isn't afraid to delve into different sub-genres for inspiration." In that respect, NEVERBORNE are a diverse writing force.

 ".....great song writing, powerful arrangements, killer guitar work and acidic vocals all combine to make this an exceptional release!" - ZERO TOLERANCE MAGAZINE

'In Absence Of Fear' will be officially released on Glasstone Records on the 23rd November 2009.

www.myspace.com/officialneverborn

OFFICIAL NEW VIDEO

"Enter this World
Of Living Music
Where Everything is sound"

Glasstone Records sign THE SMASHUP

THE SMASHUP hailing from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2003. THE SMASHUP have toured on Warped Tour, Taste of Chaos, Gigantour & also with Deftones, Thrice, As I Lay Dying, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Opeth, Story of the Year, Funeral for a Friend, 3 Colours Red, Atreyu, Love Hate Hero, Thursday, From Autumn to Ashes, Bleed The Dream & more.

Vin Alfieri (guitar/founder) - "This has been my main project for a handful of years. I also write and produce music for film and television - with many published songs in
films such as Daredevil, Ghost Rider, American Pie Series, Epic Movie,
Meet the Spartans, Final Destination 4, Jumper, Alvin and the Chipmunks (performed all the music and wrote considerable amount), which went platinum in the US and soundtrack also won an American Music Award last year. Currently just finished Alvin sequel and full soundtrack which will be released worldwide via Warner Brothers". THE SMASHUP have had tracks on the movies Saw 3, Masters of Horror and Feast as well on tracks on The Best Of Taste of Chaos volume 1 and 2.

Additionally, Sean Cuthbert (vocals) previously performed in the bands The Resurrection and Year of Confession - both bands performed shows with Unearth, All The Remains, Shai Halud, Trivium, The Sleeping, It Dies Today.

THE SMASHUP's latest serving was produced & mixed by Andrew Schneider (Pelican, Cave In, The Ocean) at New York's Translator Audio Studios, Brooklyn. As a band they draw influence from Trail of the Dead, Nine Inch Nails, Dillinger Escape Plan, Underoath, Moneen and of course some older influences such as Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Faith No More & Incubus.

The new record, entitled 'The Sea and The Serpents Beneath', is based around a theme of life struggles that hopefully, most people will be able to relate to, and also a little short story of an epic sea journey gone astray.

THE SMASHUP have had video rotation on FUSEtv and MTV2 on the last record cycle - currently doing a new video with Dave Brodsky (Suicide Silence, Black Dhalia Murder) for "Set Loose Black Sail"

The band toured the UK when they released "Untreatable" on Mighty Atom
Records a few years back and were well received. The band really love to play
in the UK, and are planning on doing as much as they can overseas.

THE SMASHUP pride themselves on their energetic stage performance – one that has
people talking after a show regardless of how they feel about the music.
While the music is always at the forefront of our performance, we
appreciate the value of connecting with an audience both visually and emotionally as well. In addition, a willingness to step in and out of boundaries, displaying an array of different moods, sounds, and emotions is well-represented in the upcoming release.

The New Album 'The Sea and The Serpents Beneath' is out i Europe on the 1st March 2010 on Glasstone Records!

www.myspace.com/glasstonerecordings
www.myspace.com/thesmashup

extreme metal book

Underground journalist RYAN BARTEK unleashes long-awaited

road book “THE BIG SHINY PRISON” as FREE PDF

-- direct download via http://www.mediafire.com/?bxmozxt4jom --

Above is the FREE PDF download link to Ryan Bartek’s long-anticipated road book/music journalism expose “THE BIG SHINY PRISON,” covering all forms of extreme metal, punk, industrial, experimental, rock, electronic, psychedelia, etc.

This book is packed with interviews – from Brutal Truth to Millions of Dead Cops, Impaled to DWARVES, Repulsion to Cephalic Carnage. AxCx to Pig Destroyer, Kylesa to STALAGGH, Genghis Tron to Abysmal Dawn & beyond. Even USA President Barack Obama makes the most bizarre appearance of his entire career. Yet that’s just scraping the surface & below you will find a comprehensive list of appearances.

The following statement comes directly from the author: “My name is Ryan Bartek. For the past 3 years I’ve sacrificed everything for the successful completion of this project. I spent a year on the road, another year completing & shopping it, and another year of total rejection. It is only karmically fitting that both the demise of magazine & book publishing come in one fell swoop.

I was never in it for the money, nor the aspect of celebrity. I have spent an upwards of $10,000 on it, which I remark only to underline my absolute sincerity. No one would deny its quality -- but the raw nature of the work, as well as its excessive length, made it impossible to pigeon hole or successfully shop. Nothing quite like it has ever surfaced, at least not in the format I’ve undertaken.

After this seemingly endless struggle, I have decided to offer it to the public domain. While I retain the copyright/trademark, I both encourage and support file sharing. It is my only wish that this manuscript be circulated & appreciated. Perhaps when all is said and done, someone might offer a physical print run.

“THE BIG SHINY PRISON” can be downloaded

at the following link: http://www.mediafire.com/?bxmozxt4jom

If you cannot view a PDF file, either I or June Mansfield from Anomie PR

will resend it as an MS Word Document or RTF File upon request.

If anyone wishes to circulate this PDF to their contacts, I hereby give full permission. If anyone runs a zine or label and wants to post the PDF on your site, I also endorse this action.

The HTML embed code for the book is: http://www.mediafire.com/?bxmozxt4jom

If anyone should so kindly post this announcement on their news blog,

review the book, or send interview questions, I’d also be much appreciative.

Since there is no “official release” slated as of yet, the “time-sensitive” aspect of promotion is rendered moot (i.e. whenever you feel like getting around to it).

Also available for download are the front cover and promotional logo.

Book Cover direct link: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=dzmnnnimjwg&thumb=4

Book Cover HTML Embed:

Promotional Logo direct link: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=0mnvmzljhdy&thumb=4

Promotional Logo HTML Embed:

I wrote this book to prove that no answer is ever “the answer,” and that all of us – no matter our vocation – are part of something larger then we might ever consider. “THE BIG SHINY PRISON” is my ultimate thesis.

Readers may be horrifically alienated/insulted by the views of some in this book. I endorse none but my own, and I think it’s fairly obvious where I stand. Anyone who knows me well enough realize that if I “explain the joke” then the jokes not funny. In “BSP,” I am relegated to the status of a ping-pong ball gathering information. I am a clown, land pyrate & gutter philosopher – nothing more.”

That much said, welcome to “THE BIG SHINY PRISON.”

Cordially,

Dr. Ryan Bartek

Mabusvanian Consulate of Inter-Communal Affairs

ryanbartek@hotmail.com – myspace/bigshinyprison

myspace/akamabus -- myspace/ghostnomadlives

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June Mansfield: Anomie PR

bigshinyprison@hotmail.com

“THE BIG SHINY PRISON” features appearances & interviews with members of

Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, DWARVES, Barack Obama, MDC (Millions of Dead Cops), Repulsion, Psyopus, Abysmal Dawn, Cephalic Carnage, Kylesa, Deathlist 5, Ludicra, RATT, Lesbian, HIMSA, Job For A Cowboy, Atheist, Sol Evil, Impaled, Diverje, Light This City, PHOBIA, Kettle Cadaver, Scorched Earth, Foxy Shazam, Otesanek, In Memorium, Duff’s Brooklyn, EXITIUM, The Angelic Process, ANAL CUNT, Blood Stained Dusk, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Fre-Ne-Tik, Zeke, Peppermint Creeps, Genghis Tron, Intronaut, Downtown Brown, Solger, Friends of Dennis Wilson, PHALLUS, Chinese Work Ethic, Melechesh, Vile, STALAGGH, Beefcake In Chains, SINDIOS, OCTAGON, The Gracchi, My Uncle The Wolf, Apocryph, Salt Lick, Amish Noise, Street Crime, 7000 Dying Rats, Churchburner, The Jet City Fixx, Alchemical Burn, Crematorium, Waco Jesus, Snotrokitz, Suicide Holiday, Galway Arms, Vertigo Venus, Severed Savior, Kill The Precedent, Kill The Client, Dreaming Dead, They Live, Brian Botkiller, Quinta Essentia, Alternative Tentacles, Whorehouse of Representatives, DSBP Records, RU-486, Mathematicians, Anal Pudding, Nihilistik Terrorist, Nihilistic Outlaw Criminal Order, A.K.A. MABUS, Onyx, Disgorge, Jack Cassady, Beer Metal Records, The Crashing Falcon, Lysia Gori, Stormdrain, The Dingbatz, Bu Hao Ting, Potty Mouth Society, Funeral Age, Uranium Death Crow, High Intensity Discharge, Stahlmantel, Hymns of The NeedleFreak, Hammers of Misfortune, The Plankton Beat, Ron of Japan, Jakked Rabbits, SASQUATRCH AGNSOTIC, The STD’s, The Plankton Beat, The Slashers, We Both Know, Hunab Ku, Black Flame Records & many others.

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PRAISE FOR RYAN BARTEK’S “THE SILENT BURNING” (2005)

“One of the most interesting, and perhaps honest, books of the last decade." -- 1340MAG.com

“This deeply personal memoir, one of many, as well as his views on racism, abortion, and drugs speak volumes about Bartek’s ability to analyze society from the perspective of someone who isn’t from the privileged class. From his disadvantageous upbringing, he has developed a brutal style of analysis, buttressed by an in-depth knowledge about innumerable subjects, qualifying him to speak for his generation… An opus that would send Freud to the asylum, if not straight to hell.” –The Satanic Inquisition

“In many ways, ‘The Silent Burning’ reads like a counter-culture manifesto, an underground guide to the rebellion. Paranoia, anger and self-preservation guide Ryan Bartek’s decrees, which he operates in the same clobbering, sarcastic vein of Kerouac as he does Chuck D. Bartek rants to his hearts content, and his heart is blackened like the underbelly of hell.” - PIT Magazine

“The reader is a visitor at his or her own risk; Bartek slams you upon entering and like the ball in a pinball machine you are flicked aggressively from heartrending childhood story to barely coherent hate filled manifesto to disjointed poem to intelligently articulated commentary… This book is for those who are simmering with the anger of repression and persecution, and for those who want to understand them without judging. It also touches those of us who maintain a less hostile attitude towards society, but are just as disgusted with the mainstream version of reality.”

–Clamor Magazine

“Bartek’s voice isn’t gentle, easy, or subtle. ‘The Silent Burning’ is a postmodern polemic, a schizophrenic society, and an hyper charged imagination reflected in a funhouse mirror, populated by a narrator looking for something approaching understanding, but finding a head-on-collision with the world instead. ‘The Silent Burning’ is what you’d get if you had a literary cage grudge match to the death between Henry Miller, Lautreamont, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, and Kathy Acker. You’re left with blood on the floor and screams ringing in your ears- but also a great deal of truth, if you can stand to look at it.” –JAM RAG

“I was incredibly moved by this work. A very brave piece on Bartek’s part, as it attacks the mass media and our society in such an honest and straight forward fashion, that it would be practically impossible for any major publishing house to push the book without cutting half of it completely out… His words swell like flames on the underbelly of the American lie… Hands down, this is one of the most important readings of the 21st Century. Practically functioning as a bi-polar survival guide for anyone that operates outside of the ‘norm,’ and a must-have for all that find themselves active in the underground.” –Solution13.net

“Bartek’s writing is like a welding of Alan Ginsberg and Bukowski... Inflammatory...” – Outsight Radio

“Written from a bi-polar viewpoint, ‘The Silent Burning’ encompasses everything we as a society find obscene, distasteful and just plain wrong. Follow me here - a book written during the height of a manic depressives worst battles, a book written at the lowest point of one mans bipolar syndrome, a book written during the recovery process -- all put in words and written as self-therapy.” –TVTRANZMISSION.com

“Comprised largely of fragments written in a variety of different styles, Bartek’s predominant form is the rant – the preferred mode of lunatics, psychotics, drug fiends, and confused angsty teens. He aims his gun at the usual targets – television, racism, organized religion, conservatives, liberals, rednecks, freaks, junkies, yuppies, rapists, pro-lifers and losers – beneath sectional subheadings such as ‘Bob Saget Raping the Olson Twins on PCP;’ a ranting that is by its very nature as inconsistent as it is somehow endearing in its callousness… While there is a lot wrong with this book, not the least of which is the author’s self-diagnosis masquerading as a climax – a bit too pathetically American for my tastes – what pisses me off most of all is the fact that it’s barely available…” -The Prague Literary Journal

”A Misanthropik Monument of Hatred, Pain, and Disgust.” –STALAGGH

CEMETERY URN To Launch New Album At 'Southern Sign Ritual' Concert

Australian barbaric death metal legends CEMETERY URN, who feature in their ranks members of BESTIAL WARLUST, ABOMINATOR, SADISTIK EXECUTION, BLOOD DUSTER and GUILD OF DESTRUCTION, will launch their new album by performing at The Tote Hotel in Collingwood, Melbourne on February 6, 2010 alongside URGRUND, DESTRUKTOR and ORDER OF ORIAS under the "Southern Sign Ritual" banner of BLACKART PRODUCTIONS.

CEMETERY URN came together in 2006 and performed 17 shows across the U.S. in 2008 with such bands as GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, BLOOD FEAST, OBIESANCE, MORBOSIDAD and many more extreme black metal acts.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/cemeteryurn.

www.myspace.com/blackartproductions666

New BECOMING album

BECOMING's album "Sonic Revelations" is a journey to the center of the soul and beyond. BECOMING strips away all of the over produced fluff that bands rely on so heavily in our current information age and deliver a deep, diverse, uniquely textured, powerful album done the old school way with a new school style. Self produced and engineered by BECOMING and then mixed and mastered by the legendary "Zuess" (Hatebreed, Chimaira, Shadows Fall, God Forbid, and Unearth). This album defies the norm of typical metal by adding depth, character, and flavor with meaningful, catchy, powerful songs that uplift and energize the listener into a state of self actualized empowerment. "Sonic Revelations" is a must own for fans of any music genre!

visit BECOMING at:
http://www.becoming.cc
and
http://www.myspace.com/becomingband

Ex Obituary/Six Feet Under guitarist joins LUSTMORD

Allen West most notably of Obituary, Six Feet Under, and recently Lowbrow has agreed to appear on the new LUSTMORD album.

Allen is currently in an un named band with Marco from BloodWraith, Dave from Jungle Rot, and Rock Rollain from LUSTMORD and is working on getting that project off the ground. While the new demo is being mixed and recorded Allen has graciously agreed to record some leads and a couple of guest tracks on the new full length album from LUSTMORD.