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Raging Metal Updates
Raging Metal Site News Anonymous writes "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...
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Glasstone Records sign NEVERBORNE
Raging Metal Site News Anonymous writes "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"
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extreme metal book
Raging Metal Site News Anonymous writes "

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

---

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.

 

* * * * *

 

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

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Raging Metal 100% Fully Back Online!
Raging Metal Site News Anonymous writes "At last, we seem to finally have gotten the site 100% back up online and working correctly.  Raging Metal lives to fight another day, even a server explosion can not destroy this place, Metal Really Is Raging!

Oh and this time, I'm keeping proper regular backups!!!
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Raging Metal: Major Server Problems
Raging Metal Site News Anonymous writes "Over the past week, the server which hosted Raging Metal exploded... for the 2nd time.  This time, it took out the Hard Disk Drive which hosted Raging Metal and there was no recent backup.

Luckily, however, I did manage to recover practically all of the useful data.  There were some corruptions with the forums' database, which are being worked on (the forum though closed, powers the Radio Podcast).  There also appears to be a slight  problem with the site's layout, which shall be fixed as soon as possible.

So this is just a small update to let our readers know what has been happening.
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Posted by TheMaster on Sunday, April 05 @ 17:29:58 BST (499 reads)
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30 Stories (6 Pages, 5 Per Page)
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Metal CD Reviews:
· Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
· Six Feet Under - Death Rituals
· Behemoth - Ezkaton
· Desolate Sky - S/T Demo
· Kalmah - For the Revolution
· Son Of 100 Maniacs - 1428 Elm
Interviews:
· Kalmah Interview
· Skeleton R.I.P. Interview with Anthony E. Adkins
· Interview with Deicide, drummer Steve Asheim
· Interview with Fetus Aftermath
· Interview with Hatred Rising
· Interview with Job For A Cowboy vocalist, Jonny Davy
Vid Game Reviews:
· Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
· Monkey Magic (PSX)
· Odin Sphere (PS2)
· Culdcept (PS2)
· MLB 06: The Show
· Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
TV Reviews:
· Lost In Space - Season 1
· Doug - Series Review
· The 4400 - Season 1 Analysis
· Classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Series Overview
· Carnivale - Series Overview SPOILER FREE!
Movie Reviews:
· Nosferatu
· The Lost Boys
· Stand By Me
· Enduring Love
Concert Reviews:
· Wacken Open Air 2007, 2-4th August, Wacken, Germany
· Immortal @ BB Kings, New York City, USA, July 13 2007
· Magic Circle Festival 2007, 6-7th July, Bad Arolsen, Germany
· Symphony X @ BB Kings, New York City USA, May 25 2007
· Heaven & Hell @ Mohegan Sun Arena, Connecticut USA, May 15, 2007
· Overkill/Metal Church/Meliah Rage/3 Inches Of Blood @ The Webster Theater, Hartford Connecticut, USA January 25, 2007
Music Reviews:
· Supertramp - Crime of the Century
· Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
· Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
· Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
· The Cure - Disintegration
Metalhead i:
· Ageless
· What To Watch, Autumn/Winter 2005 & The State Of TV These Days, by David Williams.
· Incitement To Religious Hatred - My Thoughts, by David Williams
· Metalheads Against Racism - My Thoughts
· The 'Metal Bible' and It's Significance to The Genre of Metal and the Metal Community
· Metallica - The Metal Years Reviewed
Uncut!:
· Kalmah Interview UNCUT!
· Immortal @ BB Kings, New York City, July 13 2007, reviewed by E. Rocker. UNCUT!
· Raging Stinker: Helloween - The Dark Ride, reviewed by David Williams.
· Raging Stinker: Faith No More - Introduce Yourself, reviewed by Hussein Sherazi.
· Interview with Jhonen Vasquez, interviewed by Anthony Lustmord.
· Raging Stinker: Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics, reviewed by Hussein Sherazi.

 
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