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In which we revisit Motörhead’s Another Perfect Day for its killer 40th anniversary reissue.

Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler reveals the origins of the lost ‘Lightning to the Nations’ demos on the newly remastered reissue.

Four new four Napalm Death LPs—Smear Campaign, Time Waits for No Slave, Utilitarian and Apex Predator – Easy Meat—get the reissue treatment with an assist from Decibel.

Defunct gothic black metallers Sadness emerge from the shadows for the “Ames de Marbre” reissue.

Listen to a remastered tune from The Obsessed now!

Extreme music icon discusses his struggles with BMG’s Celtic Frost reissues, the possibility of a new Triptykon LP next year and two new books currently in the works. 

New York City-based label WYLN is reissuing lost, classic heavy metal records including albums from Cyanide, Leather Nunn, Valhalla and Death Squad. 

Moloch‘s out of print black metal album Verwüstung will be rereleased in a remastered for vinyl format by Argento Records. Hear the improved songs now.

80’s Brazilian thrashers The Mist are finally seeing the first North American and European release of their 1989 debut, Phantasmagoria. 

Here comes Ultimo Mondo Cannibale again, so we caught up with Stevo from Impetigo to get the scoop on this classic death/grind album rising from the dead.

Tom Gabriel Fischer talks to Decibel first about the pending Celtic Frost reissues. 

Revelation Records announce reissue of legendary Warzone debut LP this September. 

Hell’s Headbangers is regifting us with Cianide’s 1997 album Death, Doom and Destruction.  The album was already a threatening slab of primitive extremity, and the reissue has extended the dread by appending a set of five demos (Rage War) and a 7″ (The Truth) that includes a Master cover of the same name.

English N.W.O.B.H.M./doom elders Pagan Altar will release remastered EP The Time Lord through Shadow Kingdom Records on 11 September 2012. Having previously only available limited vinyl runs, The Time Lord has hitherto harder to find than a taxi on New Year’s Eve, a pint of unicorn milk, etc… This is the first time it has…

For whatever reason, when people talk about influential metal scenes of yore, the L.A.area  just doesn’t seem to get the credit it’s due. Sure, the whole Hollywood/Sunset Strip glam thing left its mark in the mid-’80s, but some of the world’s biggest and influential, ahem, “real” metal bands arose from the L.A. area much earlier…