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Emmure Emmure - Official

Contemporary extreme metal band Emmure have recruited ex-Bury Your Dead member Mark Costillo to fill the band's vacant drummer slot. The stickman is making his studio debut with the band on their as-yet-untitled fifth album, which producer Joey Sturgis is currently tracking.

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Blythe / Iommi Bradley Kanaris, Getty Images / Mary Ouellette, SheWillShootYou.com

Yesterday, the metal community was impacted by the sobering news that that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of a cancer called lymphoma, which causes tumors in lymphoid cells that.

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Faith No More's multitalented and eccentric vocalist Mike Patton is scoring the upcoming film 'The Place Beyond the Pines.'

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One of the most aggressive and explosive bands to gain popularity through the mid-to-late nineties, El Paso post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In were a herky-jerky thrill ride of angular riffs, plundering rhythms and cryptic lyrics. The interpersonal dynamcs between the band members was just as turbulent and in 2001 the group broke up following a year-long tour for their third album 2000's 'Relationship of Command.'

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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has exhibited further evidence of his heavy metal past, and it doesn't have anything to do with members of thrash or doom bands like Motorhead, Venom or St. Vitus.

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Metallica fans who still prefer CDs over MP3s can pick up the band's four-song EP 'Beyond Magnetic' at retail outlets on Jan. 31.

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A new website, Bandhappy, will feature live and pre-taped lessons from members of Lamb of God, Periphery, Protest the Hero, Dillinger Escape Plan and others starting Monday, Jan. 9.

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Shadows Fall Karl Walter, Getty Images

In March 2012, Shadows Fall will release their seventh album, the follow-up to 2009's 'Retribution,' on the band's new label Razor & Tie. The as-yet-untitled disc was produced by Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, who also worked on the band's 1998 full-length debut 'Somber Eyes to the Sky,' as well as discs by Unearth, Underoath, All that Remains, The Devil Wears Prada and others.

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Black Sabbath Lester Cohen, Getty Images

The first Black Sabbath studio album to feature vocalist Ozzy Osbourne since 1978's 'Never Say Die!' will likely come out next fall, which leaves even skeptical fans crossing their fingers, hoping to hear Ozzy's trademark howl with Tony Iommi's legendary crunchy, downtuned minor-key riffs.

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Forward-thinking metal band Chimaira are apparently slowly morphing into proggy death metal band Daath -- which isn't a bad thing, as evidenced by Chimaira's excellent 2011 album 'The Age of Hell,' which featured Daath guitarist Emil Werstler (on bass) and Daath keyboardist Sean Zatorsky.

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