You might have noticed things have been a little slow around here lately, which might signify you’ve had significantly less metal through the past few days. That can be hard thing to go through and we’re sorry -- but Fridays have a way of taking it all away, and we’re committed to making it the best one possible. To get you in the mood, watch the Morbid Angel video we have provided above, and keep checking back because we will have a new Shiny Penny as well as another installment of ‘Metal Can Look Good Too’, some Immortal news, random niceties and, finally, a wrap-up of the week’s events.

Independent record label Season of Mist has announced that they completed a deal with death-metal legends Morbid Angel. You may remember Season of Mist from signing such bands as Mayhem (!) and Solefald. Frontman David Vincent said about the deal; ‘’I am truly looking forward to our new relationship with Season of Mist, Michael Berberian has a lot of artistic vision and is a real music fan. This has been a long process to get to this point and in my opinion, it was worth the wait!" Trey Azagthoth adds “"The French have always shown me they much more value art over Fabricated Flatlined Hype, and it's this artistic minded value that will open so many new doors for extreme music as a whole. Mind Makes Meaning, why not own the process?"

New album is due out 2010.

The Black Dahlia Murder From: USA   Discography:  “Unhallowed” (2003), “Miasma” (2005), “Nocturnal” (2007), “Deflorate” (2009)   Formed in early 2001, The Black Dahlia Murder after releasing one demo and one EP, signed to Metal Blade Records in 2003. Battling numerous line-up changes and session musicians through out their eight years, the only remaining original members of The Black Dahlia Murder are Trevor Strnad- vocals, and Brian Eschbach- guitar. Rounding out the line up is:   Ryan Knight- guitar (ex- Arsis) Ryan Williams- bass Shannon Lucas- drums (ex-All That Remains)   Honestly I’m a sick of the ongoing debate about just what kind of metal The Black Dahlia Murder is. Upon first hearing them years ago, I thought they were a melodic death metal band and my opinion remains un-changed. Lets hear it from the man himself though, Trevor Strnad relates to pyromusic.com: "I've always said that we're melodic death metal. We are mostly influenced by Swedish bands and Carcass. The heavy end of our sound is the American style creeping in, with some Floridian influences like Morbid Angel, Malevolent Creation and that kind of stuff. We've been labeled more often because of our look than our sound, which is dumb, and speaks volumes about what kind of geniuses are out there!"   There you have it.  For fans of: The aforementioned bands, At The Gates, (new) Job For a Cowboy, Entombed.   Links: www.myspace.com/blackdahliamurder            

So this may be old news but I was pretty interested to find that this indie epic, written by Tony Stone, has a soundtrack featuring the likes of: Judas Priest , Queens of The Stone Age, Burzum, Morbid Angel, Dimmu Borgir and more. (Drool) If you are like me and have Netflix, you can watch Severed Ways online right now.  Here is a synopsis fro IMDB: 

On the coast of North America in AD 1007, two Norsemen are stranded when their expedition is attacked and they are left for dead. As they struggle to survive in the vast forests of the New World, their paths diverge as one pursues a spiritual quest and the other reverts to his primal instincts.

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