God-fucking-awful Georgia-based metallers Mastodon are set to unleash their fifth full length steaming pile of shit in January 2009, according to SMN News.

MASTODON hope to have the followup to Blood Mountain out by January 2009. Speaking to Artist Direct, the metal act claim it is “far the biggest departure from record to record that we’ve done”.

They are working with Brendan O’Brien (Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam), with the lyrical focus set to explore topics relating to Czarist Russia. The only song title to have been confirmed for the album so far is The Ghost of Karilla.

You know it’s going to “rock” because they’re working with some guy who worked with some popular mainstream bands, but… it’s not like they’re selling out or anything. Then again, they always sucked, so selling out would probably be a good career move for them anyway. The Ghost of Karilla, huh? What… was “We Are Fucking Gaylords” too subtle of an album title?

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According to BLABBERMOUTH.NET Members of Swedish death thrashers The Crown have announced the formation of a new band, led by vocalist Andreas Bergh of Deathstars, using the moniker Dobermann.

Vocalist Andreas “Whiplasher Bernadotte” Bergh of the Swedish industrial goth metal band DEATHSTARS has joined the new band formed by four former members of the now-defunct Swedish death/thrash act THE CROWN. The new group, dubbed DOBERMANN, is currently recording a collection of tunes which are being described as “pure death/thrash metal.”

“I’m totally hyped about finally writing songs with this act of 666% nitroglycerin,” stated Bergh, who was previously in the Swedish death metal band SWORDMASTER. “DOBERMANN is just genius.”

DOBERMANN is:

Magnus Olsfelt (THE CROWN) – Bass
Marko Tervonen (THE CROWN, ANGEL BLAKE) – Guitar
Marcus Sunesson (THE CROWN) – Lead Guitar
Janne Saarenpää (THE CROWN) – Drums
Andreas Bergh (DEATHSTARS, SWORDMASTER) – Vocals

Tervonen told BLABBERMOUTH.NET: “Not many people noticed when THE CROWN released the Possessed 13 album that Andreas actually wrote the lyrics to the song “Deliverance”. Also 2002 when THE CROWN was without a singer Andreas was supposed to fill in for a U.S. tour (featuring KREATOR and DESTRUCTION) with us, but logistics got in the way so we cancelled the tour. So he’s definitely not a stranger to us.”

THE CROWN split up more than four years ago due to “too many tours gone bad due to not at all professional tour arrangements,” according to a March 2004 statement released by Saarenpää. He added, “Coming home from tours with empty pockets, equipment falling apart and having a pile of bills on the doorstep is simply ‘horns down’. Paying the bills with tour memories and floorscores is just not possible. We do love standing on stage but we don’t know much about the business part, and that’s a bad combination.”

When The Crown announced they’d split up, I was pretty pissed off. Deathrace King and Possessed 13 were two of the best death thrash albums to be released in more than a decade and their departure left a huge void in the scene. I’m excited to hear new material, even if Johan Lindstrand and his massive mutton chops aren’t involved. It’s too bad they picked such a stupid name though. Dobermann? Fucking terrible. Hopefully goth metal boy won’t ruin this by queering this shit up.

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According to BLABBERMOUTH.NET California death-grinders Abscess and Swedish grinders Crowpath have been added to the growing line-up for 2009’s Maryland Deathfest, scheduled for May 22nd – 24th in Baltimore, Maryland.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

ASPHYX (Netherlands)
IMMOLATION (New York)
BRUTAL TRUTH (New York)
ABSCESS (California)
HAIL OF BULLETS (Netherlands)
TODAY IS THE DAY (Tennessee)
FLESH PARADE (Louisiana)
JIG-AI (Czech Republic)
CROWPATH (Sweden)
ENTRAILS MASSACRE (Germany)
ANTIGAMA (Poland)
MAN MUST DIE (Scotland)

For more information visit www.marylanddeathfest.com.

So far it’s looking like 2009’s Maryland Deathfest is going to be an impressive show. Immolation, Brutal Truth, Jig-Ai, Asphyx, Abscess… fuck!

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