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Artist: Obituary
   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:

   
 Xecutioners Return
   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11

   
 Frozen In Time
   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10

   
 Anthology
   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 20

   
 Live In Montreal Quebec (Bootleg)
   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14

   
 Live Dynamo Open Air, Eindhoven Nl (Bootleg)
   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14

   
 Back From The Dead
   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11

   
 World Demise
   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16

   
 The End Complete
   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11

   
 Live Dynamo Open Air, Eindhoven Nl (Bootleg)
   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 7

   
 Cause Of Death
   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9

   
 Slowly We Rot
   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 14

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Possessed and Death may consume brought destruction metal to life, only Obituary brought it to fruition. After cathartic some demos as Xecutioner as far back as 1986, the five-man band debuted as Obituary on Roadrunner Records in 1989 with Lento We Rot, and in a book, the record album was landmark. The previous forays into what would quickly become tagged as death metal — principally by the above-named bands, Possessed and Death, along with grindcore innovators Repulsion and Napalm Death — were exercises in inexorableness. These bands took the breakneck desert of Slayer’s Reign in Blood one stone’s throw further, to the spot of plain, sometimes even pathetic musical abandon. Obituary, on the other hand, wide-ranging their pace well — and did so at the absolute height of speed metallic element withal. Yes, the dance orchestra could playact at breakneck velocity, simply within the same vocal, guitarists Allen West and Trevor Peres could sluggish the pacing down pat to dirge-like levels in a moment’s notice, all the patch keeping the euphony as laboured as hell thanks to down-tuned guitars and the snarling vocals of John Tardy. As a result, Tardily We Rot made rather a splatter back in 1989, influencing an integral legion of destruction metal bands in Florida: Morbid Angel, Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse, and numerous others at present forgotten among the thousands of outside bands that followed. In a way, Tardily We Rot was the prototypal last metal album, establishing a template that would add up to define the vogue (one that is discrete from grindcore or calamitous metallic element, it should be pointed out). A few albums followed — Lawsuit of Death (1990) and The End Complete (1992) both besides very influential — simply by the mid-’90s Obituary had run its class and the band splintered, reuniting now and then. Yet level as the bandmembers went their seperate slipway (most notably West going on to often success as the guitar player of Six Feet Under), Obituary continued to stand tall as unmatched of the definitive death metal bands, if non the authoritative (a distinction that credibly goes to Death, whose James Murphy actually was a bandmember for a patch). Their in style, Xecutioners Return was released in August 2007 on the Candleight label.

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Artist: Los Secretos
   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:

   
 Grandes Exitos Vol. II
   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 20

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Known as one of the major acts of the Apostles of the Spanish New Wave, los Secretos was formed in 1980 by brothers Javier, Enrique, and Alvaro Urquijo, wHO where joined by a irregular drummer. After three active age, the quartette became a duo in 1983, with Alvaro and Enrique Urquijo performing their have pop/rock tunes. Later, drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Nacho Lles, and guitar player Ramón Arroyo linked the act, returning as a grouping with the discharge of El Primer Cruce and an album called Continuará. In 1988, after they were joined by keyboardist Jesús Redondo, the band issued a live record, called Directo, the low one to achieve gold status. Los Secretos disbanded by the end of the nineties. Soon after, the group’s members got involved in different projects.

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Artist: Woods Of Infinity
   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:

   
 Hamptjaern
   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10

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Actress Uma Thurman, star of the Kill Bill movies, is engaged to London financier Arpad "Arki" Busson, according to news reports.

"I can confirm she is engaged," her representative Stephen Huvane told celebrity website People.com in a posting.

Huvane was not immediately able to be reached for further comment.

People.com said the pair began dating last summer, and since then their relationship has blossomed quickly.

Thurman, 38, has a long list of film credits that include roles in Pulp Fiction and The Producers.

She was previously married to actor Ethan Hawke, with whom she has two children, as well as to actor Gary Oldman.

Businessman and philanthropist Busson was until 2005 involved with Australian model Elle Macpherson, with whom he had two sons.

He is the founder and chairman of EIM Group, a fund management business based in London.

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A report in the U.K. newspaper The Sunday Mirror revealing that 24-year-old singer Amy Winehouse has been diagnosed with emphysema has many wondering how someone so young could be suffering from a disease that typically affects cigarette smokers in their 50s and 60s.
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But some doctors say that emphysema could be just one indication of the toll that hard living is taking on Winehouse’s lungs, adding that the singer may also be suffering from “crack lung,” a severe condition resulting from her alleged use of crack cocaine.

A person who has crack lung may experience fever, cough, difficulty breathing and severe chest pain within 48 hours after heavy crack-cocaine smoking. The condition can cause the air sacs in the lungs to become inflamed and scarred.

Back in January, video footage of Winehouse smoking what appeared to be a crack pipe surfaced.

“It seems as if there’s a history of crack use and drug use,” says Dr. Len Horovitz, pulmonary specialist and internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “I would surmise that she probably has had episodes of crack lung before this.”

Winehouse’s father, Mitch, told The Sunday Mirror that he rushed his daughter to the hospital on June 16 after she collapsed at her home in Camden, North London.

“With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up,” Mitch Winehouse told reporters Sunday. “There are nodules around the chest and dark marks.”

That description of the chest x-ray, which suggests scarring and inflammation, is what leads some doctors to suspect that crack lung could be the culprit. In addition, while emphysema is a chronic condition that develops over time, crack lung is an acute injury to the lung, and could have caused such a sudden trip to the hospital.

“She probably has two diseases: emphysema and crack lung,” says Dr. Norman H. Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association. “They’re similar, but not exactly the same.”

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