Danish metallers MERCENARY will appear on Danish national television (TV2) this coming Saturday (Sept. 10). The show, "Test Nationen" (Test the Nation), is broadcast live from 8:00 p.m. until 11:20 p.m. (Copenhagen time) and is a contest between different in-studio panels and the rest of Denmark on Internet and SMS. The band will represent metal ...
Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE frontman Blaze Bayley spoke to Blazefans.com prior to the band's show at Belgium's Izzefest festival on September 3 about BLAZE's forthcoming album and DVD. "The new album is planned for May 2006 along with the DVD coming a bit later featuring three exclusive songs and documenting the work on the ...
GOATWHORE, WEEDEATER and SUPLECS are among the confirmed bands for the Rebel Heart V festival, set to take place September 30-October 1 at the Rebel Heart Amphitheatre in Alabama. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: GOATWHORE WEEDEATER SUPLECS HOGMOUNTIN PARABELLUM COLLOSSUS UNBORN FEID ZOROASTER GODSWHIP ARMAZILLA BLOOD CHURN HEATHERN Tickets are $10 a ...
Guitarist Erik has left Swedish thrash metallers LETHAL in order to pursue his higher studies in sound engineering. The band are currently seeking a replacement. A seven-inch single will soon be released on Final Punishment/Steelfire Invasion Records, to be followed by a full-length CD on Witches Brew Records. A sample track, "Cleansed by Flames", can ...
Utah-based black metallers IBEX THRONE have inked a two-album deal with Australia's Goatawa Rex Records. The group's second album, "Total Inversion", will be recorded late September/early October for an early 2006 release on CD/LP format. The album will include "nine new tracks of black hateful metal," according to a press release. "Expect nothing but the ...
HOLY MOSES and HATESPHERE are among the confirmed bands for the Art of Darkness festival, set to take place October 25 at Mehrzweckhalle in Scherfede, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: HOLY MOSES HATESPHERE BURDEN OF GRIEF DAVIDIAN FALLEN SAINTS ...
Long-running Italian black/thrash metallers NECRODEATH will enter Outer Sound studios in Rome in mid-December to begin recording the follow-up to 2003's "Ton(e)s of Hate". The as-yet-untitled effort is scheduled for release in early 2006 via Scarlet Records. ...
COLDSEED, the new project featuring SOILWORK vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid and former BLIND GUARDIAN/current SAVAGE CIRCUS drummer Thomen Stauch, have uploaded rough-mix audio samples of two tracks from their upcoming debut album. Check out the songs "Democracy Lesson" (mp3) and "On My Way" (mp3). Commented Stauch, "Keep in mind that the ...
ARCTURUS will be teaming up with RED HARVEST (Oct. 1-16) and KILL THE THRILL (Oct. 17-28) for the "Shipwrecked In Europe 2005" tour beginning in early November. Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 24 - Rockefeller - Oslo, NOR Oct. 01 - KB - Malmö, SWE Oct. 02 - Markthalle - Hamburg, GER Oct. 04 ...
