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SUICIDAL ANGELS, STEELWING Sign With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

September 18, 2009

Greek old-school thrashers SUICIDAL ANGELS and Swedish metallers STEELWING (formerly SCAVENGER) have been awarded record deals with Boomer Entertainment and Nuclear Blast Records as part of a band contest launched by the Austrian management and booking company Rock The Nation.

This unique competition was presented and promoted by all leading European metal magazines, including the German, Italian, Spanish and Greek editions of Metal Hammer; Terrorizer (U.K.); Metallian (France); Scream (Norway); Rock Tribune (Belgium); Spark (Czech Republic); and the Dutch webzine LordsOfMetal.nl.

"The high interest [exceeded] all our expectations," says Rock The Nation boss Stefan Hattinger. More than 1,200 bands from all over the world participated in the contest, and hundreds of thousands of votes were counted. "It made the RTN Award a tremendous success and proves that this is what the bands have been waiting for," he adds.

The 100 bands with the most votes were judged by an "inner circle" composed of staff members from Rock The Nation, Boomer Entertainment and Nuclear Blast. In the end, there wasn't only one, but two winners!

"We are more than happy to win this contest," says SUICIDAL ANGELS vocalist and guitar player Nick. "We will do our best to reciprocate all the trust we received.

"We would like to thank Stefan and Rock The Nations, all the guys from Boomer Entertainment and Nuclear Blast for giving us this unique opportunity.

"Prepare to be thrashed, thrash till death!"

STEELWING guitarist Robby Rockbag states: "For us, it was a nice surprise and I can still hardly believe it.

"We were just about to finish recordings of our first demo, [and] all of a sudden we had a deal with the label that [is home to] so many of our favorite acts, like TESTAMENT, CANDLEMASS and HAMMERFALL. For us, it is like a dream come true and we promise a killer debut album to all you metalheads!"

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