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OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Honored At SKAP's Annual Ceremony

Every year SKAP awards scholarships and prizes to celebrate Swedish creativity across all musical genres. The awards ceremony takes place in tandem with SKAP's annual spring party which is organized with the composers in mind and creativity as the main focus. This year Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish pr...

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SOILWORK: Helsinki Concert To Be Filmed For Forthcoming DVD

SOILWORK's March 21, 2014 concert at Circus in Helsinki, Finland will be professionally filmed for DVD release. The band will play a career-spanning set, with special guest appearances and other surprises planned. The choice of location for the shoot of the first-ever SOILWORK audiovisual live docum...

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DARK TRANQUILLITY's MIKAEL STANNE Interviewed By Spain's MetalZone (Video)

MetalZone.biz conducted an interview with singer Mikael Stanne of Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY prior to the band's November 15 concert in Barcelona, Spain. You can now watch the chat below. DARK TRANQUILLITY's tenth studio album, "Construct", was released on May 27 via Century M...

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AVATARIUM Singer: 'People Have This Preconception That Female Vocalists Only Use Opera-Styled Vocals In Metal'

Raymond Westland of The Midlands Rocks recently conducted an interview with AVATARIUM singer Jennie-Ann Smith. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Midlands Rocks: Can you start by telling how you become involved with AVATARIUM? Jennie-Ann Smith: AVATARIUM started out as a project fr...

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AMON AMARTH: Quality Fan-Filmed Footage Of Gothenburg Concert

Quality fan-filmed video footage of AMON AMARTH's December 3 performance at Trädgår'n in Gothenburg, Sweden can be seen below. AMON AMARTH's ninth studio album, "Deceiver Of The Gods", sold around 17,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 19 on The Billb...

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CANDLEMASS To Perform Entire 'Ancient Dreams' Album At ROADBURN Festival

Swedish doom metal legends CANDLEMASS to perform their "Ancients Dreams" album in its entirety at Mikael Åkerfeldt's (OPETH) 2014 curated Roadburn event on Friday, April 11 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. "Wow, just wow!" says Åkerfeldt. "I am friends with the entire band, and especial...

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AMON AMARTH's JOHAN HEGG Speaks To Austria's Stormbringer.at (Video)

Austria's Stormbringer.at webzine conducted an interview with vocalist Johan Hegg of Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH prior to the band's November 25 concert in Vienna. You can now watch the chat below. AMON AMARTH's ninth studio album, "Deceiver Of The Gods", sold around 17,000 copies in the Uni...

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Former FIREWIND Singer APOLLO PAPATHANASIO Joins Forces With EGONAUT For RAY GILLEN Tribute

The official video for the song "Stop!" from the Swedish rock band EGONAUT and singer Apollo Papathanasio (SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, ex-FIREWIND, ex-EVIL MASQUERADE) can be seen below. The clip is a tribute to singer Ray Gillen (BLACK SABBATH, BADLANDS),who died on December 3, 1993 (20 years ago) of AIDS-...

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DARK TRANQUILLITY: Quality Footage Of Vienna Concert

Quality fan-filmed video footage of DARK TRANQUILLITY's November 28 performance in Vienna, Austria can be seen below. DARK TRANQUILLITY's tenth studio album, "Construct", was released on May 27 via Century Media Records. The CD was mixed by Jens Bogren (PARADISE LOST, OPETH, KATATONIA) at his Fascin...

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FIFTH TO INFINITY Featuring Ex-OPETH Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ: Another Song Available For Streaming

"The Fall Of The Seven", a brand new song from FIFTH TO INFINITY — the Swedish band featuring drummer Martin Lopez (ex-OPETH, AMON AMARTH) — can be streamed below. FIFTH TO INFINITY was formed by Jonas Reslan, Martin Lopez and Martin Mendez in 1997, after the breakup of the underground black metal o...

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STORK Adds Lead Singer VK LYNNE And Bassist KELLY LEMIEUX

Los Angeles-based heavy metal instrumental trio STORK is instrumental no more! Founding STORK members, super drummer Thomas Lang (PAUL GILBERT) and guitarist Shane Gibson (KORN) have announced their new album, "Broken Pieces" (Muso Entertainment),will feature lead singer VK Lynne (VITA NOVA, Eve's...

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SOILWORK Frontman Talks To Austria's MULATSCHAG TV (Video)

Austria's Mulatschag TV recently conducted an interview with vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Swedish metallers SOILWORK. You can watch the chat below. SOILWORK's ninth studio and first dual-disc album, "The Living Infinite", sold around 7,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release...

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SOILWORK Frontman Interviewed By Denmark's REVOLUTION INC. (Audio)

Denmark's Revolution Inc. conducted an interview with vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Swedish metallers SOILWORK at the 2013 edition of the Aalborg Metal Festival which was held November 7-9 at Studenterhuset in Aalborg, Denmark. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. SOILWORK'...

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DARK TRANQUILLITY Frontman Interviewed By PEEK FROM THE PIT (Video)

Nick Azinas of Peek From The Pit conducted an interview with vocalist Mikael Stanne of Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY before the band's November 7 concert at The Garage in London, England. You can now watch the chat below. DARK TRANQUILLITY's tenth studio album, "Construct", was r...

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FIFTH TO INFINITY Featuring Ex-OPETH Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ: Two Songs Available For Streaming

Two songs from FIFTH TO INFINITY — the Swedish band featuring drummer Martin Lopez (ex-OPETH, AMON AMARTH) — can be streamed below. FIFTH TO INFINITY was formed by Jonas Reslan, Martin Lopez and Martin Mendez in 1997, after the breakup of the underground black metal outfit VINTERKRIG. FIFTH TO INFIN...