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MALEVOLENT CREATION: Drummer TONY LAUREANO Unable To Appear On New CD

Despite a previous announcement to the contrary, drummer Tony Laureano (NILE, DIMMU BORGIR) will NOT be performing on MALEVOLENT CREATION's upcoming tenth studio album, "Doomsday X", >, tentatively due before the end of the year via Nuclear Blast Records. "Due to various schedualing conflicts I a...

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1349 To Be Joined By TONY LAUREANO, Session Guitarist On Upcoming Dates

Norwegian black metallers 1349 have confirmed that they will be utilizing the services of former NILE drummer Tony Laureano on their upcoming dates as regular skinsman Frost is busy with promoting SATYRICON's recently released "Now, Diabolical" CD. In addition, they will be using a session guitarist...

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MALEVOLENT CREATION Added To 'The Domination Tour'

Long-running Florida death metal act MALEVOLENT CREATION has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of "The Domination Tour", set to kick off next February. Also scheduled to take part are Greece's ROTTING CHRIST and Norway's CARPATHIAN FOREST. MALEVOLENT CREATION is currently in pre-production for the...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE: Support Acts For Australia/New Zealand Tour Announced

Soundworks Touring has officially announced the support acts for the upcoming Australia/New Zealand CANNIBAL CORPSE tour. Support within Australia will come from PSYCROPTIC (Tasmania) and PLAGUE (WA). Without a doubt leading the charge in Australian metal, PSYCROPTIC has proven to be not just a brut...

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KING DIAMOND Featured On 'Clerks II' Soundtrack

KING DIAMOND is featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture "Clerks II", the 2006 sequel to Kevin Smith's 1994 movie "Clerks". The "Clerks II" soundtrack contains 11 music tracks (plus one bonus music track) from the movie, including two KING DIAMOND tracks — "Welcome Home" and "The Invisible G...

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1349, ENSLAVED, ZYKLON: More U.K. Tour Dates Announced

1349, the Norwegian black metal band featuring SATYRICON drummer Frost, will be teaming up with ENSLAVED and ZYKLON for a tour of the U.K. and Ireland in September. Confirmed dates are as follows; Sep. 05 - The Village - Dublin, IRE Sep. 07 - Colchester Arts Centre - Colchester, UK Sep. 08 - Corpora...

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BRUJERIA To Embark On Spanish Tour In September

Extreme metallers BRUJERIA will embark on a three-date "Don Quijote Marihuana" Spanish tour in September following their successful appearance at the Viña Rock Festival in Villarobledo (Albacete) this past April. The details are as follows: Sep. 21 - Madrid, ESP @ Heineken Sep. 22 - Bergara, ESP @ G...

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GOREFEST: European Festival Report

Guitarist Frank Harthoorn of the reunited Dutch metallers GOREFEST has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "We'd been asked to fill in for DEICIDE on the Nummirock festival in Finland two weeks ago, an invite we gladly accepted since we'd never been there before. Nummirock...

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LED ZEPPELIN's JIMMY PAGE Pulls Out Of MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL Tribute Concert

LED ZEPPELIN legend Jimmy Page has been forced to cancel his participation in the June 30 concert in honor of Atlantic Records at this year's Montreux Jazz Festival due to medical reasons (a "surgery", according to a press release). On June 30 — the opening night of the festival — the Montreux Jazz...

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HYPOCRISY Preaches The Art Of War

Sweden's HYPOCRISY have commented on their upcoming "Machines at War" North American tour with FEAR FACTORY, SUFFOCATION, and DECAPITATED. The trek is set to launch in San Francisco this October 26 and run through early December. Said HYPOCRISY singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Peter Tägtgren: "F...

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BORN FROM PAIN Confirmed For Holland's WALDROCK Festival

BORN FROM PAIN have been confirmed for the 2006 edition of the Waldrock festival, set to take place Saturday, July 1 in Burgum, the Netherlands. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AFTER FOREVER ALICE IN CHAINS BLOODSIMPLE BORN FROM PAIN DEVILDRIVER HELLOWEEN K...

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GUNS N' ROSES, ALICE IN CHAINS To Play Longer Sets At GRASPOP; Live Video Feed Available

The organizers of Belgium's Graspop Metal Meeting — which is taking place June 23-25 in Dessel — have posted the following message on the festival's official web site: "Last week, when Graspop was informed that KORN would be cancelling their European tour, the search for a worthy replacement was und...

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GRASPOP METAL MEETING: Live Video Stream Now Available

Belgium's Graspop Metal Meeting — which is taking place June 23-25 in Dessel — is currently offering a live Internet video stream of the bands performing at the festival. Watch it online at this location (ANVIL just finished their set. Up next: Y&T beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST). Graspop Metal Meet...

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KING DIAMOND: New Album Update

KING DIAMOND have finished recording the drums, bass and rhythm guitars for their upcoming album, tentatively due in early 2007. The follow-up to 2003's "The Puppet Master" will contain 13 tracks (including an intro),five of which were written by the band's guitarist Andy La Rocque. Frontman King D...

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1349 Part Ways With Founding Guitarist TJALVE

1349 guitarist and founding member Tjalve (real name: André Kvebek) has left the Norwegian black metal act after nine years and three studio albums to focus on his other bands PANTHEON I and SARKOM. Commented Tjalve in a statement: "I will remember 1349 as the most diabolical, vicious and plague-rid...