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WALTARI: 'Get Stamped' Video Posted Online

Finland's WALTARI has posted a video for the new song "Get Stamped" on its MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new album, "Release Date", due on February 26 via Dockyard 1. According to a press release, the new CD is "darker" than 2005's "Blood Sample", "but also again crazier in the ...

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NEVERLAND Signs With ESCAPE MUSIC

Escape Music has announced the signing of NEVERLAND, a progressive power metal band from Switzerland. According to the label, "These dedicated guys have found a perfect mix of classical riffs and melodies and fused them with progressive elements. The result is a very classy album that traces element...

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FREEDOM CALL Completes Work On 'Dimensions'

German melodic speed metallers FREEDOM CALL have issued the following update: "Yesterday we finished the last workings in Tommy Newton's Area 51 Studios in Celle, Germany and arrived our hometown, Nuremberg, with the master tape in the bag. The new album, 'Dimensions', is READY! "After more than sev...

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SKID ROW, QUIET RIOT, SYMPHONY X, KORPIKLAANI Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

SYMPHONY X, SKID ROW, QUIET RIOT, KORPIKLAANI and MCQUEEN been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 6-9 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AFTER FOREVER ALL ENDS AMON AMARTH ANNIHILATOR AXEL RUDI...

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Killing Peace

You know, it won't win you any friends among the back-patch-and-MALICE-button set, but it's okay once in a while to admit that some of those quasi-legendary '80s bands were… well… second-tier. Not that it should affect one's enjoyment of their classic albums — hell, I'm a huge XENTRIX fan despite my...

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METALLICA's HAMMETT Talks About Meeting LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD; Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett about the San Francisco Bay Area club scene and the first t...

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AFTER FOREVER Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal outfit AFTER FOREVER has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 6-9 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AFTER FOREVER ALL ENDS AMON AMARTH ANNIHILATOR AXEL...

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PURE INC. Finishes Recording New Demo

Swiss rockers PURE INC. recently finished recording a new nine-song demo following the group's split with AFM Records. The tracks will be mixed at the Little Creek Studios in Gelterkinden (Baselland) with V.O. Pulver (studio owner, engineer and producer, as well as singer and guitar player of GURD)....

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DARK TRANQUILLITY: New Album Details Revealed; Audio Sample Available

Swedish melodic death metal pioneers DARK TRANQUILLITY triumphantly return with "Fiction" in April 2007, a scorching effort that will undoubtedly add an exhilarating new chapter to the genre's storied history. The album was mixed by the acclaimed Tue Madsen (HIMSA, THE HAUNTED) and encompasses all o...

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BLOODTHIRST Signs With PAGAN RECORDS

After numerous split releases and demos, Polish anti-Christian thrash metallers BLOODTHIRST have signed to Pagan Records. The band will enter the Metalsound Studio in early March to begin recording its debut full-length album, entitled "Let Him Die". Expect nine songs of violent, bone crushing, head...

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WOLF To Support KREATOR, CELTIC FROST In Scandinavia

Sweden's WOLF will support KREATOR and CELTIC FROST on the following dates: Mar. 31 - (NOR) Oslo, Betong Apr. 01 - (S) Gothenburg, Trädtgarn Apr. 02 - (S) Malmö, KB Apr. 03 - (S) Stockholm, Arenan As previously reported, WOLF has been confirmed for the the 2007 edition of the Headbangers Open Air fe...

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MEAT LOAF Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

MEAT LOAF has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 6-9 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANNIHILATOR AXEL RUDI PELL BLACK OAK ARKANSAS BLIND GUARDIAN CIRCUS MAXIMUS DIMMU BORGIR ELDRITCH FALCONER GOV'T MULE HARDCO...

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ONSLAUGHT Guitarist Talks About Reunion Album

Back in action after 15 years of silence, U.K. thrash metal legends ONSLAUGHT have just recorded the album of their lives. Brutal, infectious and brimming with energy, "Killing Peace" is set to blow every other thrash album of the last two decades out of the water, as original members Nige Rockett (...

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FREEDOM CALL To Release 'Dimensions' In April

German melodic speed metallers FREEDOM CALL are tentatively scheduled to release theeir new album, "Dimensions", on April 20. According to drummer Daniel Zimmermann (also in GAMMA RAY),the CD will contain 11 "fast and melodic speed hymns," which will be similar in style to the band's 2002 album, "E...

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LEGION OF THE DAMNED Confirmed For KREATOR / CELTIC FROST European Tour

Dutch thrashers LEGION OF THE DAMNED (formerly OCCULT) have been confirmed as the support act for the European co-headlining tour featuring Germany's KREATOR and Switzerland's CELTIC FROST. The trek is scheduled to kick off March 8 in Köln, Germany. A complete list of dates can be found at KREATOR's...