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DIR EN GREY, NARZISS, THE SORROW Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

DIR EN GREY, NARZISS and THE SORROW have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIA...

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CLOUDSCAPE Confirmed For Sweden's ROCKHIMLEN Festival

Sweden's CLOUDSCAPE has been confirmed for the Rockhimlen festival, set to take place July 13-14 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Part of the proceeds from the concert will go to "Barncancerfonden" (Children With Cancer). The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): BAI BANG BREWMAS...

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SATHANAS, BESTIAL MOCKERY, CRUCIFER, THRONEUM To Team Up For Four-Way Split CD

Long-running U.S.-based death/black metallers SATHANAS will release a four-way split CD with Sweden's BESTIAL MOCKERY, Virginia's CRUCIFER, and Poland's THRONEUM via Time Before Time Records. More information will be made available at www.time-before-time.com. SATHANAS previously announced plans to...

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MASTERPLAN/Ex-RAGE Drummer Lays Down Tracks For New RAZORBACK CD

German guitarist Rolf Munkes (RAZORBACK, ex-MAJESTY, VANIZE) has tapped drummer Mike Terrana (MASTERPLAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, AXEL RUDI PELL, METALIUM, RAGE) to play on the third RAZORBACK album, tentatively due in April via the Munich, Germany-based label Metal Heaven. "I just came back from the drum...

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LORDI, MENDEED Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

LORDI and MENDEED have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIAN BULLET FOR MY VA...

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DISMEMBER To Tour Poland In April

Swedish death metallers DISMEMBER will embark on a nine-date Polish tour in April. The trek, dubbed "Schorched Land Tour 2007", will also feature IPERYT, INFERNAL WAR and VEDONIST. The details are as follows: Apr. 21 - Lodz (PL) Music Garden Apr. 22 - Rzeszów (PL) Pod Palma Apr. 23 - Kraków (PL) Loc...

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Thrash Anthems

Stopgap releases are a fact of life in metal. The gaping maw of the industry is a demanding bitch-goddess of a master, and if you're signed, and you're not METALLICA, you better have something to throw into it on a timely schedule, or else. Why else did you think otherwise intelligent and quality mi...

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Existentia

"Existentia" by Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS is easily one of the best gothic metal albums I've heard in some time, largely because of the combination of the heavy with the ethereal is so soundly written and performed. Granted, many would not call "Existentia" a purely gothic release due at least in part...

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SWALLOW THE SUN Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finnish melodic death/doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJE...

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1349, CHTHONIC Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Norwegian black metallers 1349 and Taiwanese black-metal band CHTHONIC have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BEN...

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FALCONER Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish epic/power metallers FALCONER have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIAN B...

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UNHEILIG Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

German electrogoth/"neue Deutsche härte" band UNHEILIG has been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY...

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MAJESTY Drummer To Sit Our METAL FOREVER Festival Appearance

German metallers MAJESTY have posted the following update on their official web site: "MAJESTY drummer Michael Graeter contracted a typewriter's cramp and due to a medical opinion he is not allowed to play drums within the next two weeks. So Jan Raddatz (MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY) will again help out on dru...

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SODOM Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Veteran German thrashers SODOM have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIAN BULLET F...

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DAWN OF DEMISE: Debut Album Samples Available

DAWN OF DEMISE, self-described as "one of Denmark's most brutal bands," has posted two new tracks on its MySpace page. The songs "Degrading the Worthless" and "Malice – Kill to Conform" come off the group's debut album, "Hate Takes Its Form", which was mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen (RAUNCHY, VO...