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WITH PASSION Announce New Lineup

Sacramento's melodic, blackened tech-metallers WITH PASSION have announced the addition of CONDUCTING FROM THE GRAVE members Greg Donnelly (drums),John Abernathy (guitar) and Jeffrey Morgan (guitar) to the group's ranks. The band have spent the last couple of months practicing and gearing up for th...

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HYPOCRISY: Memphis Show Cancelled

Due to problems with the promoter and the venue, HYPOCRISY's scheduled performance on January 12 at the first show for the Annihilation World Tour in Memphis, Tennessee has been cancelled. By default, DECAPITATED will also not perform because they are traveling on the same tour bus. HYPOCRISY's inau...

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KARL SANDERS Talks About His Pre-NILE Band MORRIAH

Chief editor Vincent Eldefors of Sweden's Tartarean Desire webzine conducted an interview with NILE founder Karl Sanders on October 7, 2005 prior to the band's show in Linköping, Sweden. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Tartarean Desire: I noticed that you were accused of cancelling your s...

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THE HAUNTED Announce Japanese, Australian Tour Dates

Swedish thrashers THE HAUNTED will play the final dates in support of their "rEVOLVEr" album in February/March 2006 in Japan and Australia. The details are as follows: Extreme The Dojo Vol. 15 w/ NILE, EXODUS: Feb. 28 – Osaka, JPN @ Big Cat Mar. 01 - Nagoya, JPN @ Club Quattro Mar. 02 - Tokyo, ...

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Drummer TONY LAUREANO Says Band Politics Are To Blame For His Departure From NILE

In a recent interview with Sweden's Global Domination, drummer Tony Laureano was asked to explain the reasons for his departure from NILE and his opinion on his replacement in the group (George Kollias). "Well, it boils down to the fact that I was not happy with the politics within the band," Tony b...

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HURTLOCKER Schedule Texas Dates With HYPOCRISY, NILE

Just prior to leaving for Europe to tour alongside GRAVE, CRYPTOPSY, ABORTED, DEW-SCENTED, and Napalm labelmates VESANIA during February and March, Chicago's four-man wrecking crew HURTLOCKER will play two shows in Texas with HYPOCRISY, NILE, SOILENT GREEN, WITH PASSION and DECAPITATED: Jan. 14 - Ri...

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SEVEN WITCHES: 'Amped' Gets A U.S. Release Date

Candlelight Records has set a January 24, 2006 North American release date for the new SEVEN WITCHES album, "Amped". The follow-up to last year's "Year of the Witch" is the group's first album to feature new singer Alan Tecchio, formerly of HADES and WATCHTOWER. The band recently shot a video for th...

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HYPOCRISY Mainman Is 'Looking Forward' To Touring With NILE

Returning to North America in support their acclaimed album "Virus", Sweden's HYPOCRISY will be joining one of death metal's most revered bands, NILE, New Orleans' SOILENT GREEN, U.K.'s RAGING SPEEDHORN (touring U.S. for first time) and Polish brutalitarians DECAPITATED on a mission to infect the ma...

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UNLEASHED Prepare To Record New Album

Legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED are in the final stages of pre-production for their new album and are slated to record the CD in January/February 2006 for a tentative summer release. In other news, UNLEASHED have confirmed the following festival appearances during 2006: Mar. 04 - Katowic...

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UNLEASHED Confirmed For Poland's METALMANIA 2006 Festival

Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED have been confirmed for the Metalmania 2006 festival, set to take place March 4, 2006 in Katowice, Poland. As previously reported, UNLEASHED filmed their entire performance at the Up From The Ground festival (August 26-27, 2005) for their upcoming full-length DVD, t...

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Top Metal/Hardcore Albums Of 2005 As Voted By Writers Of Sweden's CLOSE-UP Magazine

A total of 30 metal, rock and punk writers at Sweden's Close–Up magazine have voted in the magazine's annual critics' album-of-the-year poll. The final results were as follows: 01. SYSTEM OF A DOWN – "Mezmerize" 02. OPETH – "Ghost Reveries" 03. NINE INCH NAILS – "With Teeth" 04. THE MARS VOLTA – "Fr...

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KING DIAMOND: More European Tour Dates Confirmed

KING DIAMOND have announced more confirmed dates for their upcoming European tour, which is scheduled to take place in April/May 2006. The dates are as follows (venue details will follow): May 09 - Warszaw, POL @ TBA May 24 - Treviso, ITA @ TBA May 25 - Firenze (Prato),ITA @ TBA May 26 - ...

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NILE Mainman: 'THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT Are A Fine Bunch Of Fellows'

NILE mainman Karl Sanders has issued the following statement regarding the recent war of words with Dutch death metallers THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT over Sanders' claim that THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT have "managed to crawl into all kinds of [Karl's] print space" by claiming to have been named by Sanders "t...

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KING DIAMOND: First European Tour Dates Announced

KING DIAMOND have announced the first confirmed dates for their upcoming European tour, which is scheduled to take place in April/May 2006. The dates are as follows (venue details will follow): Apr. 24 - Treviso, ITA @ TBA Apr. 25 - Firenxe (Prato),ITA @ TBA Apr. 26 - Milano (Bergamo),ITA @ TBA Ap...

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NILE Frontman Slams THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT For 'Crawling Into His Print Space'

In the December/January issue of the Swedish magazine Close-Up, NILE frontman Karl Sanders slams the Dutch death metal combo THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT. "THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT come to me in Holland and they say that many journalists are saying that they sound like NILE and they think it's funny and bla...