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BLITZKRIEG Confirmed For WACKEN OPEN AIR

NWOBHM legends BLITZKRIEG are the latest act to have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Germany. The full list of artists currently scheduled to appear at the event is as follows: ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY AMON AMARTH BLAZE B...
March 23, 2002
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NOCTURNAL RITES Set Release Date For "Shadowland"

Swedish melodic metal gods NOCTURNAL RITES have set May 27th as the European release date through Century Media Records of their brand new CD, entitled Shadowland. A US and Japanese release date will be announced shortly. ...
March 20, 2002
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BORKNAGAR, NOCTURNAL RITES Confirmed For WACKEN OPEN AIR

BORKNAGAR and NOCTURNAL RITES are the latest acts to have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Germany. The full list of artists currently scheduled to appear at the event is as follows: ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY AMON AMARTH BL...
March 19, 2002
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BAL-SAGOTH Commence Work On Sixth CD, Announce European Festival Appearances

Britain's BAL-SAGOTH have commenced work on the group's sixth full-length album, which is tentatively due to be recorded in late summer/early fall for an early 2003 release. The follow-up to 2001's Atlantis Ascendant will reportedly be far darker and more intense than anything that has come before,...
March 15, 2002
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TENEBRE Complete Work On New CD

Sweden's TENEBRE have finished recording their new CD at Tambourine Studios in Malm and are tentatively scheduled to release the effort in late spring. 14 songs were laid down during the sessions, but only 10 of them will make it onto the finished CD. Here are the songs that were recorded for the as...
March 14, 2002
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NOCTURNAL RITES Confirmed For Ume Open Festival

Swedish power metal kings NOCTURNAL RITES will be playing at the Ume Open Festival in Ume, Sweden on April 27th. ...
March 9, 2002
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VADER Begin Recording New CD, Announce Title Change

Polish death metal veterans VADER have changed the title of their forthcoming album from Epitaph to Revelations. The band's first CD with ex-HUNTER four-stringer Simon (who replaced Shambo last year),Revelations is currently being recorded at Red Studio (the same studio where the group's Litany and...
February 26, 2002
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ANCIENT RITES Confirmed For EUROROCK

Belgian black metal act ANCIENT RITES have been confirmed for the Eurorock festival, which is scheduled to take place in Neerpelt, Belgium on August 3-5. Also confirmed for the event are THE GATHERING, among others. ...
February 15, 2002
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DKAY.COM Set To Release Sophomore Album In Late April

Germany's DKAY.COM, featuring former DIE KRUPPS mainman Jrgen Engler will release their second, as-yet-untitled album on April 22nd. A European tour in support of the effort is scheduled to start on May 8th, and will include appearances by THE GENITORTURERS (featuring Evil D, aka former MORBID ANGEL...
February 7, 2002
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INFERNO 2002 Festival Takes Shape

Inferno 2002 festival is scheduled to take place on March 29th and 30th at Rockefeller in Olso, Norway. So far the following acts have been confirmed to appear: 1349 AURA NOIR BEHEMOTH BLACK COMEDY BLOOD RED THRONE CARPATHIAN FOREST DHG DIMMU BORGIR ETERNAL SILENCE LOCK UP LOST IN TIME LOWDOWN MANAT...
January 28, 2002
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VADER Set To Issue "Epitaph" In May

Polish death metal legends VADER are scheduled to enter Red Studio (the same studio where the group's Litany and Reign Forever World CDs were recorded) with producer with Piotr Lukaszewski during February to begin work on their upcoming CD, tentatively entitled Epitaph, for a May 26th release. The b...
January 6, 2002
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MEGADETH Official "Killing..." Track Listing Unveiled

MEGADETH have officially confirmed via their web site that the group's upcoming re-mastered version of their 1985 debut CD, Killing Is My BusinessAnd Business Is Good!, will contain the band's rendition of the Nancy Sinatra classic These Boots. However, it appears that the version of the song that w...
January 4, 2002
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MEGADETH Set To "Kill" Again In February

The remixed and remastered version of MEGADETH's debut CD, Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! , which was issued in its original form back in 1985, will be released through Loud Records on February 5th. While the official track listing for the reworked edition does not include MEGADETH's...
December 31, 2001
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THANATOS Recruit New Basist, Record Mini Album!

Veteran Dutch death metal act THANATOS have recruited bassist Marco de Bruin and will enter a Rotterdam recording studio in the first week of January to record three new tracksDevour the Living, Rites of Retaliation and L'AldilaBeyond Terroras well as a new version of Angelic Encounters. These four...
December 25, 2001
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When ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer and BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist Hansi Kursch joined forces to make this album, speculation was strong that the resultant album would end up sounding like a perfect blend of the two bands—a prediction that could not possibly have been more on the mark. Having never be...
December 17, 2001