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FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2006: Complete Lineup Announced

The complete lineup has been announced for the Festung Open Air 2006, set to take place June 3-4 at Friedersdorf in Bitterfeld, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AUDIOPAIN (NOR) BESTIAL MOCKERY (SWE) DECAYED (POR) DESASTER (GER) DESTRÖYER 666 (AUS) HELRUNAR (GER) INFERNAL WAR (...

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager To Be Sentenced In Fatal Fire

The Associated Press is reporting that a judge is expected to decide Wednesday (May 10) whether former GREAT WHITE tour manager Daniel Biechele — who started the 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people — should go to prison. [Watch today's sentencing hearing, going on now, courtesy of WPRI.com at...

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GREAT WHITE: Portraits Emerge Of Lives Lost In Second Day Of Nightclub Hearing

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Robert Reisner, the school bus driver who lived with his mother and was known as "Mr. Rob" to the students on his route, went to the concert. So did Scott Griffith, a California-born man and self-taught musician who headed out with a group of off...

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The Songs That Drove METALLICA: 'Full Metal Garage' CD Due In June

Sanctuary Records are re-packaging the "Metallic-era" albums into one double set billed "Full Metal Garage - The Songs That Drove Metallica" for release on June 26. Originally conceived by Rockdetector.com's Garry Sharpe-Young, all of these original tracks are available together, at last, on one dou...

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Lebanese Metallers OATH TO VANQUISH Sign With GRINDETHIC RECORDS

U.K.-based label Grindethic Records has announced the signing of Lebanese extreme metallers OATH TO VANQUISH. The group's debut album, "Applied Schizophrenic Science", was mastered by Colin Davis (VILE) at Imperial Mastering and is tentatively set for a June release. According to a press release, OA...

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MACHINE HEAD: The Making of 'Battery' Part 2 Now Available

Go behind the scenes for the making of MACHINE HEAD's cover of METALLICA's "Battery" with part two of a two-part series, now available exclusively on the band's MySpace page. MACHINE HEAD's cover of "Battery" was recorded for the recently released Kerrang! magazine tribute to the METALLICA album "Ma...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Members To Urge Congressional Leaders To Recognize Armenian Genocide

Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan of the Grammy Award-winning band SYSTEM OF A DOWN will travel to Washington, D.C. on April 24 for a three-day campaign to urge Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and other Congressional leaders to end their complicity in Turkey's ongoing denial of the Armenian Genocid...

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SPIN Magazine Comments On 'Fake' GUNS N' ROSES 'Chinese Democracy' Review

The following item was published in the "Page Six" column section of The New York Post: "Spin magazine got an early jump on April Fool's Day with Chuck Klosterman's deceptively straight-faced 'review' of 'Chinese Democracy', the infamously long-awaited GUNS N' ROSES album. While we may have glazed o...

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AXL ROSE Sighted At THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Gig In New York

According to a posting at Splat, GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose was seen on Saturday night (March 25) at a THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND gig in New York. The concert at the Beacon Theater was the final night for the band after a recent run of gigs at the venue. Unfortunately, it ...

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THERION: 'Celebrators Of Becoming' DVD/CD Details Revealed

Sweden's THERION will be issuing a six-disc DVD/CD set, entitled "Celebrators of Becoming", on May 5. The package will include four DVDs and two audio discs. It will be available in two versions, one luxury digipak version in a slip case and one cheaper version, but both will contain all discs. The...

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MACHINE HEAD: 'Making Of' Video Of Band's Cover Of METALLICA's 'Battery' Posted Online

A five-minute video clip of MACHINE HEAD rehearsing and talking about their cover version of METALLICA's "Battery" that was recently recorded for the upcoming Kerrang! magazine tribute to the METALLICA album "Master of Puppets", has been posted online at the band's official web site. The CD, titled...

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HORNED ALMIGHTY: 'The Devil's Music' Details Revealed; Audio Available

Danish black metal band HORNED ALMIGHTY, featuring members of EXMORTEM and KOLDBORN, will release their new album, "The Devil's Music - Songs of Death and Damnation", on April 7 via Infernus Rex. The follow-up to 2004's "Black Metal Jesus" will feature 10 tracks of "kick-ass blasphemous black 'n' ro...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Announce Fourth Annual SOULS Benefit Concert

SYSTEM OF A DOWN will be hosting and headlining their annual Souls benefit concert to help raise awareness and pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide on April 23 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Pre-sale tickets for Souls go on sale through www.systemofadown.com on Thursday, March 9 and the pu...

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Slit Throat Andromeda

Rumbling up from the New Mexico scene, OF GRAVES AND GODS profess to a lot of diverse influences. And their debut album does indeed veer from hardcore to metalcore to Gothenburg riffery, with a lot of brutal breakdowns and thrashy riffing. Their vocals are harsh and deathly, with the occasional heav...

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DESTRÖYER 666, SATHANAS Confirmed For Germany's FESTUNG OPEN AIR Festival

DESTRÖYER 666, SATHANAS and DESASTER are among the confirmed bands for the Festung Open Air 2006, set to take place June 3-4 at Friedersdorf in Bitterfeld, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: DECAYED (POR) DESASTER (GER) DESTRÖYER 666 (AUS) DEKAPITATOR (USA) HELRUNAR (GER) INFERN...