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RUDRA Prepares To Film New Video

Singaporean metallers RUDRA have issued the following update: "We are currently preparing for the shooting of our first professional music video for the upcoming 'yet-to-be-titled' album. This epic video will be for a track titled 'Hymns From The Blazing Chariot', directed by Jacen Tan. "We are work...

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Taiwan's CHTHONIC Completes Work On New Album

Asian symphonic black metal band CHTHONIC, which made international headlines by championing Taiwanese democracy from the Ozzfest and Wacken Open Air stages last summer, has finished recording its new concept album, "Mirror Of Retribution", in Los Angeles with producer (and ANTHRAX guitarist) Rob Ca...

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ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

Finnish melodic death metal band ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW has issued the following update: "Petri Sankala [drums] has left the band. The reason for this mutual decision is Petri's back pain that hasn't allowed him to play drums 100% during the past two years. None of us has bad feelings whatsoever an...

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THE HAUNTED To Film 'Trenches' Video

Swedish metal band THE HAUNTED has issued the following update: "We just finished a world tour of Asia, Australia, South America. We just have one word for the experience: Overwhelming. We never realized we had so many fans in all the corners of the world. It just proves how big the metal movement i...

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ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW Completes Recording New Single

Finnish melodic death metal band ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW has finished recording a new single and is now waiting for it to be mixed and mastered. According to the band, "The name of the single will be revealed later as well as the names of the songs on it. Let's just say we haven't recorded ...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman Checks In From Chile

Vocalist Peter Dolving of the Swedish metal band THE HAUNTED has issued the following update: "I'm exhausted, it's a couple of hours after the show we just played in Santiago de Chile. How did the show go? It was insane. Really. "I want to thank everyone who have come out to the shows so far ...

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VISION DIVINE Signs With FRONTIERS RECORDS

Italian melodic metallers VISION DIVINE have inked a multi-album deal with Frontiers Records. The band's new studio album, "9 Degrees West of the Moon", is scheduled for release on January 23, 2009. Born as a side project of the esteemed guitarist and songwriter of LABYRINTH, Olaf Thorsen, as a way...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN On Possible ALCATRAZZ Reunion: 'I Will Never Say Never'

Hard Rock Hideout recently conducted an interview with legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Hard Rock Hideout: If you could give advice to any young guitar players out there, what would you tell them? Yngwie Malmsteen: It all depends on what...

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LION'S SHARE: New Album Details Revealed

Swedish melodic heavy metal masters LION'S SHARE are putting the finishing touches on their new album, "Dark Hours", for a March 2009 release via Blistering Records. The follow-up to 2007's "Emotional Coma" will be mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (OPETH, SYMPHONY X, PARADISE LOST, AMON AMARTH) and...

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PAMELA MOORE, PRIMAL FEAR's RALF SCHEEPERS Guest On SOLNA Debut

Pamela Moore (Sister Mary on QUEENSRŸCHE's 1988 epic concept album "Operation: Mindcrime" and 2006's epic sequel "Operation: Mindcrime II"),PRIMAL FEAR's Ralf Scheepers, Fabrizio Grossi (bass; STARBREAKER, STEVE VAI),Alex De Rosso (guitar; DOKKEN),Eric Ragno (RAMOS HUGO, DAVID READMAN) and Rob De...

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SAHG Completes Tour Of India

SAHG, the Norwegian heavy rockers who feature in their ranks members of GORGOROTH, MANNGARD and AUDREY HORNE, has issued the following update: "We have just finished our tour of India, having played five shows across the country during the Great Indian Rock festival. The tour kicked off with a small...

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Ex-MEGADETH Drummer JIMMY DEGRASSO Says He's 'Done Talking' To DAVE MUSTAINE

"We're not talking," former MEGADETH drummer Jimmy DeGrasso told The Jakarta Post in a brand new interview about his current relationship with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. He added, "Like a marriage, there were ups and downs with Dave, and some of them were great. But, the man had some issues wit...

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F5's 'The Reckoning' To Receive European Release In January

F5 — the Phoenix-based band featuring former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, ex-SICK SPEED vocalist Dale Steele, guitarists Steve Conley and John Davis, and ex-MEGADETH drummer Jimmy DeGrasso — will have its sophomore album, "The Reckoning", released in Europe on January 23, 2009 via Silverwolf Pro...

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APOCALYPTICA To Perform On 'Last Call With Carson Daly'

Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA will be the featured musical guest on NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly" airing on Tuesday night, October 28 at 1:35 a.m. (technically Wednesday morning). APOCALYPTICA began its latest North American tour on Monday (October 20) in Denver, as the group continue...

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'Global Metal' Documentary To Receive DVD Release Next Month

The much-anticipated documentary "Global Metal" will receive an official DVD release on November 4. In "Global Metal", directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn — the makers of the acclaimed documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" — set out to discover the impact of heavy metal on the world's culture...