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SOILWORK Confirmed For UK's BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish metallers SOILWORK have been confirmed for next year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 15-17, 2008 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: AT THE GATES COMMUNIC DIMMU BORGIR ELUVEITIE EVILE MOONSORROW OPETH PRIMAL FEAR...

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SOILWORK Guitarist Talks About The Making Of 'Sworn To A Great Divide'

MetalSucks recently sat down with guitarist Ola Frenning of Swedish metal kings SOILWORK mere hours before their sold-out show at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, LAMB OF GOD, and DEVILDRIVER. Frenning talked about the tour, the band's new album "Sworn to a Great Divide",...

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A PERFECT CIRCLE Guitarist To Release ASHES DIVIDE Debut In March

Lead guitarist, singer and songwriter Billy Howerdel — founder and producer of multi-platinum group A PERFECT CIRCLE — has stepped out as lead vocalist and guitarist for new band, ASHES DIVIDE, and has signed to Island Records, it was announced today by Antonio "L.A." Reid, Chairman, Island Def Jam...

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ALESTORM: 'Captain Morgan's Revenge' Audio Samples Available

Scotland's ALESTORM will release its debut album, "Captain Morgan's Revenge", through Napalm Records on the following dates: Jan. 23 - Finland Jan. 25 - Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Sweden Jan. 28 - Rest of Europe Jan. 29 - USA / Canada The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Over T...

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SOILWORK Frontman To Guest On Tomorrow's 'Tinitus'

SOILWORK frontman Björn "Speed" Strid was interviewed for this week's "Tinitus" radio show, airing tomorrow night (Wednesday, November 21) between 20.00 CET (8:00 p.m.) and 22.00 CET (10:00 p.m.) on Norway's P3. "Tinitus" is Norway's most popular metal show with an average of over 60,000 listeners p...

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Sworn to a Great Divide

SOILWORK sounds like SOILWORK at this point — whether that's a good thing to you or not is another story, but the fact remains that you could pick this CD out of a lineup in about three notes. For all the talk of returning to form or getting heavier, the band still builds what amount ...

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SOILWORK, DARK TRANQUILLITY, SONIC SYNDICATE, CALIBAN: New Video Interviews Available

Interviews with SOILWORK, DARK TRANQUILLITY, SONIC SYNDICATE and CALIBAN conducted during the recently completed Eastpak Antidote tour have been posted at RockInvasion.de. SOILWORK sold 5,000 copies of its new album, "Sworn to a Great Divide", in the United States in its first week of release to lan...

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SUSPYRE Confirmed For PROGPOWER EUROPE Festival

SUSPYRE has been confirmed for next year's ProgPower Europe festival, set to take place October 3-5, 2008 at JC Sjiwa in Baarlo, The Netherlands. According to the festival organizers, "[SUSPYRE] surprised many people last year with their excellent album 'A Great Divide' and a stunning performance at...

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SOILWORK Frontman On Hockey, Lineup Changes And The City Of Pittsburgh

SOILWORK frontman Björn "Speed" Strid reveals in the November/December issue of Metal Maniacs that he once had aspirations to be a professional hockey player. He also discusses the band's latest album, "Sworn to a Great Divide", the after-effects of lineup changes on the long-running group, and the...

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SOILWORK Frontman Comments On New Album's Billboard Chart Debut

Swedish melodic metal titans SOILWORK sold 5,000 copies of their new album, "Sworn to a Great Divide", in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 148 on The Billboard 200 chart (as first reported by BLABBERMOUTH.NET this morning). The group's lead singer Björn "Speed"...

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MYGRAIN Completes Work On Sophomore Album

Finnish melodic death metal act MYGRAIN has issued the following update: "[The second MYGRAIN album] 'Signs of Existence' has finally been recorded! Every chord and beat is on the tape and there's nothing that can save us anymore. We're extremely happy with the result and as we had a tiny pre-pre-li...

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SERJ TANKIAN, ROB ZOMBIE, SOILWORK, EXODUS, SKINDRED First-Week Sales Revealed

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending October 28, 2007, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest hundred [except numbers over 20,000, which are rounded to the nearest thousand]; The Billboard 200 chart position includ...

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NIGHTWISH Mainman: 'We're Going To Put A Little More Effort Into America This Time'

Metal Hammer recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen: Metal Hammer: You recently played a secret live show in Hamburg as SUSHI PATROL. How did it go? Tuomas: "Actually we did three secret shows with different names, first was in Estonia, second was in Hel...

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NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS: Four Releases In German Top 100

20 years after its inception, Nuclear Blast Records is still going strong. For the first time in the history of the German label, Nuclear Blast has four releases in the German Top 100 — two of them in the Top 10. Here are the rankings for Week 44: * SUBWAY TO SALLY's "Bastard" - #7 ...

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SOILWORK: Finnish Dates Announced

Swedish metallers SOILWORK will embark on a five-date tour of Finland in February. Confirmed dates are as follows: Feb. 15 - Turku - Klubi Feb. 16 - Helsinki - Cable Factory Feb. 17 - Tampere - 2250 Feb. 18 - Jyväskylä - Lutakko Feb. 19 - Mikkeli - Night Vakuna SOILWORK's music will be featured ...