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TAPPING THE VEIN Putting Finishing Touches On New Album

According to MTV.com, moody metal group TAPPING THE VEIN are almost done with their new album. The drum, bass and guitar tracks are all finished, and singer Heather Thompson plans to wrap up her vocal tracks this week. "It's sounding much heavier and dark, à la KATATONIA," said drummer Eric Fisher o...

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EVANESCENCE Frontwoman Offers Insight Into Meaning Of New Album Title

Launch Radio Networks reports: EVANESCENCE has set October 3 as the release date for its second major label album, "The Open Door". Singer Amy Lee told Launch that the arrival of the follow-up to 2003's "Fallen" couldn't come soon enough for her. "Well, I wish it was tomorrow, honestly," she said. "...

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EVANESCENCE: 'The Open Door' Delayed Until October

MTV.com is reporting that EVANESCENCE's follow-up to 2003's "Fallen", entitled "The Open Door", will be released on October 3 via Wind-Up Records. "I'm just totally dying to get it out," EVANESCENCE frontwoman Amy Lee said. "It seems like it's been forever since 'Fallen'," which has sold about 6.5 m...

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EVANESCENCE To Release 'The Open Door' In August

Blender magazine is reporting that EVANESCENCE have set "The Open Door" as the title of the follow-up to their multi-platinum major label debut, "Fallen", tentatively due in August via Wind-Up Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first since the departure of guitarist/chief songwriter Ben Mo...

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FAIR TO MIDLAND Sign With SERJ TANKIAN's SERJICAL STRIKE RECORDS

Dallas-based quintet FAIR TO MIDLAND have just inked a deal with Serjical Strike Records, the label headed by SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian. The band that had been touted by Music Connection as one of the top 100 unsigned bands of 2005 can no longer carry that distinction in 2006, as they e...

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VIRGIN STEELE Frontman Talks About Upcoming CD

Aural Fix magazine recently conducted an interview with VIRGIN STEELE frontman David DeFeis. An excerpt from the chat follows: Q: I know you've spent a lot of time into the making of the upcoming VIRGIN STEELE CD. Can you share a little, or a lot, about what the fans can expect, regarding the overal...

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3FACED: Video Of BON JOVI Gig Posted Online

3FACED, the Southern California-based band featuring guitarist/vocalist Patrick Kennison (formerly of UNION UNDERGROUND) and bassist Marty O'Brien (TOMMY LEE, DISTURBED, STATIC-X),have uploaded a video clip of their March 3 gig at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as the opening act for BON JOVI. 3...

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CONFESSOR: 'Live In Norway' DVD Preview Posted Online

A live video clip of reunited North Carolina-based progressive metallers CONFESSOR performing the track "Suffer" has been posted online at the band's official web site. The clip, which was recorded in late September 2005 in Oslo, Norway, comes off the group's upcoming "Live in Norway" DVD, due on Ma...

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CONFESSOR: 'Live In Norway' DVD Release Date Announced

Reunited North Carolina-based progressive metallers CONFESSOR will release their "Live in Norway" DVD on May 15 in Europe and June 13 in the USA and rest of the world. "The footage [which was filmed in late September 2005 in Oslo, Norway] has beed edited and the mix is all finished up," the band wri...

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CONFESSOR Frontman Makes First-Round Taping For 'Rock Star' Talent Search

Scott Jeffreys, the lead singer of the reunited Raleigh, North Carolina-based band CONFESSOR, has made the first-round taping in his region of the new CBS "Rock Star" series. "Rock Star" (working title) is to select a lead singer for SUPERNOVA — the new supergroup featuring MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy...

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Project X-Katon

Expect eclectic, accessible post-black-metal with electronic elements galore on this bizarre Italian group's second album. Moments of weirdness abound — overwrought clean vocals intertwine with shrieking, whining, borderline-irritating black metal yowls. Piano, flute, and programmed dance beats mix...

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Don't Fear the Reaper

I'll be honest with you here; I was a little taken aback at Tue Madsen's crystal clear, thick 'n' rubbery sound mix the first time I heard WITCHERY's "Don't Fear the Reaper". By that I mean that I was expecting the rawer, bloodied thrash sounds of "Dead, Hot and Ready" or "Symphony for the Devil", ....

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CELTIC FROST: Special Report From 'Monotheist' Listening Session In Berlin

Timo Isoaho has filed the following report: There's a sign outside the old church in Berlin saying "Today: CELTIC FROST listening session." I would call that dark humor, no question about that. Inside the God's temple, there's whole bunch of European metal journalists waiting to hear the long-awaite...

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Paint the Town

Originally released on Lovelost Records in 2004, "Paint the Town" by Philadelphia's ONE DEAD THREE WOUNDED sees a re-release on 1x1 Records with two new bonus tracks. Why re-release it so soon? Apparently, the band wasn't pleased with the debut album's level of distribution and according to vocalist...

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3FACED To Open For BON JOVI In Los Angeles

3FACED, the new Southern California-based band featuring guitarist/vocalist Patrick Kennison (formerly of UNION UNDERGROUND) and bassist Marty O'Brien (TOMMY LEE, DISTURBED, STATIC-X),have been chosen to open for BON JOVI on March 3 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in front of an estimated crow...