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ACCEPT's 'Blood' Takes Top Honors In 'Metal On Metal' Listener Poll

ACCEPT's "Blood Of The Nations" took the No. 1 spot in WJCU's "Metal On Metal" Top 25 year-end album countdown show, which aired live on January 7. OVERKILL's "Ironbound" finished second. "It was a two-album battle right from the start," says "Metal On Metal" host Bill Peters. "The drop-off in votes...

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AVANTASIA: More Lichtenfels Footage Posted Online

More fan-filmed video footage of AVANTASIA — the project led by EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet — performing on December 3, 2010 at Stadthalle in Lichtenfels, Germany as part of the "The Metal Opera Comes To Town" world tour 2010 can be viewed below. Joining Sammet in AVANTASIA's touring lineup were a...

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AVANTASIA: 'The Flying Opera' DVD Artwork Unveiled

AVANTASIA — the project led by EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet — is putting the finishing touches on its two-disc DVD, "The Flying Opera - Around The World In 20 Days", for an early March release via Nuclear Blast Records in Europe and Avalon Marquee in Asia. According to a press release, "The DVD is a...

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GRAYCEON Completes Work On Third Album

Bay Area progressive rock/metal three-piece GRAYCEON has completed work on its third full-length album, "All We Destroy", for a March 1 release. GRAYCEON is recognized as one of the most creative and unique forces within the Bay Area underground metal scene, on par with such contemporaries as LUDICR...

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POWERMAN 5000 Frontman Interviewed On 'Radioactive Metal' (Audio)

POWERMAN 5000 frontman Spider One (real name: Michael Cummings) was interviewed on the December 29, 2010 edition of "Radioactive Metal". You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. "Radioactive Metal" is broadcast on Pure Rock Radio Thursday evenings at 8:00 p.m. EST.

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THORNAFIRE: 'Deconstruccion' Video Released

"Deconstruccion", the new video from Chilean death metallers THORNAFIRE, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed, produced and edited by Daniel Duarte (a member of the fellow Chilean death metal act EXECRATOR) in a professional TV studio in Santiago. "Deconstruccion" was previously described by THO...

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AGALLOCH: San Francisco Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of Pacific Northwest band AGALLOCH's December 22, 2010 performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California can be viewed below (courtesy of BridgeToClarity). Check out more clips at this location. AGALLOCH's new album, "Marrow Of The Spirit", was releas...

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AMON AMARTH Drummer Interviewed On 'Rög's Talkin' DrumZ: The Video Show'

Drummer Fredrik Andersson of Metal Blade recording artists AMON AMARTH and THIS ENDING was interviewed for the first episode of "Rög's Talkin' DrumZ: The Video Show", a program all about drumming and the featured artist. It features in-depth questions focusing on drumming, a history piece on Fredrik...

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METALLICA Manager PETER MENSCH Sells Greenwich Home For $7.25 Million

According to BlockShopper.com, Peter Mensch — a co-owner of Q Prime, a talent management company that handles the careers of such artists as METALLICA, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SHANIA TWAIN and JOSH GROBAN — sold a home at 267 W. 11th St. in New York City for $7.25 million on November 12. The ...

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AMON AMARTH: European Headlining Tour With THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Announced

Swedish Viking metallers AMON AMARTH have announced the following European headlining tour dates with support from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: May 13 - Oslo, NOR - Betong May 14 - Stockholm, SWE - Tyrol May 15 - Gothenburg, SWE - Tradgarn (no THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) May 17 - Copenhagen, DEN - Vega May...

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AVANTASIA DVD To Be Released In February

AVANTASIA — the project led by EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet — has issued the following update: "Rumors keep circulating about a forthcoming AVANTASIA live DVD and now we can confirm they are true! [In February 2011] a double DVD and two-CD set [along with a box set featuring both the double DVD and...

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SIX FEET UNDER: 'Wake The Night! Live In Germany' DVD Details Revealed

Florida's SIX FEET UNDER is, without a doubt, one of the most active and best live acts in death metal. A constant institution since the mid-'90s. Party.San Open Air in Bad Berka, Germany is known as a place where bands give 110% and more and so did SIX FEET UNDER on August 8, 2009. Being ...

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SCOTT 'WINO' WEINRICH Comments On Passing Of ARMANDO ACOSTA

Scott "Wino" Weinrich — who has played in such acts as ST. VITUS, THE OBSESSED, THE HIDDEN HAND, PROBOT and SPIRIT CARAVAN — has released the following statement regarding the passing of former SAINT VITUS drummer, Armando Acosta: "With great sadness we say rest in peace, Armando. The strong, gentle...

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BLOODIEST Signs With RELAPSE RECORDS

Relapse Records has announced the signing of BLOODIEST, the Chicago, Illinois-based seven-piece ensemble that creates a stunning collection of metal-meets-psychedelia-via-early-AmRep epics. The band recently completed work on its debut album, "Descent", at Electrical Audio and Semaphore studios in C...

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DUFF MCKAGAN Explains Departure From JANE'S ADDICTION

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan was asked by a reader of his column, which appears on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com, what happened to cause the end of his brief collaboration with JANE'S ADDICTION. "Last year at about this time, I was asked by Perry [Farrell, JANE...