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MESHUGGAH Drop Off Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

Swedish experimental extreme metal band MESHUGGAH have cancelled their previously announced appearance at the Summer Breeze festival in Abtsgmünd, Germany. "Drummer Tomas [Haake] still has problems with tendinitis and needs to fully rehabilitate from this," reads a post on the Nuclear Blast Records...
August 12, 2003
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Synergy

Ask the guitarists within EXTOL to strum a powerchord, and the shocked response would probably be akin to someone being told they have six months to live. Such simplicities just aren't in the musical make-up of this Norwegian quintet. They twist you round and round the spectrum of discordance, then...
August 3, 2003
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'Get Thrashed': Upcoming Documentary To Profile '80s Thrash Metal Scene

METALLICA, GODSMACK, DISTURBED, ANTHRAX, SLIPKNOT, KITTIE, and MESHUGGAH are among the featured bands in the upcoming documentary "Get Thrashed", due before the end of the year. The brainchild of director Rick Ernst, a long-time freelance producer for MTV, the film will profile the thrash metal scen...
July 31, 2003
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SEETHINGS Set Release Date For 'Parallels'

SEETHINGS, the new Swedish band fronted by former DARKANE vocalist Lawrence Mackrory, will release their debut album, "Parallels", in Europe and Scandinavia on October 27 through Scarlet Records. Division Records will release the album in France and Switzerland. At this point, the group have no rele...
July 29, 2003
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SUMMER BREEZE 2003: Complete Lineup Announced

The complete lineup has been announced for this year's Summer Breeze 2003 festival, scheduled to take place Aug. 21-23, 2003 in Abtsgmünd, Germany. It is as follows: IN FLAMES IN EXTREMO J.B.O. CHILDREN OF BODOM SUBWAY TO SALLY KROKUS WITHIN TEMPTATION RAGE PRIMAL FEAR NAPALM DEATH AMORPHIS AMON AMA...
July 14, 2003
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NASUM Replace MESHUGGAH At Sweden's ARVIKA FESTIVAL

Swedish grindcore merchants NASUM have replaced MESHUGGAH at this year's edition of Arvika Festival (Arvikafestivalen),set to take place July 10-12 in Arvika, Sweden. NASUM will hit the stage on Saturday, July 12 at 11:30 p.m. Other artists scheduled to appear at the event include MINISTRY, MOONSPE...
July 2, 2003
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MESHUGGAH Cancel European Festival Dates

Swedish experimental extreme metal band MESHUGGAH have cancelled their previously announced appearances at Quartfestivalen in Kristiansand, Norway (July 5) and Arvikafestivalen in Arvika, Sweden (July 12) in order to allow guitarist Mårten Hagström and drummer Tomas Haake sufficient time to recover...
July 1, 2003
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DEVIOUS Sign With SPITZENBURG RECORDS

Dutch death metallers DEVIOUS have signed a deal with Spitzenburg Records and will release their debut full-length album, "Acts Of Rage", in the Benelux on July 7. DEVIOUS play a "technical, groovy brutal [brand of] death metal with some thrash and melodic twists," according to an official press rel...
June 28, 2003
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MESHUGGAH: Off NUCLEAR BLAST, Weighing Their Options

Swedish experimental extreme metal band MESHUGGAH have fulfilled their contractual obligations to Nuclear Blast Records and are currently weighing their label options before recording their next studio album. "We've got like three or four offers right now, one of which is from Nuclear Blast, because...
June 24, 2003
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THE QUILL Name New Album

Sweden's THE QUILL, the band featuring current SPIRITUAL BEGGARS/ex-FIREBIRD bassist Roger Nilsson and ex-FIREBIRD drummer Jolle Atlagic, have set "Hooray! It's a Deathtrip" as the title for their fourth studio album, due in late summer through SPV/Steamhammer Records. The follow-up to last year's "...
June 22, 2003
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HELLTRAIN Sign With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

Swedish "death-rockers" HELLTRAIN have signed with Nuclear Blast Records. The band, whose lineup includes Pierre Törnkvist (vocals, guitar),Oskar Karlsson (drums, guitars),and Patrik Törnkvist (guitars, organ, piano, bass),are at Dugout Studio in Uppsala, Sweden with producer Daniel Bergstrand (M...
June 16, 2003
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St. Anger

In many ways, "St. Anger" is the most anticipated, yet most dreaded, metal release since, well, the last METALLICA album. Twenty years (to the month) after the arrival of their monumental debut, "Kill 'Em All", this band still has the ability to command the attention of the entire metal community —...
June 9, 2003
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EPHEL DUATH Confirmed For Norway's QUART SUMMER FESTIVAL

Italian avant-jazz-metal band EPHEL DUATH has been officially added to the bill of the Quart Summer Festival (www.quart.no),the biggest rock/metal festival in Norway, with more than 50,000 people attending each year. The band will play the main stage ("Idrettsplassen"),fourth on the bill, together...
June 5, 2003
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Former WITHOUT FACE Singer, Guitarist Launch New Project

Former WITHOUT FACE frontwoman Julie and guitarist Roomy have put together a brand new project called TO-MERA. "We are working hard to arrange everything with the new band right now," Julie told Musical Discoveries in a recent interview. "I don't want to explain too much about it yet, but it's alrea...
May 30, 2003
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ANCIENT CEREMONY 'Banned' From Performing At Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

German "dark extreme" metallers ANCIENT CEREMONY have reportedly been banned by city officials from performing at this year's Summer Breeze festival "because of the band's Satanic and blasphemous attitude," according to an official statement from the group. "Promoters were even set under pressure by...
May 18, 2003