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FRANTIC AMBER To Perform At Sweden's 'P3 Guld' Awards

Stockholm, Sweden-based "melodeath" metal band FRANTIC AMBER will perform at "P3 Guld" — Swedish radio station P3's annual music awards ceremony — on January 21 at Lisebergshallen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Commented FRANTIC AMBER guitarist and founder Mary Säfstrand: "We really couldn't believe it when...

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MORDAX Signs With ULTIMHATE RECORDS

Danish thrash/death metallers MORDAX have inked a deal with the Belgian label Ultimhate Records. The band's debut album, "Violence Fraud Treachery", will be released on CD in Europe (as well as in Israel and Japan) and digitally in the rest of the world on February 24. The CD was recorded at CB Stud...

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DREAM THEATER Singer Begins Writing New Solo Album

Singer James LaBrie of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER has issued the following update: "[LaBrie's longtime songwriting partner and keyboardist] Matt Guillory and I are very happy to announce that writing for my next solo album has started. "We're very pleased with how well [LaBrie's last sol...

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OPETH, KATATONIA Interviewed In Portland (Video)

Northern Fury conducted separate interviews with bassist Martin Mendez of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH and guitarist/co-founder Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström of Swedish dark rockers KATATONIA on October 16, 2011 in Portland, Oregon. You can now watch the resulting footage below. OPETH's new albu...

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DAYLIGHT DIES Continuing Work On New Album

North Carolina's DAYLIGHT DIES has issued the following update: "On the new album front, we've now completed guitar leads, rhythms, drums and bass guitar and clean guitar are halfway done. We'll wrap everything up in early 2012 and hopefully have a clearer idea for a release date then. Our goal is t...

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KREATOR: Photos From Rehearsal Studio Posted Online

German thrash metal veterans KREATOR will enter Fascination Street studio in Örebro, Sweden in January with producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, AMON AMARTH, PARADISE LOST) to begin recording their new album for a late spring 2012 release. A couple of photos from the band's rehearsal studio can be seen belo...

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ÅKERFELDT/WILSON Collaboration To Release Debut Through ROADRUNNER RECORDS

STORM CORROSION, the much-anticipated collaboration project between OPETH's Mikael Åkerfeldt and PORCUPINE TREE's Steven Wilson, earlier in the year completed work on its self-titled debut album for an April 2012 release through Roadrunner Records. Apart from Mikael and Steven, the CD includes guest...

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GOD FORBID: New Video Footage From The Studio

New Brunswick, New Jersey's melodic, thrash-metal warriors GOD FORBID recently entered the studio to begin recording their new album for an early 2012 release via Victory Records. The bulk of the production on the CD is being handled by Mark Lewis (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, WHITECHAPEL, DEVILDRIVER,...

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COLDWORKER: Another New Song Available For Streaming

COLDWORKER — the Örebro, Sweden-based "blasting" death metal band consisting of current and former/current members of such acts as NASUM, RELENTLESS, RUIN and PHOBOS — will release its third album, "The Doomsayer's Call", in February 2012 via Listenable Records. The CD was recorded in part at Soundl...

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SOILWORK: New Album Title Revealed

After a highly successful run of European festivals and select club shows, Swedish melodic metal maestros SOILWORK have started writing music for the follow-up to 2010's "The Panic Broadcast". Commented vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid: "It's been an intense summer and at this point, me and the boys are...

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IN FLAMES, HAMMERFALL, OPETH, THE HAUNTED Nominated For Swedish GRAMMIS Award

IN FLAMES, HAMMERFALL, OPETH and THE HAUNTED are among the five final nominees that are competing for the "Best Hard Rock/Metal" honor at the Swedish Grammis awards (Swedish Grammy equivalent),which will be held February 14, 2010 at Kungliga Operan in Stockholm. The bands are all nominated for thei...

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BORKNAGAR Begins Mixing New Album

Norway's BORKNAGAR has entered Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden to begin mixing its new album with Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with such acts as KATATONIA, OPETH, PARADISE LOST and AMON AMARTH. The CD is tentatively due in February 2012 via Century Media Records. Several photo...

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TRAIL OF TEARS: Video Footage From 'The Bloodstained China Tour' - Part 2

Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS has uploaded the second part of a video report from the band's November/December 2011 "The Bloodstained China Tour". Check it out below. TRAIL OF TEARS in September finished recording its as-yet-untitled seventh album at Sound Suite Studio in Marseille, France with producer T...

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AVA INFERI: 'The Living End' Video Released

"The Living End", the new video from AVA INFERI, the Portugal-based band whose lineup includes Norwegian guitarist Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. ex-MAYHEM guitarist/songwriter Blasphemer),can be viewed below. Commented the group: "This clip is our own homage to '50s horror cinema, and what we feel is a fitt...

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OPETH Guitarist Talks Gear In New Video Interview

On October 28, guitarist Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH answered a number of fan-submitted questions for Fret 12 in Chicago, Illinois. You can now watch the chat below. OPETH's new album, "Heritage", sold 19,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debu...