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BLIND GUARDIAN Begin Rehearsing For European Tour
BLIND GUARDIAN rhythm guitarist Marcus Siepen has posted the following message via the group's official web site at www.blind-guardian-com: “Hi everybody, time to work is here again. “After a short break for Christmas, we had to get all of our live gear out of the Twilight Hall Studio so RAGE could...January 21, 2002
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CRIMINAL, DOMINE, EISREGEN, Others Get Confirmed For Wacken 2002
CRIMINAL, DOMINE, EISREGEN, FLESHCRAWL, REBELLION, RED AIM, SINERGY and VOMITORY are the latest bands to be confirmed for Wacken Open Air festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Germany. The full line-up of acts that are presently scheduled to partake in the festivities n...January 18, 2002
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WACKEN 2002 Adds CANNIBAL CORPSE, ROTTWEILLER
CANNIBAL CORPSE and ROTTWEILLER are the latest bands to have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Germany. The full line-up of acts that are presently scheduled to partake in the festivities now looks like this: AMON AMARTH BLAZE B...January 13, 2002
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BLIND GUARDIAN Give Fans A Taste Of The Opera!
Germany's BLIND GUARDIAN have posted MP3 clips of three tracks from their upcoming A Night At The Opera CD via the group's official web site at these locations: 01. Punishment Divine 02. Precious Jerusalem 03. Battlefield ...December 23, 2001
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CANDLEMASS Confirmed For Wacken, Other Acts Join In On The Action!
The reunited classic line-up of CANDLEMASS—vocalist Messiah Marcolin, bassist/founder Leif Edling, guitarist Mats Björkman, lead guitarist Lars Johansson and drummer Jan Lindh—have been officially confirmed for next year's Wacken Festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Ge...December 23, 2001
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BLIND GUARDIAN's recently-issued "And Then There Was Silence" CD single, the first single to be issued through Century Media Records in more than a decade of operation in North America, debuted on the US Soundscan singles sales chart at #171, with top 40 debuts in Cleveland, Seattle and Denver all w...December 20, 2001
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When ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer and BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist Hansi Kursch joined forces to make this album, speculation was strong that the resultant album would end up sounding like a perfect blend of the two bands—a prediction that could not possibly have been more on the mark. Having never be...December 17, 2001
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Renegade
Widely credited for having spearheaded the current traditional metal resurgence in Europe, Sweden's HAMMERFALL have always fallen a bit short of the mark to these ears, boasting a sound that is neither innovative nor particularly convincing, with many of their songs coming across like poor second-ra...December 17, 2001
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Archive News Dec 03, 2001
APOLLYON SUN, featuring former CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer, are currently composing and demoing new material for the group's upcoming sophomore full-length album at the band's own rehearsal studio facility (where the act have just upgraded the computer-based recording system) and at...December 3, 2001
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Archive News Nov 30, 2001
Here are some of the latest sales figures for various metal/hard rock releases in the US, as reported by Soundscan for the week ending November 25th, 2001 (number in parenthesis indicates the number of weeks the title has been on the sales chart): ... KID ROCK – Cocky: 223,062 (1) ...November 30, 2001
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Archive News Nov 28, 2001
SOULFLY are scheduled to perform at Salon 21 in Mexico City, Mexico on December 15th. Additional South American dates, including a possible Santiago, Chile gig on December 13th, will be announced shortly. An MP3 file of the track “The Storm”, taken from KING DIAMOND's upcoming Abigail Part ...November 28, 2001
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Archive News Nov 27, 2001
Former CELTIC FROST guitarist/vocalist Tom G. Warrior (aka Thomas Gabriel Fischer) has contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET to refute the reports of am imminent reunion of the band's classic line-up of Fischer, bassist Martin Eric Ain and drummer Reed St. Mark, the rumors of which gained fervor in the pas...November 27, 2001
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Archive News Nov 22, 2001
As a result of a tremendous increase in traffic since the anthrax terrorist attacks started, ANTHRAX (the band) have decided to move their official web site to http://www.anthraxtheband.com. According to a statement issued by anthraxheband.com webmaster Brent, “we've been getting immense numbers...November 22, 2001
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Archive News Nov 20, 2001
After a prolonged self-imposed absence, PRONG mastermind Tommy Victor is getting things back in gear with an eye toward releasing a new album in 2002. Currently based in Los Angeles, Victor has been quietly working on new demos over the past few months with the help of several musicians, includi...November 20, 2001
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Archive News Nov 15, 2001
The reunited CANDLEMASS—featuring bassist/mainman Leif Edling, vocalist Messiah Marcolin, guitarist Lars Johansson, guitarist Matts 'Mappe' Bjorkman, and drummer Jan Lindh—have officially been confirmed for next year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, which is scheduled to take place on J...November 15, 2001
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