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ALL SHALL PERISH, MUNICIPAL WASTE, HORSE THE BAND Confirmed For SAINTS & SINNERS FESTIVAL

ALL SHALL PERISH, FROM FIRST TO LAST, SHAI HULUD, MUNICIPAL WASTE and HORSE THE BAND are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's Saints & Sinners Festival, set to take place November 3-4 at Asbury Park, New Jersey's Convention Hall. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS To Co-Headline Miami's BANG! MUSIC FESTIVAL

SMASHING PUMPKINS have been confirmed as the headliners of the second day of the two-day Bang! Music Festival, set to take place November 10-11 at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida. Confirmed for Saturday, November 10 is KANYE WEST along with RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS and AUTOMATIC LOVELETTE...

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GOD FORBID: CD Containing Two Classic Titles To Be Released

Koch Records has announced the release of "Sickness and Misery", a new CD featuring two classic albums by the forerunners of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, GOD FORBID, on November 6, 2007. "Sickness and Misery" will contain both the band's first EP, the out-of-print "Out of Misery", and the b...

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Swiss Hard Rock Band SHAKRA Unleashes Sixth Album

Swiss hard rockers SHAKRA will release their sixth album, "Infected", on September 11 via Locomotive Records. Ever since its promising 1998 self-titled debut, SHAKRA has stayed true to its classic hard rock approach. The 1999 "Moving Force" follow-up saw the band tour with GREAT WHITE and URIAH HEEP...

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EXCITER Begins Recording New Album

Canadian thrash metal pioneers EXCITER have commenced the recording sessions for their new album, "Thrash Speed Burn", due on November 9 via Germany's Massacre Records. "The [first-day] session [on Sunday, August 26] went very smoothly, and we managed to get set up and record the drums, bass and fir...

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Terra Necrosis

Sweden's NOMINON have been bouncing around the underground since 1993, releasing material all along the way, including several demos and a couple of full-length albums. Considering the towering giants of vintage Swedish death metal (ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, GRAVE, UNLEASHED, etc.) around the scene durin...

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ADRIFT: New Album 'Sounds Huge'

ADRIFT, the Tampa-based heavy rock band featuring Jack Owen of DEICIDE/CANNIBAL CORPSE fame, is currently mixing its new full-length album, "Absolution", at AudioHammer Studios (CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER, BURY YOUR DEAD, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) in Sanford, Florida with Mark Lewis. The CD was tracked at...

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WEDNESDAY 13 To Begin Recording New Album This Week

Wednesday 13 (ex-MURDERDOLLS) will begin recording the follow-up to 2006's "Fang Bang" this week. Wednesday has written and plans to record 20 songs for the latest outing, titled "Skeletons". Tentative songtitles include "From Here To the Hearse", "Dead Carolina", "All American Massacre" and "Not An...

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NEW YORK DOLLS Members Confirmed For 'Marc Bolan & T.Rex 30th Anniversary Celebration'

On Saturday, September 29, Joe's Pub In The Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park will present "20th Century Boy: Marc Bolan & T.Rex 30th Anniversary Celebration". Marking the sixtieth anniversary of Marc Bolan's birth and the thirtieth of his passing, this one-night-only event will show...

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KING'S X Frontman Completes Work On New Solo Album

KING'S X frontman Doug Pinnick's personal manager Todd Diamond has issued the following update: "dUg's [a.k.a. Doug] solo stuff is pretty much done, the process has been long but the good news is that it is a rocking disc. It should hit the label in the next 2 to 3 weeks. "On other notes, dUg ...

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CASBAH: Classic 1987 'Infinite Pain' Demo Available For Download

The 1987 "Infinite Pain" demo cassette by Japanese thrashers CASBAH has been made available for download at the Bang! Bang! metal demo blog. According to the blog post, "The catalytic title track to this tape sounds exactly like NAPALM DEATH's first forays into structured metal a couple years later....

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CYCLONE's 'Brutal Destruction' To Receive CD Release

Metal Mind Productions will issue a remastered edition of one of the most intriguing releases in the history of Belgian thrash metal scene: "Brutal Destruction" by CYCLONE. Due in Europe on August 27 (October 22 in the U.S. via MVD),it is the first time the LP has been made available on CD, featuri...

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Y&T Fan Performs 'Mean Streak' With His Heroes; Video Available

Legendary California rockers Y&T performed two special sold-out shows at the Little Fox in Redwood City, California this past weekend that were arranged just for the longtime fans of the band. Surprises for the two nights including a raffle for a lucky audience member both nights to be brought u...

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EXSECRATUS: New Song Posted Online

Finnish metal band EXSECRATUS has posted a new song, entitled Under the Winter Moon, on its MySpace page. The track, which features a guest appearance by NORTHER frontman Petri Lindroos, comes off the group's upcoming debut album, "Tainted Dreams", due on September 3 via Violent Journey Records. Acc...

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WEDNESDAY 13 Parts Ways With Guitarist ERIC GRIFFIN

WEDNESDAY 13 (ex-MURDERDOLLS) has parted ways with guitarist Eric Griffin. "Eric is a great guy and has been a huge asset to the touring band for the past year," Wednesday says in a statement. "He is an amazing player and will add new life to whatever band he joins! It will be extremely difficult to...