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'Metal: A Headbanger's Companion II' Due In September

Earache Records' sequel to this year's "Metal: A Headbanger's Companion" is due to be released next month. With a fresh collection of over 100 blistering Earache tracks spread over six CDs, all for the price of one CD, "Metal: A Headbanger's Companion II", housed in a sturdy box, gives value for mon...

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STAUB UND SCHATTEN Lands Deal With NAPALM RECORDS

Austrian metal band STAUB UND SCHATTEN (German for "dust and shadows") has landed a deal with Napalm Records after winning the Metalchamp contest. The group will enter the studio shortly to begin recording its debut album for an early 2008 release. A number of live performances will follow, includin...

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GRAVEWORM To Tour Europe With DISBELIEF, IN SLUMBER, DEADBORN

Italian dark metal band GRAVEWORM will hit the road in October to promote its latest album, "Collateral Defect", out now on Massacre Records. The tour will include labelmates DISBELIEF, IN SLUMBER and DEADBORN. The dates are as follows: Oct. 19 - DE Essen Turock Oct. 20 - NL Arnhem Goudvishal Oct. 2...

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MANNGARD: New Song Posted Online

Norwegian extreme metallers MANNGARD have posted the title track of their new album, "European Cowards" on their MySpace page. Due on September 3 via Nocturnal Art Productions/Candlelight Records, "European Cowards" was recorded at the Tonreich, Sodoma Sound and Duper studios with producer Iver Sand...

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Ex-PESTILENCE Singer MARTIN VAN DRUNEN Joins BUNKUR

Dutch extreme doom metal band BUNKUR has tapped legendary vocalist Martin van Drunen (ASPHYX, PESTILENCE, BOLT THROWER, DEATH BY DAWN, HAIL OF BULLETS) for its upcoming album, "Nullify", and future gigs. The band has also recruited Wannes Gubbels (PENTACLE, ASPHYX) as a session bassist. "Nullify" wi...

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CELTIC FROST Frontman Talks About Unreleased 'Under Apollyon's Sun' Demos

CELTIC FROST guitarist/vocalist Tom G. Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "In my eyes, one of the true pioneers of combining rock music and drum machines is Andrew Eldritch with the SISTERS OF MERCY. And that was some ten years before CELTIC FROST recorded the [unreleased] 'Under...

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QUEEN 'Rock Montreal' DVD Details Revealed

On October 29, 2007, Eagle Rock Entertainment will simultaneously release two incredible DVDs capturing the incomparable QUEEN in their pomp as the world's biggest band at a sold-out show in 1981 at Montreal's 18,000-seater Forum. The single 95-minute DVD is "Queen Rock Montreal", and there is a spe...

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MANNGARD: 'European Cowards' Pushed Back To September

Norwegian extreme metallers MANNGARD have pushed back the European release date of their new album, "European Cowards" (Nocturnal Art Productions/Candlelight Records) to September 3 from the previously announced August 27. The group previously state about the CD, "A MANNGARD album will never be a on...

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AGENT STEEL: Another New Song Posted Online

Another new track by California-based metallers AGENT STEEL, entitled "Fashioned from Dust", has been posted to the band's official MySpace page. The song "Hail to the Chief" can be heard on the Mascot Records MySpace page. Both cuts come off the group's new album, "Alienigma", due in September via...

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Closer to the Grave

You may need to take a shower after time spent with SPIRITUAL DECAY's "Closer to the Grave". The sound is old school, dirty, and primitive. No light shines in the cavernous world in which the quartet resides. It is not the greatest death metal release I've ever heard, but does have its moments and m...

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The Igneous Race

The duo of metal writers Marty Rytkonen and S. Craig Zahler have returned with a second release from primal black project CHARNEL VALLEY. The follow-up to "The Dark Archives" is a darker, more varied album that its predecessor, although I still prefer the debut. Nevertheless, "The Igneous Race" is a...

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KING DIAMOND, BOLT THROWER, SIX FEET UNDER Titles Released On Picture Disc

The European brach of Metal Blade Records has reissued the following titles on limited-edition picture disc: * AMON AMARTH - "The Crusher" (2001) * BOLT THROWER - "Mercenary" (1998) * KING DIAMOND - "Abigail II: The Revenge" (2002) * SIX FEET UNDER - "Haunted" (1995) Each title is hand-numbered and...

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ANGEL DUST: New Album Title Announced

German power metallers ANGEL DUST have issued the following update: "The new album will be called 'VII', which is quite obvious. The seventh album will released in 2007. A exact date is not certain yet; the recordings are making very slow progress." ANGEL DUST guitarist Bernd Aufermann (also of RUNN...

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PERRY FARRELL Welcomes New Members To SATELLITE PARTY

Former JANE'S ADDICTION frontman Perry Farrell has issued the following update on his SATELLITE PARTY project following the announcement over the weekend that ex-EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has left the fold: "I am in San Clemente today. We are working on our live set mix at Sounden Studios....

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RICHIE KOTZEN: New Video Message Posted Online; Audio Samples Available

Guitarist Richie Kotzen (POISON, MR. BIG) has just released a new album in Japan, entitled "Return of the Mother Head's Family Reunion". The CD will be available via iTunes and at Kotzen's official web site beginning September 15. However, due to unspecified "corporate" issues, the album will be tit...