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What We All Come To Need

PELICAN has become one of the very few known quantities in the instrumental rock/metal world and, based on album sales alone, is certainly one of the most successful. They've also become critical darlings, and rightly so, thanks to albums like "Australasia", "The Fire in our Throats will Beckon the...

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NAPALM DEATH: Leeds Footage Available

Video footage of NAPALM DEATH performing the song "Suffer The Children" on November 27, 2009 at Rio's in Leeds, England can be viewed below (courtesy of Dave Ingham a.k.a. YouTube user "triptykon"). "Time Waits For No Slave", the latest album from NAPALM DEATH, entered the German Media Control chart...

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STRATOVARIUS' JENS JOHANSSON To Guest On AVANTASIA Album

Keyboardist Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS, DIO, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) has joined the list of guest musicians who will appear on the forthcoming release from EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet's AVANTASIA project. Commented Tobias: "I've known Jens for years now; there has always been a friendship between EDGUY...

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OZZY OSBOURNE Bassist BLASKO Discusses 'Heavy Metal Karaoke'

Russell Johnson (a.k.a. "The Evil G.") of the Bare Bones Music Network recently conducted an interview with Rob "Blasko" Nicholson (OZZY OSBOURNE, ROB ZOMBIE, CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER) about Hollywood's first real "Heavy Metal Karaoke", which gives the average metal fan a chance at super-stardom. The chat...

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THE KANDIDATE: 'Until We Are Outnumbered' Artwork, Track Listing Unveiled

Danish metallers THE KANDIDATE (formerly THE DOWNWARD CANDIDATE) will release their new album, "Until We Are Outnumbered", in early 2010 via Napalm Records. Commented the band: "The concept of the album artwork was developed by Claus Reinhold and Jeppe Sørensen of Division 666. You will see a direct...

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CINDERELLA Guitarist To Guest On 'Hard Rock Nights'

Jeff LaBar, guitarist for classic hard rockers CINDERELLA and new hard rock supergroup FREAKSHOW, will be the special guest on the next edition of the nationally syndicated radio program "Hard Rock Nights", airing the week of November 20-26. Jeff recounts the early days of CINDERELLA, how he joined...

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OBITUARY Bassist: We've Never Tried To Sound Like METALLICA Or SLIPKNOT

Simon Milburn of The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with bassist Frank Watkins of Florida death metallers OBITUARY. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On whether he thought OBITUARY would still be going hard at it at more than 20 years since the band's inception: "That's a...

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AVANTASIA: New Album Titles Announced

EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet's AVANTASIA project will celebrate its comeback next year with a new epic masterpiece, to be released as two separate albums entitled "The Wicked Symphony" and "Angel Of Babylon". So far Tobias has confirmed the following musicians to be part of the forthcoming AVANTASIA...

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DE PROFUNDIS: New Album Artwork Revealed

The cover artwork for "A Bleak Reflection", the sophomore album from the London, U.K.-based progressive extreme metal band DE PROFUNDIS, can be viewed below. According to guitarist Roman Subbotin, the artwork — by artist Darryll Jones — "came out being an extremely powerful and emotive addition to t...

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LACUNA COIL Singer Confirmed For 'Christmas Metal Symphony'

LACUNA COIL singer Cristina Scabbia is among the guest vocalists who will participate in the second "Christmas Metal Symphony" show, set to take place on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 013, Tilburg, Holland. As was the case with last year's event, the singers will be backed by a six-piece band and a 3...

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METALLICA's ULRICH, TWISTED SISTER's SNIDER To Appear In 'Get Him To The Greek' Film

According to IMDb, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich and TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider will make cameo appearances playing themselves in "Get Him to the Greek", an upcoming American comedy film, directed by Nicholas Stoller and starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. The movie, which was also writte...

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EPICA Singer Confirmed For 'Christmas Metal Symphony'

EPICA frontwoman Simone Simons is among the guest vocalists who will participate in the second "Christmas Metal Symphony" show, set to take place on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 013, Tilburg, Holland. As was the case with last year's event, the singers will be backed by a six-piece band and a 30-pie...

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NIKKI SIXX Checks In

MÖTLEY CRÜE/SIXX A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx has issued the following update: "Home has recharged the batteries and seamless creativity is flowing again..... "I always love it when a friend turns me onto a book, music or something I haven’t heard about or seen before. There's some cool stuff out and abo...

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PRIMAL FEAR's Tour Bus Crash Forces Bergen Cancellation

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR were forced to cancel tonight's (Wednesday, November 4) concert in Bergen, Norway after their bus crashed (see photo below) while the band was making its way to the city from Oslo. According to a statement released by International Touring and Management GmbH &...

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Report: Metal Fan RUUTU Leads Fellow SENATORS To METALLICA Concert

Allen Panzeri of The Ottawa Citizen reports: About half of the Ottawa Senators went to the METALLICA concert on Tuesday night, led by one of the heavy-metal band's biggest fans, Jarkko Ruutu. He "fell in love" with the band when he was in school in the early '80s and has seen them in ...