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It's Official: HAMMERFALL Have Made The Cheesiest Video In Heavy Metal History

HAMMERFALL recently joined forces with the Swedish women's Olympic curling team to shoot a new video for their track "Hearts On Fire", a song from the group's 2002 album, "Crimson Thunder". The track has been reissued as a single in Sweden to give a "boost" to the team as they prepare for the Winter...

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ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW: New Album Details Revealed

Reactivated Finnish melodic extreme metal band ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW have announced the details of their fifth album, "Before the Bleeding Sun", due out in Finland on April 26 via Spinefarm Records. "Before the Bleeding Sun" is the band's first album since their reunion that took place in 2005. Th...

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Singer TONY MARTIN Discusses New Solo Album, BLACK SABBATH Years

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com recently conducted an interview with former BLACK SABBATH frontman Tony Martin. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rockdetector.com: I guess a question a lot of BLACK SABBATH fans are wanting to know is why you've been relatively quiet on the recording...

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Original AC/DC Frontman To Embark On 'The Sins Of The Zodiac' U.S. Tour

Original AC/DC frontman Dave Evans will be teaming up with the Tampa, Florida-based heavy metal band BLACK ZODIAC for a nationwide tour dubbed "The Sins of the Zodiac Tour". Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. Evans was a member of AC/DC from the band's inception in 1973 until 1974. Follo...

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MASTODON Complete Work On New Music Video

MASTODON have completed work on the third music video from their award-winning album, "Leviathan". The video, for the song "Seabeast", was shot on location at the historic Madison Theater in the band's hometown of Atlanta, GA. "Seabeast" was produced and directed by Jonathan Rej (MAN OR ASTROMAN, FU...

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VOIVOD Frontman: New Album Is A 'Monster'

VOIVOD frontman Denis "Snake" Belanger has started laying down tracks for the group's much-anticipated new album with producer Glen Robinson (VOIVOD's "Nothingface", TEA PARTY, GWAR) at Multisons studio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The singer has posted his third entry on the band's blog about the s...

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LOUDNESS Ink North American Deal For Release Of Collection Of Re-Recorded Classics

Crash Music Inc. has inked a deal with legendary Japanese metallers LOUDNESS for the North American release of "Rockshocks", a collection of re-recorded versions of some of their classic songs from their early years as chosen by the fans. Originally issued in Japan in October 2004 via Tokuma Japan C...

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SLIPKNOT's Soundman Talks To MIX Magazine

SLIPKNOT's front-of-house engineer Dave "Shirt" Nicholls recently spoke to Mix magazine about the group's most recent North American leg of the Subliminal Verses Tour. Taylor, Mich.-based Thunder Audio have been providing the audio rig, which is based around a Meyer Sound MILO line array system (24...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist: 'The Next Chapter Is About To Be Penned'

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "I can’t believe it's New Year's already, and the touring is over! We have been on the road on and off since April, so it has been the usual hectic year. And now, the next chapter is about to be ...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist Issues Post-Tour Update

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "That's it, we are now back home in Sweden and there are no more shows scheduled. We had a fantastic five weeks on the road with STRATOVARIUS! Thank you Timo, Timo, Jörg, Lauri and especially Jens, I...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist Checks In From France

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "We're currently in Lyon, France, after having spent the better part of a week in Spain. This tour has been one of the very best ever for us! I really think we have a tremendous package that attract...

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DORO PESCH Talks About Health Scare: Audio Available

Mark Carras of Abrasive Rock recently conducted an interview with German singer Doro Pesch (ex-WARLOCK). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Abrasive Rock: Now you and the boxer Regina Halmich have become extremely close friends. Would she ever sing, and would you ever box? Doro: "I did a sho...

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GREEN CARNATION Announce Dates In Switzerland, Italy

GREEN CARNATION's "The Acoustic Verses" will be one of the first albums to issued in North American via a brand new collaboration between The End Records and RED Distribution. A full-length MP3 of the track"Alone", taken from "The Acoustic Verses", has been made available for download at this locati...

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THE BURNING ROOM To Enter Studio In December

Portland, Oregon's THE BURNING ROOM will be entering Undercity Studios in Los Angeles, CA in December to begin work on their full-length debut, entitled "We Invented Thunder!", tentatively due February 21, 2006 through Mediaskare Records. Following completion of recording/mixing, the band will hit t...

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Their Rock Is Not Our Rock

I've never understood the big deal about FIREBALL MINISTRY. The quartet is a solid rock band with a decent sense of melody, but they aren't the saviors of rock and roll. Maybe I haven't been exposed to enough of the music on previous releases (though I did recently see a strong live performance from...