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NEUROSIS: New Album Title Revealed

According to the U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine, long-running Oakland, California-based industrial/alternative/metal pioneers NEUROSIS have set "Given to the Rising" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in May. The band began recording the effort late last month at Electrical Audio studio in...

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SLAYER, MASTODON, HATEBREED, NEUROSIS Confirmed For Norway's HOVEFESTIVALEN

SLAYER, MASTODON, HATEBREED and NEUROSIS have been confirmed for Hovefestivalen, a brand new five-day festival set to take place June 25-29 on the island of Tromøy, just outside the city of Arendal, in Norway. Hovefestivalen reportedly has the potential to become Norway's biggest festival, with up t...

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ERA VULGARIS To Release Debut Album Next Month

Irish progressive thrash metal band ERA VULGARIS will release its debut album, "What Stirs Within", on February 5 via Open Your Ears Music. The CD was mastered by Alan Douches, who has worked with such bands as MASTODON and THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN. ERA VULGARIS was recently selected as one of the...

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SLAYER: Tickets To 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Performance Sold Out In Four Hours

According to a press release from mPRm Public Relations, tickets for SLAYER's January 19 appearance on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" sold out in about four hours, matching the performance of such superstar acts as JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, KORN and LINKIN PARK. SLAYER will make its first-ever network telev...

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THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD Prepares To Record New Album

South Carolina's THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD is currently writing material for its second full-length album, "Malice", tentatively due later in the year via Prosthetic Records. The follow-up to 2005's "Bloodlust" will once again feature artwork from Paul Romano (MASTODON, THE RED CHORD),while this...

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THE ACACIA STRAIN To Tour Europe With LENG TCH'E, THE ARCHITECHT

Massachusetts' THE ACACIA STRAIN has announced plans to embark on a European tour in support of the band's current release, "The Dead Walk". The group will be playing alongside Belgium's LENG TCH'E and Holland's THE ARCHITECHT beginning on March 23 and ending on April 15. Exact cities and dates will...

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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Ex-MEGADETH, Ex-DOKKEN Members Schedule NAMM Signing Sessions

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE's Troy Van Leeuwen, bass virtuoso Billy Sheehan (DAVE LEE ROTH, TALAS, MR. BIG),former MEGADETH/current OHM: guitarist Chris Poland, George Lynch (ex-DOKKEN),THE CULT's Billy Duffy, MINISTRY's Al Jourgensen, THIN LIZZY's Marco Mendoza and MASTODON's Troy Sanders are among t...

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IRON MAIDEN Frontman Comments On Upcoming Greek Appearance

Vocalist Bruce Dickinson of the British heavy metal giants IRON MAIDEN has commented on the band's upcoming Greek show, which is set to take place in Athens on March 11. Says Dickinson, "Greece has always given us such great support and we understand that 'A Matter of Life and Death' was the No. 1 a...

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IRON MAIDEN To Play Greece In March

According to Metal-Temple.com, British metal giants IRON MAIDEN will play a headlining show in Athens, Greece on Sunday, March 11. The concert is part of the band's world tour in support of their latest album, "A Matter of Life and Death", which was released last September. The show will take place...

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SLAYER To Perform On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'; 'Die-Hard' Fans Needed

Los Angeles thrash titans SLAYER will appear on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Friday, January 19. According to a MySpace bulletin, SLAYER is looking for "die-hard" fans to be part of the "Kimmel" mini-concert. The band will play between three and five songs (including their Grammy-nominated track...

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IRON MAIDEN's 'Death On The Road' DVD To Receive Long-Awaited U.S. Release

Available for almost a year in the band's native England, IRON MAIDEN's latest live DVD, "Death on the Road", will finally receive a much-deserved U.S. release on January 30. Filmed at the Westenfalenhalle Arena in Dortmund, Germany, the performance was personally edited by founding member/bassist S...

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MASTODON: Play The 'Blood Mountain' Game

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have just released the "Blood Mountain" game, where you can collect diamonds to get pieces of a key to gain entrance to "Blood Mountain." Get your old-school video game jones on by clicking here. Keep an eye out for the special cheat codes that you can enter in...

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METAL INJECTION Uploads 30 Hours Of Footage Into 'Video Vault'

Metal Injection has uploaded over 30 hours of archival footage into its "Video Vault". Before becoming the first metal video-on-demand network, "Overdose", Metal Injection would release weekly episodic episodes featuring the best in underground videos as well as interviews with today's big stars and...

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SLAYER, IN FLAMES, CHILDREN OF BODOM, LAMB OF GOD: Live Performances From Sweden Posted Online

Live performances by SLAYER, IN FLAMES, CHILDREN OF BODOM, LAMB OF GOD and THINE EYES BLEED, recorded on the the European leg of the Unholy Alliance Tour on November 16, 2006 at Hovet in Stockholm, Sweden, can be heard online at the web site of Sveriges Radio (SR),Sweden's national publicly funded...

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ANNUNAKI Debut Album Recording Complete

ANNUNAKI, the New Jersey-based blackened death metal band featuring ex-BLOOD FEAST drummer Kevin Kuzma, has completed work on its debut album, "Throne of the Annunaki", at Trax East Studios (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, SYMPHONY X) in New Jersey. "Rooted in thrash metal and expanding out, the album cove...