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DAGOBA, GHOST BRIGADE Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

DAGOBA and GHOST BRIGADE have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 13-15, 2009 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMARTH AMORPHIS BEFORE THE DAWN BENEATH THE MASSACRE BRAINSTORM CALLEJON CATARACT...

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OMNIUM GATHERUM Issues Year-End Update

Finland's OMNIUM GATHERUM have issued the following update: "The year 2008 is coming to an end and what a great year it was for a camp OMNIUM GATHERUM. The new great album, 'The Redshift', was released and it have accomplished a huge amount of words of praise and cheering among the medias and fans,...

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The Making Of DORO PESCH's Heavy Metal Monster

Jörg Steegmüller, who has sculpted and produced "Star Wars" props for a number of years and is a well-known stop-motion moviemaker and collector in his home country of Germany, was recently hired to build an eight-meter high and five-hundred-kilogram heavy monster figure for Doro Pesch's 25-year ann...

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ARCHITECTS: 'Early Grave' Video Available

"Early Grave", the new video from the British modern metal band ARCHITECTS, can be viewed below. The song comes off the group's forthcoming album, "Hollow Crown", which is scheduled for release on January 26, 2009 via Century Media Records. The clip was created by up-and-coming director Adam Powell,...

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ACHERON Issues Brazilian Tour Recap

ACHERON founder Vincent Crowley has issued the following update: "Last weekend was the GRAVE / ACHERON 2008 Brazilian assault. It did not start off too well. Kyle [Severn; INCANTATION, WOLFEN SOCIETY] and I had to deal with airline weather issues in Columbus, Ohio that delayed our flight to Newark,...

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GRAVE Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

Swedish death metallers GRAVE have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 13-15, 2009 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMARTH AMORPHIS BEFORE THE DAWN BENEATH THE MASSACRE BRAINSTORM CALLEJON CATA...

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TANKARD, FJOERGYN Confirmed For Germany's WALPURGIS METAL DAYS IX Festival

TANKARD and FJOERGYN have been confirmed for next year's Walpurgis Metal Days IX festival, set to take place May 1-2, 2009 at Festplatz in Hauzenberg, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ARTAS GRAVE DISBELIEF DORNENREICH ENTHRONED FLESHLESS FJOERGYN GRAILKNIGHTS IN SLUMBER POPPY...

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MAROON Covers SAMAEL's 'Baphomet's Throne'; Audio Available

German modern metal machine MAROON recently recorded a cover version of SAMAEL's "Baphomet's Throne" for the Century Media Records 2CD compilation "Covering 20 Years Of Extremes", which was released in North America on October 14. The track is now available for streaming at this location. The all-co...

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CATTLE DECAPITATION: 'The Harvest Floor' E-Card Available

San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION will release their new album, "The Harvest Floor", on January 20 in North America; January 30 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy; and February 2 throughout the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records. An e-card for the album can be found at this...

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COMMON GRAVE Completes Work On 'Embedded Coding'

German death metallers COMMON GRAVE have finished recording their second album, "Embedded Coding". Once again produced by Stefan Fimmers, the CD "is the next significant step in the band's development," according to a press release. "It offers matured and refined songwriting that is more complex and...

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UNDER THE GRAVE Parts Ways With Singer, Seeks Replacement

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based death metal band UNDER THE GRAVE has parted ways with singer Maxime Daigneault "for personal and musical reasons." The group is currently seeking a replacement. For more information, visit the UNDER THE GRAVE MySpace page. UNDER THE GRAVE earlier in the year announced...

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ARTILLERY To Enter Studio In March

Reactivated Danish thrashers ARTILLERY will enter Medley studio (D-A-D) on March 2, 2009 with producer Søren Andersen (SUPERFUZZ) to begin recording their new album for a tentative late 2009 release. Regarding the band's producer choice, guitarist Michael Stützer said, "We don't wanna use the same p...

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DORO: More 25th Anniversary Concert Footage Available

Doro Pesch celebrated her 25-year career as the reigning queen of German heavy metal by performing a three-hour set this past Saturday night (December 13) at the 20,000-capacity ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany. HOLY MOSES, LEAVES EYES' and ARCH ENEMY opened the show and were followed by full set by...

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Fulfill the Curse

Doom acts have by and large not been a staple of the Razorback Records roster; that distinction has gone mainly to old school, gory death, thrash, and to some extent grind. However, two of the three new releases have fit the doom mold: the macabre psychedelic doom swirl of ACID WITCH's "Witchtanic H...

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Funeral Phantoms

Denmark's EXMORTEM celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. That is 15 years of slogging it out through musical trends, a multitude of labels, and every obstacle that comes with survival in the ongoing war that is death metal. Having left Earache after the release of 2005's "Nihilistic Contentment...