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THIS IS HELL To Team Up With BANE, MODERN LIFE IS WAR, OUTBREAK For U.S. Tour

Trustkill Records artists THIS IS HELL will be joining hardcore heroes BANE, MODERN LIFE IS WAR and OUTBREAK for a national tour this summer. Hailing from Long Island, THIS IS HELL features former SCRAPS & HEART ATTACKS vocalist Travis Reilly as well as scene vets Rick Jiminez (guitar),Joe Osol...

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AMON AMARTH Begin Recording New Album

Swedish Viking death metal heroes AMON AMARTH have entered Fascination Street studios in Örebro, Sweden to begin recording their sixth full-length album. The band will record all through May until June 14 with producer Jens Bogren. There will be frequent updates with pictures from the recordings on...

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Ex-MEGADETH Drummer, ANNIHILATOR Guitarist Guest On New MEMORAIN CD

Greek thrash metallers MEMORAIN have just released their new album from EMI Music Greece, entitled "Reduced to Ashes". The drums were recorded by Nick Menza (ex-MEGADETH) at his personal studio in Los Angeles, California and special guest Jeff Waters from ANNIHILATOR recorded a solo for the song "TV...

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DREAM EVIL Confirmed For Scotland's RAGNAROK UK METALFEST

Sweden's DREAM EVIL have been confirmed for the inaugural Ragnarok UK Metalfest, set to take place on November 4, 2006 at Perth Concert Hall in Central Scotland. According to a statement released by the festival organizers, DREAM EVIL or its management team will release a statement regarding the fut...

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The Songs That Drove METALLICA: 'Full Metal Garage' CD Due In June

Sanctuary Records are re-packaging the "Metallic-era" albums into one double set billed "Full Metal Garage - The Songs That Drove Metallica" for release on June 26. Originally conceived by Rockdetector.com's Garry Sharpe-Young, all of these original tracks are available together, at last, on one dou...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist DRONJAK: Bow To The King!

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on his official blog: "The concert highlight of the spring took place yesterday [April 21]; KING DIAMOND rolled through town [Gothenburg, Sweden]. I had been looking forward to this for a long time, and my expectations were really h...

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GAIA EPICUS To Enter Studio In July

Norwegian power metallers GAIA EPICUS will enter Top Room Studios in Lunner, Norway on July 12 to begin recording their third album, entitled "Victory". The band will have the album finished by the time they go to the USA to play the Minneapolis Mayhem 3 festival, which will take place on August 25-...

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Believe it or not, the rating above is a vast improvement for Danish third-stringers IRON FIRE. Their debut, "Thunderstorm" (released after the group won some Noise Records battle of the bands contest),was a laughably generic exercise in power metal with particularly anemic and reedy vocals from Ma...

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PLANET ALLIANCE Finish Recording Debut Album

PLANET ALLIANCE, the all-star project featuring former OZZY OSBOURNE bassist Bob Daisley, HAMMERFALL members Magnus Rosén (bass) and Anders Johansson (drums),and NARNIA guitarist Carl-Johan Grimmark, have completed the recordings for their debut album and are scheduled to mix the effort beginning l...

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AMON AMARTH: 'Wrath Of The Norsemen' DVD Delayed

Due to "technical reasons," Metal Blade Records has been forced to postpone the release date of the AMON AMARTH DVD, "Wrath of the Norsemen", to May 15 (May 12 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland) from the previously announced April 24. As previously reported, the three-disc set will be released in a d...

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SINISTER Begin Writing New Material

Despite the fact that their latest CD, "Afterburner", has only just been released through Nuclear Blast Records, reunited Dutch death metallers SINISTER have already commenced the songwriting process for their next album, tentatively titled "No Mercyful God". SINISTER's current lineup consists of Aa...

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MOTÖRHEAD's 'Ace Of Spades' Gets Country-And-Western Treatment: Video Available

A video clip of HAYSEED DIXIE performing a country-and-western rendition of MOTÖRHEAD's "Ace of Spades" for inclusion on a DVD that came with the February 2006 issue of the British magazine Total Guitar has been posted online at YouTube.com. According to the All Music Guide, HAYSEED DIXIE is a novel...

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HELLOWEEN: Expanded Reissues Detailed

Six of HELLOWEEN's most interesting, transitional albums — "Walls Of Jericho", "Pink Bubbles Go Ape", "Chameleon", "Master Of The Rings", "The Time Of The Oath" and "Better Than Raw" — are being reissued as remastered, deluxe expanded edition CDs by Sanctuary Records on April 25, 2006. Bonus tracks...

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EYES OF FIRE Frontman Talks About New Video

EYES OF FIRE frontman Dan Kaufman recently spoke to MTV.com about the making of the band's new video, "It All Dies Today" — the first single off the Orange County ambient-metal quintet's sophomore disc, "Prisons". "I'm just glad there's not a whole lot of us in it," he joked. "You can see we're ...

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Original ANTHRAX Singer To Guest On 'The Vault Of Metal' This Wednesday

Neil Turbin, the original voice of ANTHRAX, will appear on "The Vault of Metal" this Wednesday, March 22, 2006 with DJ Raven the Devil at 9 p.m. (EST) / 3 a.m. (CET). Turbin will talk about his new band NEIL TURBIN'S DEATHRIDERS' upcoming album, "A Fate Worse than Death", and will be taking live req...