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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...

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GOD FORBID's FURY OF THE FALL Tour Recap

GOD FORBID are currently in the midst of the highly-successful Decibel magazine-sponsored Fury of The Fall tour with MESHUGGAH, THE HAUNTED and MNEMIC, which is the group's first U.S. trek in support of their highly-acclaimed new conceptual opus "IV: Constitution of Treason". The album entered The B...

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Former ENTOMBED Drummer NICKE ANDERSSON Returns To Death Metal Roots

In 1998, ENTOMBED drummer and main songwriter Nicke Andersson left the legendary death metal outfit to focus on his rock ’n’ roll band THE HELLACOPTERS. Since then he's stayed clear of anything brutal and downtuned. In an exclusive interview in the November issue of the Swedish magazine Close-Up, An...

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EXHUMED: Fall/Winter Tour Dates Announced

EXHUMED have announced fall/winter tour dates in support of their upcoming release, "Garage Daze Re-Regurgitated", to be issued on Parasitic Twin Records, distributed via Relapse Records. These West Coast gore fiends will kick off their five week tour on October 27 in Aptos, CA. Throughout the cours...

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METAL BLADE RECORDS Announces Sponsorship Of CENTRAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

As many heavy metal fans may already know, Metal Blade Records owner and CEO, Brian Slagel, is an extreme enthusiast of hockey and has appeared many times as a guest on Canada's TSN "Off The Record" (Canada's version of ESPN) expressing his opinions on the sport and much more as well as supporting C...

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MANILLA ROAD Sign With BLACK LOTUS RECORDS

Veteran metallers MANILLA ROAD have inked a deal with Greece's Black Lotus Records. The group's new album will be recorded early next year for a late 2006 release. Commented guitarist/vocalist Mark Shelton: "MANILLA ROAD is highly honoured to join with the groundbreaking label Black Lotus. We are ve...