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ENSLAVED's BJORNSON Says Writing For New Album Is 'In The Preliminary Stage'

Christopher Porter of Washington Post Express recently conducted an interiew with Ivar Bjornson of Norwegian masters of progressive/experimental metal ENSLAVED. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Washington Post Express: You guys still use Nordic mythology as inspiration for your lyric...

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AUGURY Members Comment On Upcoming Tour With GOD DETHRONED

Members of Montreal's AUGURY are preparing to embark on their first tour of North America in September with Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED, New York's ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, and Ohio's WOE OF TYRANTS in support of their Nuclear Blast debut, "Fragmentary Evidence". Commented guitarist Mathieu Marcott...

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BLOODBATH: 'Hades Rising' Video Released

"Hades Rising", the new video from the Swedish death metal "supergroup" BLOODBATH, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Owe Lingwall of Village Road Film. The band's performance footage was shot on location in Vallentuna outside Stockholm and "can be summoned up as some serious headbanging...

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OPETH Frontman Says Some Songs On 'Watershed' Were Inspired By Former Girlfriend

Christopher Porter of Washington Post Express recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Washington Post Express: Last time you played D.C. you were opening for DREAM THEATER. Were...

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OPETH Guitarist Interviewed In Boston; Video Available

Bad Taste conducted an interview with guitarist Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH on May 2, 2009 at the House of Blues in Boston, Massachusetts. The chat can be viewed in two parts below. OPETH will take part in the European installment of DREAM THEATER's Progressive Nation tour...

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OF THE ARCHAENGEL Album Delayed

The debut album from Brazilian dark metallers OF THE ARCHAENGEL, entitled "The Extraphysicallia", has been delayed due to the fact that it will mastered at The Cutting Room studio (AMON AMARTH, OPETH, GORGOROTH, PAIN, PARADISE LOST, CHROME DIVISION) in Sweden. Commented the band: "When we received t...

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OPETH Mainman On Touring, Lineup Changes And Progressive Music

Lee Troupe of "The Funeral Directory" show on WUTK 90.3 FM, the college radio station for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH before the band's May 22, 2009 concert at The Bijou Theatre in Kn...

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ENSLAVED: Columbus Footage Posted Online

MetalFanzine.net has uploaded video footage of Norwegian masters of progressive/experimental metal ENSLAVED performing on May 23, 2009 at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Watch the clip below. ENSLAVED is currently on the road in North America as the support act for Swedish progressive metaller...

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OPETH: Columbus Footage Posted Online

MetalFanzine.net has uploaded video footage of OPETH's May 23, 2009 concert at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Watch the clips below. OPETH will take part in the European installment of DREAM THEATER's Progressive Nation tour, set to take place throughout September, October and November 2009....

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OPETH: 'The Candlelight Years' Box Set To Receive European Release

The OPETH three-CD box set called "The Candlelight Years", featuring the the band's first three albums, will be released in Europe on July 13 via Candlelight Records. The set, which originally came out in Japan in June 2008, features the following track listing: "Orchid" (1995): 01. In Mist She Was...

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OPETH Mainman Interviewed In Montreal; Video Available

HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH before the band's May 3, 2009 concert in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Watch the 28-minute chat below. OPETH will take part in the European installment of DREAM THEATER's Progressive Natio...

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SIGHT OF EMPTINESS: New Album To Be Mastered By JENS BOGREN

Costa Rica-based melodic extreme metal band SIGHT OF EMPTINESS has tapped Jens Bogren (OPETH, AMON AMARTH, SOILWORK, BLOODBATH, KATATONIA, SYMPHONY X) of Örebro, Sweden's Fascination Street Studios to master the band's upcoming second album, "Absolution of Humanity". Commented the group: "Having Jen...

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NECROPHAGIST, SUFFOCATION, SUICIDE SILENCE Pull Out Of Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

NECROPHAGIST, SUFFOCATION, SUICIDE SILENCE, THE FACELESS and DAATH have cancelled their participation in this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 13-15, 2009 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. Commented the festival organizers: "DAATH have cancelled all European shows fo...

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TRAIL OF TEARS: Another New Song Posted Online

Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS has posted another new song, "Bloodstained Endurance", on the band's MySpace page. The track is the title cut of the group's sixth album, "Bloodstained Endurance", which will be released this spring via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded and mixed over a six-week period at S...

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DAYLIGHT DIES: Rochester Footage Posted Online

Video footage of North Carolina's DAYLIGHT DIES performing the song "A Life Less Lived" on January 30, 2009 at The Penny Arcade in Rochester, New York during the band's tour with SOILWORK and DARKANE can be viewed below (courtesy of UVTV). DAYLIGHT DIES's latest album, "Lost To The Living", was rele...