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URKRAFT To Ink New Record Deal, Begin Work On Sophomore Album

Danish thrash/death metallers URKRAFT have posted the following message on their official web site: "We have been working hard through the last six months trying to come up with some new material for our next album. So far we have finished 10 tracks of very hard-hitting and more old-school metal. Ex...

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EXTOL, INCANTATION, BOBAFLEX Confirmed For Ohio's DWELL IN DARKNESS Festival

EXTOL, INCANTATION, CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN, SUMMON, BOBAFLEX, DOG FASHION DISCO, INTO ETERNITY and ALL SHALL PERISH are among the acts confirmed for the Dwell in Darkness festival, set to take place June 10-11 at Elbos in Dayton, Ohio. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Friday, June 10:...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE To Enter Studio In October

CANNIBAL CORPSE are scheduled to enter Mana Studios in Tampa, Florida in October with producer Erik Rutan (MORBID ANGEL, HATE ETERNAL) to begin recording their new album, tentatively due in early 2006 via Metal Blade Records. "We have only one upcoming concert, and that is the Party.San Open Air fes...

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MUCOPUS Part Ways With Singer, Complete Work On Full-Length Debut

New York-based old-school death metallers MUCOPUS have parted ways with frontman Rich Manzillo. Current SKINLESS singer Jason Keyser will be handling the vocal duties for MUCOPUS' appearance at the Tokyo Deathfest in Japan, while former SKINLESS vocalist Sherwood Webber will be joining MUCOPUS for a...

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DANZIG And DOYLE To Perform Special MISFITS Set At NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL

Glenn Danzig will be joined by his former MISFITS bandmate Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein for a special 30-minute set of MISFITS classics during DANZIG's headlining performance at the 7th annual New England Metal & Hardcore Festival. DANZIG will top the bill on the second night of the three-day...

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Former LED ZEPPELIN Frontman Pays Tribute To The Blues At SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST

Michael D. Clark of the Houston Chronicle reports: It took former LED ZEPPELIN vocalist Robert Plant only one sentence to sum up why the spectacle that is the South By Southwest music festival continues to command such attention each year. "The blue note is there, all the way through my life," Plant...

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BLACK SABBATH Top British Rock Album Poll

BLACK SABBATH have topped a list of the 100 best British rock albums of all time, according to Sun Online. The band's self-titled debut won a poll voted for by readers of Kerrang! magazine, with follow-up "Paranoid" finishing fifth. Ozzy appears in the list six times, more than any other artist. Fou...

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ORIGIN: New Music Available For Download

Two songs from ORIGIN's upcoming album, "Echoes of Decomation", have been posted online at Relapse.com: "Staring From the Abyss" (mp3) and "The Burner" (mp3). The Topeka, Kansas-based death metallers third full-length CD, "Echoes of Decomation" is scheduled for release on March 15 via Relapse Record...

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SCUM OF THE EARTH's 'Get Your Dead On' To Air On 'Headbanger's Ball'

After removal of some objectionable content, MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" has agreed to air SCUM OF THE EARTH's video for "Get Your Dead On". The episode will air Saturday, January 22 at 10:00 p.m. and will repeat Monday, January 24 at 4:00 a.m. The "Get Your Dead On" clip was directed by Rob Prior ("...

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THEATRE OF TRAGEDY Guitarist Welcomes Addition To Family

Congratulations are in order for THEATRE OF TRAGEDY guitarist Frank Claussen and his wife Tone, who welcomed "a healthy and wholesome baby girl" on Thursday, January 13, according to a posting on the group's web site. "Her name shall be Hanne, a name of Hebrew origin meaning 'full of grace'," the po...

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RITCHIE BLACKMORE Impostor Fools Hospital Officials In England

According to a posting on the BLACKMORE'S NIGHT web site, a man that was admitted to the Cardiac Care Unit of Southampton General Hospital in Southampton, England last week gave his name as Ritchie Blackmore and proceeded to sell his autograph and tell folks that he was the "original" Ritchie Blackm...

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ORIGIN: New Album Cover Artwork Posted Online

The cover artwork for ORIGIN's upcoming third album, "Echoes of Decomation", has been posted online at Relapse.com. The Topeka, Kansas-based death metallers third full-length CD, "Echoes of Decomation" is scheduled for release on March 15 via Relapse Records. The band's last album, "Informis Infinit...

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EPICA: In Mixing Mode

EPICA, the Dutch group formed by ex-AFTER FOREVER guitarist Mark Jansen, ex-CASSIOPEIA guitarist Ad Sluijter and keyboardist Coen Janssen, have posted the following message on their official web site: "At this moment the new EPICA album is being mixed by Philip Colodetti and Sascha Paeth. You may al...

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Korea's OATHEAN To Release New Album In U.S. Via THE END RECORDS

Korea's melodic black metal sextet OATHEAN will release their third full-length album, entitled "Fading Away Into the Grave of Nothingness", in the USA and South America via an exclusive licensing deal with The End Records. The U.S. release date for the album has been scheduled for February 22, 2005...

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Conservative Writer Hits Back At Heavy Metal, Calls It 'Indicative Of Immaturity & Alienation'

William Grim, the conservative writer who was responsible for the now-infamous anti-heavy metal article on the The Iconoclast web site, has posted the following entry (dated Dec. 18, 2004) to his Flyover Country Chronicles blog: "We live in such culturally benighted times that there are even some po...