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Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR METAL FESTIVAL: BAL-SAGOTH Cancel, SKYCLAD Added To Bill

The organizers of this year's Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Helsinki, Finland have been forced to make a couple of slight but very regrettable changes in the program. British cult band BAL-SAGOTH have been forced to cancel their performance at the festival. For some time now, the band have stated...

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UNLEASHED To Film WITH FULL FORCE Performance For Upcoming DVD

Legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED will be filming their July 1 performance at the With Full Force festival in Leipzig, Germany for an upcoming full-length DVD, tentatively due next year. "Together with all the UNLEASHED warriors we'll make the loudest piece of video in the history of death...

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TESTAMENT Pull Out Of Germany's EARTHSHAKER FEST, DIMMU BORGIR Step In

Long-running San Francisco Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT have been forced to cancel their previously announced appearance at Earthshaker Fest due to "important personal obligations," according to a posting on the festival's web site. Replacing TESTAMENT on the bill will be the Norwegian symphonic bla...

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KAMELOT And EPICA To Team Up For Brazilian Tour

KAMELOT and EPICA will be teaming up for a Brazilian tour in December. So far, one date has been confirmed: December 4 at Via Funchal in São Paulo. More shows will be announced soon. KAMELOT are continuing to promote their latest album, "The Black Halo", released in March through SPV Records. The fo...

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ARCTURUS Name New Album

Norway's ARCTURUS, now featuring DIMMU BORGIR bassist Simen Hestnaes (a.k.a. ICS Vortex, ex-BORKNAGAR, LAMENTED SOULS) on lead vocals, have set "Sideshow Symphonies" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in September via Season Of Mist. A live DVD recorded at the band's September 24, 2005...

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PAIN OF SALVATION Singer To Guest On New AXAMENTA CD

PAIN OF SALVATION singer Daniel Gildenlöw will be featured as a guest vocalist on one track on the upcoming AXAMENTA album, entitled "Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture". "Daniel will do the vocals on one entire song, for which he has written the melody and vocal pattern himself," according to a posting on AXAME...

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Pariah

One can debate the merits of NAGLFAR's "Pariah" in comparison to its 2003 release "Sheol", not a wasted exercise given the qualities of the latter. A couple of listens to "Pariah" though and my preference for it over its predecessor is unequivocal. It's really not a question of one being sub-par and...

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EVERGREY: 'A Night To Remember' DVD Still In Swedish Charts

EVERGREY's brand-new DVD, "A Night to Remember", has moved down to position No. 4 on the official Swedish music DVD chart after spending two weeks in the No. 1 slot. "A Night to Remember" was filmed on October 9, 2004 in Gothenburg, Sweden with 15 high-definition cameras by video producer Patric Ull...

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ANDY WINTER Offers Updates On WINDS, AGE OF SILENCE

Andy Winter (WINDS, AGE OF SILENCE) has issued the following update on his various projects: "Greetings, everyone! As we're getting closer to the half way mark of the year, I guess this is as good a time as any to write an update about what's been going on lately, and more importantly what's to come...

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DREAM EVIL: New Music Coming Soon

DREAM EVIL drummer Snowy Shaw (MEMENTO MORI, NOTRE DAME, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE) has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "First of all: we're awfully sorry for the last months' inactivity. As you all know, due to Niklas' [Isfeldt, vocals] throat problems we've been for...

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WALDROCK 2005 Photos Posted Online

A number of high-quality photos of bands like MEGADETH, DIO, DIMMU BORGIR, ACCEPT, MASTODON, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, ICEPICK, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, EPICA, SOILWORK, MESHUGGAH and LIFE OF AGONY, taken at this year's Waldrock Festival on June 4 in Burgum, Netherlands, have been posted online at www.metal-exp...

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DIMMU BORGIR: New Full 'Story/Concept' Album Due Late 2006

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have issued the following update on their current and upcoming activities: "Finally there's an official update on this site to let you guys in on what the Hell is happening at the moment and whatever else that we might be conspiring behind closed door...

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DESTRUCTION: 'Inventor Of Evil' Cover Artwork Posted Online, More Guest Appearances Revealed

German thrashers DESTRUCTION have uploaded the cover artwork for their upcoming album, "Inventor of Evil", at this location. In other news, DESTRUCTION have confirmed that they have tapped nne diferent world-renowned metal singers from all different heavy metal styles to make a guest appearance in t...

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UNLEASHED Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Magazine's Annual Cruise

Legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED have been confirmed for the Sweden Rock magazine's annual roundtrip cruise from Sweden to Finland on September 30. More information will be made available soon. In other news, UNLEASHED frontman Johnny Hedlund has issued the following update: "I'd also lik...

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STORMLORD Part Ways With Keyboardist, Announce Replacement

Italian "extreme epic metal" act STORMLORD have parted ways with keyboardist Simone Scazzocchio. "There were no discussions or troubles with him, he was simply not interested in playing metal music anymore," the band write in a press release. "Our split has been friendly, we kept good relations and...