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KISS 'IKONS' Collectors' Package Due In October

"IKONS", a four-CD collectors' package showcasing the iconic prominence each KISS member contributed to the hottest rock 'n' roll band in the world, is scheduled for release on October 21. The packaging for "IKONS" is outstanding, featuring a 24-page booklet filled with classic KISS photos. The actu...

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Former BLIND GUARDIAN Drummer To Hit The Road With SEELENZORN

Former BLIND GUARDIAN/SAVAGE CIRCUS drummer Thomas "Thomen" Stauch has issued the following udapte: "I'm still working on the new power metal band with David DeFeis [vocals; VIRGIN STEELE] and Axel Ritt [guitar; DOMAIN], but since we will have a big delay completing this first album, because Axel is...

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eBay's METALLICA Ticket Sales Strike A Sour Note

Rupert Jones of The Guardian reports: Auction giant eBay came under fire this week for allowing people to sell tickets to a METALLICA charity concert for vastly inflated prices in what seemed at first glance to be a contravention of its own rules. Earlier this year, eBay announced a new policy on sa...

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UNLEASHED: 'Black Horizon' Video Posted Online

"Black Horizon", the new video from long-running Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED, can be viewed below. (Note: Video stream may not be available to some non-U.S. residents.) "The idea behind 'Black Horizon' is to show how things must have been like for our forefathers so many years ago," frontman J...

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OATH TO VANQUISH Issues Second Album Update

Lebanese extreme metallers OATH TO VANQUISH are putting the finishing touches on the material for their second full-length record entitled "The Ruinous Fate of the Blind". According to guitarist/vocalist Elias van Quish, "This new album focuses on the inevitable aftermath of unyielding undisputed fa...

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ULRICH: Everyone Expects Us To Release Albums That Define The Genre, To 'Save' Metal

Stevie Chick of The Guardian conducted an interview with METALLICA at the end of August when the band was in the UK to play the Reading festival. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On how long they will be able to continue as METALLICA: Lars Ulrich (drums): "In the immortal ...

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SAXON: Radio-Broadcast-Quality Audio Of GRASPOP Performance Available

An audio recording of three songs — "Motorcycle Man", "Crusader" and "Strong Arm Of The Law" — from SAXON's performance at this year's Graspop Metal Meeting, which was held June 27-29, 2008 in Dessel, Belgium, can be heard at this location (courtesy of "Whiplash", a weekly metal show on Belgian nati...

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MATT SORUM Produces Songs For DRIVE A

With four new songs on their MySpace page, a new EP in the works and new fall tour dates, things are continuing to build excitingly for DRIVE A. The Los Angeles-based band — who has been earning the respect of dedicated rock fans everywhere with their blend of rock and punk, with an indie edge ...

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SYNASTRY To Film 'As The Dust Settles' Video

Montreal-based death metal quartet SYNASTRY will film a video for the track "As The Dust Settles" later this month with director Chad Archibald (ARISE AND RUIN, 3 MILE SCREAM, FAREWELL TO FREEWAY). The song, which comes off the group's recently released debut album "Blind Eyes Bleed", is available f...

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UNLEASHED: 'Black Horizon' Video To Debut This Week

"Black Horizon", the new video from Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED, will make its online debut this Friday, September 12 on MTV's Headbanger's Blog. The clip will then air on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" on Saturday, September 13. The "Black Horizon" video was shot "in Belgrade, Serbia and "we...

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DRAGONSLAYER: '80s Recordings To Be Released On CD

This long-forgotten band DRAGONSLAYER, from the classic NWOBHM scene, will have its music released on a special CD reissue from Shadow Kingdom Records in October. Shadow Kingdom has assembled and made available together for the first time ever the band's three-song 7", as well as demo material from...

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CRYSTAL EYES: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed

Swedish/Danish metallers CRYSTAL EYES have issued the following update: "We're finally done mixing the new CRYSTAL EYES record which will be titled 'Chained'. The recording lasted through the summer and Fredrik Nordström has once again set the ultimate sound at Studio Fredman. Think 1984, think JUDA...

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It is rare that I'm enamored with a re-recording effort, as the results are often stale, the magic of the original recordings — no matter how devoid of modern studio polish — lost in the mix. The re-recordings of classics by the likes of TESTAMENT and DESTRUCTION surely have their moments, but the e...

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When Shadows Fall

Greece's REFLECTION has been releasing albums since 1992, yet its debut for traditional metal powerhouse Cruz Del Sur may be the one that pushes the name to the world stage. The act refers to itself as "Hellenic epic/doom metal" and the style heard on "When Shadows Fall" is in fact doomy, but the ep...

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BLACK STONE CHERRY: Part 4 Of New Video Interview Posted Online

Holland's FaceCulture has posted the fourth and final series of interview clips with Edmonton, Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY. Watch the footage below. BLACK STONE CHERRY's second Roadrunner album, "Folklore and Superstition", sold 13,600 in the United States in its first week of release to deb...