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VENOM Confirmed For Germany's CHRISTMAS METAL FESTIVAL

British black metal pioneers VENOM have been confirmed for the Christmas Metal Festival, set to take place November 25-26 at Stadthalle in Lichtenfels, Germany. Commented VENOM vocalist/bassist Conrad "Cronos" Lant: "I know were supposed to be just working on the new album release, etc., but c'mon,...

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ACCEPT Honored With 'Metal Anthem' Award For 'Teutonic Terror'

The song "Teutonic Terror" from reformed German heavy metal legends ACCEPT was honored with the "Metal Anthem" award at the Metal Hammer Award Show last night (Friday, September 9) at Kesselhaus in Berlin, Germany. The band's bassist, Peter Baltes, said, "We are very honored and grateful. Thanks to...

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NIGHTWISH: 'Imaginaerum' Cover Artwork, Track Listing Unveiled

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH will release their new album, "Imaginaerum", in Finland on Wednesday, November 30 and the rest of Europe on Friday, December 2 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD will be made available in North America through Roadrunner Records. "Imaginaerum" track listi...

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Popularity Of Halloween Underlined By ALICE COOPER's 'Spooky' New Theme Park Ride

Worldwide rock star Alice Cooper is set to launch his very own theme park ride as part of this year's Halloween festivities in the U.S. The rocker's very own ride, "Welcome To My Nightmare", is located at the Universal Studios theme park in Los Angeles, California. The premise behind the attraction...

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QUEENSRCHE Singer: 'As An Artist, Art Is Meant To Evolve'

PopStar.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist Geoff Tate of Seattle progressive rockers QUEENSRCHE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. PopStar.com: "Got it Bad" [is] the sexiest song on the [new QUEENSRCHE album, "Dedicated To Chaos"], not just in terms of the lyrics but in...

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TERROR: 'Defining The Faith' DVD Trailer Released

On November 1, Los Angeles hardcore/metal band TERROR will release the "Defining The Faith" DVD as part of the special deluxe reissue of the group's latest CD, "Keepers Of The Faith". Produced, edited, and authored by Carlo Oppermann and Ambitious.Films, "Defining The Faith" features a full live set...

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Polish Bishop Launches Crusade Against BEHEMOTH Frontman

A Polish bishop has called for public protests following the employment of what he claims is a "satanic" rock star, BEHEMOTH frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski, by the Polish version of the hit American singing competition "The Voice", appropriately named "The Voice Of Poland". Bishop Wieslaw Mering, hea...

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METALLICA And LOU REED: Complete 'Lulu' Track Listing Revealed

The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and METALLICA, "Lulu", will be released on November 1 in North America via Warner Bros. Records and one day earlier (October 31) in the rest of the world through Universal Music. The CD was co-produced by Reed, METALLICA, Hal Willner who has produced albums...

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VAIN To Release 'Enough Rope' In October

Music Buy Mail has set an October 28 European release date for the new VAIN album entitled "Enough Rope". Davy Vain has a list of accomplishments under his belt few artists today can rival. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Davy began his rise as the frontman/songwriter/producer for the band...

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NIGHTWISH Goes Mobile

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have released a mobile app called Nightwish: Mobile Backstage which allows the band to create a digital fan club and gives it the tools to reach the group's fans "real fast and easy!" At the moment, the app is available for iPhone only, but it will be re...

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Fear In a Handful of Dust

Well, it's not a reinterpretation of HURTLOCKER's "Fear in a Handful of Dust", nor is it of the same musical style, but the violence levels are similar, which is the only comparison of relevance in an otherwise completely irrelevant comparison. For that matter the violence dealt on the full-length d...

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The Oracle: What Was, Is and Could Have Been

Now this is a metalcore album with which we all can live; whatever that means. The problem with that statement has less to do with the fact that it is basically uninformative and more do with the realization that using "metalcore" as a blanket description for what ALL ELSE FAILS does is selling the...

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Occult Spawned Premonitions

Debut album "Tomb Coven" (2009) from the shadowy figures known as SKELETAL SPECTRE was one heck a of a doom-imbued death metal release that crossed HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST with ASPHYX and then made certain you paid extra attention by building the grooves extra big and injecting the songwriting with...

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Ancient Torture

Japan's COFFINS, the band everyone loves to… well, pretty much that everyone loves. It certainly seems that way and for damn good reason, at least if you are a connoisseur of death metal that is primal, doom injected, and boiled down to its essential ugliness — like Ernest Borgnine ugly; the kind of...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: 'I Love VINNIE PAUL And My Door Is Always Open'

Philip Anselmo (DOWN, PANTERA, ARSON ANTHEM, SUPERJOINT RITUAL) has released a videotaped statement (see below) regarding the interview he gave to the San Antonio Metal Music Examiner in which he spoke about his current relationship or lack thereof with his former PANTERA bandmate, Vinnie Paul Abbot...