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NASUM Announces North American Tour

Legendary Swedish grinders NASUM have announced a limited number of farewell performances for 2012 including their first-ever tour on North American soil. NASUM was hit hard by the passing of guitarist and co-founder Mieszko Talarczyk in the 2004 Asian tsunami, but announced the farewell performance...

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KISS, QUEEN With ADAM LAMBERT And FAITH NO MORE Confirmed For U.K.'s SONISPHERE

The U.K edition of the Sonisphere festival has announced three headliners and the first batch of bands for its 2012 event, taking place July 6-8 at Knebworth House, with tickets available from Sonisphere.co.uk from 9 a.m. on Thursday, February 23. Shooting rockets. Blood spitting. Face Paint. Shiny...

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DOKKEN: New Album Title Revealed

According to an online posting by the moderator of the official DOKKEN forum, the band has set "Broken Bones" as the title of its new album. DOKKEN began tracking the effort this past Monday for a late spring/early summer release via Frontiers Records. The cooperation between Frontiers and DOKKEN st...

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ICED EARTH Mainman Interviewed On Brazil's 'Wikimetal' (Audio)

Brazil's Wikimetal podcast recently conducted an interview with ICED EARTH guitarist/mainman Jon Schaffer. You can now stream the podcast using the audio player below. (Note: The Schaffer interview begins around the 12-minute mark.) Wikimetal podcast (audio): ...

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Reactivated NASUM To Tour North America In May

Legendary Swedish grinders NASUM will play several North American shows in May as part of their "farewell" tour. So far the following dates have been leaked (not yet confirmed by the band): May 19 - Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class (w/ BRUTAL TRUTH, DROPDEAD) May 21 - Montreal, QC @ Sala Rossa (w/ B...

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AC/DC: 'Iron Man 2' Certified Gold In U.S.

"AC/DC: Iron Man 2" — which features 15 classic AC/DC songs selected from ten of the band's studio albums, ranging from 1976 to 2008 — was certified gold on February 14, 2012 by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association Of America) for shipments in excess of 500,000 copies. Through a unique collabora...

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JON LORD Music To Be Celebrated By Germany’s Philharmonic Orchestra

According to JonLord.org, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hagen, Germany will celebrate former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord's music at several of their concerts this year. Working from plans put in motion early last year, this spring will see the orchestra perform five of Jon's pieces; "The Cathed...

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ICED EARTH Members Talk Hockey In New Video Interview

On February 6, The Score television network — a Canadian specialty television service providing sports, news, information, highlights and live event programming, available across Canada — conducted an interview with Stu Block (vocals) and Freddie Vidales (bass, vocals) of American metallers ICED EAR...

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JOURNEY: 'Resonate' Video Released

As a special "Valentine's Day gift" to its fans, JOURNEY has released a video for the song "Resonate", taken from the band's latest album, "Eclipse" The clip was filmed in San Francisco and Los Angeles and it "captures some of [the group's] favorite live moments during the 'Eclipse' tour." JOURNEY g...

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ANIMETAL USA Interviewed At NAMM (Video)

Jose Mangin, host/producer MTV.com's web-only show "Headbangers Ball" (and program director/DJ on SiriusXM Octane and Liquid Metal),conducted an interview with ANIMETAL USA — the American counterpart to ANIMETAL, the Japanese heavy metal band which specialized in metal covers of popular Japanese an...

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CRYPTOPSY: Rehearsal Footage Of New Song Available

Video footage of Canadian extreme metallers CRYPTOPSY practicing a brand new song from their forthcoming album can be seen below. CRYPTOPSY last month tapped bassist Olivier Pinard (NEURAXIS, VENGEFUL) as the replacement for guitarist-turned-bassist Youri Raymond. Raymond left CRYPTOPSY in December,...

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LOVE.MIGHT.KILL Working On Sophomore Album

LOVE.MIGHT.KILL, the German/Italian melodic metal band led by drummer Michael Ehré (FIREWIND, ULI JON ROTH, METALIUM),is working on material for its second album, to be released in October via Massacre Records (Europe) and Hydrant Music (Japan). The follow-up to last year's "Brace For Impact" will...

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CRYPTOPSY To Reissue 'None So Vile', 'Blasphemy Made Flesh' And Early Demos On Vinyl

Canadian label War On Music Records will reissue several vinyl records from Montreal extreme metal veterans CRYPTOPSY. Two highly renowned classics of the genre, "Blasphemy Made Flesh" and "None So Vile", will be made available as separate LPs, and the cult rarity "Ungentle Exhumation" demos (under...

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CRIMSON GLORY To Release DVD Of BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Performance

Florida-based melodic metal veterans CRIMSON GLORY are working on getting their hands on professionally filmed video footage of their appearance at last year's edition of Bang Your Head!!! festival — which was held July 15-16, 2011 in Balingen, Germany — to release as a full-length concert DVD. Fan-...

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JON ANDERSON Denies He Was Asked To Rejoin YES

Original YES vocalist/songwriter Jon Anderson has shot down as "unfounded and false" Internet rumors that he was asked to rejoin the band. Anderson, who is busy with his solo career — he is currently on tour performing solo, as well as recording new music — also had this response to recent statement...