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CANDLEMASS Continue Work On New Album

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have posted the following message on their official web site: "Hello doomlovers!! Not everything is clouded in the C-MASS camp. The band is currently recording the new album with full force, again in Stockholm's Polar Studios — the new place. Ten killer doom me...

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DOWN: Brand New Photos Posted Online

Several brand-new photos of DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJ...

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CHAOS DIVINE Complete Work On Debut EP

Australian metallers CHAOS DIVINE have completed work on their debut EP, "Ratio", for a June 2006 release. According to the band's web site, the CD "features more than half an hour of music that encases the first year of the band's travellings and featured on the disc is our original line-up: pre-Ja...

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ORPHANED LAND: 'El Norra Alila' Reissue To Include Bonus Audio, Video Material

Holy Records has set a May 29 release date for the reissue of ORPHANED LAND's second album, "El Norra Alila". The remastered CD will include one bonus audio track and two bonus video CD-ROM live songs in a deluxe digipack. As previously reported, ORPHANED LAND have announced plans to play a special...

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ANCIENT RITES Confirmed For Belgium's GRASPOP METAL MEETING

Belgian metallers ANCIENT RITES have been confirmed for the Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 23-25 in Dessel, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Friday, June 23: WHITESNAKE LACUNA COIL SATYRICON SEVENDUST MOONSPELL MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP EVERGREY EDGUY TRIVIUM Y&amp...

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SATYRICON Pull Out Of Slovenia's METALCAMP; KREATOR, JON OLIVA'S PAIN Step In

Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have cancelled their previously announced appearance at the Metalcamp 2006 festival, set to take place July 21-23 in Tolmin, Slovenia. Commented the festival organizers: "Asking [the band's tour agency] for the reasons for the cancellation of the performance, we o...

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OPETH: 'Ghost Reveries' Deluxe Version Detailed

More information has been released about the upcoming special-edition deluxe version of OPETH's latest album, "Ghost Reveries", due on July 25 via Roadrunner Records. Bonus material on the set will include a 40-minute documentary about the making of the record complete with the band's own private to...

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OPETH: Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ Is Officially Out

After several months away from his drumming duties in OPETH, Martin Lopez has permanently decided to leave the group. After being plagued by illness and anxiety attacks Lopez decided he wanted to concentrate fully on his own project, currently unnamed. His replacement will be Martin "Axe" Axenrot, w...

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CALLENISH CIRCLE Confirmed For Belgium's GRASPOP METAL MEETING

Dutch melodic death metallers CALLENISH CIRCLE have been confirmed for the Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 23-25 in Dessel, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Friday, June 23: WHITESNAKE LACUNA COIL SATYRICON SEVENDUST MOONSPELL MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP EVERGREY EDGU...

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BURST To Guest On 'Headbanger's Ball'

Members of BURST will guest on tomorrows airing of MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball". Bassist Jesper Liverod and vocalist Linus Jagerskog will make an in-studio appearance on the program, Saturday, May 13. Also to be aired on this week’s program is the band’s video for "Where the Wave Broke", the lead-off...

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OPETH: Catalog To Be Reissued

According to a posting on OPETH's official web site, the band's Music For Nations catalog is being re-released by Sony/BMG on July 3. The titles that are being reissued are as follows: "Blackwater Park" (2001) "Deliverance" (2002) "Damnation" (2003) "Lamentations" DVD (2004) It is not believed that...

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ORPHANED LAND To Perform Entire 'El Norra Alila' CD At Tel-Aviv Concert

Israeli metal band ORPHANED LAND have announced plans to play a special 10-year anniversary show for their second album, "El Norra Alila". The concert, which will take place this summer in Tel-Aviv, will see the band perform the entire "El Norra Alila" CD, along with selections from the band's other...

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NINE, EPICA, MENDEED, METSATÖLL Confirmed For Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Festival

NINE, EPICA, MENDEED and METSATÖLL have been confirmed for the ninth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to take place June 30 – July 2 at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland. A total of 32 bands will perform on three stages over the course of three days. In addition, a couple of dozen bands...

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OPETH: Videocast Conjuration

"Metal Injection" have posted their most epic videocast episode yet, as it features a lenghty interview with OPETH vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt. Some of the topics discussed in the interview include the OPETH songwriting process, what Mikael does in his downtime, his onstage banter, other current bands...

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MISERY SPEAKS To Release Debut Album In June

German death metallers MISERY SPEAKS will release their self-titled debut album on June 23 via Alveran Records. The CD was recorded and produced by Ralf Müller, Alexander Dietz and Patrick W. Engel at Rape Of Harmonies Studio (HEAVEN SHALL BURN, FALL OF SERENITY, MAROON, NARZISS) and was mixed by Sw...