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SEBASTIAN BACH Bassist ROB DE LUCA Checks In From The Road

SPREAD EAGLE bassist Rob De Luca, who is currently touring with GUNS N' ROSES as part of SEBASTIAN BACH's solo band, has checked in with the following update: "The crowd responses have been AMAZING! The show in Quebec City was beyond my wildest dreams. The audience was deafening for the entire hour....

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MEMORIZED DREAMS To Support JORN In Norway

Norwegian progressive power metallers MEMORIZED DREAMS will support ex-MASTERPLAN/ARK frontman JORN (Jorn Lande) at Norsk Rock Kafe in Brekstad, Norway on Friday, December 8. MEMORIZED DREAMS entered Skansen Lydstudio last month to begin recording its sophomore album, "End of Innocence", for an as-y...

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ELVENKING: New Touring Guitarist Announced

Italian folk/power metal band ELVENKING has introduced a new member to their live lineup. "After the European tour we have decided to fill Jarpen's [recently departed guitarist] place at least on the live side. The guy who's helping us out at the moment is Luca, a friend of ours. Both of us will tak...

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DIONYSUS' 'Fairytales And Reality' To Receive U.S. Release Tomorrow

Spain's Locomotive Music will release DIONYSUS' "Fairytales and Reality" on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. Taking its name from the Greek God of Wine, DIONYSUS embraces the wine-women-and-song lifestyle and expresses it using the vehicle of melodic progressive metal. In 1999, a true meeting of the metal...

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RHAPSODY OF FIRE Guitarist Working On New Solo Album

RHAPSODY OF FIRE guitarist Luca Turilli has issued the following update: "I just came back from Wolfsburg where I ended the first part of the production for the second DREAMQUEST album (please check www.dreamquest.eu for more details). During that time I had also the possibility to plan the producti...

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BLAZE Frontman: Songwriting For New CD 'Is Going Much Better Than I Had Hoped'

According to Blazefans.com, BLAZE frontman Blaze Bayley (ex-IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) performed with the Hard Rock Cafe house band PURPLE HAZE in Playa de Engles, Gran Canaria on Saturday, November 4. He has checked in with the following update: "Yeah, I'm still in Gran Canaria working on the new stuf...

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BLAZE BAYLEY Performs At Germany's COVERJAM ROCK FESTIVAL: Photos Available

Former IRON MAIDEN and current BLAZE frontman Blaze Bayley participated in the CoverJam Rock Festival on October 21 in Mülheim - Ruhr, Germany (near Bochum). The event's headliner, COVERJAM BAND, performed a two-hour set consisting of rock classics spanning the last 40 years, including the MAIDEN so...

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Triumph or Agony

If you were among those disappointed by BLIND GUARDIAN's streamlining of their sound this year, your luxury liner has come in. RHAPSODY OF FIRE have, if anything, gone even further off the deep end into operatic, cinematic, utterly bombastic and gaudy symphonic metal. Choirs swell, drums thunder, st...

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IRON FIRE: Recording Update

Guitarist J.J. of Danish metallers IRON FIRE has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "It's been months since you last heard from the IRON FIRE camp. 'No concerts, no news, no nothing. What's happening?' you might ask yourself. Well, we're in the process of creating the heav...

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RHAPSODY OF FIRE: 'Triumph Or Agony' Chart Positions Revealed

RHAPSODY OF FIRE, the Italian band formerly known as RHAPSODY, has entered the national album charts in the following countries with its new album, "Triumph or Agony": France: #59 Germany: #64 Switzerland: #74 "Triumph or Agony" was released last month via Magic Circle Music. According to a press re...

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BLAZE Frontman: New Material 'Is A Big Step Forward'

Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE and current BLAZE frontman Blaze Bayley has issued the following update regarding the BLAZE band's current activities: "Hello, dear fans and friends, from me, the singer. I thought I would let you know what is going on with the band right now. "First, we are working on n...

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MEMORIZED DREAMS To Enter Studio Tomorrow

Norwegian progressive power metallers MEMORIZED DREAMS will enter Skansen Lydstudio tomorrow (Friday, October 6) to begin recording their sophomore album, "End of Innocence", for an as-yet-undetermined label. Check out the new album cover art (by JP Fournier) at this location. The band's new logo ca...

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RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Audio Interview With ALEX STAROPOLI Available

A 20-minute audio interview with RHAPSODY OF FIRE keyboardist/songwriter Alex Staropoli, conducted earlier in the month by Denmark's Revolution Music webzine (web site),has been posted online at this location (MP3, 18.1 MB). RHAPSODY OF FIRE, the Italian band formerly known as RHAPSODY, will releas...

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MEMORIZED DREAMS: New Album Artwork Revealed

Norwegian progressive power metallers MEMORIZED DREAMS will enter Skansen Lydstudio next month to record their sophomore album, "End of Innocence", for an as-yet-undetermined label. Check out the new album cover art (by JP Fournier) at this location. The band's new logo can be viewed here. MEMORIZED...

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Raw

This is not what I expected from Italy's MERENDINE ATOMICHE. Basing my expectations for "Raw" on the mostly straight-up thrash metal of 2003's "Walk Across Fire", a revamping of the band's sound to one that is more modern and accessible took me aback. Once the initial shock wore off it quickly becam...