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EQUAL VECTOR Signs With BURNING STAR RECORDS

Athens, Greece-based progressive metallers EQUAL VECTOR have inked a deal with Burning Star Records. According to a label newsletter, "EQUAL VECTOR [features] one of the most charismatic singers in Greece, Leonidas Hatzimihalis. The band took shape a few years ago and their debut demo attempt was ha...

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IRON MAIDEN To Headline Metal Day At ROCK IN RIO In Madrid And Lisbon

According to a posting on the IRON MAIDEN fan site MaidenFans.com, MAIDEN will headline the "metal day" at the Rock In Rio festival in Madrid and Lisbon as part of its recently announced "Somewhere Back in Time Tour 2008". Apparently those are the only shows the band will play in Spain and Portugal....

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IRON MAIDEN Announce Details For 'Somewhere Back In Time World Tour'

IRON MAIDEN have announced their most ambitious and extraordinary touring plans ever — and are very pleased to announce that this will include Australia for the first time in 15 years! The Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008 will be in three sections, starting in February and March 2008 with the...

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S.S.S.: New Video Interview Available

A video interview with Liverpool, England's crossover thrash monsters S.S.S. (SHORT SHARP SHOCK) conducted on August 7, 2007 can be viewed below. The close of 2006 saw the release of S.S.S.'s "Short Sharp Shock" — the debut 16-track CD and 12" wax, limited to 1,000 copies on Dead & Gone. The CD...

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ENTOMBED Frontman: 'People Hide Their Evil Deeds Behind The Good Things'

Chad Bowar of HeavyMetal.About.com recently conducted an interview with ENTOMBED vocalist L.G. Petrov. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: HeavyMetal.About.com: What led to the departure of guitarist Uffe Cederlund? Petrov: I don't know, really. He didn't enjoy playing the music. It turned ou...

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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Experience New Album One Song At A Time

Raleigh, North Carolina-based progressive metalcore quintet BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME will bring a full-on audio and visual assault to everyone's computer screen starting today (Tuesday, September 4) in anticipation of their new album, "Colors" (in stores September 18). Clocking in at a beefy 64 min...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION Looking Forward To 'Busy Fall'

Dutch symphonic, female-fronted metal band WITHIN TEMPTATION has issued the following update: "Here are some updates on various places where we'll be playing this fall. We found out that we will be doing 121 shows and festivals in 2007, which truly is a band record. And still we haven't gotten to ev...

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Former IRON MAIDEN Keyboardist's Charity Tour Is A 'Fantastic Success'

According to the Bucks Free Press, former IRON MAIDEN keyboardist Tony Moore — who played in an early incarnation of the British heavy metal band in 1977 — has been flying solo around the UK doing a series of acoustic gigs at airfields to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. During the ...

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ARCH ENEMY Preparing For Two Video Shoots, American Tour

ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has issued the following update: "We are back home from our little festival and promo trip in the UK, France and Germany and now preparing for two video shoots and our departure to America this week. It's all a bit frightening, as we will be away from home for alm...

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DEEP PURPLE Guitarist Travelling In Style

DEEP PURPLE guitarist Steve Morse has issued the following update: "It's getting close to the end of this leg, our U.S. tour. It's been quite a variety of gigs from amphitheaters to smaller venues. It always feels so comfortable to tour in the U.S. for me, anyway. I'm happy to know in advance that I...

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SLAVIOR Performs First Sold-Out Club Gig In Japan

SLAVIOR — the band featuring ex-FATES WARNING/WARLORD drummer Mark Zonder, current MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP guitarist Wayne Findlay, RING OF FIRE/STEVE VAI bassist Philip Bynoe and TRIBE OF GYPSIES vocalist Greg Analla — played the first of two club shows to a sold-out Dress, Akiba in Tokyo last night...

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Eight People Injured At DEF LEPPARD's Raleigh Concert Venue

Severe thunderstorms that produced high winds and flying debris caused eight people to be injured and significant damage inflicted to the Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh, NC, where DEF LEPPARD was scheduled to perform Tuesday night (August 21). Venue management has issued the following statemen...

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Former IRON MAIDEN Keyboardist Schedules Acoustic Tour

According to the Bucks Free Press, former IRON MAIDEN keyboardist Tony Moore — who played in the earliest incarnation of the British heavy metal band in 1977 — will launch his solo career in front of the U.K.'s music press with a special performance tomorrow at Booker's Wycombe Air Centre. Tony, who...

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CRADLE TO GRAVE Enlists DEVIN TOWNSEND To Mix New Album

CRADLE TO GRAVE, the band featuring ex-AGGRESSION guitarist Denis "Sasquatch" Barthe, has enlisted Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) to mix and master the group's new album, "Texas Medicine", due later in the year via Year of the Sun Records. "We got introduced to...

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ICARUS WITCH's Gear Ripped Off

ICARUS WITCH's touring van was broken into and robbed early Sunday morning (August 12) after the band's performance in Chicago on Saturday night, August 11. The theft happened between 3 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. around the 2200 block of West Potomac in Chicago. The following items were stolen: * Black '74...