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DEMON Confirmed For Germany's KEEP IT TRUE XIII Festival

British hard rock legends DEMON will play a special 30th-anniversary set at the Keep It True XIII festival, set to take place in April 2010 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: WHIPLASH DEMON HADES TYGERS OF PAN TANG SATAN'S HOST (with H...

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CELESTY: New Album Title Announced

Finnish power metal band CELESTY has issued the following update: "CELESTY will release their fourth full-length album on March 11, 2009 through the Finnish Spinefarm Records. The album bears the name 'Vendetta', and Samu Oittinen began the mixing of the album in the beginning of December. It is a d...

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SCOTT WEILAND Interviewed On KROQ; Video Available

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland was interviewed on the Los Angeles radio station KROQ prior to his December 14, 2008 performance at the annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre in L.A. Watch the chat below. Weiland's second solo album, "Happy In Ga...

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AFTER ALL: New Album Title, Artwork Unveiled

Belgian metallers AFTER ALL have set "Cult Of Sin" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in early March 2009 via Dockyard 1 in Europe (Locomotive Records in the U.S.). Commented the band: "We can already reveal Gabriel Bueno's amazing artwork [see below] for the new album. Gabriel has bee...

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SACRED OATH To Release New Studio Album

Danbury, Connecticut's SACRED OATH will release its new, self-titled album in the late spring. The CD was produced by lead singer/guitarist Rob Thorne and features the lineup that appeared on the band's critically acclaimed live album "'Till Death Do Us Part" (2008, Angel Thorne Music). "Sacred Oath...

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AC/DC Frontman Signs Book Deal To Release Collection Of Thoughts And Anecdotes

Gerry Galipault of HeraldTribune.com recently conducted an interview with AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. On "Black Ice", AC/DC's first album in eight years, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in its debut week and has since topped 1.6 million in the United Sta...

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TIMO TOLKKI's REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE Signs With SCARLET RECORDS

REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE, the new band led by former STRATOVARIUS mastermind Timo Tolkki, has inked a worldwide deal with Scarlet Records. Tolkki and his bandmates have spent the last few weeks putting the finishing touches to their new album entitled "Age Of Aquarius". Recorded over three months in F...

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Ask YNGWIE MALMSTEEN A Question

The "Maximum Threshold" radio show will record an interview with legendary guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen this Thursday, December 18 at 6:30 p.m. EST and is inviting the public to participate in the questions segment. If you would like to speak with Yngwie, you can do so by logging in to the "Maximum Th...

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Former THE GATHERING Singer Hits The Road With MOONSPELL; Video Available

Former THE GATHERING singer Anneke van Giersbergen joined Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL to perform the song "Scorpion Flower" at three consecutive shows on the band's tour with CRADLE OF FILTH: December 1 in London, December 2 in Paris and December 3 in Tilburg. Fan-filmed video footage of all thre...

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While You Were Sleeping…

Just when I'm feeling like I can't take any more of this propagating breed of new school death/grind/core metal youngsters THE PLASMARIFLE's "While You Were Sleeping…" comes along and leaves a mighty big impression on me. Though an overused term like deathcore might apply in this case, it seems more...

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Tweak'd Out, Strung Up...

Hey, Meteor City's back! Good to see the nameplate under new management, still flying the flag for the unrepentantly shaggy, heavy-lidded and riff-tastic. EIGHTEEN WHEELS BURNING is a hard-livin', hard-touring stoner rock band risen from the long-cold ashes of THE WANT, who did a record on Southern...

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Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

While parts of "Nymphetamine" saw a return to the blaspheme and bedlam that prevailed during the early days of CRADLE OF FILTH; its predecessor, "Thornography" left more to be desired than any album in their discography. Commercially, the 2006 release might have been a success, but that element of b...

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PRAYING MANTIS: New Album Update

British melodic hard rock veterans PRAYING MANTIS have commenced the recording sessions for their new album, "Threshold of a Dream", for a tentative early 2009 release via Frontiers Records. The CD is being tracked in Atlanta, Georgia with producer/engineer Andy Reilly and it will "once again presen...

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THROWDOWN Signs With KOCH RECORDS

Orange County, California's hardcore/metal act THROWDOWN has inked deal with Koch Records. The band will begin recording "Deathless", its first album under this new deal, in early 2009. "Signing with Koch Records is a breath of fresh air for us," said THROWDOWN frontman Dave Peters. "Koch looks at t...

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THROWDOWN Rumored To Have Split With Drummer

Orange County, California's hardcore/metal act THROWDOWN is rumored to have parted ways with drummer Ben Dussault. The band has yet to make an official announcement on the matter. HardTimes.ca recently conducted an interview with THROWDOWN vocalist Dave Peters. Watch the nine-minute chat below. THRO...