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NWOBHM Bands Featured In 'No Sleep Till Saltburn' Book

"No Sleep Till Saltburn", an affectionately humourous look at the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) scene of the mid-1980s, was released this past Halloween and can now be purchased via Lulu.com. It provides an insight and history into the many active bands in and around the North East of Eng...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE, SONATA ARCTICA Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

CANNIBAL CORPSE, SONATA ARCTICA, DEMONICAL, SUICIDAL ANGELS, OMEGA LITHIUM, ACELDAMA, LUJURIA and ENOCHIAN THEORY have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 5-11, 2010 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ABSTINENZ...

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MEGADETH's CHRIS BRODERICK: 'I Try To Be Confident With My Playing'

Sonic Excess conducted an interview with MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick on Friday, November 6. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Sonic Excess: MEGADETH's U.S. tour kicks off on November 14th. How many new songs from "Endgame" will be added to the setlist, and what has been the crowd's r...

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SIX FEET UNDER Covers SLAYER, METALLICA, TWISTED SISTER On 'Graveyard Classics 3'

Tampa, Florida's kings of groove-laden death metal SIX FEET UNDER are back with the third installment of the band's cover series, "Graveyard Classics 3", due out via Metal Blade Records on January 19, 2010. "Graveyard Classics 3" was recorded at D.O.I. Digital Audio in Tampa, Florida, was mixed at A...

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ARCH ENEMY Guitarist's ARMAGEDDON: Albums To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks

The second ("Embrace The Mystery") and third ("Three") albums from ARMAGEDDON — the Swedish melodic metal project of ARCH ENEMY guitarist Chris Amott — will get a proper and domestic release outside of Japan, where they originally came out back in the years 2000 and 2002, respectively. "Embrace The...

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AC/DC Fans Tell Band: Change The Setlist!

A group of AC/DC fans has written an "open letter" to the band via the web site www.acdcfans.net pleading for the group to change the show setlist. The "Black Ice" tour has featured nearly the same songs in the same exact order (with a couple of small adjustments) since the start of the ...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Working On Its 'Most Personal And Epic' Album

Guitarist Zacky Vengeance of AVENGED SEVENFOLD has issued the following update: "It has been awhile since we have shed light on our current doings. Well, here is a long-awaited update into the world of A7X. "We came off of the road amidst one of the most turbulent times in history. Everything going...

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A Taste of Extreme Divinity

Gather 'round, ye children and punters with short memories, and recall a time when HYPOCRISY was the flagship band of their label, and Peter Tägtgren wasn't the go-to producer for Europe's most extreme bands, but just a guy who liked aliens and ridiculously catchy (but brutal) death metal tunes. Go...

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SPIRALARMS To Play Three California Shows This Month

SPIRALARMS, the San Francisco Bay Area-based band featuring Craig Locicero (FORBIDDEN, ex-MANMADEGOD) on guitar, Tim Narducci (ex-SYSTEMATIC) on vocals, Chris "Cornbread" Lombardo on bass, and Brad Barth on keyboards, has scheduled the following dates: Nov. 06 - Modesto Virtual - Modesto, California...

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The Great Cessation

Okay, first there was YOB, with songs longer than God's beard hair, creepy otherworldly vocals beamed in from some other planet, and riffing so slow and heavy it ground lesser music into sediment like a sonic glacier. Then the rhythm section left, and Mike Scheidt, being one of the most gracious dud...

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NIGHTWISH Mainman Says Next Album Will Be 'A Bit Brighter' Than 'Dark Passion Play'

U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. A few excerpts from the chat follows below. Terrorizer: You've done it. The [last] show [of the "Dark Passion Play" tour] is over. You're officially on "holiday." How do you feel? Tuomas:...

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ZEPPELIN, SABBATH, ZZ TOP, MAIDEN, AEROSMITH Members At CLASSIC ROCK Awards; Photos Available

LED ZEPPELIN, BLACK SABBATH, ZZ TOP, IRON MAIDEN and AEROSMITH members are among the musicians who are attending tonight's (Monda, November 2) Classic Rock Roll Of Honour awards staged by Classic Rock magazine at the Park Lane Hotel in London, England. Check out photos from: Classic Rock Wire Image...

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CANCER BATS: Performance Footage Of New Song Available

Video footage of Toronto, Canada's hardcore/metal band CANCER BATS performing a new song called "Darkness" on October 25, 2009 at Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland can be viewed below. CANCER BATS has set "Bears, Mayors, Scraps And Bones" as the title of its new album, tentatively due in early 2010...

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HALLOWS EVE Parts Ways With Guitarist, Announces Replacement

Guitarist Chris Abbamonte has left reunited Atlanta-based thrashers HALLOWS EVE "for personal reasons." His replacement is longtime Atlanta musician Evan Bartelson (THE DESPISED, LAS TREGAS NOSFERATU, BLACK DANIELS) who "brings not only over 25 years in the Atlanta music scene but, more importantly,...

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AMORPHIS: London Footage Available

SoundShock.net has uploaded video footage of AMORPHIS' October 10, 2009 concert at the Camden Underworld in London, England. Watch the clips below. "Skyforger", the new album from AMORPHIS, sold around 1,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Th...