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ICED EARTH Announces Select Dates In North America

ICED EARTH has confirmed four North American tour dates for the fall. Meant as an "escape from the studio," these exclusive shows will also get fans the chance to see ICED EARTH guitarist/mainman Jon Schaffer's new project SONS OF LIBERTY on stage for their first-ever live performances. Sep. 10 - Wa...

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JON OLIVA: New Audio Interview Available

Vicky Bradley (a.k.a. Vix the Angel Of Metal) recently conducted an interview with Jon Oliva (mastermind of SAVATAGE and JON OLIVA'S PAIN, co-creator/songwriter of the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA). The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below.

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AC/DC: 'Highway To Hell' Video For 'Iron Man 2' Available

The video premiere of "Highway To Hell" from the AC/DC "Iron Man 2" album can be viewed below. Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC's music will be featured in Marvel Studios' "Iron Man 2", the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster film. In addition, Columbia Re...

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EDGUY Frontman Discusses New AVANTASIA Album; Audio Available

Italian web site LineaRock recently conducted an interview with EDGUY/AVANTASIA frontman Tobias Sammet. The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. AVANTASIA released its new epic masterpiece on April 3 as regular CDs ("The Wicked Symphony" and "Angel Of Babylon"),two sepa...

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JOB FOR A COWBOY Interviewed In Helsinki

Finland's HardcoreSounds.Net conducted an video interview with vocalist Johnny Davy and drummer Jon Rice of Arizona extreme metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY before the band's March 8, 2010 performance in Helsinki with LAMB OF GOD. You can watch the chat below. JOB FOR A COWBOY will embark on a spring Nort...

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SHADOW GALLERY, JON OLIVA'S PAIN Confirmed For PROGPOWER EUROPE Festival

SHADOW GALLERY will headline the ProgPower Europe 2010 festival on Saturday, October 2 at JC Sjiwa in Baarlo, The Netherlands. SHADOW GALLERY, known purely as a studio band until this point, has released six albums while the members juggled other music-related jobs and careers with their recordings....

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PETER STEELE Of TYPE O NEGATIVE: A Remembrance

Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com has posted a personal essay about the passing of TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele. An excerpt follows below. "I can't pretend I really knew TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele, who died Wednesday, reportedly of heart failure, although I'd met and interviewed him seve...

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AVANTASIA: More 'Wicked' / 'Angel' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed

EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet's AVANTASIA project released its new epic masterpiece on April 3 as regular CDs ("The Wicked Symphony" and "Angel Of Babylon"),two separate double picture vinyls, and as a beautiful collector's edition with an AVANTASIA picture book. The deluxe box set features two CDs...

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EXODUS Announces Two Album-Release Shows With HEATHEN

San Francisco Bay Area thrasher EXODUS will e play two album-release shows with HEATHEN in Los Angeles and San Francisco before they fly out to Europe to tour the festival circuit. The dates are are as follows: June 11 - Los Angeles, CA - Key Club (w/ HEATHEN, BONDED BY BLOOD) June 12 - San ...

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EXODUS Frontman To Answer Fan-Submitted Questions

Fans worldwide are invited to tune in this coming Monday, April 19 for the live EXODUS webstream with the band's frontman, Rob Dukes, at this location. You can post your questions for Dukes by clicking here. Nuclear Blast USA's webshop is now taking pre-orders for the exclusive North American mail-o...

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CLUTCH: More 'Live At The 9:30' DVD Details Revealed

2010 will prove to be the busiest calender year in the career of veteran rock band CLUTCH. Building on the Top 30 Billboard chart success of 2009's "Strange Cousins From the West" (Weathermaker Music),the Maryland-based quartet will internationally issue a brand new epic DVD set called "Live at the...

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OBITUARY Guitarist To Interview GUS G. On 'The Santollicas'

FIREWIND/OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Gus G. will be interviewed on today's (Wednesday, April 14) edition of "The Santollicas", the new Bogota, Colombia-based radio show hosted by guitarist Ralph Santolla (OBITUARY, DEICIDE, DEATH, ICED EARTH) and his wife, Svetlana. Santolla says, "Today's show will foc...

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EXODUS Guitarist GARY HOLT: 'We Don't Beat Around The Bush'

Fresh off the "thrash metal wet dream" tour with MEGADETH and TESTAMENT, EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt spoke to Nuclear Blast Records about the band's new album, "Exhibit B: The Human Condition", which is slated for release in Europe on May 7 and in North America on May 18. Q: Gary, you're so prolific....

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AVANTASIA Lands On German Chart

EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet's AVANTASIA project released its new epic masterpiece on April 3 as regular CDs ("The Wicked Symphony" and "Angel Of Babylon"),two separate double picture vinyls, and as a beautiful collector's edition with an AVANTASIA picture book. The deluxe box set features two CDs...

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ICED EARTH: First 'Box Of The Wicked' Photo Released

ICED EARTH's "Box Of The Wicked" will be released in Europe on April 26 (three days earlier in Germany) and May 18 in the U.S. via SPV/Steamhammer Records. The set is limited to 10,000 copies worldwide. While ICED EARTH's 1998 album "Something Wicked This Way Comes" provided a general overview of th...