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ELECTRIC WIZARD Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

British doom metallers ELECTRIC WIZARD have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AGENT STEEL DAN REED BAND DESTRUCTION ELECTRIC WIZARD FLÄSKET BRINNER GHO...

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JIMI HENDRIX's Stepsister Interviewed By CLASSIC ROCK REVISITED (Audio)

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with Jimi Hendrix's stepsister, Janie Hendrix, who controls the late guitarist's estate. You can now listen to the chat in three parts below. Jimi Hendrix fans are raving about the new multimedia set, "West Coast Seattle Boy: The J...

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TESLA Guitarist Releases Free iPhone App

TESLA guitarist Frank Hannon has released a free iPhone app featuring news, music, tour dates, photos and videos. It is available now via the Apple app store (keyword search: "Frank Hannon"). Hannon recently released a new solo album, "Gypsy Highway", which he described as "an acoustic collection of...

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KEITH CAPUTO: 'Got Monsters' Video Released

"Got Monsters", the new video from LIFE OF AGONY vocalist Keith Caputo, can be viewed below. The song comes off Caputo's latest solo album "A Fondness For Hometown Scars", which was released in Europe in April 2008 via Suburban Records. The CD was produced by Martyn Lenoble (JANE'S ADDICTION, DAVE G...

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KING DIAMOND Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery

Livia Zita (pictured below),the 26-year-old wife of 54-year-old Danish heavy metal singer King Diamond (real name: Kim Bendix Petersen; MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND),has issued the following update: "Let me catch you all up on the past couple of weeks' happenings, because it affects many things. "O...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Discuss New Album With SoundShock.com (Video)

Faye Coulman of SoundShock.com conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho and keyboardist Janne Wirman of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM on December 10, 2010 at Metropolis Studios in London, England. You can now watch the chat below. CHILDREN OF BODOM will release its new album,...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Unveiled

CHILDREN OF BODOM, the hard partying Finnish heavy metal band that features frontman and modern-day guitar hero Alexi Laiho, will release its new album, "Relentless Reckless Forever", on March 8, 2011 via Universal Music. Recorded in Finland's Petrax Studios with famed rock producer Matt Hyde (SLAYE...

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SEPULTURA, ICED EARTH, VOLBEAT, Others Confirmed For Belgium's GRASPOP METAL MEETING

SEPULTURA, ICED EARTH and VOLBEAT are among the newly confirmed bands for next year's edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 24-26, 2011 in Dessel, Belgum. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Friday, June 24: SCORPIONS VOLBEAT ICED EARTH EPICA PARKWAY DRIVE THE DAMNE...

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GRAND MAGUS: New Video Interview

Roadrunner Records recently conducted an interview with vocalist Janne "J.B." Christofferson of Swedish heavy rockers GRAND MAGUS during the band's U.K. tour as the support act for ARCH ENEMY. You can now watch the chat below. GRAND MAGUS's new album, "Hammer Of The North", will be released digitall...

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Resurrected TRUST To Perform Songs From First Three Albums At France's HELLFEST

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST and resurrected '80s French hard rockers TRUST have been confirmed for next year's edition of Hellfest, set to take place June 17-19, 2010 in Clisson, France. TRUST is the only French hard rock band to have attained worldwide success in the '80s with its hit...

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Ritual Abuse

Doom, sludge, altered states, and good ole fashioned evil join together as one on COUGH's "Ritual Abuse". No matter you're answer to the question, "to be stoned or not to be," the Richmond, Virginia trio's five-track monolith is an upper quartile release that rides the line between sludge abrasivene...

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From the Devil's Tomb

This is a big deal. I mean the follow up to 2009's superb "Drakonian Paradigm", one of the best black metal releases of that year. It was the album on which vocalist/guitarist/leader Vetis Monarch established WEAPON as a force to be reckoned with on the planetary scene, owing to his mystical and uni...

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High as the Sun

Good stoner rock/doom albums often have a way of slowly but surely overtaking the listener until you — at the risk of sounding terribly cheesy and cliché — become one with the album. Long trips down the existential highway in and of themselves accomplish nothing, except fatigue, earache, and dementi...

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KING'S X Announces NAMM Performance And Autograph Session

The legendary KING'S X, with Amgeg endorsee Doug Pinnick, have announced a special performance at the Mackie and Ampeg demo room location at the 2011 winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Pinnick and company will perform and hold a signing alongside such legends as Cliff Williams (AC/DC),Geezer...

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IN SOLITUDE Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of the Uppsala, Sweden-based metal act IN SOLITUDE. The band entered Nicke Andersson's (THE HELLACOPTERS, ENTOMBED, IMPERIAL STATE ELECTRIC) brand new studio Gutterview Recorders in Stockholm, Sweden with producer Fred Estby (DISMEMBER) on November 15 to...