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VICIOUS ART Putting Finishing Touches On New Album

VICIOUS ART, the Swedish death/thrash metal band featuring former DARK FUNERAL members Matias Mäkelä and Robert Lundin, along with Jörgen Sandström (THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED, GRAVE) on bass, has issued the following update: "We have been busy finishing all the details that comes with making an...

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SCORPIONS Frontman: 'We're Not Stuck In The '80s'

David Priest of OnTrackMagazine.com recently conducted an interview with SCORPIONS frontman Klaus Meine. A couple of excepts from the chat follow: OnTrackMagazine.com: Now how do you like doing a concept album versus a standard album of more unrelated songs? Klaus: Y'know, with a standard album you...

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DAVE MUSTAINE Talks About The Current Metal Scene, Drugs, Politics

Planet-Loud.com recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Planet-Loud.com: Congratulation on the new album, Dave. What did you want to achieve with it? Mustaine: I just wanted to do something that, for me, really represented where...

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'Heavy Metal In Baghdad' Director Discusses Making Of Film

Torontoist.com spoke with Suroosh Alvi, director of the new film "Heavy Metal In Baghdad", which focuses on the only heavy metal band in Iraq, ACRASSICAUDA (Latin for "Black Scorpion"),and their trials and tribulations of living in bombed out and broken Iraq. An excerpt from the cha followst: Toron...

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NIGHTMARE Members To Guest On French National Radio

Tonight's (September 11-12) episode of France's "Sous Les Etoiles Exactement" national radio program, airing from 1 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. on France Inter will feature an interview with NIGHTMARE's Yves Campion (bass) and Alex Hilbert (guitars). Three songs from the new NIGHTMARE album "Genetic Disorder"...

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SPINEFARM RECORDS To Launch In The UK This Fall

Spinefarm Records will be officially launching into the U.K. market this autumn as a way of giving added push and profile to the label's impressive — and ever-growing — roster of hard rock talent. Since starting up in Helsinki back in 1990, Spinefarm has concentrated on developing the darker, more d...

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W.A.S.P.: 'Dominator' Digipack, Vinyl To Be Released

W.A.S.P.'s latest album, "Dominator", will be released in digipack and LP format on October 1 via Demolition Records. The digipack features a special 3D cover. In other news, a 32-track W.A.S.P. compilation, "The Best of the Best", is scheduled for release in Europe on September 24 via Snapper Music...

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ACRASSICAUDA Drummer Says Being Denied Visa To Enter Canada 'Made Me Feel Like A Terrorist'

Drummer Marwan Reyad of ACRASSICAUDA — the Iraqi heavy metal band which has been denied visas to attend the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, where a documentary focusing on their story, "Heavy Metal in Baghdad" is currently being shown — has told Toronto's TheStar.com that the experience wi...

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Iraqi Heavy Metal Band ACRASSICAUDA Denied Exit Visas To Attend Film Festival

ACRASSICAUDA, the Iraqi heavy metal band which now lives in Damascus, Syria (where the men are among more than 1.2 million Iraqis seeking refuge from a war-torn nation),has been denied exit visas to attend the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, where a documentary focusing on their story, "H...

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PROFANE OMEN: New Song Posted Online

Finnish death 'n' roll band PROFANE OMEN has posted the title track of its upcoming EP, "Disconnected", on its MySpace page. Due this fall, the CD (cover artwork) was recorded at Villvox Studio under the watchful eyes of engineer Aleksanteri Kuosa and producer Ville Sorvali. "Disconnected" EP track...

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AC/DC: 'Plug Me In' DVD Box Set Track Listing Revealed

Columbia Records will release "Plug Me In" — the ultimate career-spanning DVD box set of live performances, interviews and more from AC/DC, the world's most electrifying rock and roll band — on Tuesday, October 16. The first AC/DC release since the band came to Columbia Records earlier this year, th...

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AXEL RUDI PELL Covers FREE's 'Heartbreaker': Audio Available

German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell has posted the fifth MP3 snippet from his upcoming "Diamonds Unlocked" covers album. Commented Axel: "FREE were one of the bands who influenced me when I started to play the guitar in the early Seventies. Their guitar player Paul Kossoff (R.I.P. 1976) had this very em...

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SCORPIONS: New Concert Photos Available

German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS kicked off the U.S. leg of their "Humanity" tour Tuesday night (September 4) in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. A brief review and high-quality photos are available at SooToday.com. In other neww, Ottawa, Ontario's classic rock station CHEZ 106 has posted photos of th...

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SCORPIONS: 'Humanity - Hour 1' Enters Canadian Chart At No. 47

SCORPIONS' new album, "Humanity - Hour 1", has entered the Canadian charts at position No. 47. The following is an updated list of the LP's first-week chart positions from around the world: Greece: #2 Russia: #5 Malta: #7 Argentina: #8 Germany: #9 Switzerland: #27 Finland: #29 Sweden: #36 Austria: #...

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NIGHTWISH Mainman Talks About New Singer, Upcoming Tour

Stalker magazine recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH mastermind Tuomas Holopainen. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Stalker: The new album "Dark Passion Play" — what is, from your perspective, the most important song? Tuomas: Well, it has to be the first, "The Poet And The Pendu...