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SENTINEL BEAST Recording New Album

Reunited '80s Sacramento, California thrash band SENTINEL BEAST has issued the following update: "SENTINEL BEAST is currently in the studio recording our second album. We hope to have this album finished by April, showcasing our European tour that month." Capital Chaos has posted video footage of SE...

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LORD BELIAL To Enter Studio In March

Swedish black/death metallers LORD BELIAL will enter Deadline Studios on March 3 with producer Valle Adzic to begin recording their new album, entitled "The Black Curse". The CD is tentatively expected this summer via Regain Records. LORD BELIAL has been confirmed for this year's installment of the...

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AVIAN Confirmed For Florida's NIGHTMARE METAL FEST

AVIAN, the melodic metal band featuring singer Lance King and guitarist Yan Leviathan, has been confirmed for the Nightmare Metal Fest, a brand new festival set to take place March 21-22 at Bourbon Street in New Port Richey, Florida. Also scheduled to appear are WARMACHINE, CAGE, DISASTERPEACE (the...

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DIAMOND HEAD Guitarist: 'I Try Not To Be Influenced By Current Bands'

Get Ready To Roll! recently conducted an interview with DIAMOND HEAD guitarist Brian Tatler. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Get Ready To Roll!: 2007 turned out to be a phenomenal year for DIAMOND HEAD, and especially a very exciting time for the fans as the tours with TESLA and THIN ...

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THE COMPANY BAND To Perform During MTV's 'Jackass' Takeover

THE COMPANY BAND, which features in its ranks CLUTCH frontman Neil Fallon, FIREBALL MINISTRY's James Rota, CKY drummer Jess Margera, guitarist Dave Bone, and PUNY HUMAN bassist Jason Diamond, will make its live debut during the "Jackass" 24-hour MTV takeover on February 9 in Times Square, New York C...

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VICIOUS RUMORS Ready To 'Strike Back' With New Lineup, New Album

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have issued the following update: "2008 brings VICIOUS RUMORS back in the studio for a new CD. Pre-production has been in full swing. 12 new songs will be recorded. The production team of Geoff Thorpe and Juan Urteaga at Trident studios in Pach...

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DOWN: European Tour Dates Announced

DOWN will embark on European tour in March/April. The group's schedule is now shaping up as follows: Jan. 18 - Mobile, AL - Soul Kitchen Jan. 19 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theatre Jan. 20 - Lafayette, LA - Grant St. Dance Hall Jan. 22 - Little Rock, AR - The Village Jan. 23 - ...

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SKINLAB Completes Work On Live Album

Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of the veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update: "[The SKINLAB live album] 'Skinnedalive!' [which was recorded on June 3, 2007 at The Metro in Oakland, California] is complete and sounds bad-ass!! We've had this on the backburne...

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STEEL ATTACK: New Album Title Announced

Swedish metallers STEEL ATTACK have set "Carpe DiEnd" (cover artwork) as the title of their new album, due on February 22, 2008 via Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque's Sonic Train studio and it was mixed at Solnasound by Mike Wead (MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIA...

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X-THIRTIEN, ORDER OF NINE, SACRED DAWN Confirmed For Florida's NIGHTMARE METAL FEST

X-THIRTIEN, ORDER OF NINE, SACRED DAWN, POWND and SIX MINUTE CENTURY have been confirmed for the Nightmare Metal Fest, a brand new festival set to take place March 21-22 at Bourbon Street in New Port Richey, Florida. Also scheduled to appear are WARMACHINE, CAGE, DISASTERPEACE (the new band featurin...

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MACHINE HEAD: Another Video Interview With ROBB FLYNN Posted Online

HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn prior to the band's September 29, 2007 show in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Watch the eight-minute clip below. MACHINE HEAD garnered the first Grammy nomination of its career for "Aesthetics of Hate", a monstrous track from the c...

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Former AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE Guitarist Launches SOUTH OF DIVINE

SOUTH OF DIVINE, the new band featuring ex-AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE guitarist Nick Quijano, former DIRT vocalist Travis Powers, Sean O'Boyle on drums and Cavedogg on bass, kicked 2008 off with a call to the recording studio. All tracking for the upcoming EP was done at Diamond Recording Studios, owned b...

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Runnin' Wild

Color me blown away. "Runnin' Wild" from Australia's AIRBOURNE is the best pure hard rock album I've heard in years. Brothers Joel (vocals/lead guitar) and Ryan O'Keeffe (drums),along with David Roads (guitar) and Justin Street (bass),have written an unequivocally classic rock album with fist-pump...

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SOTHIS Mixing New Album

Los Angeles-based black metallers SOTHIS have just arrived at Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden and are working with Andy La Rocque of KING DIAMOND on the final mix of SOTHIS' upcoming release, "De Oppresso Liber". The album, which was engineered and produced by Dross, will have nine new origin...

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KALIBAS, JENA BERLIN, STRENGTH FOR A REASON To Perform At Syracuse's 315 IN RUINS FESTIVAL

KALIBAS, JENA BERLIN, FOR THE LOVE OF... and STRENGTH FOR A REASON are among the confirmed bands for the 315 In Ruins Festival, set to take place April 19-20 at Klub Polski in Syracuse, New York. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (not in order of appearance): Saturday, April 19: KALIBAS...