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DIMMU BORGIR: New Full 'Story/Concept' Album Due Late 2006

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have issued the following update on their current and upcoming activities: "Finally there's an official update on this site to let you guys in on what the Hell is happening at the moment and whatever else that we might be conspiring behind closed door...

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Drummer BÅRD G. EITHUN Completes SCUM Debut, Joins BLOOD TSUNAMI

Drummer Bård G. Eithun (a.k.a. Faust; SCUM, ABORYM, ex-EMPEROR) has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "SCUM just mastered the debut album, 'Gospels for the Sick', and while Casey Chaos [AMEN/SCUM frontman] was still in Norway we also recorded a video for the album. The recordings were d...

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RUSSELL ALLEN/JORN LANDE: Album Artwork, New Audio Sample Posted Online

Frontiers Records has revealed the original art painted by the legendary designer Rodney Matthews (ASIA, MAGNUM, DIAMOND HEAD, PRAYING MANTIS) for the forthcoming highly anticipated studio project featuring SYMPHONY X's Russell Allen and MASTERPLAN's Jorn Lande. Check it out at this location. With s...

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Replicas Of Burnt Norwegian Churches On Display At New York Museum

Elisabeth Kley of the New York Press has issued the following report: Like a room-size Parthenon floating on a midnight pond, Banks Violette's untitled salt replica of a ruined church skeleton is poised atop a shiny black epoxy stage that almost fills the Whitney Museum's small lobby gallery. In a w...

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KEEP OF KALESSIN Added To IMMORTAL Tribute Album

Norwegian black metallers KEEP OF KALESSIN, featuring Obsidian C. (a.k.a. Arnt Grønbech, also a touring guitarist for SATYRICON) on guitars/bass/synth, have reportedly been confirmed for the upcoming IMMORTAL tribute album, "Epimythion - Tribute to Immortal", tentatively due this fall via Greece's T...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: 'Unleash The Fury' To Receive U.S. Release In July

Spitfire Records has set a July 26 North American release date for the new YNGWIE MALMSTEEN album, "Unleash the Fury". The CD, which was released in Japan in February, features the following recording lineup: Yngwie Malmsteen (all guitars),Doogie White (vocals),Patrik Johansson (drums) and Joakim...

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ABSU To Release Two-CD/LP Anthology Of Rarities

Osmose Productions has announced the release of ABSU's "Mythological Occult Metal: 1991-2001", a double CD and LP anthology, due out in September 2005. The collection of songs, compiled by Equitant and re-mastered by Proscriptor, will feature tracks recorded by the band never featured on any of ABSU...

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TOMMY LEE: Copies Of New Single Stolen, Auctioned On EBAY

One hundred copies of "Tryin' to be Me", the first single off MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee's upcoming solo release, "Tommyland: The Ride", were reportedly stolen on Friday (May 20) and were being sold on eBay until Monday (May 23),when authorities had the items removed from the Internet auction si...

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DEKAPITATOR To Headline California's THUNDER IN THE NORTH 2 Festival

DEKAPITATOR have been confirmed as the headliners of this year's "Thunder in the North 2", an annual mini-fest put on by Northern California Metal Underground. The event will be held on Saturday, August 16 at Imusicast in Oakland, CA. Also on the bill will be Las Vegas' own AVENGER OF BLOOD and POST...

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RUSSELL ALLEN/JORN LANDE Album Details Revealed

Frontiers Records has announced the details surrounding "The Battle", the new album featuring SYMPHONY X's Russell Allen with MASTERPLAN's Jorn Lande. With songs written by LAST TRIBE and STARBREAKER guitar sensation Magnus Karlsson and with the production of the Scandinavian studio wizard Anders "T...

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TOMMY LEE: New Solo Single Posted Online

MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee's brand-new solo single, "Tryin' to be Me", has been posted online at TommyLee.tv: Windows Media, Real Media. "Tryin' to be Me" comes off Tommy's third solo album, "Tommyland: The Ride", due on August 2. The CD will be released in conjunction with his new NBC reality .....

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3-FACED: New Recording Posted Online

3-FACED, the new Southern California-based band featuring guitarist/vocalist Patrick Kennison (formerly of UNION UNDERGROUND) and bassist Marty O'Brien (TOMMY LEE, DISTURBED, STATIC-X),have completed work on a new three-song recording with producer Frank Gryner. "I've worked with Frank before, as h...

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NOVEMBERS DOOM Apologize For Illinois Concert Cancellation

Chicago doomsters NOVEMBERS DOOM have posted the following message on their official web site: "We would like to fist take this opportunity to apologize to our friends in CRY FOR DAWN, and anyone who went to see us perform [on April 29 in Round Lake, Illinois]. We made a last minute decision to canc...

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Festival Organizer Says He Is Not To Blame For SODOM's Cancellation

Minneapolis Mayhem festival organizer John McGovern of JCM Records has issued a statement defending himself against accusations that his unprofessionalism caused German thrashers SODOM to cancel their appearance at this year's event. McGovern's statement reads as follows: "I would like to set the re...

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VARG VIKERNES: Controversial BURZUM Leader Speaks From Norwegian Prison

Former BURZUM leader Varg Vikernes (a.k.a. Count Grishnackh),who is currently serving a 21-year Norwegian prison term for the August 1993 murder of MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous),recently spoke to MetalCrypt.com about his controversial political beliefs and the possibility of...