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ILIUM Announces New Keyboardist

Swedish keyboardist Kaspar Dahlqvist, who has played with numerous acts, including DIONYSUS, STORMWIND, TREASURELAND and CIRCLE II CIRCLE, has joined the Australian metal band ILIUM for the recording of their fourth studio album. Recordings will commence during 2007. For more information, visit www....

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CIRCLE II CIRCLE Frontman Discusses Inspiration For 'Burden Of Truth'

Mark Carras of RockMyMonkey.com recently conducted an interview with CIRCLE II CIRCLE singer Zachary Stevens. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rock My Monkey: What was it about this album that made you want to-why did you want to do a concept album, and why did you choose The Da Vinci ...

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DOWN To Perform In New Orleans Tomorrow

DOWN members Pepper Keenan (guitar; also in CORROSION OF CONFORMITY),Jimmy Bower (drums; also in EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL),Kirk Windstein (guitar; also in CROWBAR),and Philip Anselmo (vocals; also in SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ex-PANTERA) will perform at Tiptina's in New Orleans, Louisiana tomorrow...

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FOREST SILENCE's 'Philosophy of Winter' Album Out Now

Candlelight Records has just released the full-length debut from Hungarian act FOREST SILENCE. Formed by keyboard player Winter in 1997 as a side project of SEAR BLISS, FOREST SILENCE released three unique demos — "The Third Winter" in 1997, "Winter Circle" in 1999 and "Eternal Winter" in 2001 — bef...

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Holland's ROADBURN Festival: More Artists Confirmed

Long-running Oakland, California-based industrial/alternative/metal pioneers NEUROSIS have been confirmed as the headliner of the 12th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take place April 20-21, 2007 at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. NEUROSIS will perform an exclusive European show at th...

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JON OLIVA: 'To Me SAVATAGE Was Never SAVATAGE After CRISS Died'

Metal-Temple.com / Rock Hard writer Orpheus Spiliotopoulos recently conducted an in-depth interview with SAVATAGE mastermind Jon Oliva. An excerpt from the chat follows: Q: I'd like to ask you why you left SPV Records and how [much] better do you feel it is with AFM Records now? Jon Oliva: "The SPV...

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CIRCLE II CIRCLE Frontman To Guest On 'Metal Reigns' Tomorrow

CIRCLE II CIRCLE vocalist Zak Stevens will be the featured live interview on the "Metal Reigns" web radio show this Thursday, November 9 at 7:00 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST). Tune in to KWTF The Edge tomorrow at www.kwtfworldwide.com to hear what Zak has to say and for your chance to call in ...

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The Dead Eye

What to make of this new HAUNTED album? It's hard to take it out of context and judge it on its own merits — on one hand, you have the band's formidable back catalog to measure it against, a smorgasbord of modern-day Swedish thrash that renders 95% of their colleagues obsolete. Tied to that is ...

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DIONYSUS' 'Fairytales And Reality' To Receive U.S. Release Tomorrow

Spain's Locomotive Music will release DIONYSUS' "Fairytales and Reality" on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. Taking its name from the Greek God of Wine, DIONYSUS embraces the wine-women-and-song lifestyle and expresses it using the vehicle of melodic progressive metal. In 1999, a true meeting of the metal...

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COMPOS MENTIS Signs With MIGHTY MUSIC

Danish death metal band COMPOS MENTIS has inked a deal with Mighty Music for the release of its second album, "Gehennesis". Commened the group: "We are very proud to contribute to the revival of the label and we are certain that they will be able to create the deserved attention on 'Gehennesis'. Thu...

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RHAPSODY OF FIRE Guitarist Working On New Solo Album

RHAPSODY OF FIRE guitarist Luca Turilli has issued the following update: "I just came back from Wolfsburg where I ended the first part of the production for the second DREAMQUEST album (please check www.dreamquest.eu for more details). During that time I had also the possibility to plan the producti...

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Guitarist RON JARZOMBEK Issues Update On BLOTTED SCIENCE, WATCHTOWER

Guitarist Ron Jarzombek (WATCHTOWER, SPASTIC INK) has posted the following update on the progress of BLOTTED SCIENCE, the instrumental extreme metal project also featuring bassist Alex Webster (CANNIBAL CORPSE) and drummer Charlie Zeleny (BEHOLD... THE ARCTOPUS): "The BLOTTED SCIENCE recordings are...

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Ex-SUM 41 Guitarist's BROWN BRIGADE Signs With AQUARIUS RECORDS

BROWN BRIGADE, the new metal band featuring ex-SUM 41 guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh and his cousin Vaughn Lal (bass),has inked a deal with Aquarius Records. The group is currently "finishing up lyrics and practicing for the studio," according to a posting on its web site. "The album should be o...

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FRANKIE BANALI's 'Now' And 'Then' Drum Kits

QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has posted the following message on his official web site: "I bought my first Ludwig drum set with a 14 X 26 bass drum when I was 18 years old. I was working after school giving lessons to younger drummers at Brown's Music store in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I saved ....

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SOLEFALD: New Album To Arrive In November

SOLEFALD, the Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band consisting of Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln, will release its much-anticipated new album, "Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2", on November 14 (on day earlier internationally) through Season of Mist. The track li...