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MNEMIC Guitarist Checks In From The Road

MNEMIC guitarist Mircea Gabriel Eftemie has issued the following update: "We are really sorry for not keeping you up to date with the progress of our North American tour, but here we finally are, still alive and in the hot swamps of Florida at Disney World. (We will definitely kick the shit out of M...

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UNLEASHED Frontman: 'We Have Always Been A Death Metal Band'

Holland's Lords of Metal e-zine recently conducted an interview with UNLEASHED frontman Johnny Hedlund. A couple of excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow: Lords of Metal: "Midvinterblot" [is] a great album. When did you start working on it and was it a difficult album to create? Johnn...

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CATAMENIA Parts Ways With Keyboardist

Finnish black metallers CATAMENIA have posted the following message on their official web site: "To prevent the annoying speculations of how things went in European tour and why Tero [Nevala, keyboards] is not anymore in the band, we decided to make an official statement regarding the situation. "Wh...

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VORKUTA Signs With PARAGON RECORDS

Hungarian black metallers VORKUTA have inked a deal with Paragon Records. According to a press release, "VORKUTA play a cold and desecrating form of black metal, at times attaining the atmosphere of 'Blood, Fire, Death'-era BATHORY as well as the traditional style of black metal found on DARKTHRONE'...

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ARCH ENEMY Frontwoman Suffering From 'End-Of-Tour Blues'

ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has posted the following message on her MySpace page: "If you wanna know how to play the blues, get yourself a woman.. "Well, I am both. Woman and 'end-of-tour'-bluesy. Terrible. "My Mac broke down (the battery gave out, a serial defect) and I was offline for abou...

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BOBBY RONDINELLI: Instructional DVD Footage Available

THE LIZARDS' web site has been updated with video footage that was included on a Bobby Rondinelli (BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH) instructional DVD that accompanied teh December issue of Modern Drummer magazine. Check it out at this location. THE LIZARDS, who feature in their ranks Rondin...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'I Am Amazed How Little Ol' Me Can Piss Off So Many Dudes'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "How does it feel to know it all? "Me and the little voices in my head are wondering. What an amazing sense of security some live in. What a safe place. Where the winds never blow, and it never gets cold. ...

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JORN: Early Material, Cover Songs To See Light Of Day In January

Frontiers Records has announced the release of two separate JORN records entitled "Unlocking The Past" and "The Gathering" on January 27, 2007. The concept behind this dual release is to satisfy the fans' request for more material and to make some of Jorn's earlier work more available. "With 'The Ga...

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THE ACCURSED To Release 'Seasons Of The Scythe' On Halloween

It's very fitting that the extreme metal quintet THE ACCURSED should release their full-length debut, "Seasons of the Scythe", on Halloween. After all, this is a band that signed their recording contract in blood — their own blood. "They really did sign in their own blood," admits Screaming Ferret W...

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PROFUNDI: Ex-NAGLFAR Frontman Offers MP3 Sound Clips From Entire Album

Ex-NAGLFAR frontman Jens Ryden has officially launched the PROFUNDI website, www.profundi.com, to prepare for the release of his debut album, "The Omega Rising", due in North America via Profound Lore Records on November 21 in a very limited edition specially designed digipack (1,000 units) with a s...

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KATATONIA Vocalist Talks About Touring North America For First Time

Many of us can think of a fair number of "good" heavy music bands, but when the term "great" is uttered, only a few come to mind. Many would agree that bands like OPETH, TOOL, and MASTODON fall into the latter category. Unless you've missed out on the raw emotion, beautiful heaviness, doom-laden atm...

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Louder Harder Faster

While their comeback studio album, "Third World Chaos", was an unmitigated piece of shit, it was still nice to see NUCLEAR ASSAULT get back together. One of the quirkiest and most interesting thrash bands of the 80's, their punk and grind influences and irreverent attitude made for some of the all-t...

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SWALLOW THE SUN: New Album Details Announced

Finnish melodic death/doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN have set "Hope" as the title of their third album, due on February 7, 2007 release via Spinefarm Records. The follow-up to 2005's "Ghosts of Loss" was recorded at Seawolf Studios in Helsinki and was mastered on Oct. 16 at Finnvox studios with Mine...

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COLD Frontman's Solo Project Changes Name

COLD frontman Scooter Ward has changed the name of his solo project to WHEN NOVEMBER FALLS from the previously announced THE WITCH. The singer/songwriter will enter the studio on Novemebr 1 to begin recording the project's debut album, tentatively titled "The Series of Emotion". A tentative March 20...

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BLOODBOUND Re-Launches Vocalist Search

BLOODBOUND, the new Swedish metal band featuring Fredrik Bergh (STREET TALK; bass, keyboards and backing vocals) and Tomas Olsson (lead and rhythm guitars),has parted ways with with singer Kristian Andrén (MEMENTO MORI, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, TAD MOROSE) after only a few weeks of working together. Comm...