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LORD BELIAL Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish black/death metallers LORD BELIAL have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: IRON MAIDEN (headliners) CARCASS HATEBREED CHILDREN OF BODOM AVANTA...

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CHAOSWAVE: New Album To Be Mixed By KING DIAMOND Guitarist

Italian/Danish power-thrash metal act CHAOSWAVE has been confirmed to support ENTOMBED on November 22 at Fabrik in Cagliari, Italy. CHAOSWAVE will enter the studio late November to record 10 songs for the follow-up to 2006's "The White Noise Within". Songtititles set to appear on the CD include "Ris...

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NEIL PEART Commemorative 'Snakes & Arrows' Snare Drum Available

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, the November Guitar Center catalog includes a new item that will make some RUSH fan's holiday season a happy one. Coming this month to select Guitar Center stores, the Neil Peart signature "Snakes & Arrows" snare drum. Guitar Center will...

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KISS: 'Nothin' To Lose' Performance From MTV's 'Unplugged' Posted Online

Footage of KISS performing the song "Nothin' to Lose" during the MTV "Unplugged" taping on August 9, 1995 has been posted at this location. It can also be viewed below. The clip was released to promote the upcoming third volume of a definitive DVD collection, "Kissology – Vol. 3 1992-2000", which is...

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REKUIEM Recruits Former FIREWIND Singer For Upcoming Shows

REKUIEM (formerly REQUIEM),the cult NWOBHM band that was at the very start of the British metal movement alongside such names as DIAMOND HEAD and WITCHFINDER GENERAL, has recruited guest vocalist Chitral "Chity" Somapala (ex-FIREWIND) for its upcoming live dates that will take the group to the end...

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TORCH Pulls Out Of MARIO'S METAL MEETING; RAM Steps In

Reactivated Swedish metallers TORCH have cancelled their appearance at the first edition of Mario's Metal Meeting, set to take place November 11, 2007 at 013 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Replacing them on the bill will be fellow Swedes RAM. The lineup for the festival is now as follows: RAVEN (UK/US...

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KING DIAMOND: 'Give Me Your Soul' Video In Final Editing Phase

KING DIAMOND's video for the song "Give Me Your Soul" is now in the final editing phase and is expected to be released around Halloween. The band's first clip in 17 years was shot in September with director Bill Schacht from video company Aestheticom, which has previously worked with DIO, ALICE COOP...

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KISS Rocks Las Vegas

KISS performed Friday night (October 26) at a private event for the Entrepreneurs' Organization at the Beach at Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Entrepreneurs' Organization is a global community of business owners, all of whom run companies that exceed $1 million (U.S.) in revenue. Over...

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KING DIAMOND's Ultimate Torture: A Herniated Disc

King Diamond has told MTV.com that he may be forced to cancel his band's U.S. tour — which is scheduled to launch March 23 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and run through May 8 in Houston — due to a herniated disc. "I can't sit down, even on my couch, for more than ...

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KISS: 'Kissology: Volume 2 1978-1992' Certified Sextuple Platinum

According to a posting on KISS' official web site, the band's DVD box set "Kissology: Volume 2 1978-1992" has been certified sextuple platinum, which comes out to around 150,000 copies due to the fact that the set consists of three discs; platinum certification for a single-disc release is 100,000 c...

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ORPHANED LAND: Footage From METAL HEALING FESTIVAL Available

Fan-filmed video footage of the Israeli metal band ORPHANED LAND performing at the Metal Healing Festival in Greece in July 2007 can be viewed below. ORPHANED LAND recently parted ways with drummer Avi Diamond. The band's vocalist Kobi Farhi recently stated about ORPHANED LAND's current activities,...

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KING DIAMOND To Take Part In Halloween Podcast

KING DIAMOND will be featured in a Halloween podcast interview that will be made available for download on MTV's Headbanger's Blog this Friday, October 26. During the interview, King Diamond talks about the significance of All Hallows Eve, the best way to freak out trick-or-treaters, who would win i...

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MACHINE HEAD Frontman Talks About Playing With METALLICA, Hanging Out With LARS ULRICH

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn has posted a lengthy new "diary entry" on the band's official web site. An excerpt from his posting follows: "[Supporting] METALLICA at Wembley Stadium [in London in early July]. Duuuuuude!? DUUUUDE!?!?!? Such an honor. Handpicked. Last minute [as the replacement for...

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FIREWIND Guitarist Issues Post-Japanese Tour Update

FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. has issued the following update: "The third part of our World Allegiance tour came to an end with four very successful shows in Japan! It felt so good going back there exactly one year after our performance at Loudpark festival. "This has been our longest Japan tour so far,...

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DREAMLAND: Footage From Acoustic Gig In Gothenburg Posted Online

Fan-filmed video footage of DREAMLAND's October 10, 2007 acoustic performance at Rock City in Gothenburg, Sweden can be viewed below. DREAMLAND recently saw both of their full-length albums released in the U.S. via Ryko Distribution / Locomotive / Dockyard 1. "Eye for an Eye" was recorded at Joacim...