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COLD Is Not Dead After All

COLD frontman Scooter Ward appears to have had a change of heart and has now decided against breaking up the band, despite a previous announcement to the contrary. In addition, he has also revealed that he will carry on with THE WITCH, the project he had launched with COLD drummer Sam McCandless aft...

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EVANESCENCE To Release 'The Open Door' In August

Blender magazine is reporting that EVANESCENCE have set "The Open Door" as the title of the follow-up to their multi-platinum major label debut, "Fallen", tentatively due in August via Wind-Up Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first since the departure of guitarist/chief songwriter Ben Mo...

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CENTINEX Cancel 'Farewell' Concert

Swedish metallers CENTINEX, who announced their split earlier in the month, have abandoned plans to play a "farewell" concert on May 13 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. "We are really sorry for this but due to various reasons it's better this way," the band write on their web site. CENTINEX's last album, "Wor...

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KAMELOT Working On First Anthology, Live DVD

KAMELOT guitarist/songwriter Thomas Youngblood has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Lots going on this year for the band. We are finishing the editing and mixing of our first DVD, 'One Cold Winter's Night', that we shot in Oslo this February. It was truly a night to rem...

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DISSECTION: Ultimate Reissues Of 'The Somberlain', 'Storm Of The Light's Bane' On The Way

On June 27, 2006, DISSECTION's classic "The Somberlain" and "Storm of the Light's Bane" albums will be reissued in the U.S. by The End Records. The remastered CDs will come with multiple bonus tracks, previously unreleased material and new layouts. It's been more than a decade since legendary Swedis...

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MACHINE HEAD's FLYNN: 'Our Goal Is To Write The Greatest No-Bullsh*t Metal Album Of All Time'

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "What's up fuckers! How the hell's it goin'? The mighty MACHINE HEAD are doing fucking splendid these days. Been hanging out at home for a while now. After touring so long, it's pretty nice. Connecti...

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TANKARD, OMEN Confirmed For MINNEAPOLIS MAYHEM 3 Festival

TANKARD and OMEN are among the newly confirmed bands for the Minneapolis Mayhem 3 festival, set to take place August 25-26 at the Star Central in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: TANKARD HIRAX JAG PANZER OMEN STEEL ATTACK DIVISION RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER USURPER...

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LORDI Frontman Defends His Band's Inclusion In EUROVISION Song Contest

Dan Bilefsky of the International Herald Tribune recently spoke to LORDI singer and namesake about the uproar crated in their home country after the band was chosen to represent Finland at Eurovision, the European song competition that launched ABBA and CELINE DION. First, Finnish religious leaders...

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Holy Diver Live

I take absolutely no pleasure in doing this, because Ronnie James Dio is one of my personal heroes, a man who's lived it all, done it all and exuded nothing but class all the way. He's the reason some of my all-time albums are my favorites. I won't even dignify an idiot's "Ozzy or Dio?" ...

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The Cult is Alive

That buzzing guitar sound, the way the songs groove in a rock and roll kind of way, the shroud of malevolence darkening the proceedings, and a fuck-off punk rock attitude. This is DARKTRHONE all right. On the duo's 12th album, "The Cult is Alive", Fenriz and N.Culto sound as convincing as ever, the...

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METALLICA Continue Work On New Album, Attend QUEEN Show In California

METALLICA are mentioned in the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine, where drummer Lars Ulrich offers a small update on the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's new album. According to Ulrich, METALLICA have "six to seven" new songs completed without vocals and have gone back to the old...

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PAUL DI'ANNO: 'The Living Dead' Track Listing Announced

Cleopatra Records has announced the final track listing for the new album from former IRON MAIDEN frontman Paul Di'Anno, entitled "The Living Dead", due in North America on May 16. The package will come with a bonus DVD that contains the music video for "The Living Dead" and an exclusive in-depth, t...

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WINTERBORN: Continuing Label Negotiations

WINTERBORN, the self-proclaimed "coldest Finnish heavy metal band," are continuing to talk to several record companies about a possible release of their debut album, "Cold Reality", which was produced at Studio 57 in Alaveteli, Finland by the band's guitarist Pasi Vapola, mixed by Vapola and Pasi Ka...

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INSISION: New Songtitles Revealed

INSISION vocalist Carl Birath has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "I know it was a long time since the last update so here is the deal at the moment: Insision has been working on new material for the third and upcoming album this 2006. What we have been doing lately ...

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QUEENSRŸCHE, POISON, LACUNA COIL Land In BILLBOARD's Top 30

QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" has sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 14 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is more than half of the total sales tally registered by the band's last studio album, 2003's "Tribe", which sold 20,000 co...