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DEMONICAL: Former CENTINEX Members Seek Singer For New Project

DEMONICAL, the new Swedish death metal band featuring three former members of CENTINEX, have launched their web site at www.demonical.net. Commented the band: "DEMONICAL will return to the roots of death metal and give you a sheer dose of darkness and brutality. We are now preparing our first audio...

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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...

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LAMB OF GOD, CLUTCH, GWAR, DEVILDRIVER Featured On 'Sounds Of The Underground' DVD

Last year marked the inaugural Sounds of the Underground tour, which saw 17 of the best and most brutal metal acts around traverse the U.S. and Canada in what proved to be a very successful alternative to the more commercial Ozzfest. The tour hit the parking lot of the Starland Ballroom in Sayrevill...

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ORPHANED LAND Tap PORCUPINE TREE's WILSON To Produce Next Album

Israeli metal band ORPHANED LAND have announced that Steven Wilson of PORCUPINE TREE will produce their next album, entitled "The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR". Commented ORPHANED LAND vocalist Kobi Farhi: "We are a big fans of Steven's works, we are very much exited that we will work together and...

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BLOODBOUND To Film Hometown Show For Upcoming DVD

BLOODBOUND, the new Swedish metal band featuring Urban Breed (ex-TAD MOROSE; vocals),Fredrik Bergh (STREET TALK; bass, keyboards and backing vocals) and Tomas Olsson (lead and rhythm guitars),will make their debut live appearance on April 22 at a "secret" location close to the band's hometown of B...

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NIGHTINGALE To Play Russia This Month

NIGHTINGALE, the Swedish progressive-metal band headed by Dan Swanö, are scheduled to perform at the B2 club in Moscow, Russia on April 23. As previously reported, NIGHTINGALE have set "White Darkness" as the title of their new album, tentatively due later in the year. About 75 percent of the materi...

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Ex-MARDUK Frontman: REBELANGELS Is 'Recharged, Remade, Unleashed!!'

Former MARDUK frontman Legion (a.k.a. Erik Hagsted) has issued the following update on REBELANGELS, his California-based project also featuring ex-MARDUK bassist B.War (a.k.a. Roger "Bogge" Svensson): "OK, we're back! After all the twists and turns of last year struggling to put together something f...

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MORTAL SIN: New Songs Posted Online

Reunited Australian thrashers MORTAL SIN have posted two brand new complete songs on their MySpace.com page at this location. The tracks were recorded for a demo on March 24 and mixed on March 31. MORTAL SIN filmed their February 4 concert at The Gaelic Club in Sydney, Australia for an upcoming DVD,...

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CYPHER Complete Work On Debut Album

Dutch death/thrash metallers CYPHER have completed work on their debut album, "Darkday Carnival", due later in the year. The CD was recorded at Excess Studios in Rotterdam and was mixed and mastered by Jochem Jacobs (TEXTURES). The album track "Rape the Willing" features additional vocals by Robbe K...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: One Month Sober And Counting

Alexis Colvard of The Georgia State University's Signal student newspaper recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On starring with four other rockers (Ted Nugent, Evan Seinfeld of BIOHAZARD, Scott Ian of ANTHRAX, and Jason Bo...

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NECROPHOBIC To Release 'Hrimthursum' In May

Swedish death metallers NECROPHOBIC will release their fifth album, "Hrimthursum", on May 22 via Regain Records. The follow-up to 2002's "Bloodhymns" was recorded at the House of Voodoo Studio with engineers Anders Bentell and Fredrik Folkare (guitarist and producer of UNLEASHED) and was mastered at...

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CRYPTOPSY: 'The Pestilence' Video To Receive 'Headbanger's Ball' Premiere This Weekend

CRYPTOPSY's "The Pestilence That Walketh In Darkness (Psalm 91:5-8)" video will premier on this weekend's edition of MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball", airing on Saturday, April 1. Filmed in a swamp, the clip features acolytes receiving the infamous worm-communion from Lord Worm's chalice. You can watch th...

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SATYRICON To Perform Live On Norwegian National Radio

Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have posted the following message on their official web site: "[On Wednesday, April 5] We will play a one hour show live on Norwegian national radio in front of a live audience of about 100 people (that's all they can squeeze in there!) which are competition winne...

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NOCTURNAL BREED: New Album, European Mini-Tour Postponed

Norwegian metallers NOCTURNAL BREED have pushed back the projected release date of their follow-up to "The Tools of the Trade" (Holycaust Records) to September from the previously announced May. Entitled "Code of Conduct", the CD is "taking shape but there is still work to be done," the band write o...

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THERION: 'Celebrators Of Becoming' DVD/CD Details Revealed

Sweden's THERION will be issuing a six-disc DVD/CD set, entitled "Celebrators of Becoming", on May 5. The package will include four DVDs and two audio discs. It will be available in two versions, one luxury digipak version in a slip case and one cheaper version, but both will contain all discs. The...