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AMORPHIS Announces 'Eclipse' Tenth-Anniversary Tour

Finnish masters of melancholic progressive metal AMORPHIS have announced a special "Eclipse" tour for this winter, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the legendary release. For this special occasion, the band will perform the album in its entirety, as they already did with "Tales From The Thousan...

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JUDAS PRIEST, IN FLAMES, DEATH ANGEL, ANNIHILATOR Featured On 'Wacken 2015 - 26 Years Louder Than Hell'

Just in time for this year's Wacken Open Air festival that will see another 75,000 metalheads having the time of their lives this summer, UDR Music is pleased to announce the release of "Live At Wacken 2015 - 26 Years Louder Than Hell", a double CD/DVD (or Blu-ray) set hitting North American stores...

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Read KIRK HAMMETT's Foreword To 'German Metal Machine: Scorpions In The '70s' Book

Few rock bands were as successful as the SCORPIONS by the mid-eighties — headlining arenas/stadiums worldwide, scoring two mega-selling albums (the platinum-certified "Blackout" and the triple-platinum-certified "Love At First Sting") and two hit singles/videos ("No One Like You" and "Rock You Like...

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RUNNING WILD: 'Rapid Foray' Album Details Revealed

Three years after the release of "Resilient", German power metallers RUNNING WILD have announced the title and release date of their latest album. "Rapid Foray" will be available from physical and digital retailers from August 26 as a box set, on digipak CD, double vinyl LP and as a digital download...

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IRON MAIDEN's 'Trooper' Beer Celebrates Third Anniversary

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN are celebrating the third anniversary of their Trooper beer with a video message from MAIDEN vocalist and ale aficionado Bruce Dickinson. Check it out below. The Trooper beer was launched in May 2013 and has won the BBI (British Bottlers' Institute) Gold Medal...

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Iowa Supreme Court: SLIPKNOT Bassist's Child Can Sue For Dad's Overdose

According to The Des Moines Register, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday (May 6) that a lawsuit filed against a Des Moines pain doctor in the fatal overdose of SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray brought on behalf of the musician's daughter will be allowed to proceed, even though she wasn't born when Pau...

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ANTHRAX's SCOTT IAN: 'If You're Stealing Music, You're An Asshole'

Brazil's Wikimetal podcast recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Asked if he thinks the surging popularity of music streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube is ultimately good for the music in...

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Seminal Metal Label NOISE RECORDS To Be Relaunched By BMG

According to Billboard.com, BMG will relaunch the seminal metal label Noise Records. Noise was a German record label founded by well-known industry figure Karl Ulrich Walterbach. Walterbach had originally started Modern Music Records in Berlin, with a two-pronged approach of promoting German-speakin...

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MOONSORROW: 'Suden Tunti' Video Released

"Suden Tunti" (The Hour Of The Wolf),the new video from Finnish pagan metallers MOONSORROW, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's seventh studio album, "Jumalten Aika" — "The Age Of Gods" in English — which will be released on April 1 via Century Media. "This is the shortest song we'...

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IRON MAIDEN Announces New Trooper 'Red 'N' Black' Porter Brew

IRON MAIDEN and Robinsons Brewery have announced Trooper Red 'N' Black — a new limited-edition beer from their award-winning Trooper range — which will be available to fans worldwide from September 2016. Trooper Red 'N' Black porter is the third beer in the Trooper range following on from the stunni...

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ULI JON ROTH Is Not Jealous Of SCORPIONS' Mainstream Success

In a brand new interview with Metal Insider, legendary German guitarist Uli Jon Roth was asked if he was ever jealous of SCORPIONS' mainstream success after he left the band. He responded: "First of all, I am not a jealous person. I am proud of every bit of their success and they deserve ...

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Ex-SCORPIONS Guitarist ULI JON ROTH To Release 'Tokyo Tapes Revisited'

Former SCORPIONS guitarist Uli Jon Roth is planning to release a new concert DVD titled "Tokyo Tapes Revisited" as a "counterpart" to his 2015 double album "Scorpions Revisited" on which he revisited his personal favorites from the early SCORPIONS period. Uli told Ruben Mosqueda of Sleaze Roxx: "We...

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ANTHRAX's SCOTT IAN: 'If I Had The Option To Make All Of The Internet Go Away, I Would Choose That'

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian says that he would "make all of the Internet go away" if he could because it would be "much better for the music business." In a new interview clip released by ANTHRAX's European record label Nuclear Blast, Ian talks about the amazing commercial success of Adele's "25" al...

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Deliverance & Damnation

A lot has happened to Swedish death prog virtuosos OPETH since 2002. That year two of their most pivotal albums "Deliverance" and "Damnation" were released, separately, instead of as one body of work as originally presented by Mikael Åkerfeldt. For one, OPETH has matured into the ultimate progressiv...

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MOONSORROW: 'Jumalten Aika' Album Teaser Released

On April 1, Finnish pagan metal act MOONSORROW will release its seventh studio album, "Jumalten Aika" — which means "The Age Of Gods" in English — via Century Media. The first teaser for "Jumalten Aika" is available below. "There are a lot more folk music influences present in 'Jumalten Aika' than e...