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BLACK MAJESTY To Support NEVERMORE In Australia

Australian power metal band BLACK MAJESTY will support U.S. metallers NEVERMORE in Melbourne and Sydney on their upcoming Australian tour. This is hot off the heels off their recent Australia-wide tour with DRAGONFORCE. A live performance of the song "A Better Way to Die", recorded in Melbourne, Aus...

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NEVERMORE: Album Reissues Detailed

Seattle's premier metal outfit NEVERMORE has opened its chamber of secrets, unveiling previously unreleased material as well as various other rarities, which will be used as bonus content for its upcoming re-releases of "Nevermore" (1995),the "In Memory" EP (1996),and "The Politics of Ecstasy" (19...

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DREAM THEATER Frontman With TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCKESTRA: Audio Samples Available

TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCKESTRA, the international opera-oriented project featuring contributions from DREAM THEATER frontman James LaBrie, has posted audio samples of the tracks "Nessun Dorma", "La Donna e Mobile", "My Way" and "Tu Ca Nun Chiange" on its official MySpace page. When the TRUE SYMPHONIC ROCK...

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NIGHTWISH: 'Highest Hopes' To Receive North American Release In October

Century Media Records has set an October 31 North American release date for NIGHTWISH's "Highest Hopes – The Best of Nightwish". Originally released in Europe by Spinefarm Records, the collection spans the band’s recording career. Certified double platinum in Finland, "Highest Hopes" debuted No. 1 o...

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SEBASTIAN BACH Drummer BOBBY JARZOMBEK Checks In

Drummer extraordinaire Bobby Jarzombek (HALFORD, ICED EARTH, SEBASTIAN BACH) has issued the following update: "It's been a busy summer (can you believe this heat we've been having....?!) and I thought I'd update you all on the latest in my neck o' da woods. "Back in June I recorded my drum tracks fo...

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GOREFEST Replaces ILL NINO At Holland's LOWLANDS Festival

Reunited Dutch metallers GOREFEST have replaced ILL NINO on the billing of this year's Lowlands festival, set to take place August 18-20 in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands. "So... what one thinks would be within reach and with some effort possible won't happen and what one didn't expect to happen in...

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NOSTRADAMEUS Parts Ways With Guitarist

Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have parted ways with guitarist Michael Åberg. The group's official statement on the matter reads as follows: "This [past] Monday [July 31], Michael Åberg and NOSTRADAMEUS (without any hard feelings or fist fights) decided to part ways. Michael felt that he did...

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NOSTRADAMEUS Completes Work On New Album

Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have posted the following message on their official web site: "First of all, we want to say how sorry we are of the fact that we've been updating the homepage soo bad. There's been some problems for us concerning the access of the site. Sorry! Well, the recordi...

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The Cartoon Network Goes Heavy Metal

Larissa Glasser of The Phoenix recently conducted an interview with Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, creators of the upcoming cartoon series "Dethklok Metalocalypse" about a half-Norwegian/half-American black metal band called DEATHKLOK. Premiering this Sunday (August 6) at 11:45 p.m. on Adult Swim (...

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The Locust Years

Following up the work of insane genius that was "The August Engine", a fixture on many Top Ten lists in 2003, San Francisco's cult avant-metal weirdoes HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE confound the listener still further here. "The Locust Years" is a grandiose, ambitious and sprawling work, a bit less immediat...

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NONPOINT: First Look At 'In The Air Tonight' Video

The first glimpse of the rough cut of NONPOINT's video for its cover of PHIL COLLINS' "In the Air Tonight", which is the lead single from the "Miami Vice" soundtrack, along with an accompanying commentary, can be found on NBC6.net web site. The video was shot by Darren Doane and will have clips ...

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Sin-Eater

Odd name for a band and the style isn't even grindcore or death metal, but there has to be a riveting story behind it. Fortunately, the music on debut album "Sin-Eater" from New York based DEAD RABBITS is quality southern fried hard rock and metal in the vein of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY and BLACK LAB...

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SILENT CIVILIAN Frontman Discusses Lineup Changes, Upcoming Covers EP

In a recent interview conducted by Greg Maki of Live-Metal.net, SILENT CIVILIAN vocalist/guitarist Jonny Santos (ex-SPINESHANK) discussed the two new members of the band, a planned EP of cover songs and more. Excerpts follow: Live-Metal: There have been some changes in the band since you started tou...

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TRIVIUM Frontman Checks In From SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND Tour

TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "The [Sounds of the Underground] tour's been going damn good... incredible shows, as always, killer fans, good times and some amazing fucking bands that we have the honor of sharing the stage with. "ALWAYS...

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WAYLANDER To Enter Studio In September

Vocalist Ciaran O'Hagan of the long-running Irish folk metal act WAYLANDER has issued the following update on the group's activities: "Firstly, we have returned safely from our first sojourn to Germany, where we were honoured to perform at the Pagan Nights festival in Bavaria. The people we met were...