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AMORPHIS To Perform At Tomorrow's EMMA GAALA

Finnish metallers AMORPHIS will perform at this year's Emma Gaala (Finnish Grammy equivalent),which will be held on Thursday, February 4 at Peacock-Teatteri in Linnanmäki. The awards ceremony will be broadcast live via the Internet without country restrictions. AMORPHIS was nominated in two categor...

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KEEP OF KALESSIN Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARD Festival

Norway's KEEP OF KALESSIN has been confirmed for this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival, set to take place May 21-23, 2010 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ARTILLERY BLOODBATH BULLDOZER EVILE KATATONIA KEEP OF KALESSIN KREATOR N...

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HYPOCRISY, RAGE, DARK AGE Confirmed For Germany's ROCKHARZ OPEN AIR

HYPOCRISY, RAGE and DARK AGE have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Rockharz Open Air festival, set to take place July 8-10 at Flugplatz in Ballenstedt/Harz, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLACK MESSIAH BURNING SKIES DARK AGE DELAIN DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER DOR...

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HAMMERFALL, VARG Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

HAMMERFALL and VARG have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 5-11, 2010 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ABSTINENZ ACELDAMA ASHES YOU LEAVE BEHEMOTH CANNIBAL CORPSE DECAPITATED DEMONICAL DORNENREICH ENOCHIAN...

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HEAVEN & HELL To Headline U.K.'s BLOODSTOCK Festival

HEAVEN & HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar),Ronnie James Dio (vocals),Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — will headline the 10th-anniversary edition of the Bloodstock festival, set to take place August 13-15, 2010 at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, United...

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SONATA ARCTICA Confirmed For U.K.'s BLOODSTOCK Festival

Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA have been confirmed for the 10th-anniversary edition of the Bloodstock festival, set to take place August 13-15, 2010 at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMORPHIS ANDROMEDA BEHEMOTH CANNIBAL CORPSE CHILDR...

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SOLUTION .45: More Debut Album Details Revealed

Swedish/Finnish progressive metal "supergroup" SOLUTION .45, which features in its ranks former SCAR SYMMETRY vocalist Christian Älvestam and Jani Stefanovic (MISERATION, ESSENCE OF SORROW),will release its debut album, entitled "For Aeons Past", on April 9 in Europe via AFM Records. The CD was rec...

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SOLUTION .45 Parts Ways With Keyboardist

Swedish/Finnish progressive metal "supergroup" SOLUTION .45, which features in its ranks former SCAR SYMMETRY vocalist Christian Älvestam, and Jani Stefanovic (MISERATION, ESSENCE OF SORROW),has parted ways with keyboardist Mikko Härkin (ex-SONATA ARCTICA, KOTIPELTO). The band states, "Mikko, unfor...

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OBITUARY Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

OBITUARY has been confirmed for this year's installment of the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 5-11, 2010 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ABSTINENZ ACELDAMA ASHES YOU LEAVE BEHEMOTH CANNIBAL CORPSE DECAPITATED DEMONICAL DORNENREICH ENOCHIAN THEORY ENSIF...

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OVERKILL, VARG, UNDERTOW Confirmed For Germany's ROCKHARZ OPEN AIR

OVERKILL, VARG, UNDERTOW, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, BLACK MESSIAH and VAN CANTO have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Rockharz Open Air festival, set to take place July 8-10 at Flugplatz in Ballenstedt/Harz, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLACK MESSIAH BURNING...

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TROUBLE, AMON AMARTH, SODOM Confirmed For 70000 TONS OF METAL Cruise

TROUBLE, AMON AMARTH and SODOM are among the confirmed bands for the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise, which is set to sail from Miami, Florida to Cozumel, Mexico on January 24, 2011 and return four days later. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMARTH SODOM SONATA ARCTICA STRATOVARIUS TR...

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WINTERBORN, TUKKANUOTTA Added To FINNISH METAL EXPO

The lineup for the sixth annual Finnish Metal Expo at the Cable Factory in Helsinki has been finalized. The last bands added to the bill are melodic metallers WINTERBORN, who just returned from an extensive European tour supporting SONATA ARCTICA, as well as Helsinki-based death/thrash outfit TUKKAN...

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STRATOVARIUS Singer, Ex-SONATA ARCTICA Guitarist Perform Acoustic Versions Of Rock Classics

Video footage of Finnish heavy metal singer Timo Kotipelto (STRATOVARIUS, CAIN'S OFFERING, KOTIPELTO) and guitarist Jani Liimatainen (CAIN'S OFFERING, ex-SONATA ARCTICA) performing acoustic versions of several hard rock classics last night (Thursday, December 31, 2009) in Raahe, Finland can be viewe...

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CELESTY Vocalist Quits

Vocalist Antti Railio has left Finnish symphonic power metallers CELESTY. He explains in a statement, "I have already for a long time felt my place in CELESTY to be merely an exit station in a long-overdue relationship that I just didn't know how to let go. "I have not felt in a long time the ...

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DELAIN To Tour U.K. In April

DELAIN — the Dutch gothic rock/metal project founded by ex-WITHIN TEMPTATION keyboardist Martijn Westerholt (brother of WITHIN TEMPTATION's Robert Westerholt) — will embark on a tour of the U.K. in April. The band's schedule is shaping up as follows: March 21 - UK - London - Garage March 22 - UK - N...