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FORGOTTEN TOMB, MORTUARY DRAPE, MORRIGAN Confirmed For Austria's DUNKELHEIT FESTIVAL
FORGOTTEN TOMB, MORTUARY DRAPE, MORRIGAN and KOLDBRANN are among the bands confirmed for the Dunkelheit Festival, set to take place September 2-3, 2005 in Niederhollabrunn, Austria (about 30km from Vienna). The festival billing is shaping up as follows: FORGOTTEN TOMB (ITA) NACHTFALKE (GER) MORTUARY...July 7, 2005
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NEVERMORE Guitarist To Guest On New HATESPHERE CD
NEVERMORE guitarist Steve Smyth (ex-TESTAMENT) has completed a guest solo for the upcoming HATESPHERE CD, "The Sickness Within", due on September 26 via SPV Records. Smyth recorded his contribution to the song "Marked by Darkness" at Signal Creative Studios in London with engineer Gareth. HATESPHERE...July 7, 2005
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DISMEMBER To Enter Studio In August
Long-running Swedish death metallers DISMEMBER will enter Sami Studio in Stockholm on August 15 to begin recording their seventh album. The recording sessions will end in September, with a planned mid-January 2006 release date through Regain Records. Drummer Fred Estby will once again produce the fo...July 7, 2005
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The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
COAL CHAMBER was one of those bands that just absolutely hit me the wrong way. Their overhyped simpleton nu-metal fuckery used to just piss me off, more so than almost any band this side of SIX FEET UNDER. So when frontman Dez Fafara killed that band off and released DEVILDRIVER's debut last year, m...July 7, 2005
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Japan's Premiere Horror Punks BALZAC Return With New Release On MISFITS RECORDS
Japanese horror punks BALZAC have returned with their second North American release, "Out of the Grave and Into the Dark", available on Misfits Records/Rykodisc. "Out of the Grave and Into the Dark" is a double CD/DVD package combining two brand new full-length BALZAC CDs, "Came Out of the Grave" an...July 5, 2005
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CRADLE OF FILTH To Enter Studio In Late August
CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Just a quick plunge into the darkness that is the CRADLE OF FILTH schedule of late, to let everybody know that the 'Viva La Bam' filming week near Philadelphia last month seems to have been a compl...July 5, 2005
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CELTIC FROST Working On 'Amazing' New Album
CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "So many things are taking place here during the making of this album. Far too many things to list here, I often believe, even though this blog has been established to be utterly open and to provide a di...July 4, 2005
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Greatest Hits: Back To the Start
Does anyone at all believe bands when they claim they take fans' Internet votes on stuff into consideration? When I see a "fan favorite" IRON MAIDEN best-of track listing, and anything from the Blaze Bayley era shows up, that poll's credibility shrivels up like a black metaller in the sunshine. Simi...July 2, 2005
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GREEN CARNATION Seek New Record Deal
GREEN CARNATION, the Norwegian band featuring Tchort (a.k.a. Terje Vik Schei; BLOOD RED THRONE, ex-EMPEROR, SATYRICON, EINHERJER),fulfilled their contractual obligations to Season of Mist with their fourth release, "The Quiet Offspring", which came out earlier this year. Tchort recently finished wr...June 30, 2005
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HATESPHERE Complete Work On New Album
Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have set "The Sickness Within" as the title of their upcoming album, due on September 26 via SPV Records. HATESPHERE entered Jailhouse Studios with producer Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, PRETTY MAIDS) on June 5 to begin recording the follow-up to 2004's "Ballet of the Brute"....June 30, 2005
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Police Looking For RAT-A-TAC-TAT Tattoo Parlor Employee In Connection With C.O.C. Stabbings
Saundra Amrhein and Bill Duryea of the St. Petersburg Times have issued the following report: The club was dark and the music loud when Nicholas Stegall's girlfriend made her way out of the mosh pit Thursday night at the Masquerade nightclub in Ybor City. During a heavy metal concert by the band COR...June 25, 2005
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RAGING SPEEDHORN: Vocalist FRANK REGAN Wasn't Fired
England's RAGING SPEEDHORN have been confirmed for Guilfest 2005, a three-day festival set to take place July 15-17 in Guildford, U.K. Other groups set to perform at the festival include THE POGUES, PAUL WELLER, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, MILLION DEAD and THE GLITTERATI. More information can be found...June 24, 2005
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STORMHAMMER Start Vocalist Auditions
German power metallers STORMHAMMER have commenced the auditioning process for a new singer following the departure of Tommy Lion (ex-DRIFTER) earlier in the year. Among the candidates for the frontman slot are Mike Zotter (ex-NEVERLAND),D.C. Crow (ex-MEDUSA'S CHILD) and Richie Wicks (ex-TYGERS OF P...June 23, 2005
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DISTURBED: '10,000 Fists' Track Listing Revealed
According to Billboard.com, DISTURBED have set the track listing for their third album, "10,000 Fists", tentatively due September 20 via Warner Bros. A track entitled "Guarded" was released to U.S. rock and metal stations this week, and will also be included on a sampler distributed at this summer's...June 21, 2005
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WINTERTHRALL Hard At Work On Debut Album
WINTERTHRALL, the Orange County, California-based doom/death metal project featuring drummer Rob Alaniz (NOCTUARY, ex-RISE, ex-EVILDEAD),guitarist/vocalist Steve Nelson (NOCTUARY),bassist Ruben Lugo and guitarist Elizabeth Schall, have posted the following message on their official web site: "We h...June 21, 2005
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