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ANVIL At Seattle's BUMBERSHOOT Festival: Interview, Performance Footage

The Seattle Times reporter Jonathan Zwickel conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL at the Bumbershoot festival on Monday, September 6 in Seattle, Washington. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is performance footage from the e...

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SLAYER Guitarist Talks About Peforming Entire 'Seasons' Album, Touring With METALLICA

Tom Trakas of the None But My Own blog recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. None But My Own: The "World Painted Blood" era officially begins in the U.S. after several setbacks. The European shows you've done have also incl...

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WATAIN Schedules Swedish Signing Session

Swedish black metallers WATAIN will take part in an exclusive signing session in Västerås, Sweden on Friday, September 3 at the Skivbörsen record store, located on Stora Gatan 36. The session will kick off at 6:00 p.m. and last for an hour. Later that night the band will perform live at the sold-out...

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ANVIL Drummer To Guest On 'The Big Rock Show'

Drummer Robb Reiner of Canadian metal legends ANVIL will be interviewed on tomorrow's (Thursday, September 2) edition of "The Big Rock Show" with host Tina Peek at 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST. To listen to the interview live via the Internet, go to this location. ANVIL's acclaimed documentary, "Anvil! The...

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WATAIN To Tour U.S. With GOATWHORE, BLACK ANVIL

Swedish black metal overlords WATAIN, who unleashed their "Lawless Darkness" full-length earlier this summer, will shower their blasphemy upon North American soil later this fall. The unholy trek will commence on November 6 at Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh and bludgeon its way through over two dozen citi...

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WACKEN OPEN AIR 2010: Video Overview

PitCam Production has posted a four-minute video overview of this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, which was held August 5-7, 2010 in Wacken, Germany. You can watch the clip below. A number of high-quality photos from this year's Wacken Open Air festival have been posted online at Met...

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DUFF MCKAGAN Talks ANVIL In Latest Seattle Weekly Column

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER/JANE'S ADDICTION bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his column, which appears on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com. An excerpt follows below. "It's not that I grew up with ANVIL or saw them at all in the '80s when they were tearing it...

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ROXXCALIBUR Hard At Work On Sophomore Album

German NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) tribute band ROXXCALIBUR is hard at work on its second album which will feature cover versions of a number of "raw diamonds" from the NWOBHM, including tracks that were originally written and recorded by MORE, NO QUARTER, SARACEN, CRYER, OXYM and HOLLO...

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ANVIL CHORUS Interviewed On 'Heavy Metal Mayhem'

Aaron Zimpel and Thaen Rasmussen of the influential '80s progressive NWOSFHM (New Wave of San Francisco Heavy Metal) band ANVIL CHORUS were interviewed on the August 8, 2010 edition of the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" radio show with Mike "The Big Cheese". You can now listen to the program using the audio p...

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MANTIC RITUAL Parts Ways With Drummer

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based old-school metallers MANTIC RITUAL have parted ways with drummer Adam Haritan. The band states, "This was a mutual decision and we all agree that it's best for everyone involved. "It's been obvious to us for some time that Adam was not as interested in making music as...

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IRON MAIDEN, MOTÖRHEAD, RONNIE JAMES DIO Honored At Germany's METAL HAMMER Awards

The German edition of the Metal Hammer magazine celebrated the second edition of its annual awards at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held August 5-7 in Wacken, Germany. The winner in each category was chosen via an online vote, a musicians' jury, and the Metal Hammer staff. Some of...

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WACKEN OPEN AIR 2010 Photos Posted Online

A number of high-quality photos from this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held August 5-7, 2010 in Wacken, Germany have been posted online at Metal-Experience.com. Included are pictures of the following artists: Thursday, August 5: (photos) SKYLINE ALICE COOPER MÖTLEY CRÜE GOJIRA Friday,...

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BEHEMOTH Forced To Pull Out Of Finnish SONISPHERE Festival

Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH have been forced to drop off the Finnish installment of the Sonisphere festival on August 7 due to health issues. It is unclear if any more of their European festival dates will be affected by this. More details are expected to be released over the next few days. BE...

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ANVIL CHORUS: TIDAL WAVE Performance Footage Available

Video footage of the influential '80s progressive NWOSFHM (New Wave of San Francisco Heavy Metal) band ANVIL CHORUS' July 25, 2010 performance at the 2010 edition of the Tidal Wave free outdoor metal festival at John McLaren Park's Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco, California can be viewed...

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BEHEMOTH To Release 'Evangelia Heretika' DVD

Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH will release their second DVD, "Evangelia Heretika", this fall. More details, such as the DVD content, video clips, and pre-order information, will be made available in the coming weeks. Commented BEHEMOTH vocalist/guitarist Adam "Nergal" Darski: "We've been through...