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HOLY MOSES Confirmed For DORO's Anniversary Concert

Long-running German thrashers HOLY MOSES will perform at a special concert on December 13 at the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany celebrating Doro Pesch's 25-year career as the reigning queen of German heavy metal. The concert will feature appearances by: DORO ARCH ENEMY LEAVES' EYES HOLY MOSES WARLO...

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HELLOWEEN: 'Paint A New World' Video Posted Online

HELLOWEEN's video for the song "Paint a New World" can be viewed below. The track comes off the German group's twelfth studio album, "Gambling with the Devil", which was released in October 2007 via SPV. The regular "Gambling with the Devil" album consisted of eleven songs (plus an intro, spoken by...

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DORO: 'Celebrate (The Night Of The Warlock)' Artwork Revealed

The cover artwork for "Celebrate (The Night Of The Warlock)", the new single from the German "metal queen" Doro Pesch, can be viewed below. Due on October 31 in Germany and November 3 in most of the rest of Europe via AFM Records, the EP will contain three versions of the single's title cut "Celebra...

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BLITZKRIEG Pulls Out Of UK's EAST RIDING ROCK Festival

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends BLITZKRIEG have cancelled their previously announced October 4 appearance at this year's East Riding Rock Festival at the Memorial Hall in Beverley, United Kingdom. According to the band, BLITZKRIEG vocalist Brian Ross is still recovering from a punct...

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NEVERMORE, OVERKILL, U.D.O., AFTER FOREVER Singers Confirmed For DORO's Anniversary's Concert

Former WARLOCK vocalist Doro Pesch will celebrate her 25-year career as the reigning queen of German heavy metal on December 13 at the ISS Dome in her hometown of Düsseldorf, Germany. The concert will feature appearances by: DORO ARCH ENEMY LEAVES' EYES WARLOCK (special performance by 1986 lineup) P...

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SAXON: New Album Title, Track Listing; Single Artwork Revealed

SAXON fans have a lot of things to look forward to in the coming months: to start off with, the British metal legends will release their new download single, "Live To Rock", followed by the arrival at the stores of their current studio album, "Into The Labyrinth", as well as major tours to support b...

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BLITZKRIEG: Greece Aftermath

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends BLITZKRIEG have issued the following update: "The band would like to thank the promoters of both recent Greek shows, also the venue staff of both dates and last but not least everyone that showed up on Friday [Sept. 19] at The Necropolis in Athens and...

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ARCH ENEMY Confirmed For DORO's 25th-Anniversary Concert

Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have been confirmed to perform at DORO's "25 Years in Rock" anniversary event on December 13, 2008 at the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are LEAVES' EYES and former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen, among others. Comments ARCH ENEM...

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SAXON: Radio-Broadcast-Quality Audio Of GRASPOP Performance Available

An audio recording of three songs — "Motorcycle Man", "Crusader" and "Strong Arm Of The Law" — from SAXON's performance at this year's Graspop Metal Meeting, which was held June 27-29, 2008 in Dessel, Belgium, can be heard at this location (courtesy of "Whiplash", a weekly metal show on Belgian nati...

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SAXON Singer: 'We're Not Really Changing, We're Just Trying To Get Better'

Mick Burgess of Metal Express Radio recently conducted an interview with SAXON frontman Biff Byford. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Metal Express Radio: Certainly from SAXON's point of view you seem to be going through something of a renaissance. Your last album, "The Inner Sanctum", was un...

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DORO: New Single Details Revealed

German "metal queen" Doro Pesch will release a new single entitled "Celebrate (The Night Of The Warlock)" on October 31 in Germany and November 3 in most of the rest of Europe via AFM Records. The EP will contain three versions of the single's title cut "Celebrate" — including one that features gues...

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SAXON Films 'Live To Rock' Video

Aestheticom's Bill Schacht, who has previously directed music videos for DIO, KING DIAMOND, AMON AMARTH, FATAL SMILE, LIBERTY X/REV RUN, ZAKK WYLDE and SISTER SIN, among others, has just completed filming footage for the upcoming SAXON clip for the soon-to-be classic rock anthem "Live To Rock". Acco...

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SAXON: New Audio Interview With BIFF BYFORD Available

Vocalist Biff Byford of the legendary British heavy metal band SAXON was interviewed at the Graspop Metal Meeting (June 27-29) in Dessel, Belgium by "Whiplash", a weekly metal show on Belgian national radio Studio Brussel, hosted by AFTER ALL guitarist Dries Van Damme. Listen to the chat in streamin...

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BIFF BYFORD Comments On METALLICA's SAXON 'Tribute'

SAXON frontman Biff Byford has posted a lengthy blog recapping the band's appearance at this year's Rock am Ring festival on June 7 in Nrburgring, Germany. An excerpt from the entry follows. "We went to see METALLICA play a fucking amazing stage set. We stood at the side of the stage and some guy wa...

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SAXON: New Album Due In October

According to SPV, SAXON's follow-up to 2007's "The Inner Sanctum", which is currently being recorded, is scheduled for release in October. SAXON's latest video podcast, which was filmed on May 7, 2008 in Sydney, Australia, can be viewed below. Produced by Charlie Bauerfeind (HELLOWEEN, BLIND GUARDIA...