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VANDÖD To Begin Recording New Album In June

Swedish black metallers VANDÖD will enter the studio in June to begin recording their second full-length album, "Dö". The follow-up to 2007's "As" is tentatively due in the fall. Commented drummer Daniel Wikforss: "Our last album was a very raw and unpolished effort, and almost all of it was recorde...

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CATHEDRAL: 'The Ethereal Mirror' Reissue Details Revealed

"The Ethereal Mirror", the classic 1993 album from British doom metal legends CATHEDRAL, will be reissued via Earache Records. "Ethereal Mirror" was almost as drastic a departure from CATHEDRAL's slow and meloncholic doom-drenched debut, "Forest Of Equilibrium", as was Lee Dorrian fronting CATHEDRAL...

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MARDUK Explains Absence From 'Blackenedfest' North American Tour

Swedish black metallers MARDUK have issued a statement regarding their absence from the ongoing Blackenedfest North American tour, also featuring MAYHEM, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION and WITHERED. The band writes: "The situation with MARDUK not having performed during the first week of Blac...

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UFO Drummer Talks 40th Anniversary, New Album

Patrick Douglas of GreatFallsTribune.com recently conducted an interview with UFO drummer Andy Parker. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On the band's 40th anniversary: "It's extremely exciting for me. For the rest of the guys in the band, 40 years after the conception to still be doi...

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QUEEN, A PERFECT CIRCLE Songs Featured In 'Guitar Hero 5'

RollingStone.com reports that tracks from QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE (presumably "Under Pressure"),KINGS OF LEON, SANTANA, SONIC YOUTH and A PERFECT CIRCLE will appear in Activision's Guitar Hero 5 game, which is due September 1. The game will boast 85 brand-new master recordings, and this week Activi...

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DROWNING POOL Performs For Troops At Guantanamo Bay

DROWNING POOL returned home yesterday (Tuesday, May 26) after playing a private show for the troops at Guantanamo Bay on Memorial Day, May 25. The invitation from the U.S. Navy came two years after the start of the "Soldiers" campaign. Through commitment and perseverance, the band has played over 30...

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OPETH Mainman On Touring, Lineup Changes And Progressive Music

Lee Troupe of "The Funeral Directory" show on WUTK 90.3 FM, the college radio station for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH before the band's May 22, 2009 concert at The Bijou Theatre in Kn...

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BRUJERIA Replaces DAATH At Germany's PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival

Extreme metallers BRUJERIA — whose current touring lineup includes CARCASS frontman Jeff Walker (a.k.a. El Cynico) on bass, ex-CRADLE OF FILTH drummer Adrian Erdlandsson (a.k.a. El Podrido),and NAPALM DEATH bassist Shane Embury (a.k.a. Hongo) on guitar — have replaced DAATH on the billing of this y...

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AHAB: 'The Divinity Of Oceans' Cover Unveiled

AHAB, the German funeral doom metal band featuring MIDNATTSOL guitarist Daniel Droste on guitar/vocals and ex-MIDNATTSOL guitarist Christian Hector, will release its sophomore album, "The Divinity Of Oceans", via Napalm Records on the following dates: July 22 - Finland, Spain July 24 - Germany, Aust...

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CATHEDRAL: 'Forest Of Equilibrium' DualDisc Out Now In Europe

"Forest Of Equilibrium", the classic debut album from British doom metal legends CATHEDRAL, has been reissued on DualDisc and is out now in Europe. "Forest Of Equilibrium" shocked the scene with its tortured sound upon its release in 1991. The reissue comes on a DualDisc, featuring the album — which...

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SILENT RAGE: New Video Interview Posted Online

Argentinean rock journalist Lucas H. Gordon, who currently resides in Hollywood, California, conducted an interview with SILENT RAGE on May 15, 2009 at Brixton in Redondo Beach, California. Watch the chat below. SILENT RAGE's fourth studio album, "Four Letter Word", was released in July 2008 via Fro...

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OPETH: 'The Candlelight Years' Box Set To Receive European Release

The OPETH three-CD box set called "The Candlelight Years", featuring the the band's first three albums, will be released in Europe on July 13 via Candlelight Records. The set, which originally came out in Japan in June 2008, features the following track listing: "Orchid" (1995): 01. In Mist She Was...

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CIRCLE II CIRCLE/Ex-SAVATAGE Singer Interviewed In Bulgaria; Video Available

Metal Hangar 18 conducted an interview with vocalist Zak Stevens (CIRCLE II CIRCLE, ex-SAVATAGE) before CIRCLE II CIRCLE's May 17, 2009 concert at rock club Boliarka in Sofia, Bulgaria. Watch the chat in two parts below. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. Fatal Warning 02. Dead of Dawn 03. Fore...

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Death Magic Doom

Hopefully, not many people are still sitting around crying into their chainmail that portly diva Messiah Marcolin is out of CANDLEMASS and isn't coming back. And if they are? Their fucking loss. Texan Robert Lowe, of terminally unappreciated doomsters SOLITUDE AETURNUS, is now on his second full-len...

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MANOWAR To Embark On 'Death To Infidels Tour!'

Scheduled to headline six of Europe's largest heavy metal festivals, MANOWAR is preparing to embark on this summer's "Death To Infidels Tour!" The self-proclaimed "Kings of Metal" have long crusaded to keep the spirit of "true metal" alive. In 2009, the crusade blazes through Europe armed with allie...