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Portugal's THANATOSCHIZO In Pre-Production Mode

Portuguese avant-garde maniacs THANATOSCHIZO are scheduled to begin pre-production today (September 10) of five new songs for their as-yet-untitled fourth album, tentatively due next summer. The pre-production recordings will take place at Wagner Studios in Chaves, Portugal (drums) and in the band's...

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CATHEDRAL Confirmed For Japan's LOUD PARK 06 Festival

According to a posting on CATHEDRAL's official web site, the veteran British doom/stoner band has been confirmed for the Loud Park 06 festival, set to take place October 14-15, 2006 at the Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Halls 9-11 in Tokyo, Japan. The festival billing is now shaping up as f...

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IRON MAIDEN: Orchestral Tribute To 'Piece of Mind' Due This Month

Vitamin Records has set a September 19 release date for the IRON MAIDEN tribute album "The Hand of Doom Orchestra Plays Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind: The Orchestral Tribute". A description of the project on the Vitamin web site reads as follows: "Amongst the dust and debris of time and trends, IRON M...

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PARAGON: Drum Tracks Completed For New CD

Bassist Jan Bünning of the German power metallers PARAGON has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Drums [for the new PARAGON album] are done now but we have to postpone the bass recordings a little bit as we our engineer Steve has some technical difficulties. Anyway — I wi...

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MIRROR OF DECEPTION To Release 'Shards' Next Month

Germany's "doom-metal kings" MIRROR OF DECEPTION will release their third album, "Shards", on October 6 via Cyclone Empire. The band has scheduled a CD-release party on October 20 at Krypta in Göppingen, Germany. "Shards" (view cover at this location) was recorded at Soundmann Studio in Bad Cannstat...

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CANDLEMASS: MESSIAH Will Sing On New Album

Legendary Swedish doom metallers CANDLEMASS have posted the following message on their official web site: "In a conversation with the label Nuclear Blast, Messiah Marcolin has agreed to sing on the upcoming CANDLEMASS album. It will happen sometime in September/October. Some contractual stuff has to...

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MOONSPELL Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Portugal's MOONSPELL was have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to perform are IN FLAMES, BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL, SCHANDMAUL and the reunited No...

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CYNIC To Reunite For European Festival Appearances, Possible U.S. Dates

Long-defunct Florida-based band CYNIC, whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, is rumored to be planning a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of festi...

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FORGOTTEN TOMB Completes Work On Fourth Album

Italian masters of depressive doom/black metal FORGOTTEN TOMB have just returned from the studio where they recorded their fourth album, entitled "Negative Megalomania". After releasing three albums on Selbsrmord Services and Adipocere Records, the band recently signed a new contract with Avantgarde...

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IRON MAIDEN Gets Political On New Album

United Press International reports that heavy metal icons IRON MAIDEN have taken a topical direction on their new album, "A Matter of Life and Death". Many of the songs on the British sextet's first new album in three years — including "These Colors Don't Run", "The Longest Day" and "For the Greater...

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SHRUM Featuring Late ACID BATH Bassist: Music Available Online

SHRUM, the long-defunct side-project of late ACID BATH bassist Audie Pitre and drum programmer/keyboardist/vocalist Tomas Viator (DISINCARNATE, SUFFER),had four songs from their "Red Devils and Purple Ringers" CD posted online at this MySpace tribute page . Described as "a psychadelic, death metal...

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PARAGON Completes Drum Tracks For New CD

Bassist Jan Bünning of the German power metallers PARAGON has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Chris [Gripp] has almost recorded most of his drum stuff [for the new PARAGON album]. Tomorrow he will play the final songs and after next weekend I will start to record my ba...

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THUNDERSTORM Announces New Album Title

Italian doom metallers THUNDERSTORM have set "As We Die Alone" as the title of their fourth album, tentatively due late 2006/early 2007 via Dragonheart Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Faithless Soul" was recorded at New Sin Studio in Loria (Italy) and will include a cover version of the JIMI HENDR...

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Ancient Symbolism

Italy's FEAR OF ETERNITY consists of a single individual, Tilenni, who plays all instruments and produces his works. The style is a form of keyboard-based black metal despondency. Typically slow, doom-like tempos with guitar serving as more of a background instrument and Tilenni's croaky vocals are...

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DEICIDE Frontman: Whenever ERIC HOFFMAN Posts Something On BLABBERMOUTH, We Know It's Him

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with notoriously outspoken DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton. Several excerpts from the chat follow: Blasting-Zone.com: What really happened with the Hoffman brothers? Glen: 'Basically, what happened, man, was that for quite a few years now, thei...