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WEEDEATER Forced To Cancel Dates After Guitarist Breaks Hand
North Carolina sludge crusaders WEEDEATER were forced to cancel the last few shows of the U.S. leg of their "Jason... The Dragon" tour after guitarist Shep broke his hand and could no longer wield his mighty axe of six strings. These dates were in the Southeast U.S. and will be rescheduled at a late...April 6, 2011
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Former SLAYER/TESTAMENT Drummer To Tour With HEATHEN
Former SLAYER/TESTAMENT drummer Jon Dette will fill in for HEATHEN's Darren Minter on the Bay Area thrash band’s upcoming North American tour with DESTRUCTION and WARBEAST. Commented HEATHEN: "Darren is unable to join us on the North American tour due to previous work commitments during that time. W...April 5, 2011
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CONFLICTED To Release 'Never Be Tamed' Next Week
Toronto, Ontario, Canada's CONFLICTED will release its new album, "Never Be Tamed", on April 12 via Nightmare Records. "Never Be Tamed" is said to be "full of addictive, musically adventurous yet instantly memorable songs featuring virtuosic performances delivered with a fire and passion." Intense,...April 5, 2011
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BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE: New Video Interview With SETH HECOX
ATLmetal.com conducted an interview with guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Seth Hecox of Atlanta, Georgia-based metallers BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE at the band's CD-release show on March 28, 2011 in Cleveland, Georgia. You can now watch the chat below. BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE's fourth album, "Celestial Com...April 4, 2011
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SICK DRUMMER Introduces Digital Video Magazine
Sick Drummer Magazine, which brought you the first drum magazine devoted to extreme drumming, the first interactive drum magazine and interactive advertisements within a digital drum magazine, now presents its digital video magazine. The YouTube video (see below) of Sick Drummer Magazine issue #17 h...April 4, 2011
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TARJA TURUNEN Interviewed By Colombia's ROCKOMBIA (Audio)
Colombia's Rockombia recently conducted an interview with former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. Turunen will perform as a guest soprano at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Savonlinna, Finland. She will appear on July 17 with world-famous...April 3, 2011
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KILL DEVIL HILL Schedules Live Debut
KILL DEVIL HILL — the new band featuring Vinny Appice (HEAVEN & HELL, BLACK SABBATH, DIO) on drums, Rex Brown (DOWN, PANTERA) on bass, Mark Zavon (RATT, W.A.S.P., 40 CYCLE HUM) on guitar and Jason "Dewey" Bragg (PISSING RAZORS) on vocals — will make its live debut on April 29 at the Key Club in...April 2, 2011
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Former CHIMAIRA Guitarist Officially Retires From Music
Former CHIMAIRA guitarist/co-founder (most recently of Cleveland metal band YEARS OF FIRE) Jason Hager has officially retired from music and is pursuing different artistic routes. As of late Hager has been devoting his time to tattooing. He says, "I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil and ha...April 2, 2011
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BORN OF OSIRIS Guitarist Interviewed By METAL ASSAULT (Audio)
On March 30, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with guitarist Lee McKinney of the Chicago-based progressive metal hybrid BORN OF OSIRIS. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. BORN OF OSIRIS was denied entry to Canada Wednesday night and will ther...April 1, 2011
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ORIGIN: New Album Title, Release Date, Artwork Unveiled
American technical death metal innovators ORIGIN will release their new album, "Entity", on June 7 in North America and June 10 in Europe via Nuclear Blast Records. One of the most intense and technical forces of the contemporary death metal world, ORIGIN has returned to stake its claim as the leade...April 1, 2011
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BORN OF OSIRIS Denied Entry To Canada; Band Forced To Pull Out Of AUGUST BURNS RED Tour
Chicago-based progressive metal hybrid BORN OF OSIRIS has been denied entry to Canada last night and will therefore be unable to join AUGUST BURNS RED on their previously announced Canadian dates. Commented BORN OF OSIRIS guitarist Lee McKinney: "Due to some very unexpected problems at the border, w...March 31, 2011
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KORN Bassist Talks STILLWELL In New Audio Interview
On March 25, 2011, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with KORN bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu . You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. STILLWELL, the band featuring Fieldy onguitar, will release its debut album, "Dirtbag", on May 10 via Nu...March 31, 2011
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SEPULTURA, ENSLAVED, UNEARTH Members Celebrate 25th Anniverary Of 'Master Of Puppets'
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the release of METALLICA's classic "Master Of Puppets" album, AOL's Noisecreep caught up with a "battery" of metal musicians from SEPULTURA to ARSIS to UNEARTH to find out how, when and where they first experienced this most important of records. A couple of excer...March 31, 2011
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BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE: 'The Magnetic Sky' Video Released
"The Magnetic Sky", the new video from Atlanta, Georgia-based metallers BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE, can be viewed below. The clip is described in a press release as "an 8-bit fantasy adventure that finds the members of BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE wandering through a sci-fi landscape in the format of an old N...March 31, 2011
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BORN OF OSIRIS: 'The Discovery' First-Week Sales Revealed
"The Discovery", the third full-length album from the Chicago-based progressive metal hybrid BORN OF OSIRIS, sold around 6,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 87 on The Billboard 200 chart. The group's previous CD, 2009's "A Higher Place", entered th...March 30, 2011
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