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PSYOPUS, ROSE FUNERAL, WOE OF TYRANTS, MOLOTOV SOLUTION To Team Up For 'Young Guns' Tour

This spring, fans will have the chance to witness several of Metal Blade's youngest and brightest bands share the stage at venues across the U.S. Dubbed "Young Guns", the tour will include headliners PSYOPUS, who are joined by DIY touring vets ROSE FUNERAL, critically acclaimed shred heavy newcomers...

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Kingdom of Might

"Watch out for the next release; it just may crush all in its path," was the statement I made to end my review of WOE OF TYRANT's "Behold the Lion", the group's Tribunal Records debut. That next release is "Kingdom of Might" and the label is now Metal Blade. I don't know about crushing all ...

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Peace, Love and...

I'm going to spare you all the generic quips where I tell you that the new disc from TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION is just that; total fucking destruction. In terms of sonic obliteration, "Peace, Love And Total Fucking Destruction" does rank right up there on the Richter Scale, yet not entirely in the G...

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MASTERCASTLE To Release 'The Phoenix' In April

MASTERCASTLE, the new project featuring LABYRINTH guitarist Pier Gonella, will release its debut album, "The Phoenix", on April 19 via Lion Music. According to a press release, "The Phoenix" is "a potent slice of metal with neo-classical and traditional metal influences within its ten songs. The gui...

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SENTINEL BEAST Parts Ways With Bassist, Announces Replacement

Reactivated '80s Sacramento, California thrash band SENTINEL BEAST has parted ways with bassist Nic Atomica X. According to the group, "Nic decided to leave the band to pursue his career as a recording engineer." His replacement is Steve Oliver, who also hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. SENTIN...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM To Guest On BRUCE DICKINSON's Radio Show

Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guest on Friday, April 3 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio program, dubbed "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the broadcast live via the Internet between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. (midnight) U.K. t...

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VOMITORY: New Video Interview Posted Online

Austrian heavy 'zine Stormbringer.at conducted an interview with drummer Tobias Gustafsson of Swedish death metallers VOMITORY prior to the band's March 5, 2009 concert in Vienna. Watch the 12-minute chat below. VOMITORY last month finished recording its seventh album, "Carnage Euphoria", for a late...

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AUTUMN To Film Footage For New Video This Weekend

Dutch female-fronted metallers AUTUMN will shoot footage for a new music video during their March 14 concert at The Rock Temple in Kerkrade, Holland. "Altitude", the fourth studio album from AUTUMN, recently entered the national chart in the band's home country at position No. 94. AUTUMN played a CD...

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France's END. Becomes ERYN NON DAE.

Toulouse, France's END., which recently signed with Metal Blade Records, has changed its name to ERYN NON DAE. "There are simply too many bands with a similar name out there", the group explained in a press release. "Of course, we would have loved to keep the name, but our label pointed to us that i...

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ARCH ENEMY's MICHAEL AMOTT Interviewed In Dubai; Video Available

Phride.com conducted an interview with guitarist Michael Amott of Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY backstage at the Desert Rock festival's sixth edition, which was held in Dubai Festival City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Friday, March 6, 2009. Watch the five-minute chat below. Centur...

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CINDERELLA's 'Authorized Bootleg' Due This Month

Island/Mercury has set a March 31 release date for CINDERELLA's "Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Tokyo Dome - Tokyo, Japan Dec. 31 1990" CD. The track listing for the album is as follows: 01. Intro 02. The More Things Change 03. Push, Push 04. Back Home Again 05. Sick For the Cure 06. Make Your ...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist Interviewed In Helsinki; Video Available

Nina Rung of Domination TV conducted an interview with CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster prior to the band's March 1, 2009 concert at Jäähalli in Helsinki, Finland. Watch the nine-minute chat below. CANNIBAL CORPSE will take part in a signing session at Scrape Records in Vancouver, British Columb...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: 'Angels Of Love' Audio Samples Available

Legendary Swedish guitarist YNGWIE MALMSTEEN has just released an all-instrumental acoustic album, "Angels Of Love" (Rising Force Records),containing rearrangements of his ballad songs played on acoustic guitar and string and choir arrangements only. It is a masterpiece showing the tender, delicate...

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Australia's ROCK OUT Festival 'Postponed'

Australia's Rock Out festival — which was scheduled to take place next month in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne — has been postponed until the fall. A statement from the festival organizers reads as follows: "MTD4 and Blade Promotions, after consultation with the venues and major stakeholders, includ...

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ARMORED SAINT: New Audio Interview With JOEY VERA Available

Bassist Joey Vera of California metallers ARMORED SAINT was interviewed earlier this week by Andrew Haug of Triple J's "Full Metal Racket" (based in Australia). Listen to the chat in streaming audio at the Triple J web site: Windows Media, Real Media (NOTE: The Joey Vera interview begins around the...