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DOOM SHALL RISE Festival Tickets On Sale Now

Tickets for the third Doom Shall Rise festival, the world's biggest festival exclusively dedicated to doom metal, are now on sale at the festival web site, DoomShallRise.de. The third installment of this annual event will take place on April 15-16 in Göppingen, Germany. The billing is as follows: BE...

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MORGANA LEFAY Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD Festival

Swedish "heavy doom progressive" band MORGANA LEFAY have been confirmed to appear at the 2005 installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 24-25 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. Bang Your Head!!! 2005 will be marks the festival's 10th anniversary and the theme of next y...

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DAYLIGHT DIES: New Demo Recording Posted Online

North Carolina-based doom/death metallers DAYLIGHT DIES have issued the following update regarding the songwriting process for their as-yet-untitled sophomore album: "As previously promised, we have a demo recording of a new track entitled 'Lies that Bind' to offer you. This was one of the first son...

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AMEN Singer Talks About SCUM And His Love For Black Metal

AMEN frontman Casey Chaos recently conducted an e-mail interview with ScandinavianMetal.Info about the group's recent lineup changes and his SCUM side project with current and former members of EMPEROR, ZYKLON, TURBONEGRO and MINDGRINDER. An excerpt from the interview follows: ScandinavianMetal.Info...

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DIMMU BORGIR, MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY Among Bands Featured On 'Alone In The Dark' Soundtrack

Nuclear Blast Records has announced the release of "Alone In The Dark", the original motion picture soundtrack inspired and from the movie. "Alone In The Dark" is based on the best-selling Atari video game series of the same name. The soundtrack will feature some of today's best metal bands such as...

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WORLD BELOW Part Ways With Drummer, Announce Replacement

WORLD BELOW, the new band consisting of CARNAL FORGE/CENTINEX guitarist Jonas Kjellgren and ex-SIDEBURNERS bassist/vocalist Mikael Danielsson, have replaced drummer Stefan Westerberg (CARNAL FORGE, ex-IN THY DREAMS) with Ronnie Bergerståhl (CENTINEX). "We wanna thank Stefan for the years and wish hi...

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NOVEMBERS DOOM Set Release Date For New Album; Cover Artwork Posted Online

Chicago doomsters NOVEMBERS DOOM have revealed the cover artwork and final track listing for their new album, "The Pale Haunt Departure", due on March 8, 2005 via The End Records. The follow-up to 2002's "To Welcome The Fade", "The Pale Haunt Departure" was mixed by Swedish producer/musician Dan Swa...

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SOLITUDE AETURNUS Continue Work On New Album

Long-running Arlington, Texas-based doom metallers SOLITUDE AETURNUS are currently in the studio recording their new album, tentatively titled "Alone". "The drums are completed and the rhythm guitars and bass tracks are being recorded as I write this," singer Robert Lowe writes on the group's web si...

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MOURNING BELOVETH Name New Album

Irish doom/death metal band MOURNING BELOVETH have set "A Murderous Circus" as the title of their album, due in March via Grau Records, a subsidiary of Prophecy Productions. The CD will feature five new songs with a running time of 75 minutes. The track listing is as follows: 01. The Apocalypse Mach...

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DRACONIAN: 'Arcane Rain Fell' To Surface In January

Napalm Records has set a January 24, 2005 release date for the sophomore album from the Swedish gothic doom metal band DRACONIAN, entitled "Arcane Rain Fell". The follow-up to last year's "Where Lovers Mourn" was recorded at Studio Underground in Västerås, Sweden and contains "more than 60 minutes o...

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Benefit Concert For SOLACE Drummer To Be Held This Month

New Jersey's SOLACE, one of the premier doom bands, were dealt a near-fatal blow when their drummer, Kenny Lund, was diagnosed with cancer this past spring. The band had every intention of following up on the success of last year's "13" (MeteorCity),having played to unanimous raves at 2004's Emissi...

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WORLD BELOW Sign With PSYCHEDOOMELIC RECORDS

WORLD BELOW, the new band consisting of CARNAL FORGE/CENTINEX guitarist Jonas Kjellgren, CARNAL FORGE/ex-IN THY DREAMS drummer Stefan Westerberg, and ex-SIDEBURNERS bassist/vocalist Mikael Danielsson, have inked a deal with Austria's Psychedoomelic Records. The group, who were previously signed to D...

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NOVEMBERS DOOM Part Ways With Bassist, Seek Replacement

Chicago doomsters NOVEMBERS DOOM have parted ways with bass player Mike LeGros. Mike played bass with the band for the past two years, and contributed to the recording of the upcoming CD, "The Pale Haunt Departure". "It was brought to our attention that he was not comfortable in the band due to crea...

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DAYLIGHT DIES Continue Demoing New Material

North Carolina-based doom/death metallers DAYLIGHT DIES have issued the following update regarding the songwriting process for their as-yet-untitled sophomore album: "It has been a while since the last update, but this does not reflect an absence of activity. "We have continued to demo all of the ne...

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SWALLOW THE SUN Get The Ballet Treatment

Finnish melodic death/doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN will have their song "Hold This Woe" used by the New York ballet group Ballet Deviare as part of their performance. The opening night for the ballet is December 18, 2004. More information is available at BalletDeviare.org. SWALLOW THE SUN's debut...