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REVAMP Answers Fan-Submitted Questions About Upcoming Album (Video)

An 11-minute video clip in which members of REVAMP, the band led by former AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor Jansen, answer fan-submitted questions about their forthcoming second album can be seen below. REVAMP will enter the studio in December to begin recording the new CD for a tentative March/April 20...

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A Marriage Proposal Of EPICA Proportions

An EPICA fan asked his girlfriend to marry him during the Dutch band's concert last night (Wednesday, September 26) at Teatro Caupolicán in Santiago, Chile. After performing the song "Sancta Terra", EPICA guitarist/vocalist Mark Jansen told the audience that something special was about to happen, an...

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EPICA: Buenos Aires Concert Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of EPICA's September 25 performance at Teatro de Flores in Buenos Aires, Argentina can be seen below. EPICA will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a special performance, dubbed "Retrospect", which will take place on March 23, 2013 at Klokgebouw in Eindhoven, Holland. "Retr...

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SERENITY: New Video Interview Posted Online

The Age Of Metal conducted an interview with Austrian symphonic melodic metallers SERENITY before their September 14 performance at the ProgPower USA XIII festival in Atlanta, Georgia. You can now watch the chat below. SERENITY's third album, "Death & Legacy", was released in February 2011 via N...

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ONE WITHOUT Calls it Quits

Swedish modern metal band ONE WITHOUT has released the following statement: "We have jointly decided to not continue with ONE WITHOUT, and are going separate ways to focus on other bands instead. ONE WITHOUT will not continue to function as a band, and we won't be working with the band at all. "This...

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EPICA To Celebrate 10th Anniversary With Special 'Retrospect' Performance

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA will celebrate their 10th anniversary with a special performance, dubbed "Retrospect", which will take place on March 23, 2013 at Klokgebouw in Eindhoven, Holland. "Retrospect" will be EPICA's most ambitious project to date, joined by a 70-piece symphon...

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REVAMP: Video Footage From Songwriting Sessions

REVAMP, the band led by former AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor Jansen, will enter the studio in December to begin recording its sophomore album for a tentative March/April 2013 release. A new four-minute video clip featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the songwriting sessions for the upcoming CD ca...

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REVAMP To Enter Studio In December

REVAMP, the band led by former AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor Jansen, will enter the studio in December to begin recording its sophomore album for a tentative March/April 2013 release. A new one-and-a-half-minute video update from Jansen regarding the progress of the songwriting sessions for the upcom...

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KAMELOT: Behind-The-Scenes Footage From 'Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)' Video Shoot

American/German/Swedish symphonic metallers KAMELOT recently filmed a video for their new single, "Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)", in Belgrade, Serbia with director Ivan Colic, who has previously worked with MOONSPELL, SOILWORK, HAMMERFALL, TYPE O NEGATIVE and SYMPHONY X, among others. The clip, wh...

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EPICA: 11 Songs Written For Next Album

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA have already written "about 11 new tracks" for their sixth studio album, which the band plans to record sometime in 2013. The group says on its Facebook page, "This material sounds killer so far." EPICA's fifth full-length album, "Requiem For The Indiff...

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EPICA Makes Mentally Disabled Fan's Dream Come True

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA recently guested on the Dutch TV show "Niks Te Gek", which gives mentally disabled people the chance to make their dreams come true. Ruurd Woltring's biggest wish was record one of his songs with EPICA, and so the band took his music and lyrics and arra...

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KAMELOT: Audio Sample Of New Single Available

An audio sample of "Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)", the new single from American/German/Swedish symphonic metallers KAMELOT, can be streamed at Amazon.com. The track, which will be released on September 4, comes off the band's new album, "Silverthorn", due on on October 30 in North America, October...

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NUCLEAR BLAST And MONTE CONNER Announce U.S. Partnership

Nuclear Blast owner Markus Staiger has joined forces with former Roadrunner Records A&R chief Monte Conner in the formation of a new U.S. partnership — Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The new record label, which will share most major operations with the existing U.S. branch of Nuclear Blast, will a...

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KAMELOT: 'Silverthorn' Cover Artwork Unveiled

American symphonic metal band KAMELOT will release its new album, "Silverthorn", on October 30 in North America, October 26 in Germany and October 29 in the rest of Europe via Steamhammer/SPV. The set will arrive in Japan on October 24 through King Records. The CD will mark the band's first release...

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BLACKGUARD Preparing To Record New Album

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based sympho/black/folk/power metallers BLACKGUARD are hard at work on pre-production for their fourth album, "Storm". Vocalist Paul Zinay states, "Everyone here is ecstatic over the material we have. Our new guitarist, Louis, is a riff machine and working his ass off to hel...