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PRIMAL FEAR, TRIVIUM Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR and Florida metallers TRIVIUM have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 4-6, 2011 in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in...

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IRON MAIDEN: 'The Final Frontier' Guitar Tab Book Available

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation has just released "The Final Frontier", featuring note-for-note transcriptions of 10 tunes from the latest IRON MAIDEN album: * The Alchemist * Coming Home * El Dorado * Isle of Avalon * The Man Who Would Be King * Mother of Mercy * Satellite 15...The Final Frontie...

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BIOHAZARD Signs With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS For World Outside U.S.

The reunited original lineup of one of the most influential hardcore punk/metal bands, BIOHAZARD, has inked a deal with Nuclear Blast Records for the world outside North America. The group's tenth studio album is scheduled for an early 2011 release. The follow-up to 2005's "Means To An End" is being...

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Today Marks Six-Year Anniversary Of DIMEBAG DARRELL's Death

Today (Wednesday, December 8) marks the six-year anniversary of the death of PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. Abbott, one of the most beloved and respected musicians in hard rock, was shot onstage during a DAMAGEPLAN concert at the Alrosa Villa club in Columbus, Ohio by a 2...

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Ex-HELLOWEEN Singer Interviewed On 'Mars Attacks' Podcast (Audio)

Former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske was interviewed by host Victor M. Ruiz for the latest episode of the "Mars Attacks" podcast. The podcast, featuring the first part of the chat, can be streamed using the audio player below. "If I Had A Wish", the second video from KISKE/SOMERVILLE — the new proj...

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FEAR FACTORY Live In Tilburg: Photos, Video Footage Available

A number of high-quality photos of FEAR FACTORY's December 5, 2010 concert at 013 in Tilburg in the Netherlands can be found at Metal-Experience.com. Support at the gig came from the Oakland, California-based power trio HIGH ON FIRE. Fan-filmed video footage of the show can be viewed below. FEAR FAC...

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TOMBS Begins Recording New Album

Brooklyn, New York trio TOMBS has entered Elmwood Recording studios in Dallas, Texas with engineer John Congleton (BARONESS, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, BLACK MOUNTAIN, ST. VINCENT) to begin recording its new album for a spring release via Relapse Records. TOMBS released a 14-track collection of early ma...

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SONIC SYNDICATE: Newcastle Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of Swedish/British modern metallers SONIC SYNDICATE performing on November 30, 2010 at the Academy in Newcastle, England can be viewed below. In a recent interview with Sonic Shocks, SONIC SYNDICATE's British singer Nathan Biggs stated about former co-vocalist Richard Sjunne...

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Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell

It has been thirty years since the release of BLACK SABBATH's landmark album "Heaven and Hell", the first with vocalist Ronnie James Dio (RAINBOW, ELF, DIO) and a turning point in both the band's career and the direction that heavy metal would take in the '80s. The equally brilliant, heavier/darker...

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Ritual Abuse

Doom, sludge, altered states, and good ole fashioned evil join together as one on COUGH's "Ritual Abuse". No matter you're answer to the question, "to be stoned or not to be," the Richmond, Virginia trio's five-track monolith is an upper quartile release that rides the line between sludge abrasivene...

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From the Devil's Tomb

This is a big deal. I mean the follow up to 2009's superb "Drakonian Paradigm", one of the best black metal releases of that year. It was the album on which vocalist/guitarist/leader Vetis Monarch established WEAPON as a force to be reckoned with on the planetary scene, owing to his mystical and uni...

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The Moulting

Noisy, indie, alternative, sludgy, doomy and abrasive; these are the words that will cross many a mind during time spent with MARES OF THRACE's "The Moulting". Interestingly enough (or not),the band's self-description on its MySpace page might be the most accurate one yet: "Two-woman technoisesludg...

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Twilight of the Gods

The pain…she's a comin' strong! That the blackening of the power source we call the sun is not the stuff of joyful celebration is inarguable. "Twilight of the Gods" by Glasgow misery mongers BLACK SUN is sludgy, abrasively post-punk, and noisy as hell. It is torment set to music. The players are voc...

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TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS' 'Tap House' Rocks Akron

Powerhouse American vocalist Tim "Ripper" Owens' (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, BEYOND FEAR, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH) joined forces with restaurateur Randy Arehart to re-launch the Tap House on Waterloo Road in Akron, Ohio on October 16 to become a "rockin' sports eatery" named Ripper Owens Tap House. Guest...

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ASSASSIN: 'Breaking The Silence' Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

Reactivated German thrashers ASSASSIN will release their new album, "Breaking The Silence", on February 25, 2011 via SPV/Steamhammer Records. The CD was recorded with veteran metal producer Harris Johns, who has previously worked with VOIVOD, KREATOR and SODOM, among many others. "Breaking The Silen...