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OPETH Announce Japanese, U.K. Dates

Sweden's OPETH have announced that they will be performing at the Loud Park Festival in Tokyo, Japan on October 14. This will be the first time that Opeth have played Japan. In other news, OPETH will play seven U.K. gigs in November. The group's fall 2006 itinerary is now shaping up as follows: Oct....

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HANOI ROCKS Guitarist To Open Internet Shop

HANOI ROCKS guitarist Andy McCoy has announced plans to open up an Internet merchandise shop later this month. The shop, dubbed "The Real A&A McCoy Custom Shop", will provide major shopping adventures for McCoy-minded fans all over the globe. The catalog will consist of Andy's records signed by...

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THE HAUNTED Are Working On 'A Really Powerful And Interesting Album'

Swedish thrashers THE HAUNTED are contining work on their new album at Antfarm studios in Aarhus, Denmark, tentatively due before the end of the year via Century Media Records. Guitarist Anders Björler has posted the following update on the band's official web site: "Sorry for the delay in updates,...

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SKYCLAD Confirmed For Germany's PÖSINGER OPEN AIR Festival

British "folk metal" act SKYCLAD have been confirmed for the Pösinger Open Air festival, set to take place July 15 in Pösing, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are STEELSTRING, EISMEER, AMNESTIE, RESURRECTION, MARY'S CAKE, SCHEIN, ASHES OF MY LIFE, EDELSCHWARZ and AK4711. More information is availab...

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JON OLIVA'S PAIN To Answer Fans' Questions

Metal legend Jon Oliva (SAVATAGE, TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) and JON OLIVA'S PAIN bandmates are the next participants in the "meet-and-greet" section of Germany's Metal Hammer magazine forum. Fans are invited to post their questions until June 6, to be answered at a later date by the bandmembers them...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist: New Album Will 'Sound More Heavy Metal Than Ever'

Sweden's HAMMERFALL have entered the studio to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken", tentatively due in October via Nuclear Blast Records. Guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following recording update on his official blog: "There were only two songs left...

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PEARL JAM's Digs May Get The Dump

The Associated Press is reporting that PEARL JAM's new Seattle headquarters could face demolition because of the city's plans to build a dump. "We hadn't even finished unpacking and moving into our new space when we heard about the city's waste management site," spokeswoman Nicole Vandenberg said Sa...

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OPETH: 'Ghost Reveries' Deluxe Version Detailed

More information has been released about the upcoming special-edition deluxe version of OPETH's latest album, "Ghost Reveries", due on July 25 via Roadrunner Records. Bonus material on the set will include a 40-minute documentary about the making of the record complete with the band's own private to...

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HANOI ROCKS Complete Work On 'Back In Yer Face' Video

Legendary Finnish rockers HANOI ROCKS have just completed work on the video for the song "Back In Yer Face", taken from their "Another Hostile Takeover" album, available on Demolition Records. The CD is the group's first album to feature Conny Bloom (ex-ELECTRIC BOYS),who joined the band in 2004. H...

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GODSMACK Frontman: We Support The Troops, Not The War

A.J. Hammer of CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna on Thursday, May 11. A transcript of the chat follows: Hammer: Well, here we go again. Another rock group embroiled in controversy over their music and the war in Iraq. But this time, it's not exactly wha...

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'Heavy Metal Thunder' Archive Of Metal-Album Art To Arrive In June

MTV.com reports: A few years back, metal journalists James Sherry (Metal Hammer, Kerrang!) and Neil Aldis (Rock World, Terrorizer) decided to sift through their record collections and put the best of the bunch into coffee-table-book form. That spawned "Heavy Metal Thunder", an extensive archive of t...

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MCQUEEN Sign Worldwide Deal With DEMOLITION RECORDS

MCQUEEN have signed a worldwide deal with Demolition Records to release their debut album, "Break the Silence", later this summer. The CD was recorded in sections in between a healthy touring schedule that has spanned the last two and a half years. The album features a number of tracks mixed by QUEE...

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METAL HAMMER GOLDEN GODS Awards To be Broadcast In Europe On MTV2's 'Headbanger's Ball'

The fourth annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards will be broadcast in Europe this year on alternative music TV channel MTV2 as part of the newly relaunched MTV2 "Headbanger's Ball" show. MTV2 will also sponsor the "Best Video" category, dominated this year by Warner Music, who hold a staggering fou...

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SINISTER Pull Out Of Germany's F*CK THE COMMERCE Festival

Despite a previous announcement to the contrary, reunited Dutch death metallers SINISTER will **NOT** be performing at the 2006 edition of the Fuck the Commerce festival, set to take place May 25-27 at MZA (Mehrzweckhalle) in Luckau, Germany. "We never received a confirmation so we made other plans,...

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VITAL REMAINS Pull Out Of Germany's F*CK THE COMMERCE Festival

VITAL REMAINS have cancelled their appearance at the the 2006 edition of the Fuck the Commerce festival, set to take place May 25-27 at MZA (Mehrzweckhalle) in Luckau, Germany. According to the festival organizers, it was "impossible" for VITAL REMAINS to make the show "because they're playing at th...