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OVERDRIVE, TORCH, BIRDFLESH Confirmed For Sweden's MUSKELROCK Festival

OVERDRIVE, TORCH and BIRDFLESH have been confirmed for Muskelrock, a two-day festival set to take place June 4-5, 2010 in Tyrolen outside Växjö, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BIRDFLESH BULLET OVERDRIVE SLINGBLADE STEELWING TALES OF HORROR TORCH For more information, visit ww...

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Defeat

You have got to admire a band that kicks subtlety right in the balls and instead takes a musical approach akin to smacking someone in the mouth with board full of rusty nails. The band about which I write is ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE and the album is "Defeat", the debut disc for Ironclad Recordings. Spec...

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TORCH, DARK QUARTERER Confirmed For Norway's METAL MERCHANTS FESTIVAL

TORCH and DARK QUARTERER have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Metal Merchants Festival, set to take place January 29-30, 2010 at John Dee in Oslo, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANIHILATED (UK) DARK QUARTERER (I) LAMENTED SOULS (NOR) NEKRONOMICON (DE) OMEN (US)...

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MANIFEST Completes Recording New Album

Norwegian thrashers MANIFEST have issued the following update: "November 14th marked the last day of recording for the new MANIFEST album! We spent the day in Brygga Studios laying down the finishing touches, mainly consisting of backing vocals. In addition to Ole [Marius Larmerud; guitar] and Johnn...

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THE RESURRECTION SORROW To Release Debut Full-Length

Holding for the right time to strike requires discipline. The heavy metal tank known as THE RESURRECTION SORROW has been idling for some time — ominously. All the while being shovel fed swamp water and coffin dirt, preparing its attack. Using stone-heavy handed riffing, barbaric percussive destructi...

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MANIFEST: New Song To Be Featured On 'Trondheim Calling' Compilation CD

A brand new track called "Irreversible" from the newly recorded MANIFEST album will be featured on a compilation CD entitled "Trondheim Calling". The CD will be released on January 23, 2010 and will include "all kind of different bands" from the Trondheim area in Norway. The group says, "The release...

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GRIFFEN Putting Finishing Touches On Debut Album

Swedish hard rockers GRIFFEN have issued the following update: "We have now completed the mixing [of our debut album] at Pelle Saether's Studio Underground, Västerås who has made a fantabulous job. It's sounding just as raw and smooth as we intended it to. The stuff is now being mastered by Göran Fi...

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HEARSE Schedules First-Ever Swedish Concert

HEARSE, the Swedish "death 'n' roll" band featuring former ARCH ENEMY singer Johan Liiva and ex-FURBOWL drummer Max Thornell, will play its first-ever concert in the band's home country on October 24 at Stockholm's Kafé 44. Also scheduled to appear are GENERAL SURGERY and UNCURBED. HEARSE's fifth al...

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RAZOR At Germany's HEADBANGERS OPEN AIR Festival; Video Available

Fan-filmed video footage of Canadian thrash metal veterans RAZOR performing the song "Take This Torch" at this year's Headbangers Open Air festival — which was held July 23-25, 2009 in in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany — can be viewed below (courtesy of "stoneagelightning"). Formed in 1984 in Guelph,...

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ATHEIST: European Tour Report Part 1

Vocalist Kelly Shaefer of reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST has issued the following update: "What a rash of fucking nightmares! In true ATHEIST fashion, we always seem to have these strange things happen to us whilst touring. "The night before I was leaving for the Brutal Assault...

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POWER QUEST Vocalist Quits

U.K. metallers POWER QUEST have issued the following update: "We are very sad to announce that Alessio Garavello will be leaving POWER QUEST after the festival shows in September. Alessio has been the voice of POWER QUEST ever since the 'Wings of Forever' album back in 2002, and has also had two sti...

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FEAR FACTORY Explains Tour Cancellation

The new band calling itself FEAR FACTORY — featuring original FF members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals) alongside bassist Byron Stroud (who played on the last two FEAR FACTORY albums in addition to touring and recording with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and ZIMMERS HOLE) and legendary drum...

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ROYAL HUNT Parts Ways With Bassist, Announces Replacement

Denmark-based hard rockers ROYAL HUNT have parted ways with bassist Per Schelander and have replaced him with Andreas Passmark (NARNIA, ROB ROCK, E-TYPE). Commented Schelander, "After four rollercoaster years of music, laughter and good memories I have to leave ROYAL HUNT. The reason is that I simpl...

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'New' FEAR FACTORY Lineup Cancels Debut Gig; Entire German Tour Called Off

According to Sergi Ramos of The Metal Circus, the much-anticipated debut performance by the new band calling itself FEAR FACTORY — featuring original FF members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals) alongside bassist Byron Stroud (who played on the last two FEAR FACTORY albums in additio...

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FEAR FACTORY: Australian Tour Dates Announced

The new version of FEAR FACTORY — featuring the band's original members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals) alongside bassist Byron Stroud (who played on the last two FEAR FACTORY albums in addition to touring and recording with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and ZIMMERS HOLE) and legendary drumm...