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JUDAS PRIEST, WHITESNAKE, KREATOR Confirmed For Switzerland's SONISPHERE Festival

JUDAS PRIEST, WHITESNAKE, KREATOR, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, MASTODON, HAMMERFALL and THE DAMNED THINGS are among the newly confirmed bands for the Swiss edition of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place June 24, 2011 in Basel, St. Jakob. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Thursday, June...

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KORN, ALICE COOPER, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, BUCKCHERRY, THIN LIZZY Confirmed For DOWNLOAD

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, KORN, ALICE COOPER, ALTER BRIDGE, BUCKCHERRY, THE CULT, THE DAMNED THINGS, CLUTCH, RISE TO REMAIN, GWAR, THIN LIZZY, BLACK VEIL BRIDES and DANZIG are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's edition of the Download festival, set to take place June 10-12, 2011 at Donin...

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ATHEIST Schedules Live Debut With New Bassist

Reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST will hit the road in support of their critically acclaimed new album, "Jupiter", the band's first studio CD in 17 years. The first show will take place on Saturday, February 12 at the Cabana Inn in Sarasota, Florida, on the 20th anniversary — to t...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND Performs At NAMM; Video Footage, Photos

Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) performed yesterday (Thursday, January 13) at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California as part of the 2011 NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, a massive music-prod...

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GWAR: New Tour Dates Announced

After a brief return home to their hulking Antarctic stronghold, intergalactic murder-machines GWAR are returning to the U.S. for one final spurt of touring before doing whatever the hell they are up to after that. The Lords and Masters of this world apparently tired of abusing penguins and are read...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND: Audio Of NAMM Rehearsal Posted Online

Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) has posted a seven-minute audio recording of a recent rehearsal in preparation for his appearance at the NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which is being held January 13-16,...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND, SAMOTH, GWAR Guitarist Interviewed On Year-End Edition Of 'The Governor's Ball'

Canadian metal mastermind Devin Townsend, Norwegian guitarist Samoth (EMPEROR, ZYKLON, THE WRETCHED END),and guitarist Beefcake The Mighty of GWAR were interviewed for the special year-end edition of "The Governor's Ball". You can now stream the program in four parts below. Part 1: ...

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GWAR Frontman Says MICHAEL JACKSON Was An 'Alien'

Kristen Dunleavy of myYearbook recently conducted an interview with GWAR mainman Oderus Urungus. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. myYearbook: I've been reading some interviews with you online, and I was wondering: what's the dumbest question you've ever been asked? Oderus: The dumbes...

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LORDI Mainman Reveals 'Secret' About GWAR In New Video Interview

Marple from German's pitXplorer magazine conducted an interview with Finnish heavy metal monsters LORDI before the band's December 12, 2010 concert at LKA in Stuttgart, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. When asked what the differences are between LORDI and GWAR, LORDI mainman Mr. Lordi repl...

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INFERNAEON: New Video Interview

Robert Williams of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with Brian Werner and Steven Harger of of Floridian extreme metallers INFERNAEON. You can now watch the chat below. INFERNAEON filmed a video for their cover of METALLICA's "Creeping Death" with director (and "Jackass" collaborator)...

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OVIF: Five Songs Ready For Next Album

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based thrash metal band OVIF, which features former members of MELODYACT, has composed five songs for its sophomore album. The group states, "We're very happy about the results so far considering we only started writing the new material last August. We can wait to release it...

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MASTER Mainman Interviewed On 'Heavy Metal Thunder' (Audio)

DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's "Heavy Metal Thunder" show recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Paul Speckmann of legendary death metallers MASTER. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Interview (audio): ...

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Dancing With GWAR

To the horror of pretty much everyone else that works at Game Informer, GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus and bassist Beefcake the Mighty wasted no time in accepting the site's invitation to experience Kinect for Xbox 360. In an effort to answer Game Informer's question, Dan Ryckert placed them in fro...

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GWAR Frontman Releases First Novel

For many years, Richmond, Virginia artist/musician Dave Brockie has been known to the world as GWAR's pig-snouted and bellicose lead "throat-thing" Oderus Urungus, playing to semi-packed houses around easily 35 percent of the world. Never one to shy away from using GWAR's success as a way to gain at...

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GWAR Frontman Interviewed On 'Heady Metal With Jeff Olson' (Audio)

GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus was interviewed on this past Monday's (December 13) edition of original and former TROUBLE drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson's new Internet radio show, "Heady Metal With Jeff Olson". You can now listen to the chat in three parts below. Part 1: ...