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EYEHATEGOD Tribute Album Moved Up A Month

Emetic Records has set pushed up the projected release date of "For the Sick – A Tribute to Eyehategod" to February 20 from the previously announced March 20. According to the label, "all the artists involved in the release are friends or fans of the sludge legends and we are happy to have the best...

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TESTAMENT, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SADUS Confirmed For CALIFORNIA METAL FEST

TESTAMENT, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SADUS and NECROPHAGIST are among the confirmed bands for the California Metal Fest, set to take place March 31 – April 1 at the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday, March 31: TESTAMENT FLOTSAM AND JET...

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VANISHING POINT To Support DRAGONFORCE In Australia

Australian progressive metal band VANISHING POINT has secured the support slot on DRAGONFORCE's Australian tour. This will be DRAGONFORCE's second time in Australia, and the first time for VANISHING POINT to play in Brisbane and Perth! Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 16. The tour dates are as...

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USIPIAN Calls It Quits

Danish "apocalyptic" old-school death metallers USIPIAN have issued the following update: "We are sorry to announce that USIPIAN no longer exists due to differences within the band in regard to musical direction. The final testament of USIPIAN will be a MCD/7-inch EP containing three tracks recently...

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DEICIDE Fill-In Vocalist SETH VAN LOO: 'It Was An Amazing Experience To Sing' For The Band

Drummer Seth van Loo of the Dutch brutal death metal merchants SEVERE TORTURE — who filled in on lead vocals for DEICIDE for the first four shows of their recent European tour (replacing frontman Glen Benton, who was forced to stay home to take care of pressing legal matters) — has issued the follow...

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TACERE: Scandinavian Release Date Announced For 'Beautiful Darkness'

Finnish female-fronted diverse melodic metal band TACERE will release its debut album, "Beautiful Darkness", in all Scandinavian countries except Finland on March 7 via Bonnier Amigo Music Group. The CD will be issued in Finland on February 14. "Beautiful Darkness" track listing: 01. Deep Tears of T...

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EVIG NATT Prepares To Release Debut Album

EVIG NATT, the new Norwegian metal act featuring THUNDRA and ex-EINHERJER bassist Stein Sund (vocals, bass, synth),alongside REISM singer Kirsten Jorgensen, will release its debut album, "I Am Silence", later this year through Omvina Records. According to EVIG NATT, the band's music is influenced b...

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NIGHTRAGE: New Song Posted Online

A brand new song from the Swedish/Greek death metal outfit NIGHTRAGE, entitled "Scathing", has been posted online at the Lifeforce Records MySpace page. The track comes off the group's third album, "A New Disease Is Born", due in North America on April 17. The CD was recorded at Hansen studios in Ri...

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Buried Alive

So this is it, the final farewell to a band that called it quits voluntarily after evolving from barren death metal artisans and English manglers ("Rot to Dead"! "Desperationed Future"!) in the late 1980s to a sleek, melancholy hit-making machine (in their native Finland, anyway). While some would p...

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Report: Heavy Metal Is Evolving, Not Dying

Austin Porter of The Daily O'Collegian reports: Heavy metal may have been the greatest thing to happen in the history of music. In the form of dropped D ballads that make listeners want to cry or double bass drum pedals that force listeners to head bang until their necks hurt, heavy metal has ...

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REDEMPTION: 'The Origins Of Ruin' Release Date Announced

REDEMPTION, the Los Angeles-based progressive metal band led by guitarist/keyboardist/songwriter Nicolas van Dyk and featuring vocal legend Ray Alder of FATES WARNING, will release its third CD, "The Origins of Ruin", on April 3 via Inside Out Music. Injecting traditional progressive metal with an u...

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TWISTED SISTER In Talks To Record 'A Twisted Christmas, Too'

As an epilogue to his 2006 Bananiversary Celebration, rock 'n' roll comic C.C. Banana has interviewed all five members of TWISTED SISTER. In the last of this series of holiday-themed interviews, C.C. Banana speaks with TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider about their current album "A Twisted Christmas...

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DEMONICAL, NUNSLAUGHTER, NOMINON: More European Tour Dates Announced

DEMONICAL, the new Swedish death metal band featuring three former members of CENTINEX, will team up with NUNSLAUGHTER (headliner) and NOMINON for the "Nordic Nightmare Tour 2007" beginning in early July. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Jul. 05 - Finland - Helsinki - Factory * Jul. 06 - Finla...

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NIGHTRAGE To Film 'Scathing' Video In Greece

Bassist Henric Carlsson of the Swedish/Greek death metal outfit NIGHTRAGE has issued the following update: "Next weekend we are going to Athens to record the first video for our new album. The song that has been chosen is 'Scathing'. A fast thrashy piece of heavy riffing and great melodies, all capt...

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ZAO Announces Lineup Changes, Plans To Cut Down On Touring

ZAO's official MySpace page has been updated with a brand new interview conducted by the group's manager and longtime friend Downey. It follows here in its entirety: Q: What's going on with ZAO? Scott Mellinger (guitar): ZAO has definitely made a lot of big changes. The most immediate thing to menti...