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VICTORY, CENTURY MEDIA, METAL BLADE Among Top Indie Labels

According to Hits Daily Double, Victory Records and ADA are the indie market leaders with information gleaned from this week's current album sales chart. The RED-distributed Victory Records has .44 of the market for all labels that are not owned or partially owned by a major, not publicly traded, di...

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TESTAMENT, KREATOR, ROTTING CHRIST Confirmed For Finland's JALOMETALLI Festival

TESTAMENT, KREATOR, ROTTING CHRIST and GRAVE have been confirmed for the Jalometalli festival, set to take place August 17-18 at Club Teatria in Oulu, Finland. The festival billing is shaping upas follows (in alphabetical order): ALTARIA AMORAL BURNING POINT DOMINATION BLACK ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW...

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LAY DOWN ROTTEN Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of German death metallers LAY DOWN ROTTEN. Commented the band: "LAY DOWN ROTTEN are nothing but happy about the signing to one of the most respected and most active labels in the world. We are looking forward to a successful and creative collaboration an...

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CHINCHILLA Pulls Out Of SINNER / VENGEANCE Tour

German metallers CHINCHILLA have cancelled their participation in the upcoming European tour featuring SINNER and VENGEANCE. "We got several disagreements, [and] that's why we think it is the best way to cancel it," the band writes on its web site. CHINCHILLA's last album, "Take No Prisoners", was r...

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ECHOES OF ETERNITY Is 'Much More Metal-Oriented' Than Other Female-Fronted Groups

Mark Carras of RockMyMonkey.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist Brandon Patton of ECHOES OF ETERNITY. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rock My Monkey: You guys may have kind of had the idea and the concept of this before all the bands like LACUNA COIL and EVANESCENCE and LEA...

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THE RED CHORD Confirms Dates With CANNIBAL CORPSE

Massachusetts-based metal/grind band THE RED CHORD has issued the following update: "Before we head over to Europe with FROM A SECOND STORY WINDOW, we will be supporting CANNIBAL CORPSE for five days alongside our labelmates JOB FOR A COWBOY and PSYOPUS." The details are as follows: Apr. 27 - Baltim...

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NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL Lineup Revealed

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, presented by ESP Guitars & Basses and Krank Amps, is set for Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28 with a Friday night headline performance by Norwegian black metal sensations DIMMU BORGIR and a tribute to Metal Blade Records' 25th anniversary to ca...

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CELLADOR Guitarist Comments On ALL THAT REMAINS Tour

Guitarist Bill Hudson of the Nebraska-based extreme power metallers CELLADOR has issued the following update: "All right, we're finally back home after an awesome tour with ALL THAT REMAINS, MISERY SIGNALS and THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. I believe we all did a great job and gathered new fans in every single...

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ALL THAT REMAINS Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Massachusetts' ALL THAT REMAINS has been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 ALL THAT REMAINS AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY B...

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CALLENISH CIRCLE Calls It Quits

Dutch melodic death metallers CALLENISH CIRCLE have issued the following statement: "After nearly 15 years we've decided to lay our precious CALLENISH CIRCLE to rest. We'll play our last show on Saturday the 10th of March at De Azijnfabriek in Roermond, The Netherlands. This wasn't the easiest decis...

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SIX FEET UNDER/Ex-DEATH Bassist To Play On New THE ABSENCE CD

Tampa, Florida's THE ABSENCE has reportedly tapped Terry Butler (SIX FEET UNDER, DEATH, MASSACRE) to play bass on its sophomore album, "Riders of the Plague", due later in the year via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2005's "From Your Grave" is currently being recorded at Mana Studios in Flori...

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GOATWHORE: Live Video Posted Online

A video of GOATWHORE performing the track "The Serpent That Enslaves What Is Worshipped From Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun" at Magic City Music Hall in Binghamton, NY last November during the band's tour with CELTIC FROST has been posted online at the Underground Video Television web site. GOATW...

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DISILLUSION: Drummer's Illness Forces Show Cancellations

Leipzig, Germany-based prog-death band DISILLUSION has been forced to cancel the following dates after drummer Jens Maluschka was taken ill: Feb. 23 – Oeventrop, GER @ Winternachtstraum Festival Feb. 24 – Reichelsheim, GER @ Havanna Club Mar. 23 – Rüsselsheim, GER @ Das Rind Jens recently quit DISIL...

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STIKKI FYKK Confirmed For Germany's SWORDBROTHERS V Festival

STIKKI FYKK, the long-running "nasty dirty glam thrash rock" from Germany featuring Dr. Vinnie Stikk (a.k.a. Andreas Preisig, owner of Battle Cry Records),Baron Carloz (a.k.a. Eren Eraslan, former guitar player of STORMRIDER),Sergeant Ryan Vixxen (a.k.a. Mathias Czop, former guitar player for STOR...

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SPUDMONSTERS Reunion Show Scheduled For May

A SPUDMONSTERS reunion show is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 19 at Peabody's concert club in Cleveland, Ohio. Also scheduled to appear is RINGWORM, with other guests to be announced. Tickets go on sale February 23. According to Last.fm, THE SPUDMONSTERS started in 1989 and debuted with a...