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DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: Third Video Blog Entry From The Studio Available

Germany's DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER has posted the third in a series of video blog entries covering the recording sessions for the band's as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, due late summer via Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first to feature new guitar player Lady Cat-...

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Exclusive: BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Bassist Forced To Leave Tour

Bassist/backing vocalist Jason "Jay" James of the Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE has been forced to fly home from the band's current U.S. tour in order to tend to his ailing two-year-old daughter. Speaking exclusively to BLABBERMOUTH.NET from San Jose, California, where the group is playing...

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GOD FORBID's DALLAS COYLE On Differences Between Hardcore And Metal

GOD FORBID guitarist Dallas Coyle has written the latest entry for his weekly column on MetalSucks, "The Hard R." In this installment, Dallas talks about coming up as a metal band in a scene dominated by hardcore, and the way a band's environment can affect their music. An excerpt from the blog foll...

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CHRIS CAFFERY: New Solo CD 'Is Shaping Up Well'

Guitarist Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) is scheduled to enter the studio at the end of the month to begin recording his new solo album for an October release. According to Chris, the material for the "new CD is shaping up well. I should be close to or right on schedule to start...

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VENOM Planning Festival Appearances

British black metal pioneers VENOM have issued the following update: "VENOM are planning to play a select number of festival shows this summer to coincide with the release of their new album. The band's management are now in negotiations with promoters to confirm the shows." VENOM is expected to per...

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SLIPKNOT: Another Teaser Photograph Posted Online

Des Moines, Iowa-based metal giants SLIPKNOT have posted another teaser photograph from a recent photo shoot on on the splash page of the band's official web site. It is not presently clear if the picture in question is a preview of the new series of masks which the band will don on the ...

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DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: Second Video Blog Entry From The Studio Available

Germany's DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER has posted the second in a series of video blog entries covering the recording sessions for the band's as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, due late summer via Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first to feature new guitar player Lady Cat...

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AMASEFFER Signs With INSIDEOUT MUSIC

AMASEFFER, the "holy project" featuring guest appearances by Mats Levn (KRUX, ex-THERION, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN),Angela Gossow (ARCH ENEMY) and Kobi Farhi (ORPHANED LAND),has inked a deal with InsideOut Music. The group's debut album, entitled "Slaves for Life" is the first in a trilogy about the histo...

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SERJ TANKIAN And TIM ROBBINS In 'Artist On Artist' Interview; Video Available

MySpace "Artist on Artist" continues to surprise with an exclusive interview between actor/writer/director Tim Robbins and SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian. The auspicious, activist pair find common ground in their desire to raise questions and promote political progression through their accla...

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ANTHRAX: New Video Interview With FRANK BELLO Available

Possum of Altitude TV conducted an interview with bassist Frank Bello of ANTHRAX for the "Metalogy" show. Frank talks about the band's "brutal"-sounding new album, the group's new singer Dan Nelson, and why it just didn't work out with former frontman Joey Belladonna. Watch the three-minute intervie...

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DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: Video Footage From Recording Studio Posted Online

Germany's DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER has posted the first in a series of video blog entries covering the recording sessions for the band's as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, due late summer via Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first to feature new guitar player Lady Cat-...

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CRYPTOPSY Drummer: 'I Think People Are Going To Be Surprised How Brutal This Album Is'

Drummer Flo Mounier of the Canadian metallers CRYPTOPSY recently spoke to Decibel magazine about the shift in the band's musical direction on their forthcoming sixth full-length studio album, "The Unspoken King". "The Unspoken King" is CRYPTOPSY's first album to feature new keyboardist/samplist Magg...

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PRIMAL FEAR: Russian Dates Announced

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR have scheduled two dates in Russia in September: Sep. 20. - RUS - St. Petersburg Orlandino Sep. 21 - RUS - Moscow - Tochka Club Commented the band: "For the first time in 10 years, PRIMAL FEAR will play two shows in Russia Moscow and St. Petersburg. We're really ex...

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TR: 'Land' Delayed; Artwork Revealed

Faroe Islands metallers TR will release their fourth full-length album, "Land", on May 30 in Europe and June 10 in the U.S. via Napalm Records. According to the band, the follow-up to 2006's "Ragnarok" "contains mostly Faeroese, but also Icelandic and Norwegian traditionals, re-arranged into heavy m...

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My Winter Storm

Beautiful, graceful, majestic… all adjectives that could be easily used to describe the high points of the former NIGHTWISH singer's second solo album since her less than amicable split with the Finnish symphonic metallers. Drawn-out and slightly pretentious could serve as the flip side of that coin...