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KATATONIA: 'Live Consternation' Live Album/DVD Due In May

KATATONIA's live performance from last year's Summer Breeze open-air festival in Germany will be released as a double-disc live album/DVD, entitled "Live Consternation", on May 28. The "super jewelcase" packaging will feature both the audio on CD and the show on DVD (including both 2.0 and 5.1 versi...

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ADASTRA Signs With VIOLENT JOURNEY RECORDS

Finnish metallers ADASTRA have inked a deal with Violent Journey Records. The band is scheduled to enter Studio Dauntless tomorrow (Saturday, March 10) to begin recording its debut album, "The Last Sunset". The CD will include "old" favorites and a bunch of previously unheard songs. The tentative tr...

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DARK THE SUNS Completes Work On Debut Album

Finnish atmospheric metal outfit DARK THE SUNS has finished recording its debut album, "In Darkness Comes Beauty", at Dreamhouse studio for a summer release through Firebox Records. The group has thus far only released two demos, the first one of which was named "Demo of the Month" by Inferno magazi...

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POISONBLACK Confirmed For Finland's SAUNA OPEN AIR Festival

POISONBLACK, the Finnish band featuring Ville Laihiala (vocals, guitar; formerly of SENTENCED),has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sauna Open Air festival, set to take place June 7-9 in Tampere, Finland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Thursday, June 7: MEGADETH KOTIPELTO...

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PAIN, SWALLOW THE SUN Confirmed For Germany's WITH FULL FORCE Festival

Sweden's PAIN and Finland's SWALLOW THE SUN have been confirmed for this year's With Full Force festival, set to take place June 29 - July 1 at Flugplatz Roitzschjora in Löbnitz, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMON AMARTH BAD MANNERS BARCODE...

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BLACK MAJESTY: New Album Title Revealed

Australian melodic power metal band BLACK MAJESTY has set "Tomorrowland" as the title of its new album, due later in the year through the German label Limb Music Products. BLACK MAJESTY has also been confirmed for the Metal Universe Black Sun Festival in Slovakia, which takes place July 20-21. Other...

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Ex-IRON MAIDEN Singer PAUL DI'ANNO Comes Clean

David Schmeichel of Canada's Sun Media recently conducted an interview with former IRON MAIDEN frontman Paul Di'Anno. The question-and-answer session follows: Sun: You fronted IRON MAIDEN between 1976 and 1982, but after leaving the band, you compared founder Steve Harris and manager Rod Smallwood t...

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D.C. COOPER Confirmed For BAY AREA ROCK FESTIVAL

Bay Area Rock Promotions has announce that D.C. Cooper has been confirmed as a special guest of the Bay Area Rock Festival. The current SILENT FORCE lead singer and former ROYAL HUNT frontman will make a guest appearance onstage with one of the bands on the first night of the festival. Additionally,...

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FEAR FACTORY Drummer's 3VOLUTION PRODUCTIONS Up For Two G.A.N.G. Awards

FEAR FACTORY drummer Raymond Herrera's company 3volution Productions is up for two Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) awards in the following categories: * "Best Original Vocal - Pop" (for "All My Life" - Battlefield 2: Modern Combat) * "Best Arrangement Of A Non-Original Score" ("All Along the Wat...

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PRIMAL FEAR Putting Finishing Touches On New Album

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR have posted the following message on their official web site: "Most of the recordings for the new PRIMAL FEAR album are done! Yesterday, we spent our final day at the House Of Music Studio and finished our work there. We worked 15 hours a day during last couple of...

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VITAL REMAINS Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

VITAL 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 BLIND GUARDIAN BULL...

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Ex-THE DARKNESS Frontman's EUROVISION Song Posted Online

Former THE DARKNESS frontman Justin Hawkins has teamed up with Beverlei Brown to sing "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To" in a televised battle with six other contestants wanting to represent the U.K. at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. A short audio clip of the track can be downloaded at t...

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AMORPHIS Confirmed For Germany's WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN Festival

Finland's AMORPHIS has been confirmed for the Wave Gotik Treffen festival, set to take place May 25-28 in Leipzig, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are MOONSPELL, CRUACHAN, SUIDAKRA, PRIMORDIAL, EISBRECHER and REFLEXION, among many others. AMORPHIS recently finished recording its new CD at Sonic Pu...

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CRIONICS Finalizes Track Listing For 'NeuThrone'

Poland's CRIONICS has finalized the track listing for its new album, "NeuThrone", due this spring via Candlelight Records. The recording session took place at Zed Studio in Olkusz, Poland with the very talented Tomasz Zalewski, who recorded the most recent albums by THY DISEASE, TOTEM, and HORRORSCO...

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HEAVEN AND HELL, MEGADETH, MACHINE HEAD: Complete U.S. Itinerary Revealed

Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice will reunite for the first time in 15 years as HEAVEN AND HELL to cast a dark spell over spring as the quartet tours the U.S. Tickets will go on sale the weekend of March 9 for all 20 stops of the American leg (except ...