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TO/DIE/FOR To Enter Studio This Week

Finnish gothic metallers TO/DIE/FOR will enter the studio on August 6 to begin recording their sixth album, tentatively due in early 2010. Drums tracks for a total of 15 new songs are expected to be laid down during the initial sessions, which will last four days. Regarding the new material's musica...

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DELAIN: Quality Footage From Germany's AMPHI FESTIVAL Available

Quality fan-filmed video footage of DELAIN — the Dutch gothic rock/metal project founded by ex-WITHIN TEMPTATION keyboardist Martijn Westerholt (brother of WITHIN TEMPTATION's Robert Westerholt) — performing at the Amphi Festival, which was held July 18-19, 2009 in Cologne, Germany, can be viewed be...

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SONIC SYNDICATE: New 'Sonic TV' Webisode Available

Swedish modern metallers SONIC SYNDICATE have uploaded a new Sonic TV webisode featuring more footage from the band's fall 2008 European tour with IN FLAMES. Check it out below. SONIC SYNDICATE, whose sound has thus far revolved around the dual vocals of Richard Sjunnesson and Roland Johansson, anno...

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DEVILDRIVER: New Audio Interview With DEZ FAFARA Available

On July 14, 2009, Sonic Excess conducted an interview with vocalist Dez Fafara of Santa Barbara's DEVILDRIVER. The 16-minute chat is now available for streaming below. "Pray For Villains", the fourth full-length album from DEVILDRIVER, sold around 14,600 copies in the United States in its first week...

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DEATH ANGEL: Quality Footage From Czech Republic's MASTERS OF ROCK Festival Available

Quality video footage of San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL performing the song "Voracious Souls" at this year's installment of the Masters Of Rock festival — which was held July 9-12, 2009 in Vizovice, Czech Republic — can be viewed below (courtesy of "GOBLLIN"). DEATH ANGEL's longtime dr...

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YEARS OF COLD Preparing To Record New Material

YEARS OF COLD, the El Paso, Texas-based band featuring former PISSING RAZORS members Matt Lynch and Cesar Soto, has issued the following update: "Well, we have been extremely busy both in and outta town and the time is upon us to hit the studio once again in the coming weeks. This time we have elect...

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NECROPHAGIST: Performance Footage Of New Song Available

Metal Nick of Metal Injection has uploaded video footage of the German technical death metal band NECROPHAGIST performing a new track called "Dawn and Demise" on June 6, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia. Watch the clip below. As previously reported, progressive and technical webzine The Apparatus, has pos...

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JAMES RIVERA Rejoins VICIOUS RUMORS For HEADBANGERS OPEN AIR Performance

Veteran heavy metal vocalist James Rivera (HELSTAR, SEVEN WITCHES, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM) rejoined his former bandmates in VICIOUS RUMORS to perform the song "Sonic Rebellion" on July 24, 2009 at the Headbangers Open Air festival in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. Watch fan-filmed video footage of the a...

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ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW Explains Absence From North American Shores

Finnish melodic death metal band ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW has issued the following update: "We want to clarify some things. "We'd love to play in North America (as well as in many other places) but there's still one thing preventing us to do that... We need a North American label. "During our 15 year...

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ASPERA: Video Footage From SLUSEROCK Festival Posted Online

Video footage of Norwegian progressive metallers ASPERA performing the song "Remorse" at the fourth annual Sluserock festival in Lunde, Norway on June 6, 2009 can be viewed below. ASPERA is putting the finishing touches on its debut album, "Ripples", due later in the year via an as-yet-undetermined...

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DYING FETUS To Film 'Shepherd's Commandment' Video

Baltimore death metallers DYING FETUS will head to New York this weekend to shoot the first video from their forthcoming album, "Descend Into Depravity". The clip, for the CD's second track, "Shepherd's Commandment", will be directed by Kevin Custer (HATEBREED, TESTAMENT, SOULJA BOY, KINGDOM OF SORR...

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MEGADETH Drummer Discusses 'Endgame'

PureGrainAudio.com recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. PureGrainAudio.com: Now I've read that MEGADETH's twelfth studio album is very close to being completed in the studio. Can you let us in on any news about its sound...

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TARJA TURUNEN Named 'Sexiest Female Metal Musician'

Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen was named "Sexiest Female Metal Musician" by the visitors of the Metalhead.ro web site. More than 6,000 votes were cast, with Turunen narrowly beating out her NIGHTWISH replacement, Anette Olzon. The final results are as follows: 01. Tarja Turunen (ex-NIGHTWISH)...

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WEDNESDAY 13's GUNFIRE 76 To Enter Studio Next Week

GUNFIRE 76, the new project featuring former MURDERDOLLS frontman Wednesday 13, will enter a Los Angeles studio next week with producer Howard Willing to begin recording its debut album. The band says, "There have been a number of delays with the recording of the CD and we want to make sure everythi...

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HANOI ROCKS Guitarist Gets Wooden Statue

A wooden statue of HANOI ROCKS guitarist/co-founder Andy McCoy will be unveiled this Saturday (July 25) in his birthplace of Pelkosenniemi, a municipality of Finland. Commented McCoy: "First real statue is a great honor. Normally statues are being built only after the artist has died." The wooden st...