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TESTAMENT Guitarist: 'Every Now And Then, Life Tosses You Reminders That Nothing Is Certain'

TESTAMENT/TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA guitarist Alex Skolnick has issued the following update: "I haven't posted in a while, since I've been on tour with TSO, and had planned to write all about that. But last night, I got an e-mail with the awful news that the night before, Sean Webber had been struck...

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AFTER FOREVER Guitarist Recruits Outside Lyricist For HDK Project

Vocalist Amanda Somerville, who has appeared on the AINA rock opera "Days of Rising Doom" in 2003 and who has worked with EPICA and AFTER FOREVER as a backing vocalist and vocal coach, is collaborating with AFTER FOREVER guitarist/songwriter Sander Gommans on the lyrics for Sanders' HDK project. Com...

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XANDRIA Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

German gothic metal band XANDRIA has been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER BOLT THROWER COMM...

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'ProgPower USA VIII' DVD: Complete Details Revealed

The "ProgPower USA VIII" DVD is now available for pre-orders with a confirmed shipping date of January 29, 2007. The DVD will be released as region-free NTSC in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound with a running time in excess of three hours. It will also be available as two-CD set. The track listing is as fol...

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KOLDBRANN, MACHINEMADE GOD Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

KOLDBRANN and MACHINEMADE GOD have been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER BOLT THROWER COMMUN...

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ATREYU Schedules 'Rockline' Appearance

ATREYU will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" airing Monday, January 15. The live show begins at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET, and fans are encouraged to call in with questions during the program at (800) 344-ROCK (7625). To find a station near you, check out

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DOWN Records Tribute To THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS; Lyrics Revealed

Ross Karpelman, who plays keyboards for DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Ans...

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Switzerland's REQUIEM To Release New Album In March

Swiss death metal band REQUIEM has finished recording its new album, "Premier Killing League", at Stage One studios in Borgentreich, Germany with producer Andy Classen (LEGION OF THE DAMNED, DEW-SCENTED, TANKARD, HOLY MOSES, DISBELIEF, KRISIUN, CALLENISH CIRCLE). An March 23 release via Massacre Rec...

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WATAIN: New Song Available For Download

A brand new WATAIN track, entitled "Sworn to the Dark", has been made available for download at this location. The song is the title cut to the Swedish black metallers' third full-length album, due on February 19 via Season of Mist. A European tour will follow. After the release of the highly acclai...

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FREEDOM CALL To Release 'Dimensions' In April

German melodic speed metallers FREEDOM CALL are tentatively scheduled to release theeir new album, "Dimensions", on April 20. According to drummer Daniel Zimmermann (also in GAMMA RAY),the CD will contain 11 "fast and melodic speed hymns," which will be similar in style to the band's 2002 album, "E...

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THE WILDHEARTS Begins Recording New Album

THE WILDHEARTS frontman Ginger has posted the following message on his official web site: "What a year this one is going to be! What a year the last one was!! "Round Records got off to a flying start with the release of [Ginger's solo album] 'Valor Del Corazon', in January 2006. With releases by HOW...

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Gruesome Splendour

I've come across a fair number of black metal albums the past couple of months that are of the solid-but-not-sensational variety, HANDFUL OF HATE's "Gruesome Splendour" being yet another such album. All that really means if this Italian bunch is one of several black metal acts taking cues from the l...

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I Am Jim Jones

A lot of relentless pummel, pinches of dissonance, and elements of Swedecore, and none of its sounds like anything more than a noisy, semi-technical metalcore band. No, it doesn't suck; it doesn't soar either. "I am Jim Jones" from Virginia's CASSIUS sounds like a lot of the tougher metalcore bands...

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Bombshell

Gee, can you tell by the album cover that HYDROGYN saw fit to sell a little sex with their pop-inflected hard rock? With vocalist "Julie" striking a suggestive pose and the album titled "Bombshell", music is probably not the first thought that pops into the mind of the uninitiated. Well, "Bombshell"...

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KITTIE: Three New Tracks Posted Online

Canadian metal band KITTIE has uploaded three new tracks — "The Change", "Slow Motion" and "Witch Hunt" — to its MySpace page. All three cuts come off the group's new album, "Funeral for Yesterday", due on February 20, 2007 via KITTIE's record label, X of Infamy. As previously reported, KITTIE took...