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ONE FOR NOTHING Record New Material, Seek Label Home

ONE FOR NOTHING (formerly ETHER SEEDS) have been maintaining an increasingly busy schedule after emerging from a marathon recording and mixing session at New York's famed Quad Studios. The band tracked several new tunes that they plan to make available online in the coming weeks. Guitarist Stephen S...

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NIGHTWISH: Helsinki Show Sold Out

All 6,000 tickets to NIGHTWISH's headlining performance at Helsinki Icehall on December 26 were sold the first day they went on sale, according to a posting in the group's web site. Support at the show will come from KOTIPELTO (featuring STRATOVARIUS singer Timo Kotipelto) and AFTER FOREVER. As prev...

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OBITUARY: New Photos Posted Online

Roadrunner Records U.K. has uploaded two brand-new photos of the reunited Florida death metallers OBITUARY. Check them out: Photo#1, Photo#2. In other news, OBITUARY singer John Tardy has issued the following message regarding the band's upcoming European tour: "Things are going pretty smooth right...

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CRADLE OF FILTH's 'Gilded Cunt' T-Shirt Banned

According to Roadrunner Records U.K., merchandise company Blue Grape have had their printing plant refuse to handle the proposed artwork for the new CRADLE OF FILTH T-Shirt. The factory (TOT Shirts Ltd.) have been forced to reject the order since staff literally downed tools in disgust. The proposed...

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DEFIANCE Reunion 'On Hold'

Long-defunct San Francisco Bay Area thrash band DEFIANCE have postponed their reunion plans following singer Steev Esquivel's decision to fill in for departed EXODUS frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza on the latter band's rescheduled tour of South America in late October. "Because Steev will be very busy...

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NIGHTWISH Singer To Launch Official Web Site

NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen will launch her official web site, www.tarjaturunen.com, on Monday, September 20. As previously reported, the North American edition of NIGHTWISH's latest album, "Once", due October 5 via Roadrunner Records, will include extra material not found on the album's orig...

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CRADLE OF FILTH: 'Nymphetamine' Video Posted Online

CRADLE OF FILTH's video for the title track to their upcoming album, "Nymphetamine", has been posted online at this location. The clip, which was directed by Dani Jacobs, features a guest appearance by Norwegian singer Liv Kristine (LEAVES' EYES, ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY). CRADLE OF FILTH bassist Dave...

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STILL REMAINS Sign With ROADRUNNER RECORDS

Grand Rapids, MI's STILL REMAINS have inked a deal with Roadrunner Records. The group, whose sound is being described as a mixture of "heart-crushing howls" and "heartfelt melodies amidst a swirl of keyboards" while "guitars chug brutally and then harmonize like IRON MAIDEN on overdrive," came to Ro...

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MURDERDOLLS Guitarist Launches Search For 'Trashiest Band In The U.K.'

Acey Slade, guitarist for Roadrunner recording artists MURDERDOLLS, is giving "the chance of a lifetime" to a lucky U.K. band. While on tour with his new group, TRASH LIGHT VISION, Slade will be searching for a band to bestow the title "Trashiest Band in the U.K." upon. Finalists will get to open fo...

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Got A MACHINE HEAD Tattoo? You Can Be In The Band's New Video

MACHINE HEAD have launched a search for fans with a MACHINE HEAD tattoo of any kind to be cast in their upcoming video for "Days Turn Blue to Gray". If you live in or around the San Francisco Bay Area,, or are willing to travel and don't mind covering your own expenses, send the band ...

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ILLDISPOSED Drop Off DEATH ANGEL Tour

Danish death metallers ILLDISPOSED have dropped off the upcoming DEATH ANGEL European headlining tour "due to financial problems with the promoter, Metallysee agency," according to an official statement from the band. A new European tour will be announced soon. ILLDISPOSED's new album, "1-800 Vindic...

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CRADLE OF FILTH: North American Tour To Kick Off In November

British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have issued a statement refuting reports that they have scheduled a North American tour beginning October 15 in Ottawa, ON. "If any other tour dates appear on any other web sites and not on our official page then we cannot be held resposible for them," the b...

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LIFE OF AGONY Sign With EPIC RECORDS?

Reunited New York metal band LIFE OF AGONY are rumored to have inked a deal with Epic Records. The group, who were previously signed to the Roadrunner label, will shortly enter the studio to begin recording their first album of new material since 1997's "Soul Searching Sun", tentatively due in early...

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CRADLE OF FILTH: 'Nymphetamine' E-Card Available

A brand-new CRADLE OF FILTH E-card, containing streaming audio versions of the songs "Nymphetamine" and "Gilded Cunt", can be accessed at this location. "Nymphetamine" and "Gilded Cunt" come off CRADLE OF FILTH's new album, "Nymphetamine" (roughly translated as the druggish beast-like addiction to b...

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ILL NINO Drop Off SOULFLY Tour Following Post-Show Brawl

ILL NINO have reportedly dropped off the remaining dates on the SOULFLY U.S. tour following an altercation between current SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo (ex-ILL NINO) and ILL NINO frontman Cristian Machado after the two bands' joint appearance in Royal Oak, MI this past Sunday (Sept. 5). According to...