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ACHERON To Team Up With PANDEMIA For European Tour

Underground metal madmen ACHERON will team up with Czech Republic's PANDEMIA for the Luciferion Europe Tour 2009. The first confirmed dates are as follows: Apr. 18 - Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Poppodiumromein- Death Fest Apr. 19 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - Baroeg (with LIVIDITY) Apr. 24 - Annaberg-Buc...

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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist On 'Nostradamus', Upcoming European Tour

Ian Harvey of UK's Shropshire Star recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. On where the name of the upcoming European tour, "Priest Feast", came from: "We just thought it had got a nice ring to it. We'd just done the Metal...

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PRIMAL FEAR Bassist Checks In From Studio

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR entered the studio on November 28 to begin recording their new album, "16.6", due in early 2009 via Frontiers Records. The group's bassist Mat Sinner has issued the following update: "Henny [Wolter] has finished most of his guitar parts and left the studio earlier...

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ALLHELLUJA Parts Ways With Singer JACOB BREDAHL; New Lineup Announced

ALLHELLUJA, the Italian project featuring Stefano Longhi from Scarlet Records, has issued the following update: "ALLHELLUJA are busy in the studio in Milan completing their new album, a sonic apocalypse rising from the most brutal and corrosive death and roll with groovy stoner/doom influences and t...

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Portraits Of METALLICA, RUSH, BLACK SABBATH Drummers Featured In 'Cut To The Drummer'

Bill Ward (BLACK SABBATH),Ian Paice (DEEP PURPLE),Neil Peart (RUSH),Tommy Lee (MÖTLEY CRÜE) and Lars Ulrich (METALLICA) are among the drummers whose portraits are featured in Cut To The Drummer, an art show and drumming event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in support of F.U.M.S. for the MS Society o...

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ALL SHALL PERISH: New Video Interview, Performance Footage Available

Capital Chaos has posted a new interview and performance footage of Oakland extreme metallers ALL SHALL PERISH, shot on November 15, 2008 at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, California. Also on the bill were HATE ETERNAL, JOB FOR A COWBOY, ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY and ANIMOSITY. ALL SHALL PERISH filmed...

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SNOT Claims To Be Latest Victim Of DISNEY 'Ban'

The reunited lineup of the legendary Santa Barbara metal/punk rock hybrid SNOT has issued the following update: "Unfortunately, SNOT has been ejected from the December 20, 2008 show at the House Of Blues [in] Orlando, Florida. It was to be the last show on the MUDVAYNE, 10 YEARS, SNOT tour... Why we...

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CLUTCH Side Project THE BAKERTON GROUP To Release 'El Rojo' In February

Weathermaker Music, the label owned by touring juggernauts CLUTCH, has inked a multi-year, multiple-release North American deal with Sony/BMG-owned RED Distribution. First on deck, slated for a February 17 release through the formidable alliance, is the new THE BAKERTON GROUP CD entitled "El Rojo"....

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GOD FORBID Confirms Hollywood Show

In conjunction with their appearance at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show, New Jersey metal titans GOD FORBID will perform a special headlining concert at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood, California on Thursday, January 15. Also appearing on the bill is ARKAEA, the new band fea...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Headline Dates, Irish Support Shows Confirmed

Modern-metal heavy-hitters FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will be coming to the UK for the first time as part of Metal Hammer's "Defenders of the Faith II" package in February 2009. This tour boasts an incredible lineup of metal heavyweights, with DIMMU BORGIR, LAMB OF GOD and UNEARTH completing the bill....

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FATAL SMILE: European Headlining Dates Announced

Following the cancellation of their European tour as the support act for MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil, Swedish hard rockers FATAL SMILE have scheduled the following headlining shows: Dec. 08 - B - Antwerpen - De Rots Dec. 09 - NL - Kerkrade - The Rock Temple Dec. 10 - D - Frankfurt - Die ...

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SIX FEET UNDER Guitarist's Home Burglarized

The home of SIX FEET UNDER guitarist Steve Swanson was burglarized late Friday night/early Saturday morning (Dec. 5-6). Among items that were stolen were six guitars (two of which were custom, one-of-a-kind KXK guitars) altogether worth thousands of dollars, one Mesa Boogie dual rectifier head, Line...

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LIVING SACRIFICE Continuing Work On New Material

Vocalist/guitarist Bruce Fitzhugh of the reunited Little Rock, Arkansas-based Christian death/thrash/metalcore band LIVING SACRIFICE has issued the following update: "We are writing a new record STILL and working out the final phases on the release with Solid State [Records]. The new material is goi...

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F.K.Ü. To Enter Studio In February

Uppsala, Sweden-based thrashers F.K.Ü. have issued the following update: We thought it would be nice to break the silence regarding the next chapter in F.K.Ü.'s gruesome horror metal tale. Larry, Pete, Pat and Ted gathered this evening to review the progress and we came to the conclusion that we hav...

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CARCASS: More Footage From U.K.'s DAMNATION Festival Posted Online

More video footage of CARCASS's performance at this year's Damnation Festival, which was held on Saturday, November 22 in Leeds, U.K. can be viewed below (clips uploaded by Darren Richardson a.k.a. Mendes Soze). CARCASS bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker recently told the Brazilian edition of Rolling Ston...