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METALLICA: Sessions M4 Jacket Available

Sessions, a leading snowboard and action sports company that designs, merchandises, sources, and distributes high-performance snowboard apparel and accessories for the core, youth-driven sports segment, has produced a special METALLICA M4 jacket. Sessions' affiliation with METALLICA stems from compa...

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ALICE COOPER, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, TEENAGE HEAD Members To Guest On C101.5 FM

Hard rock legends Dennis Dunaway (founding member and bassist of the original ALICE COOPER band),Albert Bouchard (founding member and drummer of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT) and TEENAGE HEAD guitarist Gord Lewis will be interviewed round table-style today at 4:00 p.m. EST on C101.5 FM in Hamilton, Ontario, Ca...

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AMORPHIS: New Video Blog Available

A new AMORPHIS video blog featuring footage from singer Tomi Joutsen's birthday party on stage can be viewed below. AMORPHIS will release a new single, "Silver Bride", in Finland on April 22. The "radio edit" version of the track is now available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The "Silver...

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DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA: Footage From Recording Studio Posted Online

Swedish avant-garde rock band DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA entered In Flames studio in Gothenburg on April 6 with producer Roberto Laghi (IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE, MUSTASCH, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR) to begin recording its new album, "Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious", for a September release v...

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SONIC SYNDICATE Continuing Vocalist Search

Guitarist Robin Sjunnesson of the Swedish modern metal band SONIC SYNDICATE has issued the following update: "On March 30, we released the breaking news about [vocalist] Roland [Johansson; who is responsible for the "clean"/melodic singing in the group] leaving SONIC SYNDICAT. "When we found our Rol...

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Absu

Had ABSU drummer/vocalist/lyricist/driving-force Sir Proscriptor McGovern tried to pick up where the earlier incarnation of the band left off with 2001's "Tara", this self-titled resurrection would more than likely been one of the biggest letdowns of the year. Without the blackened thrash riffery of...

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ZAO: Another New Song Posted Online

Influential heavy music act ZAO has posted another new song, "Entropica", on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new album, "Awake?", which is scheduled for release on May 5 via Ferret Music. The follow-up to 2006's "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here" was recorded in Latrobe, Penns...

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TO/DIE/FOR Calls It Quits

Finnish gothic metallers TO/DIE/FOR have officially disbanded. Commented singer Jape Peratalo: "My nerves, stress level and life came to the point that I really need to get some rest and say goodbye for these stressful and still nice days with TO/DIE/FOR. "Since 2005, we have been through so many sh...

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Voice of Saturn

If an apocalyptically slow sludge band gets psychedelic on us, is it tuning in, turning on, or selling out? Something tells me Atlanta crunge merchants ZOROASTER won't be swimming in endorsement deals for adding piano and droney chant to "Seeing the Dark", but it does widen their sonic palette in a...

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The Severed Inception

This is what we call a good 'ole teeth rattler. On "The Severed Inception", Sweden's INEVITABLE END assaults the senses with a constant barrage of jackhammer drumming and ear melting riffage. The first seconds of the opening title track overwhelm with the kind of intensity one hears right off the ba...

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Orcustus

Danger is omnipresent on this mean little bitch; a menacing hooded figure around every corner and the smell of rotting flesh inflaming the nostrils. ORCUSTUS' self-titled effort is morbid, lethal, and black as pitch, just what a black metal album should be, especially a Norwegian black metal album....

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SEXTAPES Schedules Hollywood Date

SEXTAPES, the Hollywood, California-based band featuring GUNS N' ROSES keyboardist Chris Pitman on vocals and guitar synth, will perform at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California on April 20 with STEEL PANTHER. The show starts at 8:00 p.m. and SEXTAPES will hit the stage at 10:00 p.m. SEXTAPES r...

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Trailer For RUNNING WILD Tribute Album Available

A one-and-a-half-minute trailer for "ReUnation - A Tribute To Running Wild" — the upcoming tribute to German metal legends RUNNING WILD which will contain cover versions of songs exclusively from the albums "The Rivalry" (1998),"Victory" (2000),"The Brotherhood" (2002) and "Rogues En Vogue" (2005)...

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IMPELLITTERI Mainman Shoots YOUNG GUITAR Cover With Photographer NEIL ZLOZOWER

IMPELLITTERI mainman Chris Impellitteri is featured on the cover of Japan's Young Guitar magazine for the May 2009 issue (see image below). Impellitteri shot the cover photo with legendary photographer Neil Zlozower in Los Angeles. Neil also photographed the entire IMPELLITTERI band during the photo...

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DELAIN: 'April Rain' Lands On German Chart

"April Rain", the new album from DELAIN — the Dutch gothic rock/metal project founded by ex-WITHIN TEMPTATION keyboardist Martijn Westerholt (brother of WITHIN TEMPTATION's Robert Westerholt) — has entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 96. "April Rain" will be released in North Amer...