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MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE, BRING ME THE HORIZON, BLACK TIDE: UK, Ireland Dates Announced

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE is set to return to the U.K. and Ireland as the headline act of next year's Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour which kicks off on January 13. The New York-based industrial-techno-punks will return to the U.K. for the 15-date Kerrang! Tour alongside Brit heavyweights BRING...

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THE BRONX CASKET CO. Working On New Album

THE BRONX CASKET CO., the side project of OVERKILL bassist DD Verni and SEVEN WITCHES guitarist Jack Frost, has started recording the follow-up to its 2005 release "Hellectric". Once again, Mike Romeo (SYMPHONY X) has provided the orchestrations as well as a bunch of solos on this record. The band h...

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DC4 Hits The Studio

DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass, has entered the Skull Seven studio with producers Bill Metoyer (SLAYER, LIZZY...

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MASTODON Interviewed On BBC RADIO 1's 'Rock Show'; Audio Avialable

MASTODON's Troy Sanders and Brann Dailor were the featured guests on this week's installment of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show". The program, which is hosted by Daniel P. Carter, can now be streamed at this location. (Note: The MASTODON interview begins around the 46-minute mark.) As previously reported,...

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DEMON HUNTER: Orangevale Footage Available

Capital Chaos has posted video footage (see below) of DEMON HUNTER's May 29, 2008 performance at Club Retro in Orangevale, CA. Also on the bill were LIVING SACRIFICE, OH SLEEPER, ADVENT and THE FAMINE. The first part of a new interview with DEMON HUNTER singer Ryan Clark and his guitarist brother Do...

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MASTODON Guitarist Hospitalized; Band To Continue Touring As Three-Piece

Bill Kelliher, guitarist with Atlanta-based progressive metallers MASTODON, has been hospitalized in London as of November 3 during the band's current European "Unholy Alliance: Chapter III" package tour with SLAYER, TRIVUM and AMON AMARTH. Doctors will continue to monitor his condition which is imp...

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OZZY OSBOURNE's Incoherence Used To Sell Messaging Phones; Video Available

Samsung Mobile has teamed up with Ozzy Osbourne to promote the Samsung Propel, a fun and trendy messaging phone with a full QWERTY keyboard available in multiple color options. In the 30-second commercial, which can be viewed below, Ozzy gets around the marbles in his mouth by texting, according to...

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LORDI: 'Deadache' European Chart Positions Revealed

"Deadache", the new album from Finnish monster rockers LORDI, has registered the following European chart positions: Finland: #5 Germany: #33 Sweden: #42 Austria: #51 LORDI sold around 1,700 copies of "Deadache" in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The C...

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ANVIL Schedules Vancouver Date

Canadian metal legends ANVIL will perform at Pat's Pub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on November 14. "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" — a mockumentary-like true account of fiftysomething Canadian heavy-metal practitioners Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner who, after a desultory European tour w...

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THE STEVE GRIMMETT BAND: First 2009 Dates Announced

THE STEVE GRIMMETT BAND — the UK-based group led by former GRIM REAPER/ONSLAUGHT singer Steve Grimmett — has issued the following update: "Steve Grimmett is delighted to announce two more dates for the diary. On January 23, 2009, the band will play the XIGAS Festival in Greece which will give the ba...

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SHADOWS FALL Drummer Checks In

SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner has issued the following update: "Well, I guess this is more like a rambling paragraph of everything going on with me and the various bands I'm busy working with right now... "Let's talk about my main 'family' (as dysfunctional as we are). SHADOWS FALL are still pa...

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CARCASS To Play Next Year's WALDROCK Festival

According to M.A.D. Tourbooking, reactivated British extreme metal legends CARCASS are the first confirmed band for next year's Waldrock festival, set to take place June 13, 2009 in Bergum, Holland. Jeffrey Easton of Metal Exiles recently conducted an interview with CARCASS guitarist Bill Steer. An...

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SISTER SIN Hits The Road In The U.S.; First Tour Video Blog Posted Online

Swedish female-fronted heavy rock band SISTER SIN has just kicked off a U.S. tour as the support act for OTEP and ILL NINO. The group's first tour video blog can be viewed below. "Switchblade Serenades", the debut album from SISTER SIN, sold around 700 copies in the Unites States in its first week o...

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LORDI: 'Deadache' First-Week Sales Revealed

Finnish monster rockers LORDI sold around 1,700 copies of their new album, "Deadache", in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 13 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developi...

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RAVENS CREED: New Music Posted Online

RAVENS CREED, the "VENOM-worshipping scumbags" featuring ORANGE GOBLIN's Ben Ward, as well as Steve Watson (ex-IRON MONKEY),Jason Graham, and former SABBAT bassist Frazer Craske, have posted four new songs on their MySpace page. The tracks "Five Witches of Nine" and "Hearse Fokker" will appear on t...