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JUDAS PRIEST Fan Listens To 'Nostradamus' 145 Straight Days!

Friday, November 7, 2008 will mark the 145th straight day Cleveland, Ohio JUDAS PRIEST fan Jim Bartek has listened to PRIEST's "Nostradamus", a double-disc concept album based on the mysterious, world-known 16th century French prophet Nostradamus, in its entirety from start to finish since the initi...

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JUDAS PRIEST's HALFORD: 'Nostradamus' Has To Be Understood From Beginning To End

Greg Prato of UGO.com recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. UGO.com: How has the tour in support of "Nostradamus" been thus far, and what has the fans' reaction been to the new material? Rob Halford: I think we've sti...

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OPETH Frontman On 'Craziest' Thing He Did As Metal Musician

Germany's Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an interview with OPETH mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Metal Hammer: What does heavy metal mean to you in general: Lifestyle or music? Mikael: It's both. The lifestyle includes the music. Sometimes, when I think ba...

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HOLY MOSES: New Video Interview Available

Metalhead TV conducted an interview with long-running German thrashers HOLY MOSES on October 16, 2008 at the Live Metal Club in Bucharest, Romania. Watch the four-minute chat below. "Agony of Death", the new album from HOLY MOSES, was released on September 29 in Europe via Wacken Records/SPV. The CD...

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BENEDICTION: New Video Interview Available

Metalhead TV conducted an interview with UK extreme metallers BENEDICTION on October 16, 2008 at the Live Metal Club in Bucharest, Romania. Watch the nine-minute chat below. BENEDICTION's new album, "Killing Music", was released in North America on September 23 via Locomotive Records. The follow-up...

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KATATONIA Confirmed For UK's BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish metallers KATATONIA have been confirmed for next year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 14-16, 2009 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: SABATON KATATONIA THE HAUNTED TURISAS WINTERSUN Tickets went on sale on Septemb...

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SOTHIS Announces New Bassist

Los Angeles-based black metal band SOTHIS has issued the following update: "We began running ads looking for a bassist sometime around the beginning of summer and we are happy to announce that we have found a new bassist. He is Keres [see photo below] and is a local Southern California metalhead. Yo...

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GRAVEWORM Interviewed At Romania's CHAOS FEST; Video Available

Italian dark metal band GRAVEWORM was interviewed by Metalhead TV backstage at the Chaos Fest festival on September 21, 2008 in Bucharest, Romania. Watch the eight-minute chat below. GRAVEWORM's latest album, "Collateral Defect", is out now on Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at Stage One studi...

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LORD BELIAL Interviewed At Romania's CHAOS FEST; Video Available

Swedish black metal horde LORD BELIAL was interviewed by Metalhead TV backstage at the Chaos Fest festival on September 21, 2008 in Bucharest, Romania. Watch the four-minute chat below. LORD BELIAL has just released its new album, "The Black Curse", via Regain Records. The CD was recorded at Deadlin...

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ROB HALFORD: 'Metal Fans Are Very Tolerant, Very Compassionate, Very Smart People'

JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford has told Australia's Perth Now that while he understands that metal has become something of an obvious and ever-ready target for public outrage looking for a scapegoat for society's ills, he takes the form very seriously. "There are people who don't understand it, b...

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OBITUARY Guitarist To Give Lessons On Upcoming U.S. Tour

Guitarist Ralph Santolla (OBITUARY, DEICIDE, DEATH, ICED EARTH) has sent the following message to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "I just wanted to put this out to let people know I'm going to be giving lessons on the upcoming OBITUARY U.S. tour. I'll take 2-3 people per day, and it would be better if anybody int...

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CROM: Band Lineup For SWORDBROTHERS Performance Confirmed

German epic metal band CROM has confirmed the lineup for its appearance at the SwordBrothers Festival on September 13 at the Juz in Andernach, Germany. Vocalist and guitarist Walter "Crom" Grosse, who formed CROM in 2000 because he wanted to follow a different musical path to that of his former band...

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KATATONIA Hard At Work On New Material

Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström of the Swedish metal band KATATONIA has issued the following update: "We can hear many questions…. 'Why is there no new KATATONIA album out by now???' And you might rightfully think so, our eighth album (and the last in the contract with Peaceville) should have been done a...

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KREATOR: New Photos From Recording Studio Posted Online

Germany's Visions magazine has posted a world-exclusive studio report on the current recording sessions for KREATOR's new album. Check out the report (in German) as well as photos from the studio at this location. KREATOR entered the Titonus studios in Berlin on July 20 to begin recording the highly...

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OBITUARY Checks In From The Road

Legendary Florida-based death metallers OBITUARY have issued the following update: "We flew from Tampa to New York to Frankfurt to Copenhagen and then to Vilnius, Lithuania to make it to the first show of this third and final leg of our European summer festival tour. We lost our luggage, equipment a...