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IN FLAMES Confirmed For United Arab Emirates' DESERT ROCK Festival

Sweden's IN FLAMES have been confirmed for the Desert Rock 2007 festival, set to take place March 9-10, 2007 at the Dubai Country Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: March 9, 2007: IN FLAMES CHILDREN OF BODOM THE PRODIGY March 10, 2007: INCUBUS PRIME C...

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KAMELOT To Headline Norway's KARMØYGEDDON FESTIVAL

American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT have been confirmed as the Saturday headliner of Norway's Karmøygeddon Festival, set to take place May 4-5, 2007 in Haugesund. Also scheduled to appear are BREED, COMMUNIC, SCAR SYMMETRY and PICTURES OF PAIN. Due to "production issues," the North American...

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HAMMERFALL Singer Wants To Tour With DISTURBED

Live-Metal.net recently conducted an interview with HAMMERFALL vocalist Joacim Cans. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Live-Metal.net: HAMMERFALL has an upcoming European tour in 2007. Who are you going to be touring with and could we possibly see HAMMERFALL in the U.S. sometime soon? Cans: To an...

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BEFORE THE DAWN Begins Recording New Album

Finnish dark metallers BEFORE THE DAWN entered the studio on November 21 to begin recording their fourth album, "Deadlight", tentatively due in early 2007 via Stay Heavy Records. A studio diary has been launched at this location. On February 14, the "Deadsong" single will be released featuring the f...

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VINTERRIKET Signs With DISPLEASED RECORDS

VINTERRIKET ("Winter Realm"),the solo synth-driven landscape endeavor of former GRAVEN member and Neodawn Productions mentor Christoph Ziegler, has inked a deal with Displeased Records. The project's "Lichtschleier" and "Und Die Nacht Kam Schweren Schrittes" albums will be reissued in January with...

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CASSIUS: New Song Posted Online

A brand new track by from Richmond, VA's CASSIUS, entitled "Funeral March", has been posted online at the Lifeforce Records America MySpace profile. The track comes off the group's upcoming debut album "I am Jim Jones", due on January 23, 2007 via Lifeforce. The CD was recorded by Chris Dowhan of Re...

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DESTINY Parts Ways With Singer, Seeks Replacement

Long-running Swedish metallers DESTINY have issued the following update: "Kristoffer joined DESTINY in 2001 and has recorded two albums ('Future Of The Past' and 'Beyond All Sense 2005') with the band. For some time it has been clear that Kristoffer wanted to leave the band. The last gig he played w...

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DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

German metal band DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER has been confirmed for the Metalcamp 2007 festival, set to take place July 16-22, 2007 in Tolmin, Slovenia. More than 80 bands will perform on two stages over the course of five days of live music. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMART...

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FATAL SMILE Will Not Support W.A.S.P. In Spain

Despite a previous announcement to the contrary, Swedish "traditional" hard rock/heavy metal band FATAL SMILE will NOT support W.A.S.P. on their Spanish dates. As previously reported, FATAL SMILE is currently writing songs for its next studio album, tentatively due in early 2007. According to the ba...

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KAMELOT Guitarist: 'New Album Is Going Killer'

Guitarist Thomas Youngblood of the American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT has issued the following update: "I am flying back from some intense and very productive recording sessions with producer Sascha Paeth in Wolfsburg, Germany. We are flying over one of nature's most beautiful sites, a cry...

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Between Two Worlds

How appropriate that this debut album from Abbath's I is called "Between Two Worlds". It is in a fact a fusing of the mammoth black metal anthems of the mighty IMMORTAL and a pronounced rock 'n' groove component that borrows from the likes of MOTÖRHEAD. However, "I" does not mimic the blackened rock...

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Gateway

The cold grey album cover of "Gateway" from Finland's PESTIFEROUS speaks volumes of the pitch-black metal in store for the listener. Few would mistake PESTIFEROUS for one of the genre's great ones, but many should applaud the band's better than average assault, which features more than just DARKTHRO...

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Ladron

Kinda jammy, kinda sludgy, somewhere at a dusty crossroads between stoner metal and sparse indie rock, TOTIMOSHI have been a hard-touring, genre-defying bar-band staple for a few years now. Fans of THE HIDDEN HAND and KALAS will wanna dig into "Ladron", its desert-baked skeletons of riffs coming off...

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: 'Winter Carols' Enters New Age Chart At No. 7

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's holiday album, "Winter Carols", has entered Billboard's New Age album chart at position No. 7. View the whole chart at this location. Ritchie Blackmore has been known worldwide for his guitar shredding in DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW. He has also shown hints of his penchant for mediev...

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DESTRUCTOR's New Full-Length Album Due Next Spring

DESTRUCTOR's headlining appearance at the opening night of the Keep It True VIII festival in Germany on April 13, 2007 is officially sold out. The legendary Cleveland, Ohio power/thrash band will be delivering an extended headlining set that will feature classics from past releases "Maximum Destruct...