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CANDLEMASS Confirmed For Norway's METAL HEART Festival

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have been confirmed for Metal Heart, a brand new two-day metal festival set to take place August 17-18 at Tapperiet in Notodden, Norway. Around 12 acts will perform at the event. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): CANDLEMASS...

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BLIND GUARDIAN: Early Albums To Be Reissued

Eight of BLIND GUARDIAN's albums will be re-released in June to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary. The LPs due to be reissued are as follows: * Battalions of Fear (1988) * Follow the Blind (1989) * Tales from the Twilight World (1990) * Somewhere Far Beyond (1992) * Tokyo Tales (1993) * Imaginat...

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WITH PASSION Confirmed For CALIFORNIA METALFEST

Sacramento-based technical metalcore outfit WITH PASSION has been confirmed for this year's California Metalfest, set to take place March 31 – April 1 at The Galaxy Theater in Santa Ana, California. Also scheduled to appear are TESTAMENT, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SADUS, NECROPHAGIST, ANIMOSITY and SEVERE...

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TESTAMENT Guitarist Records 'Latin' Version Of 'Practice What You Preach'; Audio Available

ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO, the band led by TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick, will release its new album, "Last Day In Paradise", on March 15 via Magnatude Records. The CD consists of seven original compositions along with three arrangements of hard rock "standards" (a concept upon which the trio has built...

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THE CULT To Perform At California Speedway

THE CULT will make its first live appearance of 2007 on February 24 at California Speedway in Fontana, California. The concert, which begins at 8:00 p.m., is a part of NASCAR's highly successful Rock 'n Racing series. Tickets include admission to the racetrack to view the race and THE CULT's post-ra...

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TESTAMENT Confirmed For U.K.'s BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR Festival

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT have been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place July 6-7 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. Also scheduled to appear are BLIND GUARDIAN, KORPIKLAANI, MENDEED and RISE TO ADDICTION. TESTAMENT last p...

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LIGHT THIS CITY Completes Debut Video

Fresh off a string of support dates alongside label mates ALL THAT REMAINS, San Francisco Bay Area thrashers LIGHT THIS CITY have just confirmed a support slot on an upcoming two-week tour with fellow California bands THE FACELESS and ANTAGONIST. Having spent the bulk of late 2006 touring in support...

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U.D.O., VREID, ZYKLON Confirmed For Norway's METAL HEART Festival

U.D.O., VREID and ZYKLON are among the newly confirmed bands for Metal Heart, a brand new two-day metal festival set to take place August 17-18 at Tapperiet in Notodden, Norway. A total of 10-to-12 acts will perform at the event. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):...

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TESTAMENT: New Live Video Posted Online

A video clip of TESTAMENT perfoming at the Independent in San Francisco, California on January 27, 2007 has been posted online at YouTube.com. TESTAMENT is currently working with new drummer Nick Barker (formerly of DIMMU BORGIR and CRADLE OF FILTH) on material for its first studio album since 1999'...

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Former WHITE ZOMBIE Drummer Joins SCUM OF THE EARTH

SCUM OF THE EARTH, the band featuring former ROB ZOMBIE guitarist Riggs, has announced the addition of former WHITE ZOMBIE drummer Ivan DePrume to its ranks. DePrume stated about his decision to joing the group, "When Riggs approached me about joining the band, I was like, 'When do we start touring?...

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EXODUS: Another Live Video Posted Online

A video of veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers EXODUS performing their track "Deathamphetamine" at the Crocodile Rock in Allentown, PA during the Monsters Of Mayhem tour last year has been posted online at the Underground Video Television web site. Also available at the same location is a live...

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METALLICA's HAMMETT Talks About Meeting LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD; Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett about the San Francisco Bay Area club scene and the first t...

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NEVERMORE Guitarist STEVE SMYTH: New Audio Interview Available

A brand new audio interview with NEVERMORE/ex-TESTAMENT guitarist Steve Smyth, conducted the weekend of January 20, 2007 by Maximum Threshold, has been posted online at this location. Smyth recently launched an Internet guitar-lesson program via his official web site, www.stevesmyth.com. "After 20-p...

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DESTRUCTION Confirmed For Poland's METALMANIA Festival

German thrashers DESTRUCTION have been confirmed for the Metalmania Festival 2007. The 21st edition of the biggest metal festival in Central-Eastern Europe will take place on March 24 at the Spodek Hall in Katowice, Poland. There will be two stages, where around 25 bands will perform for thousands o...

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TESTAMENT Frontman On New Album: 'We Have About Five Or Six Songs Written So Far'

Justin Donnelly of The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's reunion tour: "I think that we're beyond the reunion tour thing now, especially now that we've decided to do an album together now. It's simply a...