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BESEECH To Release New Album In February

Swedish "gothic metal" act BESEECH have set a tentative February 2004 release date through Napalm Records for their fourth full-length album, "Drama". BESEECH have spent the past few weeks at Studio Mega recording the follow-up to 2002's "Souls Highway", the group's first effort since the departure...

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MACHINE HEAD: New Song Available For Download

A brand new MACHINE HEAD track, titled "Left Unifinished", has been posted online in MP3 format at this location. "Left Unifinished" comes off the group's forthcoming fifth studio album, titled "Through The Ashes Of Empires", due on October 27 through Roadrunner Records in Europe. The follow-up to 2...

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MACHINE HEAD Finalize Track Listing For 'Through The Ashes Of Empires'

MACHINE HEAD have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Through The Ashes Of Empires", tentatively set for an October 13 European release through Roadrunner Records. The follow-up to 2001's "Supercharger" will include the following cuts (final sequence): 01. Imperium 02. Bite The Bullet...

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HENDRIX Tops ROLLING STONE Poll

Jimi Hendrix has been named the greatest guitar player by Rolling Stone magazine in a poll to discover the greatest guitarists of all time. Hendrix received a glowing tribute from WHO guitarist Pete Townshend, who wrote that he "made the electric guitar beautiful," according to Reuters. Townshend re...

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CONSORTIUM PROJECT III: New Album Details Revealed

Century Media Records have licensed the new CONSORTIUM PROJECT III album for worldwide release. Gaining lengthy experience from fronting activities with acts like HAMMERHEAD, VENGEANCE, ELEGY and also appearing on Arjen Lucassen's AYREON, Ian Parry's third and latest rendition to the realms of symph...

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: North American CD To Include Bonus Video

The North American edition of BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's "Ghost Of A Rose" CD, scheduled for release on August 26 through SPV Records, will include as a special bonus the video for the track "Way To Mandalay", filmed in the salt mines at Krakow, Poland. "Ghost Of A Rose" features former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW...

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TORI AMOS: 'GENE SIMMONS Is Scarier To Little Girls Than A Blackout'

Robert Cherry of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that singer Tori Amos shared her story of The Big Blackout during her performance at Tower City Amphitheater in downtown Cleveland's Flats Saturday night (August 16). Early in her set, the ivory-tickling chanteuse revealed that she had waited out t...

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ASSASSIN Are Ready To 'Go Fight Kill'

ASSASSIN, the reunited German thrash act that released a couple of promising albums in the late '80s via the SPV label (1987's "The Upcoming Terror" and 1988's "Interstellar Experience"),have posted the following message to their official web site: "First of all the whole band wanna thank all the c...

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MACHINE HEAD To Release Limited Double-CD Edition Of New Album

MACHINE HEAD's forthcoming album, "Through The Ashes Of Empires" (due in Europe on Oct. 13) will be available as a special limited double-CD edition with a slipcase, according to a post on the Roadrunner Records U.K. web site. "However, this version of the CD will only be available on initial store...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: 'There Ain't Nobody Like Me'

PANTERA/SUPERJOUNT RITUAL frontman Philip Anselmo recently spoke to Metal Edge magazine about the influence he has had on fans as well as other bands. "There wasn't even anyone with a bald head in bands in my fuckin' day, in metal bands at least," he said. "If you think about it, there really fuckin...

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Review: Heavy Metal's Best Ignite Seattle Crowd On METALLICA's SUMMER SANITARIUM Tour

Tina Potterf of Seattle Times is reporting that METALLICA, the elder statesmen of metal, assembled an untouchable lineup of acts for their Summer Sanitarium appearance at Settle's Seahawks Stadium Thursday (August 7): MUDVAYNE and the DEFTONES, LINKIN PARK and LIMP BIZKIT. "The real heavyweights of...

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MACHINE HEAD To Embark On European Tour

MACHINE HEAD are currently finalizing plans for a blistering full-scale, European headlining tour, set to kick off in late October and continue through December. The following dates have been confirmed so far: Nov. 04 - Paris, FRA - Elysee Montmartre Nov. 06 - Barcelona, SPA - Razzmatazz Nov. 07 - B...

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Review: METALLICA Are As Influential As LED ZEPPELIN And BLACK SABBATH

Dan Nailen of The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that METALLICA has not forgotten its roots and has no plans of slowing down any time soon, judging from the band's oldies-laden performance Wednesday (August 6) at Usana Amphitheater. "METALLICA opened with the whiplash-thrash of 'Battery' and heavy r...

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Former LED ZEPPELIN Singer To Release Solo Compilation

Former LED ZEPPELIN frontman Robert Plant is currently putting together a two-CD compilation album entitled "Sixty Six to Timbuktu", according to Concert Live Wire. The set, which is expected to surface before the end of the year, is scheduled to include not only Plant's own solo hits, but also pre-...

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SOLITUDE AETURNUS: 13 New Songs In The Can

John Perez, guitarist of the long-running Arlington, Texas-based doom metallers SOLITUDE AETURNUS, has posted the following update on the band's current activities: "I've been silent for so long that I thought I'd give a little update. Things are finally looking good for [SOLITUDE AETURNUS]! We have...