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SPV Entering New Dimensions With A New Team

Following its insolvency on May 27, 2009, SPV GmbH, Hannover, is realigning itself with a new repertoire strategy, building on the reputation which it has gained in over 25 years in the recorded music market with artists such as WHITESNAKE, MOTÖRHEAD, XAVIER NAIDOO, SIMPLY RED and ALICE COOPER. "SPV...

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FEAR FACTORY: 'Mechanize' Track-By-Track Guide By BURTON C. BELL

FEAR FACTORY — the newly revamped band featuring original FF members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals) alongside bassist Byron Stroud (who played on the last two FEAR FACTORY albums in addition to touring and recording with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and ZIMMERS HOLE) and legendary drummer...

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AMORPHIS: Munich Footage Posted Online

Video footage of AMORPHIS' November 6, 2009 performance in Munich, Germany can be viewed below (courtesy of "eblinternational"). "Skyforger", the new album from AMORPHIS, sold around 1,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD landed at posi...

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AMARANTHE To Support KAMELOT In Finland, Norway

AMARANTHE (formerly AVALANCHE),the new project featuring Olof Mörck (NIGHTRAGE, DRAGONLAND),Jake E (ex-DREAM EVIL, DREAMLAND),Andy Solveström (WITHIN Y, EVILDOER, CIPHER SYSTEM) and Morten Lowe Sorensen (THE ARCANE ORDER, SUBMISSION),will support KAMELOT on the following dates: April 13 - Helsin...

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CROWBAR: Houma Concert To Be Recorded For Upcoming Live Album

CROWBAR's November 20, 2009 concert at the City Club in Houma, Louisiana will be recorded for an upcoming live album. The CD is expected to be released next year via DOWN/ex-PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo's record label Housecore Records. CROWBAR's forthcoming box set, which will also be released via...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Covers MICHAEL JACKSON Classic 'Beat It' On 'High Impact' Compilation

Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will release a new album called "High Impact" on December 8 (one day earlier internationally). The set is described as "a mind-boggling, high-paced compilation record" featuring a "surprise" bonus track — Yngwie's never-before-released interpretation of t...

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AMORPHIS Keyboardist Interviewed In Athens

Metalzone.gr conducted an interview with Santeri Kallio of Finnish metallers AMORPHIS on November 1, 2009 when the band played Athens, Greece. Santeri talks about how it feels being in a band that's been around for almost 20 years, gives advice to new groups coming into the metal scene and also offe...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN To Release 'High Impact' Compilation Album

Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will release a new album called "High Impact" on December 8 (one day earlier internationally). The set is described as " a mind-boggling, high-paced compilation record with a surprise bonus track that is a unique song choice for the guitar god!" Rising Fo...

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MÅNEGARM: Another New Song Available For Streaming

"Nattväsen"(English translation: "Night Creatures"),a brand new song from the Swedish "Viking metal" act MÅNEGARM, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track is the title cut of the band's new album, "Nattväsen", which is scheduled for release on November 19 via Regain Records...

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OZZY OSBOURNE/FIREWIND Guitarist GUS G. Signs On As ROCK HOUSE Instructor

Rock House, the leader in music instruction, announced today that Gus G., founding member and driving force behind the band FIREWIND, has joined its roster of master instructors. Gus is the guitar wunderkind who recently can be seen performing live with the prince of darkness himself, OZZY OSBOURNE....

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You Can Rock Like DIMMU BORGIR's SILENOZ

From now through November 30, 2009, you can enter to win the "Rock Like Silenoz" sweepstakes. The prize? None other than DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz's exact rig, with the ESP LTD Okkultist guitar and a Blackstar Series One 200W head and a 4x12 Blackstar cabinet. Only one lucky winner will be chos...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Parts Ways With DIMARZIO

Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen is no longer a DiMarzio endorser. DiMarzio, the Staten Island, New York-based company that produces magnetic pickups for electric guitars, will continue to manufacture the pickups and guitar straps that Yngwie endorsed minus the YJM designation and, in so...

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ECHOTERRA Joined By Former VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Singer, INTO ETERNITY Drummer

ECHOTERRA, the new female-fronted symphonic rock/metal band featuring keyboardist Jonah Weingarten (PYRAMAZE),guitarist Yan Leviathan (AVIAN),and bassist Brian Hollenbeck, has issued the following update: "We would like to officially welcome our new bandmates; singer Melissa Ferlaak and drummer Ad...

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Skeletons in the Closet

On the heels of the underwhelming "Blooddrunk", Finland's CHILDREN OF BODOM deliver the typical covers-album career stopgap, but being CHILDREN OF BODOM, and unable to do anything that isn't ludicrously over the top, they've cranked out seventeen jams that range from the expected to the interesting...

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The Chair in the Doorway

Please do not be one of those people that immediately shout "Cult of Personality!" when the subject of LIVING COLOUR is broached. Yes, it's a great song, a classic even, but just like MOTÖRHEAD has done far more in its career than "Ace of Spades", so has LIVING COLOUR crafted more than just the afor...