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OPETH: 'The Candlelight Years' Box Set To Receive European Release
The OPETH three-CD box set called "The Candlelight Years", featuring the the band's first three albums, will be released in Europe on July 13 via Candlelight Records. The set, which originally came out in Japan in June 2008, features the following track listing: "Orchid" (1995): 01. In Mist She Was...May 26, 2009
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NIGHTMARE Signs With AFM RECORDS
French power metallers NIGHTMARE have inked a worldwide deal with Germany's AFM Records. The band is currently recording its seventh album, "Insurrection", at Peek studio in France with Patrick Liotard and at U3multimedia and Indiscreet Studios in Stuttgart, Germany with Achim Köhler (PRIMAL FEAR, E...May 25, 2009
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EDEN'S CURSE Parts Ways With Keyboardist, Seeks Replacement
Multinational melodic metallers EDEN'S CURSE have parted ways with keyboardist Ferdy Doernberg and are currently seeking a replacement. Bassist Paul Logue states, "I would like to thank Ferdy for his contributions to chapter one of EDEN'S CURSE over the last three and a half years; covering two stud...May 25, 2009
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CIRCLE II CIRCLE/Ex-SAVATAGE Singer Interviewed In Bulgaria; Video Available
Metal Hangar 18 conducted an interview with vocalist Zak Stevens (CIRCLE II CIRCLE, ex-SAVATAGE) before CIRCLE II CIRCLE's May 17, 2009 concert at rock club Boliarka in Sofia, Bulgaria. Watch the chat in two parts below. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. Fatal Warning 02. Dead of Dawn 03. Fore...May 25, 2009
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ROYAL HUNT: Drum Tracks Completed For New Album
Allan Sorensen of Denmark-based hard rockers ROYAL HUNT has finished laying down the drum tracks for the band's new album, which is scheduled for release later in the year. ROYAL HUNT is posting regular updates, photos, video clips as well as offering a "track-by-track" breakdown of the recording pr...May 25, 2009
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Resurrection Macabre
I'm not sure what it was that made me so ambivalent about this record at first. It might have been the bulldozer production, heavy on the numbing, overdriven rhythm guitar and Peter Wildoer's okay-we-get-it blast beats. It could have been as simple as a bad taste left by mainman Patrick Mameli's int...May 25, 2009
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Whiskey, Blood & Napalm
All the generic, mediocre, and sub-par bands that get signed to labels based on MySpace hits and here's a band with an album that is one of the best hard rock releases of 2009 and lo and behold it's a self-release. Then again, maybe Columbus, Ohio's ROBOT LORDS OF TOKYO prefer to do things on ...May 25, 2009
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MANOWAR To Embark On 'Death To Infidels Tour!'
Scheduled to headline six of Europe's largest heavy metal festivals, MANOWAR is preparing to embark on this summer's "Death To Infidels Tour!" The self-proclaimed "Kings of Metal" have long crusaded to keep the spirit of "true metal" alive. In 2009, the crusade blazes through Europe armed with allie...May 24, 2009
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PSYCHO CHOKE To Headline Cyprus' METALMORPHOSIS Festival
Greek metallers PSYCHO CHOKE will headline the MetaLmorphosis festival, set to take place Friday, June 12 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Five local acts will also appear at the event, with Pitch Black Records' own PRODIGAL EARTH appearing just before the main act for the first time since the release of the ban...May 24, 2009
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SACRIFICE: 'The Ones I Condemn' Artwork, Track Listing Revealed
The cover artwork for "The Ones I Condemn", the much-anticipated new album from reunited Canadian thrashers SACRIFICE, can be viewed below. Commented guitarist/vocalist Rob Urbinati: "Our recording process was real, so we didn't feel comfortable going too far into the digital realm for the cover. Ou...May 23, 2009
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STRATOVARIUS: Entire New Album Available For Streaming
"Polaris", the new album from Finnish melodic metallers STRATOVARIUS, is available for streaming in its entirety on iLike.com. The CD will be released in the U.S. on May 26 via Armoury Records (a division of Eagle Rock Entertainment). The group's first CD since the departure of guitar player and mai...May 22, 2009
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CREED Getting Ready To Hit Studio
CREED will enter the studio in about a week and a half to begin recording its first new album in eight years, singer Scott Stapp told Billboard.com on Thursday (May 22). "We're excited to share (the new music) with our fans, and we really have a lot we want to prove" after a five-year hiatus, ...May 22, 2009
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MANOWAR Bassist Says New Album Will Be 'More Guitar-Oriented'
"The Asgard Saga", the world premiere of the fantasy collaboration between MANOWAR and Wolfgang Hohlbein, will begin at Magic Circle Festival III, scheduled to take place at the Loreley on the Rhine River in Germany on July 18, 2009. Headlining the festival, MANOWAR will perform material from the co...May 22, 2009
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Chile's PENTAGRAM: More Reunion Dates Announced
Long-defunct extreme metal pioneers PENTAGRAM from Chile will reunite one last time in 2009 for a Chilean tour and several shows in Europe. The band's lineup will include three original members — Anton Reisenegger (guitar/vocals, also in CRIMINAL),Juan Pablo Uribe (guitar) and Eduardo Topelberg (dr...May 22, 2009
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MANOWAR: Video Footage From The Studio Posted Online
"The Asgard Saga", the world premiere of the fantasy collaboration between MANOWAR and Wolfgang Hohlbein, will begin at Magic Circle Festival III, scheduled to take place at the Loreley on the Rhine River in Germany on July 18, 2009. Headlining the festival, MANOWAR will perform material from the co...May 21, 2009
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