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DARKTHRONE To Release New Album In February; Details Revealed

Legendary Nowegian black metallers DARKTHRONE will be releasing their twelfth album, entitled "The Cult is Alive", in February 2006 via the group's newly rekindled partnership with Peaceville Records. A single, "Too Old, Too Cold", will precede the album in January. The track listing for both releas...

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NINE INCH NAILS: Drummer ALEX CARAPETIS Out

According to a posting on The NIN Hotline, NINE INCH NAILS appear to have parted ways with recently recruited drummer Alex Carapetis. Replacing him on the band's current tour — at least temporarily is A PERFECT CIRCLE's Josh Freese. NINE INCH NAILS' previous skinsman, Jerome Dillon, was forced to le...

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AMORPHIS To Perform At Second Annual FINNISH METAL EXPO

Finland's AMORPHIS will celebrate the release of their new album, "Eclipse", with a live appearance at the second annual Finnish Metal Expo, which will take place on February 17-18, 2006 at Kaapelitehdas in Helsinki, Finland. Other bands scheduled to perform at the Expo include U.D.O., AJATTARA, SWA...

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DEFTONES, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, SHADOWS FALL Featured On 'Best Of The Taste Of Chaos' CD

Billboard.com is reporting that Warcon Enterprises is readying a two-disc compilation of unreleased tracks, rare outtakes and special songs from artists participating in the first and upcoming installments of the Taste Of Chaos tour. Due Jan. 24, "Best of the Taste of Chaos" boats 36 songs from the...

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ZAO Are 'Excited' About Upcoming Tour With IN FLAMES

Greensburg, Pennsylvania's ZAO will be supporting Sweden's IN FLAMES on their upcoming U.S. tour beginning in late January. Also on the tour will be buzz-making heavy music bands TRIVIUM and DEVILDRIVER. Commenting on their addition to the tour, ZAO guitarist Scott Mellinger said, "I listen to IN FL...

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SLIPKNOT, BENNINGTON, KEENAN Venture Into 'Underworld'

Launch Radio Networks reports: SLIPKNOT, TOOL singer Maynard James Keenan, LINKIN PARK frontman Chester Bennington and up-and-coming band FLYLEAF all contribute tracks to the soundtrack of "Underworld: Evolution", the sequel to the 2003 vampire action hit "Underworld". A complete track and artist li...

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SOUNDSCAN Report: THE DARKNESS, DARK FUNERAL, PARADISE LOST

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending December 6, 2005, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 1,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred): THE DARKNESS - "One Way Ticket to Hell …an...

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TORTURE KILLER: European Release Date Announced For 'Swarm!'

Metal Blade Records has set a February 24, 2006 European release date (February 21 in Germany) for the new album from the Finnish death metallers TORTURE KILLER, now featuring SIX FEET UNDER/ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist Chris Barnes. Entitled "Swarm!", the album's basic tracks were recorded back in J...

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Top Metal/Hardcore Albums Of 2005 As Voted By Writers Of Sweden's CLOSE-UP Magazine

A total of 30 metal, rock and punk writers at Sweden's Close–Up magazine have voted in the magazine's annual critics' album-of-the-year poll. The final results were as follows: 01. SYSTEM OF A DOWN – "Mezmerize" 02. OPETH – "Ghost Reveries" 03. NINE INCH NAILS – "With Teeth" 04. THE MARS VOLTA – "Fr...

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AMORPHIS: More 'Eclipse' Details Revealed

The new AMORPHIS album, "Eclipse", is scheduled for release on February 17, 2006 on Nuclear Blast Records. The first single, "House of Sleep", will be released January 4, 2006. Introducing new vocalist Tomi Joutsen (SINISTHRA),AMORPHIS' seventh full-length release in their 15-year career marks a fr...

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Attera Totus Sanctus

Those wondering whether the long awaited full-length, "Attera Totus Sanctus", from Sweden's DARK FUNERAL is a major departure from the mostly one-tempo (fast) albums of the past can stop wondering. In a general sense, this is no major departure, but it is a somewhat more memorable DARK FUNERAL album...

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Imagine

There is something to this DREAM THEATER-meets-JOURNEY description of Houston, Texas' STRIDE. Neither as over-the-top progressive as DREAM THEATER nor as pop-flavored AOR as NEIL SCHON's bunch, the band's second full-length and first released through a record label does feature the successful constr...

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FUNERAL PROCESSION: New Recordings Detailed

German black metallers FUNERAL PROCESSION have returned from the recording studio where they finished tracking 12 new songs. The cuts that were laid down during the sessions are as follows: 01. Beholde the Stars Fall From The Heavens 02. Bloode of the Elder (Building the Anti-Kosmos) 03. Doom 04. He...

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MY DARKEST HATE Complete Work On New Album

MY DARKEST HATE, the German death metal band featuring former PRIMAL FEAR drummer Klaus Sperling and members of SACRED STEEL, have completed work on their fourth album, "Combat Area", for a March 24, 2006 release via Massacre Records. The band recorded the follow-up to 2004's "At War" at Stage One s...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE's NIKKI SIXX: 'Our Lives Have Been Changed Forever'

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following messages in his online diary: "Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam - November 28, 2005, 4 pm "Left this morning from Tokyo at 7 a.m. We had a lay over here in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (at one time Siagon) but our flight has been cancelled, so ...