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EMPEROR Announces Additional Performances

After triumphantly headlining the annual Wacken Open Air festival and completing recent capacity performances in America, EMPEROR has announced two additional performances for 2006. On Saturday, October 7, EMPEROR will headline the fifth annual Motstoy Festival in the band's hometown of Notodden. Fo...

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VED BUENS ENDE: New Song Posted Online

VED BUENS ENDE (Norwegian for "At the End of the Rainbow"),the Norwegian avant-garde metal band who split up in 1997 after after releasing only one full-length album (1995's "Written in Waters") through Misanthropy Records, has been resurrected and has posted a rehearsal recording of a new song, en...

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EMPEROR Tabulature Book Set For U.S. Release

Candlelight Records has set an October 31 U.S. release date for the EMPEROR guitar tabulature book, titled "Scattered Ashes: Decade of Emperial Wrath". The 132-page oversized book featuring foreword and transcriptions by vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn includes original tabs for thirteen EMPEROR classics...

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EDGE OF SANITY: 'The Best Of' Track Listing Revealed

EDGE OF SANITY, the acclaimed Swedish band led by producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö, has finalized the track listing for its upcoming double CD collection, "The Best of Edge of Sanity". According to Dan, "one disc will feature the highlights of the more 'normal' studio albums and the mini-alb...

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FLASKAVSAE Signs With GES PRODUCTIONS

FLASKAVSAE, the Illinois-based ambient/black metal project, has inked a deal with GES Productions. The group will release its debut EP, "Eclipse in Tides", in late August/early September. Audio samples and more information are available at www.myspace.com/flaskavsae. ...

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AMORPHIS: New Dates Announced

Following their appearance at the Scooprock Festival in Mikkeli, Finland on Friday, September 15, AMORPHIS will play a one-off club gig at Nosturi in Helsinki on Saturday, September 16. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, July 21. In other news, a brief AMORPHIS feature has been included in Imperiumi...

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SCUM OF THE EARTH Music Featured In 'National Lampoon's TV: The Movie'

SCUM OF THE EARTH, the band featuring former ROB ZOMBIE guitarist Riggs, will have three songs featured in the soundtrack to the upcoming "National Lampoon's TV: The Movie", which is currently in post-production for release sometime this year. The songs which have been selected are "Murder Song", "N...

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SCUM OF THE EARTH: Eight Songs Completed For New Album

SCUM OF THE EARTH, the band founded by former ROB ZOMBIE guitarist Riggs, has begun pre-production on the follow-up to its debut album, "Blah...Blah...Blah... Love Songs for the New Millennium". Eight songs have bee completed so far, and "it's turning out to be a bone-crushing, stripper extravaganza...

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SETH: Future Uncertain

Guitarist Heimoth of the French black metal band SETH has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "A significant break seems inevitable. For now, I am mainly involved in TOXIC ENGINE (electro/metal project with Stephen Holweck of TOTAL ECLIPSE/ex-JUNO REACTOR and DECREPIT SPECT...

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'Canadian Metal In Japan" Compilation CD To Be Distributed This Month

Paul Smith, the man behind HeavyMetalMeltdown.com, has teamed up with Cyclone Records to put together a CD collection of 15 metal bands from across Canada spanning genres, from nu-metal to black and death metal. What makes this disc so unique, besides the exceptional talent, is that it is to be dist...

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EMPEROR Frontman Rejects 'Sellout' Accusations

Sauli Vuoti of Imhotep webzine recently conducted an interview with EMPEROR frontman Ihsahn. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On EMPEROR's decision to split up: "It is not like pressure, but we have felt people's wishes. I don't think that people really realize what they are wishing for. If they...

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NIGHTWISH: DualDisc Version Of 'Sleeping Sun' Single To Arrive In June

Drakkar Records has set a June 2, 2006 release date for the DualDisc version of the NIGHTWISH single "Sleeping Sun", entitled "Ballads of the Eclipse". In addition to four audio tracks, the DualDisc will contain the videos for "Sleeping Sun" and the live clips for "Walking in the Air" and "Swanheart...

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When Worlds Collide

In theory, each album should stand on its own without any external factors being weighed in. But there's something intangible that just grabs you when you're hearing the real thing. There's no “conviction" knob on a studio mixing board, but when it oozes from every pore of a record, you feel it, and...

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RITCHIE BLACKMORE's Son JÜRGEN To Release New Instrumental CD

German guitarist Jürgen Blackmore, son of DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore, will release a new instrumental rock album, entitled "Between Darkness & Light", on May 19. The CD was recorded and mixed earlier this year at the Musikerei Studios in Quickborn, Germany and features a...

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DREAM THEATER: New Official 'Bootlegs' Available For Order

Ytsejam Records (web site) is now accepting pre-orders for the latest installment of the DREAM THEATER "official bootlegs", which include: "Awake Demos", "Dark Side of the Moon" CD (DREAM THEATER's entire performance of the legendary PINK FLOYD album recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo in London...