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VISION DIVINE, THY MAJESTIE Confirmed For U.K.'s METALFEST

VISION DIVINE, THY MAJESTIE, EASTERN FRONT and HELLFIGHTER have been confirmed for the first edition of a new U.K. festival called Metalfest, set to take place September 25-27, 2009 at JB's in Dudley. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLAZE BAYLEY BRAINSTORM EASTERN FRONT E-FORCE FAIRYL...

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Austrian AC/DC Concert Sells Out In Minutes

According to AFP, tickets for a concert by AC/DC in Vienna sold out within minutes on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said. The concert is set for May 24 at the 50,000-capacity Ernst Happel stadium where the final of the Euro 2008 football tournament was held in June, and promoters are said ...

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QUEEN Guitarist Not Feeling Snubbed By AXL ROSE

QUEEN guitarist Brian May has responded to GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose explanation for why May's contribution to the new GN'R album, "Chinese Democracy", didn't make it to the CD's final cut. In 1999, May recorded a guitar solo for new GN'R track "Catcher N' The Rye", which appears on "Chinese Dem...

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D.R.I. 'Semi-Reunion' At PASADENA NAPALM DIVISION's Austin Gig; Video Available

PASADENA NAPALM DIVISION, the new band featuring former DEADHORSE members Greg Martin, Ronny Guyote and Scott Sevall along with D.R.I. frontman Kurt Brecht and bassist Pone, performed at Room 710 in Austin, Texas this past Saturday night, Decemebr 13. One of the opening bands at the show was BLUNT F...

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AMORPHIS: More Dates Announced

Finnish metallers AMORPHIS have scheduled the following dates: Jan. 28 - Dante's Highlight - Helsinki, Finland Mar. 20 - Verkatehdas - Hämeenlinna, Finland Apr. 12 - Klubi - Turku, Finland Apr. 18 - Hullu Poro Areena - Levi, Finland Jul. 18 - Dong Open Air - Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany Aug. 14 - Summe...

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BRUCE DICKINSON's Video Message For IRON MAIDEN's Peruvian Fans

A one-and-a-half-minute video message from IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson to the band's Peruvian fans can be viewed below. IRON MAIDEN is scheduled to perform at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru on March 26, 2009. Bruce says in the clip, "The thing that we're really looking forward to is tryin...

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IRON MAIDEN's BRUCE DICKINSON Visits Southend Vulcan; Photos, Report Available

Phil Whalley has submitted the following report to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: Normally seen performing in front of hundreds of thousands of screaming rock fans in stadiums all around the world, IRON MAIDEN vocalist Bruce Dickinson visited Hawkwell Village Hall in Hockley, England and its capacity of just 125...

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POWER QUEST Confirmed For U.K.'s METALFEST

U.K.-based melodic power metal act POWER QUEST has been confirmed for the first edition of a new U.K. festival called Metalfest, set to take place September 25-27, 2009 at JB's in Dudley. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLAZE BAYLEY BRAINSTORM THRESHOLD SWALLOW THE SUN XANDRIA POWER Q...

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Beware The Circling Fin

A metaphorically appropriate name on many levels, EARLY MAN is a musical translation of that scene from "2001: A Space Odyssey" where the prehistoric ape-man discovers that the leg bone of his fallen comrade made for a handy weapon and proceeded use the blunt instrument to bash the living fuck out m...

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Black Faith Inquisition

I really struggled with this one. I'd go back and forth between assessing "Black Faith Inquisition" as an epic tour de force of melodic black metal and a painstakingly long, verbose black metal album that tries to do too much. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. There is no question that...

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A Spell for the Death of Man

As far as one-man black metal projects go, WOE's "A Spell for the Death of Man" stands on solid ground. Xos (a.k.a. C. Grigg) does a commendable job with the guitars, vocals, and perhaps most pleasantly surprising, the drums. The engineering job of Xos and Joe Smiley is far better than a lot of blac...

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Fogcutter

Reading the Canadian press statements on Windsor's FIFTYWATTHEAD you would think that they are in fact the second coming of Jesus Christ. Calm down, "Fogcutter" has got a lot of juicy guitar riff wreckage going on, but let's not get carried away here. Much of what is heard on the album is listenable...

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Death Rituals

For as many years as I've written about SIX FEET UNDER, the comments have always been the same: "They suck balls!" or "They rule!" Eight studio albums in (not counting live releases and the "Graveyard Classics" series) and SIX FEET UNDER are still going strong. I'll admit that I was a bigger fan for...

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IRON MAIDEN: Promotional Video For Lima Concert Available

A four-minute promotional video for IRON MAIDEN's March 26, 2009 concert at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru can be viewed below. The clip includes a brief message from MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson for the band's Peruvian fans. He says, "To play in Peru is a bit of a result for us. We are really...

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MUCKY PUP: 20th-Anniversary European Tour Planned

Reactivated New Jersey crossover/hardcore band MUCKY PUP will embark on a short European tour next summer to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. The trek will tentatively feature the same band lineup that recorded the "Now" album (1991) and will see the group performing songs from its first three r...