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STILL REMAINS To Hit The Road With AIDEN

Grand Rapids, Michigan's STILL REMAINS is about to hit the road again. After recently completing a successful run on the SmartPunk Stage of this year's Vans Warped Tour, the band is heading out on tour this fall with AIDEN and DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS. With a lofty goal of "touring until their bodies qui...

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ENTOMBED Frontman: 'People Hide Their Evil Deeds Behind The Good Things'

Chad Bowar of HeavyMetal.About.com recently conducted an interview with ENTOMBED vocalist L.G. Petrov. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: HeavyMetal.About.com: What led to the departure of guitarist Uffe Cederlund? Petrov: I don't know, really. He didn't enjoy playing the music. It turned ou...

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OTEP Signs With KOCH RECORDS

Koch Records has announced a new revenue-sharing, multi-album, worldwide partnership with the Los Angeles-based band OTEP. The first release under this new agreement is the band's much-delayed new full-length album, "The Ascension", due on Tuesday, October 30, 2007. Comments Otep Shamaya, the band's...

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PRIMAL FEAR Bassist Offers 'New Religion' Track-By-Track Rundown

PRIMAL FEAR bassist Mat Sinner has issued the following track-by-track rundown of the group's new album, "New Religion", due on September 21 via Frontiers Records: "Sign Of Fear: "We wanted to create a very unusual introduction for the album: like a metal band with a kind of orchestra tuning or like...

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SATAN'S HOST To Enter Studio In October

Long-running Colorado metal band SATAN'S HOST, whose classic 1986 debut, "Metal from Hell", featured lead vocals by JAG PANZER's Harry Conklin, will enter Flatline Audio studio in October to record its new album, "Great American Scapegoat", tentatively due in early 2008 via Moribund Records. A reiss...

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SAVAGE CIRCUS Announces New Lineup

SAVAGE CIRCUS members Jens Karlsson (vocals),Emil Norberg (lead guitar) and Piet Sielck (guitar, bass, backing vocals) has issued the following statement: "After all it's time for some good news again. SAVAGE CIRCUS is happy to present our new official drummer, Mr. Mike Terrana. Known from great ba...

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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Comments On TOOL Guest Appearance

DRAGONFORCE guitarist Herman Li was up on stage with TOOL on August 22 at the Brixton Academy in London, England. Near the end of TOOL's set, Herman was invited on stage in the middle of the song "Lateralus" to perform a guest guitar solo. He commented after the show: "TOOL's a unique band. It was ....

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The Resurrection Of MARILYN MANSON

Ben Wener of The Orange County Register recently conducted an interview with Marilyn Manson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On having to "confirm" during his marriage to Dita Von Teese: "I started to feel bad about being me. I started to feel like I had to turn me off somehow, ...

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Xecutioner's Return

Simple to the point of atavism, and crackling with more energy than the band's been able to muster up in at least a decade, "Xecutioner's Return" is pretty much exactly what OBITUARY fans were hoping it'd be. It's a bone-basic tour de force of old-school death metal infused with a bleeding organic g...

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Prominence and Demise

It has been around three years since Norway's WINDS released its third album, "The Imaginary Direction of Time". That may seem like a long duration between albums, but if you've immersed yourself in the act's lush, classically infused compositions, then you understand that this is a band for which t...

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Hex

"…life is nasty, brutish, and short", wrote 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his book Leviathan, this abbreviated statement also aptly describing the music of underground legends NUNSLAUGHTER. After about a thousand (well, more like 110) releases of various shapes and sizes since forming in...

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DREAM EVIL: Video Footage From Holland's ELSROCK FESTIVAL Available

Fan-filmed video footage of DREAM EVIL's performance at this year's installment of the Elsrock Festival, which was held August 25 in Rijssen, The Netherlands, can be viewed below. DREAM EVIL has announced plans to release a CD containing several new cuts and songs that were previously only available...

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WOLF To Guest On Rock 247 Online's 'Hair Metal Haven'

Swedish metallers WOLF will guest on the "Hair Metal Haven" show on Rock 247 Online on Saturday, September 1 between 17.00 and 19.00 GMT (18.00 and 20.00 CET). The interview was conducted during the band's recent visit to the U.K. and was taped at JB's in Dudley. You can listen to the program live v...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO: 'If You're Going To Be Successful, You've Got To Be Unique'

Jim Catalano of The Ithaca Journal recently conducted an interview with legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN AND HELL, RAINBOW). A few excerpts from the chat follow: On growing up in Central New York, relying on a blue-collar ethos to build his music career: "T...

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THOR: Video Footage From NORTHWEST METALFEST Available

Video footage of Canadian rock warrior THOR's triumphant headlining performance at the Northwest Metalfest — which was held near Vancouver between Chilliwack and Hope, British Columbia, Canada on Aug. 10-12 — can be viewed below. The clip features rabid fan reaction at both the Metalfest (including...