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TYPE O NEGATIVE Will NOT Perform At ROCK & SHOCK 2006 Convention

Despite a previous announcement on to the contrary, TYPE O NEGATIVE will NOT be performing at this year's Rock & Shock 2006 convention, set to take place October 13-14 at The Palladium in Worcester, MA (Note: The convention itself will take place at the DCU Center). "The band is currently focuse...

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SKID ROW Bassist: Reuniting With SEBASTIAN BACH Would Be 'Just Ridiculous'

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-zone.com: What initially prompted the band to begin playing again? Rachel: "We missed our fans. We kept getting a lot of e-mails about how people wish we would get back to...

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RAMMER And TOXIC HOLOCAUST To Team Up For Canadian Tour

Toronto, Canada's RAMMER and Boston's TOXIC HOLOCAUST will join forces this week for a 17-date tour of Canada, dubbed Incineratour 2006. The details are as follows: Oct. 05 - Sherbrooke, QC @ Bar le Magog Oct. 06 - Montreal, QC @ Saphir (w/ INEPSY) Oct. 07 - Quebec City, QC @ L'arlequin (w/ INEPSY)...

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ELVENKING: New Album Details Revealed

Italian folk/power metal band ELVENKING has posted the following message on its official web site: "After the successful release of 'The Winter Wake' album and after having toured Europe supporting JON OLIVA'S PAIN, the mastermind of the legendary SAVATAGE, ELVENKING are ready to enter the studios t...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE Members' New Band SEVENTH VOID To Play First NYC Show

SEVENTH VOID, the new band formed by TYPE O NEGATIVE guitarist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly, will play its first-ever New York City show on Wednesday, October 11, headlining Contact High Night at The Delancey (the "stoner rock" night hosted by High Times columnist and Sirius Satellite Radio...

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RUNEMAGICK Begins Recording New Material

Swedish "dark death metal" act RUNEMAGICK has entered Los Angered studio in Gothenburg, Sweden to record some of its recently penned material. "Yesterday we recorded five songs and today we rehearsed and recorded some more," the band writes in an Oct. 1 posting on its web site. "No date for mix sess...

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Midvinterblot

After hearing JUDAS PRIEST and SLAYER, among others, pull this trick recently, a friend and I decided that there was one way to tell when a band officially had become old — not bad, or useless, just preaching to the converted and officially locked into their signature style. Listen to the words — as...

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The Black Flame

When WOLF first came onto the scene, their self-titled album cover sported a freaky-looking lupine fella, sort of a denim-and-leather Disco Stu as imagined by Maurice Sendak. Musically, the band stuck out like a fistful of sore thumbs, too — the power metal revival was kicking into high gear, but ma...

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TESTAMENT's CHUCK And ERIC Talk About CLIFF BURTON's Death: Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a 45-second video clip featuring Eric Peterson and Chuck Billy from TESTAMENT discussing getting signed, aud...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE Guitarist Joins DANZIG

DANZIG has enlisted TYPE O NEGATIVE's Kenny Hickey as the group's new guitarist. Hickey joins drummer Johnny Kelly as the second TYPE O NEGATIVE member to join DANZIG's touring lineup. DANZIG will perform a dozen West Coast "Blackest of The Black" live dates in November alongside LACUNA COIL, THE HA...

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VITAL REMAINS 'Too Evil' For Bedford

Scheduled to kick off their East Coast tour tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 30) in Bedford, NH with DISMEMBER, GRAVE, DEMIRICOUS and WITHERED, VITAL REMAINS was notified yesterday that they were not welcome to perform at the first show. VITAL's guitarist, Tony Lazaro states, "We were scheduled to play wit...

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DANZIG, LACUNA COIL, THE HAUNTED: Tour Dates Announced

DANZIG, LACUNA COIL, THE HAUNTED, BELPHEGOR and ASESINO will team up for Glenn Danzig's Blackest of the Black Tour, which is being revived this winter for a two-week West Coast run. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Nov. 17 - Seattle, WA @ The Fenix Nov. 18 - Spokane, WA @ The Big Easy ...

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COMPOS MENTIS Parts Ways With Keyboardist, Seeks Replacement

Keyboardist Bo Damgaard has left the Danish death metal band COMPOS MENTIS after seven years "due to lack of time," according to a posting on the group's web site. Says the band, "We are now searching for a new keyboardist from the Aarhus area. If you are interested, please don't hesitate to contact...

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IRON AND STEEL Festival: Final Lineup Announced

The final lineup has been announced for Iron and Steel, which is being billed by the organizers as "New Jersey's first true metal fest." The two-day event will take place January 5-6, 2007 at the Pirate's Den, in Gloucester, NJ and will feature performances from the following acts: Friday, January 5...

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DESTINY To Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Re-Releases, New Album

Swedish metallers DESTINY will celebrate their 25th anniversary next year by releasing three different albums: two remastered and re-recorded double albums, "Nothing Left To Fear" (1991) and "Atomic Winter" (1988),featuring loads of bonus tracks, as well as the brand new album "Cold Fire". The band...