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SLAYER To Release 6/6/06 T-Shirt, Limited To 666 Units, Priced At $16.66

To honor the symbolic date of June 6, 2006 — the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year; as in 666, the "number of the beast" or Anti-christ in the Bible's Book of Revelations — SLAYER will release an exclusive t-shirt (see design here),limited to 666 units and only ...

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SLAYER: Limited-Edition 'Cult' Single Due This Month

Amazon.com is currently taking pre-orders for a limited-editon (5,000 copies) SLAYER "Cult" single featuring the following track listing: 01. Cult 02. Cult (Live Video) 03. Rare Fan Footage (Video) According to Amazon.com, the single is being released on June 15. In other news, Sam Ash has launched...

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MERCILESS DEATH Replace VINDICATOR At MINNEAPOLIS MAYHEM 3 Festival

California-based MERCILESS DEATH (Heavy Artillery Records) have replaced their labelmates VINDICATOR on the billing of the Minneapolis Mayhem 3 festival, set to take place August 25-26 at the Star Central in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to the festival organizers, VINDICATOR were forced to drop...

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Greece's X-FEST Cancelled

The previously announced X-Fest that was going to take place in Athens on June 6, featuring DIO, IN FLAMES, TRIVIUM, HATEBREED, DARKSTAR and INNERWISH has been cancelled. A press release published by the organizers, Aenima, reads as follows: "The Aenima team regrets to inform all fans that we re for...

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SLAYER: New Song Snippet Posted Online

A snippet of a new SLAYER track, entitled "Cult", is available at the band's official web site, www.slayer.net. SLAYER's still-untitled follow-up to "God Hates Us All", which was released on Sept. 11, 2001, is due this summer via American Recordings. The group's first new album with their four origi...

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NEVERMORE Guitarist STEVE SMYTH Forced To Sit Out European Festival Dates

NEVERMORE guitarist Steve Smyth (ex-TESTAMENT) has issued the following statement: "It is with deep regret that I will not be able to perform at any of European festivals over the next week with NEVERMORE, as I am now in hospital being treated with dialysis. The total kidney failure that I thought w...

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FALL OF SERENITY Explain Tour Cancellation

German death metallers FALL OF SERENITY have issued the following statement explaining their decision to drop off the European tour with HATE ETERNAL, SPAWN OF POSSESSION and SHADOWSLAND: "So we are not on tour with the cool people of HATE ETERNAL, SPAWN OF POSSESSION and SHADOWSLAND anymore. We wer...

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ANNIHILATOR Cancel European Tour

Long-running Canadian thrashers ANNIHILATOR have been forced to cancel their previously announced European tour, which was slated to kick off in July. In a posting on the band's official forum, mainman Jeff Waters wrote, "We were, of course, really looking forward to doing this tour but will unfortu...

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FULL BLOWN CHAOS: Singer's Illness Forces Show Cancellations

New York-based hardcore/metal band FULL BLOWN CHAOS were forced to cancel their appearances in Bakersfield, Reno, Boise and Cleveland after the group's vocalist, Ray Mazzola, was taken ill. "Ray woke up with the same pain as he did when he first got bit by the black widow spider," the band write on...

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DIMMU BORGIR Pull Out Of Italy's GODS OF METAL Festival

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have been forced to pull out of Italy's Gods of Metal festival (scheduled for June 1-4 at Idroscalo in Milan) "due to serious health reasons," according to a posting on their official web site. Commented guitarist Silenoz: "We apologize to everyone it...

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ATHEIST Frontman Jams With ALARUM: Video Available

ATHEIST frontman Kelly Shaefer performed the band's classic track "Piece of Time" with Australian metallers ALARUM on Wednesday, May 24 in St. Petersburg, Florida at the State Theatre. This was the very first time Kelly has performed this song live since 1993. Check out video footage of the performa...

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DISTURBED: Weeding Out The Knuckleheads

Yuri Wuensch of the Edmonton Sun recently spoke to DISTURBED drummer Mike Wengren about the band's tribute concert to late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, who was killed in December 2004 during a DAMAGEPLAN concert in Ohio. "It was really cool, unbelievable," Wengren recalled....

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EUROVISION Winners LORDI Become Tourist Attraction

TravelVideo.tv has issued the following press release: The extraordinary success of a wild rock band in the annual Eurovision Song Contest has turned a little-known group from Finland into a tourist attraction. The Finnish Tourist Board has capitalized on the win by the heavy metal monsters, LORDI,...

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FALL OF SERENITY Drop Off HATE ETERNAL European Tour

German death metallers FALL OF SERENITY have been forced to drop off the European tour with HATE ETERNAL, SPAWN OF POSSESSION and SHADOWSLAND. According to a press release from the band's record label, Lifeforce Records, "There were several reasons" why FALL OF SERENITY decided not to continue with...

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SLAYER: Warm-Up Dates Will Not Be Rescheduled After All

SLAYER's previously announced sold-out "warm-up" dates — June 2 at New Oasis in Sparks, NV and June 3 at Senator Theatre in Chico, CA — will **NOT** be rescheduled to take place following the Denver date at the end of July, despite a previous announcement to the contrary. Scheduling conflicts are be...