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ATARGATIS: Debut Album To Feature Guest Appearance By Violinist

According to a posting on German gothic/dark metal band ATARGATIS' official web site, the group's new album will feature a guest appearance by violinist Susanne Zisky, formerly of the Junge Sinfonie Berlin. ATARGATIS, who feature in their ranks female singer Stephanie Luzie (DARKWELL),are putting t...

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MACABRE Confirmed For Chicago's WINDY CITY INVITATIONAL Festival

Chicago "murder metal" legends MACABRE have been confirmed for the Windy City Invitational, set to take place Saturday, October 1 at the Metro in Chicago, Illinois. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: KITTIE MACABRE BURY YOUR DEAD KATAKLYSM GOD DETHRONED MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD ACUMEN NATION...

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DISILLUSION Part Ways With Bassist, Seek Replacement

DISILLUSION, the prog-death band from Leipzig, Germany, have parted ways with bassist Ralf Willis less than five months after he joined the group. "Although we were highly euphoric in the beginning, we now know that things simply did not go together," the group write on their web site. "In Willis, t...

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LEAVES' EYES And ATROCITY To Play Select INTERNATIONAL EXTREME MUSIC FESTIVAL Dates

LEAVES' EYES and ATROCITY will be joining the International Extreme Music Festival tour (featuring GOD DETHRONED, NIGHTRAGE, EPOCH OF UNLIGHT, THINE EYES BLEED and MANNTIS) for some of the dates during the trek's final week. LEAVES' EYES and ATROCITY will be coming in to perform at the Windy City In...

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KITTIE Announce First Hometown Appearance In Three Years

Canadian metal band KITTIE have added a London, Ontario date to their schedule as a warm-up concert before their Windy City Invitational appearance. The show will take place at Call the Office on September 29, and will mark KITTIE's first hometown appearance in three years. Also performing on the bi...

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LEAVES' EYES, ATROCITY To Appear At German AIDS Benefit Concert

LEAVES' EYES, the new band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY (who are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull),and ATROCITY have been confirmed to appear at an AIDS charity concert on November 11 at Ludwigshall in Dieburg, Germany. All proce...

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ATARGATIS Putting Finishing Touches On Full-Length Debut

German gothic/dark metal band ATARGATIS, featuring female singer Stephanie Luzie (DARKWELL),are putting the finishing touches on their full-length debut, "Wasteland", at Hellion studios (DARKSEED, EQUILIBRIUM) in Munich, Germany. The CD will include a new version of the group's "hit" song "Angels C...

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Riot Detonator

The scream of "Warrrhhheeeeaaaaddddd!" (No, not the VENOM tune) to begin the second album from Norway's MINDGRINDER was my first clue that "Riot Detonator" would not be the industrial-edged, programmed death metal of 2004's "Mindtech". The previous release had its moments, but felt like a band that...

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DESTRUCTION Confirmed For Belgium's VELO-ROCK Festival

Long-running German thrashers DESTRUCTION have been confirmed for the Velo-Rock festival, set to take place September 3 in Ostende, Belgium. Also scheduled to appear are ORPHANAGE and ATROCITY. More information is available at www.velorock.be. As previously reported, DESTRUCTION have announced the f...

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ATROCITY And LEAVES' EYES To Team Up For North American Tour

ATROCITY and LEAVES' EYES (the new band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY; ATROCITY are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull) will be teaming up for a North American tour beginning late September. Confirmed tour dates so far are as follows...

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Thor Against the World

One of those legendary 1980s types that no one you know actually seems to have ever have heard of, Jon Mikl Thor is some sort of Canadian bodybuilding heavy metal movie star. He's been working on a comeback for a few years now, releasing an album last year (the quasi-conceptual "Thor Vs. The Beastwo...

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LEAVES' EYES To Tour Germany With SUBWAY TO SALLY

LEAVES' EYES, the new band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY (who are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull),will be teaming up with SUBWAY TO SALLY for the "Nord Nord Ost" tour of Germany and Austria in December 2005. Confirmed dates are...

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ATROCITY Mainman Named 'Producer Of The Year'

ATROCITY/LEAVES' EYES singer/producer Alexander Krull was named "Producer of the Year" by the American magazine True Alternatives, according to a posting on the LEAVES' EYES web site. Krull received the award for his work on the following projects: "Atlantis" (ATROCITY),"Lovelorn" and "Vinland Saga...

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BATTLELORE: 'Storm Of The Blades' Video Posted Online

BATTLELORE's video for the track "Storm of the Blades" has been posted online at this location (Windows Media). "Storm of the Blades" comes off the Finnish "fantasy metal" band's new album, "Third Age of the Sun", due in Europe on July 25 via Napalm Records (late August in North America). Audio samp...

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Emergency Workers Invited To QUEEN Show

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Rock group QUEEN, whose open-air concert planned for London's Hyde Park was postponed by a week because of the terrorist attacks, said it will invite thousands of emergency services personnel to Friday's event in a gesture of thanks. QUEEN frontm...