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WE ARE THE FALLEN Singer Says IRON MAIDEN Is 'The Best Band Ever'

Shirley Halperin of the Los Angeles Times recently conducted an interview with WE ARE THE FALLEN singer Carly Smithson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Los Angeles Times: Coming in as a songwriter when Ben [Moody; former EVANESCENCE and current WE ARE THE FALLEN guitarist/songwriter...
May 13, 2010
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CROCELL: New Song Posted Online

CROCELL, winner of the "Metal Talent" category at Danish Metal Awards 2008, is putting the finishing touches on the follow-up to the band's debut album, "The God We Drowned". A rough-mix version of one new song, "I Know The Taste Of Your Tears", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page....
May 13, 2010
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DANKO JONES: 'Full Of Regret' Video Released

"Full Of Regret", the new video from the Canadian rock trio DANKO JONES, can be viewed below. (Note: Video stream may not be available in some non-U.S. territories.) The clip was directed by the Diamond Brothers and features guest appearances by Elijah Wood, Selma Blair, Lemmy Kilmister (MOTÖRHEAD)...
May 12, 2010
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IRON LAMB Begins Recording Debut Album

IRON LAMB — the new Stockholm, Sweden-based band formed by underground metal veterans Johan Wallin (GENERAL SURGERY, SCURVY, BOMBSTRIKE, ex-REPUGNANT),Grga Lindström (ex-REPUGNANT),Thomas Daun (DISMEMBER, ex-REPUGNANT, ex-INSISION) and Daniel Ekeroth (TYRANT, ex-INSISION, ex-DELLAMORTE, author of...
May 11, 2010
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STRYPER To Release 'The Covering' In The Fall

Christian hard rockers STRYPER have set "The Covering" as the title of their new album of covers, to be released in the fall. The CD will feature the band's original lineup of Michael Sweet on vocals, Robert Sweet on drums, Oz Fox on guitar and Timothy Gaines on bass. "The Covering" will include STR...
May 11, 2010
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GRAND MAGUS: New Song to Be Made Available For Free Download

Beginning today (Tuesday, May 11) at 5 p.m. Central European Daylight Time, and running for 72 hours, the new GRAND MAGUS track "I, The Jury" will be available for free download at this location. GRAND MAGUS is the three-piece Swedish heavy rock band featuring "JB" Christofferson (guitar, lead vocal...
May 11, 2010
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The Id Will Overcome

With twenty-seven minutes of pure sludge and sewage (and fourteen of passable noise),THE ABOMINABLE IRON SLOTH has unloaded an album as ugly and almost as kickass as their own name with "The Id Will Overcome". It's been awhile since we've heard from this band, which at one point featured members of...
May 10, 2010
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'Black Sabbath And The Rise Of Heavy Metal Music' Book Extracts Available

Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series have just released "Black Sabbath And The Rise Of Heavy Metal Music", a new hardcover book by author Dr. Andrew L. Cope. What follows is the book's official description. The definition of "heavy metal" is often a contentious issue and in this lively and accessib...
May 10, 2010
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Demonoir

To my ears the first three 1349 albums are among the best black metal triple-shots ever released, each one feral and uncompromising, yet with each subsequent album the band was developing both its identity and songwriting. Arguments have been made about the purity of "Liberation" compared to "Beyond...
May 9, 2010
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Evil Power

You can always count on LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR to kick it old school, kick pretense to the curb, and kick out the motherfuckin' jams. They've done it consistently over the course of three excellent albums of barbarian metal — "Carnage", "The Ultimate Destroyer", and "War Metal Battle Master" (all on S...
May 9, 2010
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Diamonds

No sophomore jinx here; "Diamonds" from Swedish champions of old school heavy metal ENFORCER is every bit as good as the "Into the Night" debut. In fact, the more I listen the more I think it might even be better. We'll see what the passage of time brings in terms of the album's long term ...
May 9, 2010
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Former STRATOVARIUS Mainman Interviewed For 'Metal Evolution' Series

REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE/ex-STRATOVARIUS guitarist Timo Tolkki will be interviewed by Dave Pattenden at the Ultimate World Guitar Exhibition festival in Bologna, Italy on My 15 for the forthcoming TV series "Metal Evolution". The series will air in the spring of 2011 in the U.S. on VH1 Classic and oth...
May 8, 2010
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BRUCE DICKINSON's Final BBC Friday-Night 'Rock Show' To Air At The End Of May

IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson's Friday-night "Rock Show", which airs on digital radio station BBC 6 Music, will go off the air as part of BBC's overhaul of its digital services. His final show will air on May 28. Dickinson has presented a show for 6 Music since its launch in 2002. The show goes...
May 7, 2010
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AC/DC Bites Bullet On Euro Chart

According to Billboard.com, AC/DC's "Iron Man 2" (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment) release, which consists of catalog material from the mid-1970s onwards, starts a second week atop Billboard's European Albums chart. The CD has a second-week decline in the United Kingdom (1-3),Germany and Switzerl...
May 6, 2010
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Producer KEVIN SHIRLEY: 'IRON MAIDEN Are The Best Band In The World To Work For'

Producer Kevin Shirley recently finished mixing the new IRON MAIDEN album, "The Final Frontier", at his studio for a late summer release. The CD was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with Shirley at the helm. Shirley previously worked on the last three MAIDEN albums — 2000's "Brav...
May 6, 2010