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THE GATHERING To Perform At Holland's LIVEXS AWARDS Today

Female-fronted Dutch art-rock act THE GATHERING has issued the following update: "As you know, THE GATHERING has won the LiveXS award 2006 for Oustanding Achievement with about 20 percent of the vote in an open category. They were also nominated as Best Dutch Live Act 2006 and Best Dutch Album 2006...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING On Early Musical Inspirations: 'To Me, It Was All About VENOM'

Aaron Beck of The Columbus Dispatch recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. The question-and-answer session follows: The Columbus Dispatch: How went the recording of the first album, "Christ Illusion", in five years? Kerry King: We'd played together for a few years before w...

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EPICA Confirmed For Greece's METAL DAY FESTIVAL

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA has been confirmed for the Metal Day Festival, set to take place April 4 at the Fencing Olympic Complex in Athens, Greece. Also scheduled to appear are MANOWAR, RHAPSODY OF FIRE and TIAMAT. EPICA will embark on a North American headlining tour in Septem...

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AUTUMN Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of rising gothic metal band AUTUMN from the Netherlands. AUTUMN is a special band in many ways. Unlike all their competitors in the overcrowded scene with female fronted metal bands, AUTUMN deliver something original, are everything but cliché and add so...

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ELDRITCH: In Mixing Mode

Italian progressive-aggressive metal band ELDRITCH entered Bigwave studios on December 1 to begin recording its seventh album, entitled "Blackenday". According to a posting on the group's web site, the CD "is [currently] getting mixed by R.D. Liapakis at Music Factory studios in Germany and then wil...

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BON SCOTT's Old Mates To Raise Money For Life-Sized Statue Of Late AC/DC Frontman

Australia's TheAge.com.au reports: On Sunday, February 25, some of Bon Scott's old mates, as well as younger bands that have felt his influence, will perform at the Claremont Showgrounds in Perth to raise money for a life-sized statue of the frontman to be erected in his adopted home town of Fremant...

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HEAVEN AND HELL: New VINNY APPICE Audio Interview Posted Online

TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 127 of its "Talking Metal" podcast. In part two of their BLACK SABBATH coverage, hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy are joined in the studio by guest host C.C. Banana. The episode features a new 20-minute interview "Talking Metal" conducted with legendary drumme...

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STUCK MOJO Guitarist: 'I Have Become The World's Busiest Mail-Order Clerk'

MetalSucks.net recently conducted an interview with STUCK MOJO guitarist Rich Ward. A few excerpts from the chat follow: MetalSucks.net: How is everything going right now with the band and the new record "Southern Born Killers"? Rich Ward: It's been an amazing process. I went from a musician who tou...

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VINNIE MOORE: European Clinics Announced

UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore has scheduled the following ENGL clinics during the band's European tour: Mar. 01 - Just Guitar & Basses - Hamburg, Germany – 5:30pm Mar. 07 - Klier Musikhalle - Nürnberg, Germany - 5:30pm Mar. 14 - Musikbörsen - Malmö, Sweden - 5:30pm Mar. 16 - Musik Utan Gränser - Go...

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W.A.S.P., AFTER FOREVER, LAKE OF TEARS Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARZ Festival

W.A.S.P., AFTER FOREVER and LAKE OF TEARS are among the newly confirmed bands for the Rock Harz open-air festival, set to take place July 6-7 in Osterode-Dorste, Lower Saxony, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): A.O.K. AFTER FOREVER ASP CRAYFOX DARZAMAT DI...

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DIAL Signs With PROGROCK RECORDS

Dutch/Swedish alternative rock band DIAL, featuring bass player/vocalist/guitarist Kristoffer Gildenlöw (formerly of PAIN OF SALVATION),vocalist/bassist LiLo and guitarist Rommert van der Meer, has inked a deal with ProgRock Records. DIAL entered the Dead Soul Temple studio in Austria last summer w...

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VAN HALEN: 'Best Of (1978-1984)' Gets New Release Date

BLABBERMOUTH.NET can reveal that Rhino Records has pushed back the projected release date of VAN HALEN's "Best Of (1978-1984)", the first single-disc compilation exclusively spotlighting 1978-1984, the group's original David Lee Roth era, to March 27 from the previously announced March 13. The album...

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ABGOTT Off SEVERE TORTURE U.K. Tour

U.K. extreme black metallers ABGOTT will no longer support Dutch brutal death metal merchants SEVERE TORTURE on their upcoming U.K. tour. DESECRATION and EVILE are still scheduled to appear on all dates. The details are as follows: Mar. 14 - TJS, Newport Mar. 15 - Cavern, Exeter Mar. 17 - Electrower...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND Drummer's TERROR SYNDROME Project In Mixing Mode

DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND drummer Ryan Van Poederooyen has issued the following update: "So it's begun... the mixing for the TERROR SYNDROME album [Ryan's solo project] has begun, over the last few days. We've been shackled up in one of Vancouver's top studios — Greenhouse Studios (NICKELBACK, SKID ROW, Q...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Bassist Guests On New VINNIE MOORE Album

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY bassist John "J.D." DeServio recorded a guest appearance last month for the new solo album from UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore. Check out pictures at this location. The CD is being recorded in part at Spin Studios in Queens, New York with Van Romaine (BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS, KANSAS,...