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MANOWAR: Audio Sample Of New Recording Of 'Manowar' Song Available

MANOWAR has decided that its fans deserved to hear the songs from its debut album, 1982's "Battle Hymns", with the massive sound and production that has become the group's signature over recent years and records. With the decision to reinterpret the music came the need to revisit the famed narration...

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METALLICA: The BILLBOARD Cover Story

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich and frontman James Hetfield, as well as Cliff Burnstein, one of METALLICA's managers at Q Prime, were interviewed for the cover story of the latest issue of Billboard, a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. A couple of excerpts from the story follow b...

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DEVILDRIVER Guitarist Interviewed In San Francisco (Video)

Bassy Stacy of BayAreaRocks.com conducted an interview with guitarist Jeff Kendrick of Santa Barbara, California's DEVILDRIVER on August 10, 2010 at Slim's in San Francisco, California. You can now watch the chat below. DEVILDRIVER has set "Beast" as the title of its fifth album, due on February 22,...

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DEVILDRIVER Guitarist Discusses Upcoming 'Beast' Album In New Interview

Ashley Curtis of the Less Bright Eyes More Deicide music blog recently conducted an interview with guitarist Jeff Kendrick of Santa Barbara, California's DEVILDRIVER. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Less Bright Eyes More Deicide: You've released four albums so far, so was it difficu...

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ENFORCER Announces First-Ever Japanese Dates

Heavy Artillery Records, in cooperation with Spiritual Beast Records, has announced the first-ever Japanese dates by Swedish metal powerhouse ENFORCER. ENFORCER will perform two Japanese shows with support from fellow Swedes MEAN STREAK and Japanese metal masters SOLITUDE: Jan. 28 - Osaka, Japan - S...

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EX DEO: New Album Title Announced; Audio Interview Available

EX DEO — the Ancient Roman-themed arsenal led by KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono — will begin pre-production on its next album, "Caligula", once KATAKLYSM has completed its touring commitments in 2011. Iacono states, "Expect a revolutionary album that will breathe the word 'NEW' into a much-stagn...

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DEVILDRIVER Bassist Forced To Sit Out European Tour Dates

Bassist Jon Miller of Santa Barbara, California metallers DEVILDRIVER has issued the following update: "To all of the DEVILDRIVER fans who will be attending the remaining dates of our current fall/winter European run, it is to my dismay that I will not be able to finish the tour due to a family emer...

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IRON MAIDEN Announces German, Dutch, French Tour Dates

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN have confirmed the following European shows as part of "The Final Frontier World Tour 2011": May 28 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Festhalle May 29 - Oberhausen, Germany @ Kopi Arena May 31 - Munich, Germany @ Olympiahalle Jun. 02 - Hamburg, Germany @ O2 World Jun. 03...

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'Dio At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987' Cracks U.S. Top 100

"Dio At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987", the double-disc set which is the first official release from Niji Entertainment Group, the label formed by the late Ronnie James Dio and his wife/manager Wendy Dio, sold 5,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position N...

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ATHEIST: 'Jupiter' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Jupiter", the long-awaited fourth album from reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST, sold around 500 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 88 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new...

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CRADLE OF FILTH's 'Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa' Cracks U.S. Top 100

"Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa", the new album from British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH, sold 5,800 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 99 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder", opened with a little over 11,000 copies back...

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HELLYEAH In Milan: Photos, Video Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of HELLYEAH — the band featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN),Chad Gray and Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE),Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and Bob "Zilla" Kakaha (DAMAGEPLAN) — performing in Milan, Italy on Friday, November 12, 2010 can be viewed below. Photos of the conce...

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ATHEIST Drummer Demonstrates Six-Stroke Roll (Video)

Video footage of drummer Steve Flynn of reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST demonstrating his six-stroke roll used in the nw song "Fraudulent Cloth" can be viewed below. The track is featured on ATHEIST's long-awaited fourth album, "Jupiter", which was released on November 9 (one da...

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CRADLE OF FILTH To Resume Work On Orchestral Album Next Month

British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH will return to the studio in December to resume work on their next project, an orchestral album titled "Midnight In The Labyrinth", which, according to vocalist Dani "Filth" Davey, will "reinvent" tracks from the band's first four albums and include "full so...

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ACCEPT Guitarist Interviewed By K.K. DOWNING's Official Web Site

Jari Asell and Kimmo Tattari from JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing's official web site, Steel Mill, recently conducted an interview with guitarist Wolf Hoffmann of reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Steel Mill: You've got the excellent, new album...