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DEATH ANGEL Singer Interviewed On FULL METAL JACKIE's Radio Show (Audio)

Vocalist Mark Osegueda of San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL was interviewed on the August 13-15 edition of Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. To see a full list of stations carrying the program and when it air...

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Blood of the Nations

"Blood of the Nations" is another one of those albums from a reformed classic metal act that had me approaching with caution in anticipation of the big letdown. That letdown never happened. "Blood of the Nations" is the shot in the arm that fans of traditional heavy metal needed, not to mention that...

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Atlas Drugged

It's gotta be a rough sled, being LOOK WHAT I DID. I got threatened with bodily harm just for liking them five years ago, when their "Minuteman For the Moment" album came out (remember that re-launched Combat label they were on? Yeah, neither does anyone else). But time hasn't mellowed their penchan...

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JOE LYNN TURNER's Turkish Rock Music Festival To Be Held Next May

While vacationing in Antayla, Turkey this summer, some Turkish business people approached legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) with the idea of presenting a major rock music festival in or near the city sometime in 2011. Turner agreed that this was a...

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HEAVEN & HELL: Highlights From RONNIE JAMES DIO Tribute Concert To Air On U.K.'s SKY ARTS

On August 28 at 9:00 p.m. local time, U.K. cable satellite channel Sky Arts will broadcast presumably professionally filmed highlights from the High Voltage festival at Victoria Park in London, England, including the July 24, 2010 performance by surviving HEAVEN & HELL members Tony Iommi, Geezer...

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DEATH ANGEL: Video Interview Available

Eternal Terror's Helle Stenkløv conducted an interview with vocalist Mark Osegueda of San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL at this year's installment of the Inferno festival, which took place March 31 - April 3, 2010 in Oslo, Norway. You can now watch the chat in two parts below (clips produ...

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OPETH: 'In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall' Limited-Edition Box Set Packaging Unveiled

As part of the ongoing celebration of their 20th anniversary, Swedish progressive metallers OPETH will release live footage and audio from the band's recent performance at London's famed Royal Albert Hall. "In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall", due on September 21 via Roadrunner Records, is a f...

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DEATH ANGEL: 'Relentless Retribution' Public Listening Party Announced

San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans DEATH ANGEL will hold a public listening party for their new album, "Relentless Retribution", on Thursday, September 2 at Bender's Bar and Grill in San Francisco, California. This 21+ event has no cover charge and will start at 9 p.m. The members of the band wil...

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WATAIN Receives Swedish Gold Record For 'Reaping Death' Single; Photo Available

"Reaping Death", the new CD single from Swedish black metallers WATAIN, which was exclusively distributed in Sweden via Sweden Rock Magazine, was certified gold in the band's home country on April 21 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 10,000 copies. (...

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SLIPKNOT To Release '(Sic)nesses' DVD

SLIPKNOT headlined the annual Download festival in the U.K., performing in front of 80,000 of their rabid fans. The performance was absolutely electric, in typical SLIPKNOT fashion, especially since it came hot on the heels of one of the strongest years in SLIPKNOT's illustrious career. It was indee...

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UFO Sighting At OZZFEST 2010 Kick-Off Concert

Roger Marsh of UFO Examiner reports that "a triangle UFO flying higher than any conventional aircraft" was spotted during Ozzy Osbourne's performance at the Ozzfest 2010 kick-off concert on Saturday, August 14 in Devore, California. "The shape was triangular with rounded tips," one concert-goer was...

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BONDED BY BLOOD: 'Exiled To Earth' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Exiled To Earth", the new album from Pomona, California thrashers BONDED BY BLOOD, sold around 600 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 86 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing a...

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Former TYPE O NEGATIVE Drummer Remembers PETER STEELE

Metalgeek recently conducted an interview with former TYPE O NEGATIVE and current LIFE OF AGONY drummer Sal Abruscato. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metalgeek: How did you eventually get to know Peter Steele? Sal: I was hanging out with Louie Beato from CARNIVORE, because when I w...

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ADAM DUTKIEWICZ And JESSE LEACH Re-Team In TIMES OF GRACE

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE vocalist Jesse Leach are re-teaming for TIMES OF GRACE, a brand new band that finds the duo taking a creative left turn, boldly exploring new musical terrain, while fearlessly digging deep into the recesses of their musical syn...

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BRING ME THE HORIZON: New Video Interview

Hot Topic conducted an interview with Sheffield, U.K. metallers BRING ME THE HORIZON at the U.K. edition of the Sonisphere festival, which was held July 30 - August 1, 2010 at Knebworth Park. Watch the chat below. BRING ME THE HORIZON has set "There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A ...