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CYNTHESIS Signs To SENSORY RECORDS; Original ZERO HOUR Members Reunited

Sensory Records has announced the signing of CYNTHESIS. The band's debut album, "DeEvolution", is scheduled for release in the spring. The CD is currently being mixed by talented producer/engineer Dino Alden (Marty Friedman, Tony Macalpine, Vinnie Moore, ZERO HOUR). The artwork will be created by De...

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GUS G.: I'm A Bigger BLACK SABBATH Fan Than OZZY OSBOURNE Fan

Guitar Player magazine recently conducted an interview with FIREWIND/OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Gus G. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Guitar Player: How big an influence was Ozzy's music on you? Gus: Very big. I'm a huge BLACK SABBATH fan. I'm a bigger SABBATH fan than Ozzy fan, to be...

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DRAGONFORCE Shredder HERMAN LI Lists His Ten Favorite Guitarists

Herman Li, guitarist, songwriter and producer of the Grammy-nominated metal band DRAGONFORCE, is known for his speed and precision as well as his light-hearted attitude when it comes to shredding. To learn more about where he's coming from, Roadrunner Records caught up with the axe-wielder to ask hi...

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UNIVERSUM: New Album Details Revealed

Australian melodic death metallers UNIVERSUM are putting the finishing touches on their sophomore album, "Mortuus Machina", for a tentative early 2011 release. The follow-up to 2008's "Leto Destinatus" will be mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren of Sweden's Fascination Street Studios (OPETH, SOILWORK,...

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Opposing Forces

Well, what do you know? It's another band on the Stormspell Records roster that takes a tried and true style and performs it with passion, balls, and skill. Greece's CROSSWIND plays what most would call power metal, the difference being that on "Opposing Forces" that playing sounds far fresher and m...

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GUS G. Talks Playing With OZZY OSBOURNE, Upcoming FIREWIND Album

OneMetal.com recently conducted an interview with OZZY OSBOURNE/FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. OneMetal.com: In a previous interview back around the time of FIREWIND's "The Premonition" album, you said you were focusing on FIREWIND and you didn't want to p...

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INSTANZIA To Release 'Ghosts' In November

Metalodic has announced the signing of Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based power metallers INSTANZIA. The band's debut album, "Ghosts", will be released on November 22. Recorded between 2008 and 2010, "Ghosts" was produced by Alexis Woodbury and Francis Gagné, and was mastered by Peter In de Betou (DRAGO...

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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Featured On BULLETBELT EP

Wellington, New Zealand black metal band BULLETBELT — which features the original drummer from Osmose band DEMONIAC — has self-released its debut EP, "The Black Army Stands". The four-song effort features a guest guitar solo on the track "Rape The Angel" from Sam Totman (a.k.a. Hemdall) of DRAGONFOR...

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DRAGONFORCE: Live Album Sample Available

A live version of the song "Through the Fire and Flames" from British extreme epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE is available for streaming at Wired.com. The track comes off the band's first live album, "Twilight Dementia", which will be released on September 13 via Spinefarm Records (Europe) and Road...

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DRAGONFORCE To Release Live Album

British extreme epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE have announced the release of their first live album. Titled "Twilight Dementia" and produced by longstanding DRAGONFORCE collaborator Karl Groom, along with band guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman, this double live set is now confirmed for a Septemb...

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Previously Unreleased SOUNDGARDEN Song To Appear On 'Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock'

A previously unreleased SOUNDGARDEN song, "Black Rain", will debut exclusively on Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock. This fall, living room legends and their friends will join together and embark on an epic rock journey to save rock n' roll with Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Roc...

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METALLICA, SABBATH, KISS, MEGADETH, OZZY Featured In 'Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock'

This fall, living room legends and their friends will join together and embark on an epic rock journey to save rock n' roll with Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock. The latest installment in the world's most popular music game series, Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock, will once...

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TRIVIUM Frontman: 'If It Weren't For JAMES HETFIELD, I Literally Wouldn't Be Here'

Roadrunner Records has posted a new interview with guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy of Florida metallers TRIVIUM as part of the label's "Gear Nerd" series, where Roadrunner talks to its artists about their instrument of choice and what fuels their passion, influences their sound and all about the speci...

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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Drummer Schedules Sydney Workshop

Billy Rymer, drummer of the massively popular brutal U.S. mathcore band THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, will take part in a one-off drum workshop at Sydney, Australia's The Brain Recording Studios on Saturday, May 22. Rymer, who has pounded the skins with a huge variety of heavy acts, will be imparting h...

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Vocalist KYLE MICHAELS Auditions For DRAGONFORCE

Kyle Michaels, who is best known as the former lead vocalist of RAVAGE, THE GEEZER BUTLER BAND and MASI, has auditioned for British extreme epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE. His audition video, which was put together in one take with the help of manager Lloyd Freeze of SGL Entertainment and video pr...