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FORTE To Debut New Material During Hometown Gig

New-age Nineties power metal band FORTE from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — featuring MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP bassist Rev Jones — will support ANTHRAX on September 23 at Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma City. FORTE will premiere material from its forthcoming album, "Unholy War", to be released in January 2011...

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TOKYO BLADE: Video Message From New Singer

A video message from TOKYO BLADE's new singer Nicolaj "Nick" Ruhnow (IRONY, VOIVITTU, DOMAIN, HELLFORT) can be viewed below. TOKYO BLADE, featuring Andy Boulton (guitar) John Wiggins (guitar),Andy Wrighton (bass) and Steve Pierce (drums),in July parted ways with vocalist Chris Gillen — only eight...

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ANVIL At Seattle's BUMBERSHOOT Festival: Interview, Performance Footage

The Seattle Times reporter Jonathan Zwickel conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL at the Bumbershoot festival on Monday, September 6 in Seattle, Washington. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is performance footage from the e...

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SLAYER Guitarist Talks About Peforming Entire 'Seasons' Album, Touring With METALLICA

Tom Trakas of the None But My Own blog recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. None But My Own: The "World Painted Blood" era officially begins in the U.S. after several setbacks. The European shows you've done have also incl...

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WATAIN Schedules Swedish Signing Session

Swedish black metallers WATAIN will take part in an exclusive signing session in Västerås, Sweden on Friday, September 3 at the Skivbörsen record store, located on Stora Gatan 36. The session will kick off at 6:00 p.m. and last for an hour. Later that night the band will perform live at the sold-out...

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ANVIL Drummer To Guest On 'The Big Rock Show'

Drummer Robb Reiner of Canadian metal legends ANVIL will be interviewed on tomorrow's (Thursday, September 2) edition of "The Big Rock Show" with host Tina Peek at 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST. To listen to the interview live via the Internet, go to this location. ANVIL's acclaimed documentary, "Anvil! The...

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LIV KRISTINE: Audio Samples Of Four Solo Tracks Posted Online

Audio samples of four tracks ("Twofold", "Train to Somewhere", "The Rarest Flower" and "Love in Grey") from "Skintight", the new solo album from the Norwegian singer Liv Kristine (LEAVES' EYES, ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY),can be streamed on her MySpace page. Kristine's track-by-track descriptions of the...

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WATAIN To Tour U.S. With GOATWHORE, BLACK ANVIL

Swedish black metal overlords WATAIN, who unleashed their "Lawless Darkness" full-length earlier this summer, will shower their blasphemy upon North American soil later this fall. The unholy trek will commence on November 6 at Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh and bludgeon its way through over two dozen citi...

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WACKEN OPEN AIR 2010: Video Overview

PitCam Production has posted a four-minute video overview of this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, which was held August 5-7, 2010 in Wacken, Germany. You can watch the clip below. A number of high-quality photos from this year's Wacken Open Air festival have been posted online at Met...

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DUFF MCKAGAN Talks ANVIL In Latest Seattle Weekly Column

Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER/JANE'S ADDICTION bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his column, which appears on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com. An excerpt follows below. "It's not that I grew up with ANVIL or saw them at all in the '80s when they were tearing it...

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Opinion: STEVEN TYLER Is 'Terrible Choice' For 'Idol'

According to The Pulse of Radio, entertainment industry web site The Wrap published an article on Thursday (August 19) making the case that AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler would be a "terrible choice" for a new judge on "American Idol". Writer Dominic Patten says in the piece that Tyler, who's rumor...

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MEGADETH's MUSTAINE: We Came Close To Making A Serious Career-Ending Mistake With 'Risk'

Aaron Lefkove of Vice magazine recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Vice: When you started MEGADETH you claimed to have a distinct vision of what a heavy metal band should look like — long hair, leather, studs, muscles...

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ROXXCALIBUR Hard At Work On Sophomore Album

German NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) tribute band ROXXCALIBUR is hard at work on its second album which will feature cover versions of a number of "raw diamonds" from the NWOBHM, including tracks that were originally written and recorded by MORE, NO QUARTER, SARACEN, CRYER, OXYM and HOLLO...

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ANVIL CHORUS Interviewed On 'Heavy Metal Mayhem'

Aaron Zimpel and Thaen Rasmussen of the influential '80s progressive NWOSFHM (New Wave of San Francisco Heavy Metal) band ANVIL CHORUS were interviewed on the August 8, 2010 edition of the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" radio show with Mike "The Big Cheese". You can now listen to the program using the audio p...

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MANTIC RITUAL Parts Ways With Drummer

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based old-school metallers MANTIC RITUAL have parted ways with drummer Adam Haritan. The band states, "This was a mutual decision and we all agree that it's best for everyone involved. "It's been obvious to us for some time that Adam was not as interested in making music as...