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TONY MARTIN's HEADLESS CROSS Confirmed For U.K.'s HAMMERFEST II

Former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin's HEADLESS CROSS, whose live set celebrates the 20th anniversary of the release of the SABBATH album "Headless Cross", has been confirmed for next year's Hammerfest II festival, set to take place March 11-13, 2010 at Pontins, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales, Unit...

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DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT Signs With PROSTHETIC RECORDS

British metallers DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT have inked a worldwide deal with Prosthetic Records. This marks the first signing of a U.K. act for the label, which will re-release the band's "Hatred For Mankind" album in April 2010. The CD, recorded by Tom Dring and Billy Anderson (EYEHATEGOD, NEUROSIS, WE...

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SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Confirmed For U.K.'s HAMMERFEST II

Long-running Venice Beach, California thrash/punk band SUICIDAL TENDENCIES has been confirmed for next year's Hammerfest II festival, set to take place March 11-13, 2010 at Pontins, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales, United Kingdom. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: AKERCOCKE ATTICA RAGE...

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Fed Through The Teeth Machine

I'm going to cut to the chase, lay it all out and just say that this is one bad-ass album. From the artwork, to the title down to the adrenalized tech/grind riffery; "Fed Through The Teeth Machine" is hands down one of 2009's most punishing and pummeling drops. Then again, this is THE RED CHORD, ...

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Utopia

Do the Germans know power metal or what? It never ceases to amaze me the traditional/power metal talent originating in that country, including acts as diverse as HELLOWEEN, EDGUY, BRAINSTORM, RAGE, GAMMA RAY, PRIMAL FEAR, GRAVE DIGGER, and BLIND GUARDIAN. The common denominator? Big, fist-pumping ho...

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The End of an Era

In these heady downloading days, it's hard to give an unknown album the attention it sometimes needs to reveal all its facets. Upon a cursory listen, U.S. blackened metallers INFERI seem to fall into that gaping maw of decent, somewhat derivative bands borrowing from Norwegian black metal and Gothen...

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ROCKLAHOMA Partners With AEG LIVE To Revamp Festival

The producers of Rocklahoma announced today that they will be teaming with the world's largest producer of music festivals, AEG Live, to revamp the rock festival in 2010. The management team that created the critically-acclaimed rock festival in Northeast Oklahoma in 2007 has brought on board one of...

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BENEDICTION Confirmed For Norway's INFERNO Festival

Long-running Birmingham, U.K.-based extreme metallers BENEDICTION have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Inferno festival, set to take place March 31 - April 3, 2010 in Oslo, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BENEDICTION FINNTROLL JARBOE MAYHEM NACHTMYSTIUM TAAKE...

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JACKYL's 'Moonshine' Single Out Now

JACKYL has just released a new single, "My Moonshine Kicks Your Cocaine's Ass", via Mighty Loud/Fontana as a preview of the band's forthcoming studio album, due in 2010. Check out an audio sample at Amazon.com. Upcoming JACKYL shows: Dec. 02 - Pittsburgh, PA - Altar Bar Dec. 03 - Columbus, OH - Scre...

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OUTSHINE: 'Love For The Music' Video Released

"Love For The Music", the new video from the Swedish hard rock/metal band OUTSHINE, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed in October 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden by 11Frames. The song comes off the group's second album, "Until We Are Dead", which was released in April. The CD was recorded by Svein...

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DOKKEN Joined By GEORGE LYNCH On Stage In West Hollywood; Video Available

Fan-filmed video footage of DOKKEN performing the classic song "In My Dreams" on November 27, 2009 at the House Of Blues in West Hollywood, California — with a special guest appearance by ex-DOKKEN/current LYNCH MOB guitarist George Lynch — can be viewed below (courtesy of "SheriH"). DOKKEN's Hollyw...

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EMPIRES OF EDEN To Enter Studio In January

EMPIRES OF EDEN, the brainchild of PAINDIVISION/ex-DUNGEON guitarist Stu Marshall, will hit the studio in January 2010 to complete the follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut, "Songs of War and Vengeance". The next album will include an international all-star lineup of some of metal's most power...

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DUFF MCKAGAN Comments On 'LAYN Rocks!' Jam With SLASH, STEVEN ADLER

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his weekly column, which appears every Thursday on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com. An excerpt follows below. "Last weekend, I played a benefit show in L.A. to raise money for teenage runaways in Hollywood. LAYN (...

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24th Annual VIBE FOR PHILO Announced

In 1981, just five years before his untimely demise, THIN LIZZY legend Phil Lynott asked longtime friend Smiley Bolger to "do a vibe for me sometime." Bolger, a DJ and promoter, had just won the Alternative Eurovision Song Contest and Philo (as Smiley called him) loved the idea. This throwaway remar...

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WHITE WIZZARD Confirmed For U.K.'s HAMMERFEST II

Los Angeles traditional metal heroes WHITE WIZZARD have been confirmed for next year's Hammerfest II festival, set to take place March 11-13, 2010 at Pontins, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales, United Kingdom. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: AKERCOCKE ATTICA RAGE BELLIGERENCE CARS ON F...