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IRON MAIDEN And Ramadan: 'Sharing Is Good'

Hürriyet Daily News reports that Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate has hailed holy Ramadan with a poster featuring British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN. Ahead of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, the Religious Affairs Directorate prepared a poster (see below) that shows a young, longhai...

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EUROPE To Guest On BRUCE DICKINSON's Radio Show

Swedish hard rockers EUROPE will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Friday, September 11 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio program, dubbed "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the broadcast live via the Internet between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. (midnight) U.K. tim...

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VAN CANTO Signs With NAPALM RECORDS

German "a cappella metal" band VAN CANTO — which consists of five singers and one drummer (no guitars, no bass, no keyboards) — has inked a deal with Napalm Records. The group is currently recording its new album at the Blind Guardian Studios with producer Charlie Bauernfeind for an early 2010 relea...

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THE GATES OF SLUMBER: New Video Interview Posted Online

HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with heralded Indianapolis, Indiana doom metal masters THE GATES OF SLUMBER when the band played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on August 5, 2009. Watch the 18-minute chat below. THE GATES OF SLUMBER's new album, "Hymns of Blood & Thunder", is scheduled for relea...

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BLAZE BAYLEY, MUNICIPAL WASTE Interviewed On 'Ragnarok Radio'

Episode 41 of Ragnarok Radio features interviews with Blaze Bayley (ex-IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) and MUNICIPAL WASTE. The show is now available for streaming and/or download at this location. As previously reported, the book that follows the career of the band known as BLAZE BAYLEY is now available fo...

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THE SWORD Almost Done Writing New Album

Austin, Texas' THE SWORD has issued the following update: "The writing process [for the third THE SWORD album] is nearing completion, and demoing will soon commence. Recording will follow in the fall with a release as soon as the suits can get it together. The record will be a concept album centered...

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STORMWARRIOR: Video Interview Posted Online

An interview with German metallers STORMWARRIOR conducted at this year's Jalometalli metal music festival — which was held August 14-15, 2009 at Club Teatria in Oulu, Finland — can be viewed below. Locomotive Records released the third studio album from STORMWARRIOR, entitled "Heading Northe", in No...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM: Cover Of CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL's 'Back Door' Posted Online

CHILDREN OF BODOM's cover version of the CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL classic "Lookin' Out My Back Door" is available for streaming on the Spinefarm Records MySpace page (scroll down in audio player). The song comes off the Finnish metallers' new album, titled "Skeletons In The Closet", which is sch...

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HEAVEN SHALL BURN, DARK TRANQUILLITY To Team Up For 'Darkness Over X-Mas Tour 2009'

HEAVEN SHALL BURN, DARK TRANQUILLITY, DEADLOCK and SWASHBUCKLE will team up for the Darkness Over X-Mas Tour 2009, set to take place in December. The dates are as follows: Dec. 25 - Leipzig, Germany - Werk 2 Dec. 26 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle Dec. 27 - Brügge, Belgium - L'Entrepot Dec. 28 - Her...

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RUSH Documentary Makers Interviewed

According to the RUSH fan site RushIsABand.com, RUSH documentary filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen were recently interviewed by Classic Rock magazine's Jerry Ewing about the first-ever feature film documentary on Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart. "Geddy had been in [Dunn and McFadyen's pre...

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PHILIP ANSELMO On 96.7 KCAL FM's 'The Moshpit'; Audio Available

Philip Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN) was interviewed by host Mike Z. on this past Saturday's (August 15) edition of "The Moshpit" show on Southern California's 96.7 KCAL FM. You can now listen to the chat at this location. As previously reported, bassist Rex Brown will rejoin his DOWN bandmates on the roa...

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RUTHLESS To Play Texas' GATES OF METAL Festival

Reactivated Southern California metallers RUTHLESS will play the Gates Of Metal open-air festival in Dripping Springs, Texas on May 22, 2010. More information will be made available soon. Video footage of RUTHLESS performing at this year's Keep It True XII festival, which was held April 24-25, 2009...

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DE PROFUNDIS: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed

London, U.K.-based progressive extreme metal band DE PROFUNDIS has set "A Bleak Reflection" as the title of its second album, tentatively due before the end of the year. The CD was produced by Fernando Pereira Lopes (MISANTHROPE, ORAKLE) and DE PROFUNDIS and was mixed at Russ Russell's Parlour Studi...

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K.K. DOWNING Says ROB HALFORD 'Belongs In JUDAS PRIEST'

Chad Radford of CreativeLoafing.com recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing. An excerpt from the chat follows below. CreativeLoafing.com: When Rob Halford [vocals] came back into the band in 2004 give JUDAS PRIEST a spark of renewed energy? Downing: Yes, I really do...

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THE WILDHEARTS Interviewed On BRUCE DICKINSON's Radio Show; Audio Available

Long-running U.K. rockers THE WILDHEARTS were IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests last night (Friday, August 14) during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio program, dubbed "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". The program is now available for streaming for the next seven days at BBC.co.uk....