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KINGDOM OF SORROW Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

KINGDOM OF SORROW — the band featuring Jamey Jasta (HATEBREED) and Kirk Windstein (DOWN, CROWBAR) — has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMARTH AXEL RUDI PELL BO...

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BORKNAGAR Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Norway's BORKNAGAR has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMARTH AXEL RUDI PELL BORKNAGAR BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE CALLEJON CATHEDRAL DRAGONFORCE EINHERJER EPICA GW...

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VIOLENT DIVINE: 'Blackheart' Video Available

"Blackheart", the new video from Swedish rockers VIOLENT DIVINE, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's new album, "In Harm's Way", which will be released on January 31, 2009 via Misty Recordings. The CD was mixed and produced by Pontus Norgren, guitarist of Swedish metal act HAMMERFALL....

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CRYSTAL VIPER: Four Brand New Songs Posted Online

The brand new studio album from the the Polish female-fronted heavy metal squad CRYSTAL VIPER, titled "Metal Nation", will be released on February 1 through Karthago Records (CD version) and High Roller Records (limited vinyl version). The CD was recorded at the brand new MP Studio in Poland with en...

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DREAMLAND Involved In Car Accident

On their way to the studio last week, three-fifths of the Swedish metal band DREAMLAND was involved in a four-vehicle car crash on Highway E6, just north of Varberg, Sweden (where Andy La Rocque's Sonic Train Studios is located). The car they drove in was totalled, but guitarist Eric Rauti, new guit...

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CRYSTAL VIPER: New Album Track Listing, Artwork Revealed

The brand new studio album from the the Polish female-fronted heavy metal squad CRYSTAL VIPER, titled "Metal Nation", will be released on February 1 through Karthago Records (CD version) and High Roller Records (limited vinyl version). The CD was recorded at the brand new MP Studio in Poland with en...

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THE POODLES: 2008 Recap

Swedish rockers THE POODLES have posted the following "2008 recap" on their official web site: "Another year has come to an end, another great year for THE POODLES. A lot of things, both good and bad, have happened and even greater things are soon to come. "So what did we really do during 2008? Well...

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WACKEN OPEN AIR 2009 Sold Out!

ICS Festival Service GmbH, which organizes the Wacken Open Air festival, has announced that all 70,000 tickets have already been sold for next year's event, which will be held July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. "Never before [has] a festival of this size [been] sold out two times within on...

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REQUIEM Completes Work On New Album

Swiss death metallers REQUIEM have completed work on their new album, "Infiltrate... Obliterate... Dominate", at Stage One studio in Borgentreich, Germany with producer Andy Classen (LEGION OF THE DAMNED, DEW-SCENTED, TANKARD, HOLY MOSES, DISBELIEF, KRISIUN, CALLENISH CIRCLE). The follow-up to 2007'...

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DRAGONFORCE Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

British extreme epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE have been confirmed for next year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. ICS Festival Service GmbH, which organizes the Wacken Open Air festival, has announced that 50,000 tickets have already been s...

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POWERWOLF Prepares To Enter Studio

Multinational metalheads POWERWOLF have issued the following update: "After four intense months of hard work, blood, sweat and incense, we have finally written the follow-up album to 'Lupus Dei'. We hardly left our rehearsal room during that time and explored new dimensions of wolfish metal insanity...

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ZZ TOP Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

ZZ TOP has been confirmed for next year's Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 3-6, 2009 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMON AMARTH (S) BLACKFOOT (USA) BULLET (S) DREAM THEATER (USA) ENFORCER (S) ERIC SARDINAS (USA) EUROPE (S) FORBIDDEN (US) FOREIGNER (...

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HAMMERFALL Launches Christmas Calendar

Swedish melodic metallers HAMMERFALL have launched a special Christmas calendar containing daily specials such as clips from the "Any Means Necessary" video shoot, which took place in Belgrade, Serbia, videos from the band's rehearsal room, funny photos, singer Joacim Cans' recipe for Christmas cook...

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Former THE GATHERING Singer Hits The Road With MOONSPELL; Video Available

Former THE GATHERING singer Anneke van Giersbergen joined Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL to perform the song "Scorpion Flower" at three consecutive shows on the band's tour with CRADLE OF FILTH: December 1 in London, December 2 in Paris and December 3 in Tilburg. Fan-filmed video footage of all thre...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist To Guest On New JADED HEART Album

Guitarist Pontus Norgren (HAMMERFALL, ex-THE POODLES, TALISMAN, GREAT KING RAT) will make a guest appearance on the new album from German melodic hard rock masters JADED HEART. Pontus has also written a song for the follow-up to 2007's "Sinister Mind", which is being recorded with producer Chris Lau...