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Former JUDAS PRIEST Singer 'RIPPER' OWENS: More Solo Project Details Revealed

Former JUDAS PRIEST and current ICED EARTH frontman Tim "Ripper" Owens is currently shopping a five-song CD from his solo project, tentatively dubbed BEYOND FEAR. Songs featured on the CD are as follows: 01. I Don't Need This 02. And You Will Die 03. It Is Me 04. Telling Lies 05. The Faith BLABBERMO...

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DECEIVER Complete Work On Full-Length Debut

DECEIVER, the Swedish metal band featuring former members of MAZE OF TORMENT and XENOFANES, have completed work on their full-length debut, "Riding with the Reaper", tentatively due in early May on both CD and vinyl through Iron Fist Productions. The CD was recorded over a one-week period at the Aby...

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GOTHIC KNIGHTS Seek Vocalist

Brooklyn-based power metallers GOTHIC KNIGHTS are looking for a pro vocalist in the style of Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST) and Eric Adams (MANOWAR). The band is currently working with Magic Circle Music for their next album, which will be distributed through SPV. For more information, contact metal@got...

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JUDAS PRIEST: Polish Gig Cancelled Following Pope's Death

JUDAS PRIEST Management Co-Ordinator Jayne Andrews has issued the following statement: "Due to the very sad passing of the Pope, the JUDAS PRIEST show in Katowice on Wednesday, 6th April has had to be cancelled. This is totally beyond our control. The President of Poland has declared all entertainme...

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Black Empire

I really thought FORCE OF EVIL would follow up a solid, if unoriginal, debut with an album that saw the band coming into its own and honing its craft. Nothing of the sort happens on "Black Empire". If anything, it's a step backwards; most of the songs sounding like tracks that didn't make it onto .....

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JUDAS PRIEST: 'Things Are Going Incredibly Well On Tour'

JUDAS PRIEST Management Co-Ordinator Jayne Andrews has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Things are going incredibly well on the tour. The band have just finished two weeks of shows in the U.K. It was great for them to play in their own country again! It's been many yea...

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BLITZKRIEG Announce New Album Title, Release Date

Legendary NWOBHM outfit BLITZKRIEG have announced that work on the follow-up to 2002's "Absolute Power" has now been completed and the CD is currently being mixed and mastered ready for a July 4 release via Metal Nation Records. Entitled "Sins and Greed", the new album features bass player Paul Brew...

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JUDAS PRIEST Film Birmingham Show For Possible DVD Release

JUDAS PRIEST's March 19 homecoming concert at the NEC in Birmingham, England featured special effects that were conspicuously absent from the other dates on the group's current European tour. Speaking to Kerrang! magazine PRIEST singer Rob Halford explained, "We brought in pyro and video screens jus...

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JUDAS PRIEST Select 'Worth Fighting For' As Next Single

JUDAS PRIEST have selected "Worth Fighting For" — a classic power ballad about a dysfunctional relationship — as the second single off their critically acclaimed "Angel of Retribution" album. The single will go for radio adds on April 12. In a recent interview with Revolver magazine, JUDAS PRIEST fr...

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Classic SCORPIONS Video Footage To Be Shown At Russia's KINOROCK Festival

Footage of German hard rockers SCORPIONS looking uncharacteristically unkempt and ratty performing in the "Red Corner" of the Leningradsky Rock Club in 1988 in front of a bust of Lenin is among the rarely-seen clips that will be unveilved this weekend at the second annual Kinorock festival at Stary...

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Reunited EDEN To Play Free Show In California

Reunited '80s metal band EDEN will be playing a free show at The Boogie in Anaheim, California on Friday, April 8. The concert is being filmed with four 3CCD cameras for future DVD release. EDEN has been around since the early '80s when their hard-hitting anthems like "Pound it Out" and "Judgment Da...

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Vocalist JAMES RIVERA Joins KILLING MACHINE

Vocalist James Rivera (HELSTAR, SEVEN WITCHES) has reportedly joined KILLING MACHINE, the new band featuring German guitarist and founding member Peter Scheithauer (STREAM, played with KISS drummer Eric Singer),San Diego-based drummer Jon Dette (ex-SLAYER, TESTAMENT) and bassist David Ellefson (F5,...

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Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken

You love 'em, you hate 'em, you think they're a pleasure guiltier than O.J. Simpson ripping the tag off a mattress. Seven years after their debut, "Glory to the Brave", galvanized a power metal scene then at low ebb, it's still hard to separate HAMMERFALL from the hype and discourse surrounding thei...

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JUDAS PRIEST And QUEENSRŸCHE: First Tour Dates Officially Announced

JUDAS PRIEST have announced the first dates for their North American tour with QUEENSRŸCHE. So far the following dates have been confirmed for the trek: Jun. 01 - Xcel Energy Center - Minneapolis, MN Jun. 03 - Tweeter Center - Chicago, IL Jun. 04 - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Detroit, MI Jun. 07 - .....

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HIRAX Singer Says There Was A Lot More Talent In The Old-School Metal

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with legendary HIRAX vocalist Katon W. De Pena. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: You've obviously experience a lot of line-up changes over the years. Has there been one common factor behind these changes? Katon: "Basically, it's b...