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DRAGONFORCE: Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand Dates Announced

U.K. extreme power metallers DRAGONFORCE have lined up the following dates in Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand: May 20 - Singapore, Singapore - D'Marquee Downtown East May 22 - Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan - Armed Forces Cultural Center May 25 - Bangkok, Thailand - Mahisorn Auditorium, SCB Park Roadrunner R...

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GRAVEWORM, GRIND INC. Confirmed For Germany's UP FROM THE GROUND Festival

GRAVEWORM and GRIND INC. have been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Up From The Ground festival, set to take place August 24-25 in Gemünden, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): APOPHIS ARCH ENEMY BENEDICTION DYING FETUS EAR-SHOT EQUILIBRIUM FLESHLESS...

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ELVENKING Finishes Recording New Album

Italian folk/power metal band ELVENKING has finished recording its new album and is about to leave for Helsinki, Finland to begin the mixing the effort at Sonic Pump Studios. Due this fall via AFM Records, the CD will feature a guest appearance on two tracks by Swedish guitarist Mike Wead (KING DIAM...

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NIKKI SIXX To Launch 'The Heroin Diaries' With 'Funeral' Single

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following message in his online diary: "The first single from 'The Heroin Diaries' album [companion to the book drawn from Nikki's 1986 and '87 journals, when he was in the throes of a heroin addiction] is done. The track is called 'Funeral' and really i...

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ENSIFERUM: 'Victory Songs' Enters Finnish Chart At No. 6

ENSIFERUM's third album, "Victory Songs", has entered the Finnish national chart at position No. 6. View the entire chart at this location. "Victory Songs" was recorded at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki with producer Janne Joutsenniemi. A limited-edition version of the album includes an extra track,...

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It's Official: ENSIFERUM Is A Star!

Now it is official: ENSIFERUM is a star. The Russian ENSIFERUM fan club has given the band a gift of astronomical proportions, as on their request the Russian International Star Catalogue Space Earth has denominated a star in the Ursa Major constellation after the Finnish metal band. The star is loc...

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Producer Says New BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE CD Is Full Of 'Pounding Old-School Metal'

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE started recording its new album in January at Sonic Ranch studios in Tornillo, Texas with producer Colin Richardson (MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY, NAPALM DEATH). Richardson has issued the following update on the project: "I've had a lot of messages from people asking for more d...

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L.A. GUNS Parts Ways With Bassist

L.A. GUNS frontman Phil Lewis has issued the following update: "Dear friends, it is with enormous regret we announce the departure of our good friend Adam Hamilton [bass]. Adam has been offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pursue his dreams as a producer. From this point on he will become a f...

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COBALT Signs With PROFOUND LORE; New Album To Feature Guest Vocals From SWANS Singer

Colorado blackened musical warmachine COBALT (comprised of the duo Erik Wunder and Phil McSorley) has forged a deal with Profound Lore Records to release its sophomore album, "Eater of Birds". Taking the band's vicious and unconventional sound paradigm that was witnessed on its "Hammerfight" debut E...

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TRIVIUM's COREY And MATT Discuss Their Passion For DEAN; Video Available

Dean Guitars has uploaded a streaming video interview with TRIVIUM's Corey Beaulieu and Matt Heafy where the guys discuss their passion for Dean Guitars. Check it out at this location. A four-minute video interview with TRIVIUM, conducted late last month by Possum of Altitude TV at the Los Angeles s...

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PAMELA MOORE: New Song Available For Download

Singer Pamela Moore — best known for her performance as Sister Mary on QUEENSRŸCHE's 1988 epic concept album "Operation: Mindcrime" and last year's epic sequel "Operation: Mindcrime II" — has posted a fifth song titled "Shotdown" on her MySpace page. The song is taken from her recent CD, titled "Sto...

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The Blackening

"The Blackening", MACHINE HEAD's sixth studio album, is quite simply the band's best effort since its shattering 1994 debut, "Burn My Eyes", and may even surpass that modern classic. It may also be the best all-out metal recording of 2007. This is a no-holds-barred, brutally heavy, uncompromising al...

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From These Wounds

Stark, obsidian funeral doom metal with low-toned clean vocals — on the surface, there doesn't seem to be much about FUNERAL to set them apart from so many other purveyors of bleak, depressive sound. But while there are reference points – early KATATONIA, SWALLOW THE SUN, RAPTURE, DIABOLIQUE, OPETH...

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Age Eternal

Mike Scheidt may have been the guitarist and vocalist of revered northwest U.S. space-doom freaks YOB, but the opening track of his new band's debut seems determined to highlight the differences between his earlier outfit and MIDDIAN. "Dreamless Eye" crashes out of the gate with a fast, aggressive,...

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BATTERED Confirmed For MILWAUKEE METALFEST

BATTERED, the Norwegian band featuring former EINHERJER members Frode Glesnes (a.k.a. Grimar, vocals/guitar),Aksel Herløe (guitar) and Gerhard Storesund (a.k.a. Vivar, drums),has been confirmed for the Milwaukee Metalfest, set to take place May 11-12 at Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wis...