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BENEDICTUM Confirmed For UK's HARD ROCK HELL II Festival

San Diego, California-based, female-fronted metallers BENEDICTUM have been confirmed for the Hard Rock Hell II festival, set to take place December 5-7, 2008 at Prestatyn Sands, North Wales, UK. The Hard Rock Hell II festival billing is shaping up as follows: BATTLELORE BEHOLDER BENEDICTUM BLACK LAB...

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BLAZE BAYLEY's CLIVEAID Non-Appearance Explained

Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE frontman Blaze Bayley has commented on his non-appearance at the upcoming Cliveaid event on June 30 at the Les Caves Saint Sabin in Paris, France. Says Blaze: "Just to make things clear, we want to let you all know in France that BLAZE BAYLEY band never confirmed this ap...

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EXODUS Guitarist On ROB DUKES: 'I Don't See Another Frontman Out There Who Can Touch The Guy'

Wormwood Chronicles recently conducted an interview with EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. Wormwood Chronicles: Now that you've been back out on tour with him, what's it like having former drummer Tom Hunting behind the kit again? Gary Holt: You're talking about...

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PAUL DI'ANNO Replaces BLAZE BAYLEY At CLIVEAID Event In Paris

Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE frontman Blaze Bayley has cancelled his previously announced appearance at the Cliveaid event on June 30 at the Les Caves Saint Sabin in Paris, France. Replacing him at the concert and meet-and-greet will be former MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno, who will sing three songs wi...

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IRON MAIDEN's 'Somewhere Back In Time' Lands On Canadian Chart

IRON MAIDEN's new collection, "Somewhere Back In Time The Best Of: 1980-1989", has entered the Canadian chart at position No. 7. The album's updated list of first-week chart positions is as follows: Sweden: #2 Canada: #7 Norway: #7 UK: #14 Finland: #34 USA: #59 Germany: #85 "Somewhere Back In Time T...

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RISING DREAM Completes Work On 'Heretic Prophecy' Video

Croatia-based power/thrash metallers RISING DREAM have just finished filming a video for the song "Heretic Prophecy" with director Steve Ravic, who has previously worked with such bands as MANOWAR, GAMMA RAY, RHAPSODY, DESTRUCTION and DORO. According to the band, the clip was shot "in a perfect atmo...

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TRIVIUM Frontman: 'We're Really Making Our Own Stuff And Our Own Kind Of Music And Art Form'

Orlando, Florida-based metallers TRIVIUM flew to Nashville, Tennessee on March 31 to enter the studio with producer Nick Raskulinecz (RUSH, FOO FIGHTERS, SHADOWS FALL, DEATH ANGEL) to begin recording the follow-up to 2006's "The Crusade". A late 2008 release via Roadrunner Records is expected. "For...

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MASCOT PARADE: Debut Album Due Next Week

Alabama Records has announced the signing of MASCOT PARADE from Sweden for the release of the group's debut album, entitled "Deathmatch", due out on June 4. Commented the label in a press release, "Imagine SLAYER jamming with Jeff Buckley. Imagine Tom Petty writing songs to IRON MAIDEN. How absurd i...

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One Hour With 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey' Creators; Audio Available

Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its soon-to-be-released follow-up "Global Metal" were recently interviewed by iConnotations about both films plus their upcoming IRON MAIDEN a...

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WHITE WIZZARD: 'High Speed GTO' Video Posted Online

"High Speed GTO", the debut music video from the Los Angeles, California-based classic hard rock/heavy metal band WHITE WIZZARD, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Dave Vorhes for Airborne Pancake Productions. Following in the massive boot-steps of metal giants such as JUDAS PRIEST, DIO,...

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BILOCATE Signs Distribution Deal For Middle East

Jordanian dark oriental metallers BILOCATE have inked a distribution deal with Daxar Multimedia Ltd. for the Middle East region for the band's upcoming album, "Sudden Death Syndrome". The CD will be made available on the shelves of Virgin Megastores showrooms in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan and...

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WARRANT Confirmed For Montreal's HEAVY MTL Festival

Reactivated '80s rockers WARRANT have been confirmed for Heavy Mtl, a unique event in North America, which will take place on Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montral, Qubec. Loud, intense, heavy, Heavy Mtl will feature over 30 hard rock and metal bands performing on dif...

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BRUCE DICKINSON To Pot-Smoking Fan: 'Put That F**king S**t Out'; Video Available

Fan-filmed video footage of IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson calling out a pot-smoker in the audience during the first show of the second leg of the band's "Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour 08" Wednesday night (May 21) at the Verizon Wireless in San Antonio, Texas can be viewed below. "Would yo...

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IRON MAIDEN: More 'Somewhere Back In Time' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed

IRON MAIDEN's new collection, "Somewhere Back In Time The Best Of: 1980-1989", has registered the following first-week chart positions: Sweden: #2 Norway: #7 UK: #14 Finland: #34 USA: #59 Germany: #85 "Somewhere Back In Time The Best Of: 1980-1989" sold 11,000 copies in the United States in its firs...

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METAL CHURCH Frontman RONNY MUNROE To Co-Write CLIVEAID Anthem

METAL CHURCH frontman Ronny Munroe has issued the following update: "I wanted to take some time to tell you about a charity that I am involved with and that charity is Cliveaid. Cliveaid was formed in 2004 initially to help original drummer of IRON MAIDEN, Clive Burr, who suffers from multiple scler...