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ANCIENT RITES Confirmed For Greece's METAL HEALING Festival

Belgian metallers ANCIENT RITES will perform at Greece's Metal Healing festival on Sunday, July 27. More information will be made available soon. ANCIENT RITES's latest album, "Rubicon", was released in May 2006 via Season of Mist. The follow-up to 2001's "Dim Carcosa" was recorded at the Spacelab S...

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KORPIKLAANI: New Album Track-By-Track Rundown Available

Finnish folk metallers KORPIKLAANI will release their new album, "Korven Kuningas", on March 21, 2008 via Nuclear Blast Records. Check out the cover artwork at this location. A new single, "Keep On Galloping", will precede the full-length effort on February 14, 2008 in both CD and 7" picture vinyl f...

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DEMONICAL, CORPUS CHRISTII Confirmed For Germany's HELLS PLEASURE Festival

DEMONICAL and CORPUS CHRISTII are among the newly confirmed bands for the Hells Pleasure 2008 festival, set to take place July 18-19 at Motocross-Strecke in Pößneck, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: CORPUS CHRISTII DEMONICAL DENIAL OF GOD FARSOT HELLISH CROSSFIRE MELECHESH MIR...

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CELTIC FROST Mainman: The Fall Of A Year

CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "The weeks seemingly merged into one continuous, viscous current of day and night and information increasingly difficult to bear. Emotions decreased to slow-motion speed, he began to subsist in the dark,...

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HELLHAMMER: 'Burial' Site Launched

In connection with the February and spring 2008 releases of "Demon Entrails" and "Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost", an official HELLHAMMER burial site has been dug at www.hellhammer.org. Visitors will find, among other things, an appropriately detailed...

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ULVER Frontman To Join ÆTHENOR At ROADBURN 2008

ULVER vocalist Kristoffer Rygg will join ÆTHENOR as a special guest for the band's appearance at Holland's Roadburn Festival 2008. It will be Rygg's first live appearance in over a decade. ÆTHENOR is a trio of musicians residing in Geneva (Vincent De Roguin, SHORA),New York (Stephen O’Malley, SUNN...

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Heavy Metal Stars Pick Their Favorite Albums Of 2007

Thiago Sarkis of the Imhotep webzine has compiled a list of more than 60 hard rock/heavy metal stars' favorite albums of 2007 and has posted it online at this location. The following is complete list of the musicians offering their picks for the finest releases of last year: Alan Nemtheanga (PRIMORD...

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NÅSTROND To Release 'Muspellz Synir' In January

Swedish black metallers NÅSTROND will release their fourth, "Muspellz Synir", in January via Debemur Morti Productions. According to a press release, the CD "is the aural epitome of decrepit death, the soundtrack to life's dying embers or perhaps a burial at sea. Here, the sinister Swedes tap into a...

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OBITUARY, ROYAL HUNT, GRAVE DIGGER Confirmed For Portugal's LAGOA BURNING LIVE

OBITUARY, ROYAL HUNT and GRAVE DIGGER are among the confirmed bands for the the second edition of the Lagoa Burning Live festival, set to take place July 25-27, 2008 at Estombar-parque de ferias in Algarve, Portugal. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANCESTRAL ANCIENT RITES ANGRA ANGRIF...

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THEUDHO Signs With DET GERMANSKE FOLKET

Blackened pagan metallers THEUDHO have inked a deal with the German label Det Germanske Folket, the home of such acts as ANGANTYR, HEL, RIGER, MYRKGRAV and DANTALION. The group's third full-length album is scheduled for release in the spring. Also planned are reissues of the band's first two albums...

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IN BATTLE: Working Title For New Album Announced

Sundsvall, Sweden-based death metallers IN BATTLE have set "Flames & Death" as the working title of their fifth album. According to the band, five songs have already been completed for the effort, which will be recorded next year at Epidemic Productions in Sundsvall. The new material will be "fu...

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LEGION OF THE DAMNED: 'Feel The Blade' Track Listing Revealed

Dutch thrashers LEGION OF THE DAMNED have announced the track listing for "Feel the Blade", a reissue of the the "Elegy for the Weak" CD originally released under the band's previous moniker OCCULT. Due on January 4, 2008 via Massacre Records, the new version of the LP will contain two new songs tha...

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MINDGRINDER: Norwegian Dates Announced

MINDGRINDER, the Norwegian extreme metal band featuring ex-SOURCE OF TIDE drummer/keyboardist Cosmocrator (on bass/vocals),has scheduled the following dates: Dec. 20 - Last Train - Oslo, Norway Dec. 28 - Mølla - Knogsberg, Norway MINDGRINDER earlier in the year posted pre-production recordings of t...

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PAGAN ALTAR, MELECHESH, DENIAL OF GOD Confirmed For Germany's HELLS PLEASURE Festival

PAGAN ALTAR, MELECHESH and DENIAL OF GOD are among the confirmed bands for the Hells Pleasure 2008 festival, set to take place July 18-19 at Motocross-Strecke in Pößneck, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: PAGAN ALTAR MELECHESH DENIAL OF GOD FARSOT HELLISH CROSSFIRE OPHIS NOCTUR...

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DREAM THEATER, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MEGADETH, SOULFLY Members Reveal Favorite Albums Of 2007

Members of DREAM THEATER, OPETH, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MEGADETH, SOULFLY and 3 INCHES OF BLOOD are among the Roadrunner Records artists whose favorite albums of 2007 have been posted on the Roadrunner web site at this location. A few musicians' selections can be found below. Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER...