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DARK MOOR Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

Madrid, Spain-based power metallers DARK MOOR have parted ways with drummer Andy C. due to "scheduling conflicts" with his other musical projects. His replacement, Roberto Cappa, is "an experienced live and studio performer" who previously played in the Spanish metal band ANIMA SOLA. DARK MOOR recen...

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PANTHEON I Begins Recording New Album

PANTHEON I, the Norwegian extreme metal band featuring vocalist/guitarist Andrè Kvebek (1349) and guitarist John Espen Sagstad (TROLLFEST, SARKOM),spent this past weekend at Nye Losjen studio in Sofiemyr, Norway recording drums for its upcoming CD. "The rest of the album will be recorded during the...

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BATTERED: New Songs Are Starting To Take Shape

BATTERED, the new 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 posted the following update on its official web site: "We started out 2006 with a bang, with excellent album review...

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EMPEROR: Tab Book U.S. Release Date Confirmed

Candlelight Records has set a January 23 North American release date for EMPEROR's "Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath" tab book. This 132-page oversized book featuring foreword and exclusive transcriptions by vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn includes original tabs for thirteen EMPEROR classics co...

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DARK MOOR Signs With SCARLET RECORDS

Spanish metal band DARK MOOR has signed a deal with Italy's Scarlet Records. With its previous five albums, the group established itself as one of today's leading classic/power metal acts, combining the European metal sound with a high-class symphonic approach, made possible by each member's astonis...

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WRITTEN IN TORMENT: Debut Mini-CD Out Now

"The Uncreation", the first release from U.K. black metal band WRITTEN IN TORMENT, has been made available via new Canadian label None More Black Records. Check out audio samples at this location. Composed and performed solely by WRITTEN IN TORMENT member The Leviathan and produced by Jonny Maudling...

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SATHANAS To Enter Studio In December

Long-running U.S.-based death/black metallers SATHANAS will enter Innertube studios in December to begin recording their next album, entitled "Crowned Infernal". Artwork will be handled by Necrolord, who previously worked with EMPEROR on their "In the Nightside Eclipse" LP and DARK FUNERAL on the "S...

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DARK FUNERAL's First Visit To Chile Since Priest's Murder Creates Controversy

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL played Chile on October 7, 2006 — the group's first visit to the country since the murder of an Italian Catholic priest in Santiago in 2004 at the hands of a self-proclaimed DARK FUNERAL fanatic. Despite numerous complaints and petitions to stop the show from goi...

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CHTHONIC Frontman To Speak At CMJ MUSIC MARATHON

MTV.com reports that Freddy, frontman for the Taiwanese black-metal band CHTHONIC, will make his U.S. public-speaking debut November 3 in New York at the CMJ Music Marathon panel "From Glam to Death: Metal Subgenre Feasts". He'll be plugging the band's first U.S. release, "Seediq Bale", which came o...

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GLENN DANZIG To Guest On ALICE COOPER's Radio Show

Glenn Danzig will be Alice Cooper's special guest on Cooper's radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper" airing on Friday, October 27. The program is a classic-rock format and is nationally syndicated on the United Stations Radio Networks. Air times differ, so make sure to check out NightsWithAliceCooper...

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PECCATUM's IHRIEL Collaborates With Japanese Author

Mnemosyne Productions, the company owned/operated by partners Ihsahn (EMPEROR frontman) and wife Heidi S. Tveitan (a.k.a. Ihriel) since 2003, has announced a collaboration between the Japanese author Kenji Siratori and Tveitan. Kenji Siratori has provided the lyrics and spoken words that Heidi's STA...

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DARK FUNERAL: Latvia And Lithuania Shows Postponed

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have issued the following update: "[It's] now [been] over a week since all of our gear (guitars, bass, wireless systems, cymbals etc) was confiscated by the police in Peru. And we still have not received any news if or when it will be returned to us. At this poin...

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DARK FUNERAL Guitarist Comments On Peru Incident

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL performed an all-instrumental set in Lima, Peru Sunday night (October 8) after the group's vocalist/bassist Emperor Magnus Caligula was taken ill. A near-riot followed the concert, with several irate fans destroying property around the concert venue as a way of r...

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DARK FUNERAL's Concert In Peru Ends In Near-Riot: Video Available

BLABBERMOUTH.NET has received the following report from a DARK FUNERAL fan in Peru: "What happened [on Sunday, October 8] in Lima, Peru at the DARK FUNERAL concert was outrageous. Metalheads were waiting for a brutal concert to come... they were expecting total chaos from these Swedes, but they let...

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DANZIG Taps Former SAMHAIN Bassist For 'Blackest Of The Black' Tour

DANZIG has tapped former SAMHAIN bassist Steve Zing for its upcoming West Coast-only edition of the "Blackest of the Black" tour, which will kick off on November 17 in Seattle, WA. Headliner DANZIG — Glenn Danzig (vocals),Zing, and TYPE O NEGATIVE's Johnny Kelly (drums) and Kenny Hickey (guitar) —...