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D-A-D, PRONG, WITCHBURNER, TRACEDAWN Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARD Festival

D-A-D, PRONG, WITCHBURNER and TRACEDAWN have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival, set to take place May 29-31, 2009 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANGEL WITCH AUDREY HORNE BULLET CHILDREN OF BODOM D-A-D D...

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SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL Organizers To Make Special Announcement On Monday

The organizers of the Sweden Rock Festival — which is set to take place June 3-6, 2009 in Sölvesborg, Sweden — will announce a "very special" addition to this year's lineup on Monday, March 2 via the the Stockholm radio station 106.7 Rockklassiker. The band's identity will be revealed by host Tord K...

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KINETIK CONTROL: New Album To Be Produced By PETER TÄGTGREN

KINETIK CONTROL, the Finnish band featuring members of HAVOC UNIT and SIN:DECAY, will enter the studio in May with producer Peter Tägtgren (PAIN, HYPOCRISY) to begin recording its sophomore album for a late 2009 release. Tentatively titled "Only Truth Remains", the follow-up to last year's "Lack Of...

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SEVENDUST, UNLEASHED, CRUCIFIED BARBARA, PILGRIMZ Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

SEVENDUST, UNLEASHED, CRUCIFIED BARBARA and PILGRIMZ have been confirmed for this year's Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 3-6, 2009 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMBERIAN DAWN (FIN) AMON AMARTH (S) AXIDENT AVENUE (N) BLACK TOOTH (TUR) BLACKFOOT (US...

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SACRILEGE B.C., SKINLAB Members Join Forces In SLOB

What happens when a bunch of old-school San Francisco Bay Area thrashers get together to do something completely different? Strephon Taylor, former frontman of SACRILEGE B.C., was approached to create some new music and decided to come up with a storyline more in tune with his turning 40 than relive...

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Reactivated FAITH OR FEAR Signs With LOST AND FOUND RECORDS

Reactivated Philadelphia-area '80s thrash band FAITH OR FEAR has inked a deal with Lost And Found Records. The group has just finished recording new material and re-recording songs originally written in the mid-'80s for a new CD, "Instruments of Death", tentatively due in the spring. The set will al...

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KING DIAMOND, AGENT STEEL, ARMORED SAINT, HELSTAR Members Guest On New AFTER ALL CD

Andy La Rocque (KING DIAMOND),Juan Garcia and Bernie Versailles (AGENT STEEL),Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT),and James Rivera (HELSTAR) make guest appearances on "Cult Of Sin", the new album from Belgian metallers AFTER ALL, due on March 23 via Dockyard 1 in Europe (Locomotive Records in the U.S.). Th...

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IMMORTAL, PAIN, BLAZE BAYLEY, HELSTAR Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

IMMORTAL, PAIN, BLAZE BAYLEY, HELSTAR and HYSTERICA have been confirmed for this year's Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 3-6, 2009 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AMBERIAN DAWN (FIN) AMON AMARTH (S) AXIDENT AVENUE (N) BLACK TOOTH (TUR) BLACKFOOT (USA...

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D.A.M.N.: New Album Track Listing, Artwork Revealed

Braunschweig, Germany-based, female-fronted death metallers D.A.M.N. have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Forbidden Anger", due later in the year via an as-yet-undetermined record label. It is as follows: 01. Urt La Bu Tal 02. Lost In Lines 03. Close to The Border 04. Deathinfectio...

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IMAGIKA: Tour Dates Announced

San Jose, California-based metallers IMAGIKA have scheduled following dates: Feb. 20 - Rooster's Roadhouse - Alameda, CA Mar. 14 - Pine St. - Livermore, CA Mar. 21 - The Warehouse - San Antonio, TX (Nightmare Metalfest II) Apr. 03 - The Voodoo Lounge - San Jose, CA (w/ FORBIDDEN) May 02 - Samurai Du...

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HANK SHERMANN's DEMONICA Completes Lineup

DEMONICA, the solo project of MERCYFUL FATE guitarist Hank Shermann, has finalized its lineup. It is as follows: Hank Shermann (MERCYFUL FATE) - Guitar Craig Locicero (FORBIDDEN) - Guitar Klaus "Hyr" Hansen (BATTALION, TRAUMA CENTER) - Vocals Mark Hernandez (FORBIDDEN, HEATHEN, DEFIANCE, VIO-LENCE)...

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TWISTED SISTER Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

TWISTED SISTER has been confirmed for this year's Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 3-6, 2009 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: HEAVEN AND HELL (UK) IN FLAMES (S) ZZ TOP (USA) TWISTED SISTER (USA) DREAM THEATER (USA) EUROPE (S) FOREIGNER (USA) HAMMERFAL...

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HELSTAR: European Dates Announced

Reactivated Texas heavy metal legends HELSTAR will embark on a European tour, dubbed "Hell Over Europe 2009", in May. Support on the trek will come from the Swedish metal band LOCH VOSTOK, apart from the first three dates, where Germany's LANFEAR will be carrying out the duty. Confirmed dates so far...

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TESTAMENT To Take Part In Signing Sessions On Upcoming Tour

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT will play a handful of headlining shows during their upcoming Priest Feast European tour with JUDAS PRIEST and MEGADETH. The band will also take part in signing sessions at select gigs on the trek. According to posting on TESTAMENT's MySpace page, f...

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FORBIDDEN Preparing To Record New Material

Guitarist Craig Locicero of reactivated San Francisco Bay Area thrahers FORBIDDEN has issued the following update: "Time for a quick news bit about what's upcoming. We're going to be laying down some tracks on a couple of new FORBIDDEN tunes next week with Tim Narducci [SYSTEMATIC] co-producing it w...