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AKERCOCKE To Guest On BRUCE DICKINSON's Radio Show This Friday

Controversial U.K. dark art practitioners AKERCOCKE will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Friday, July 13 (postponed from the originally announced July 6) during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the program live v...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Frontman: 'Record Companies Are Very Quickly Becoming A Thing Of The Past'

Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: The new project, "Mindcrime at the Moore", comprises all the material from "Operation: Mindcrime" as well as "Operation: Mindcrime II", which...

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MERKABAH: New Album Samples Available

Québec-based metallers MERKABAH have posted four tracks from their forthcoming second album, "The Realm of All Secrets", at their MySpace page. The CD was recorded at the band's studio and mixed and mastered at SNB studios in Montréal. The band is now busy putting the finishing touches on the album...

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AKERCOCKE To Film 10-Year-Anniversary Concert For Live DVD/CD

Controversial U.K. dark art practitioners AKERCOCKE have announced a special show at the Underworld in London on August 4. This will be the band's much-discussed and previously postponed 10-year-anniversary concert. Commented the group: "We've decided finally to go ahead and mark the 10th year of th...

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MERKABAH Completes Work On New Album

Québec-based metallers MERKABAH have completed work on their new album, "The Realm of All Secrets". The CD was recorded at the band's studio and mixed and mastered at SNB studios in Montréal. A fall release is epected. "The Realm of All Secrets" track listing: 01. At the Threshold 02. Prisoner of Fa...

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AKERCOCKE: 'Axiom' Video Posted Online

AKERCOCKE's music video for the song "Axiom" can now be found on YouTube. The clip was directed by Erica Herbert of HSI London (NIRVANA, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE). Her surrealist vision is the perfect compliment to AKERCOCKE's brutally beautiful sound. Deemed "a unique and beautiful visual outing" by fro...

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SYMPHONY X Frontman Talks About Forthcoming 'Paradise Lost' CD

Metal Asylum recently conducted an interview with SYMPHONY X frontman Russell Allen. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Asylum: So it has been a while since SYMPHONY X put out a record ("The Odyssey" released in 2002). You recently started doing some shows in support of the new album "Paradi...

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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman On 'Nostradamus' CD: 'It Will Be Finished When It's Finished'

Jason MacNeil of the Sun Media conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford earlier this week. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On being being the first in the metal realm to release DEPs (Digital Entertainment Packages) of his own material. "The Internet is as revolutionary as...

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GOSPEL OF THE HORNS Planning European Tour

Invictus Productions has issued the following statement regarding the current status of Australia's renowned blackened death/thrash outfit GOSPEL OF THE HORNS: "Since the unfortunate situation earlier in 2007 where news was broken on [PyroMusic.net and then reported by BLABBERMOUTH.NET] that GOSPEL...

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DIAMOND HEAD Drummer Reports On New Album Recording Process

DIAMOND HEAD drummer Karl Wilcox, who is based in Los Angeles while the rest of the group resides in the U.K., has posted a report on the recording sessions for the band's new album, "What's in your Head?" An excerpt follows: "What started as riffs and ideas on one side of the globe has become ...

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'Black Metal' The Novel Due In August

The Comic Book Bin reports: Rising from the pits of Hades this August, "Black Metal" is a full-length graphic novel by Rick Spears ("Teenagers from Mars", "Pirates of Coney Island", "Dead West") and Chuck B.B. "I've been a metal nerd since day one, and to be working on this book is a dream. ...

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STEVE VAI Unveils New Band STRING THEORIES

Legendary guitarist Steve Vai has announced the formation of his new band, dubbed STRING THEORIES. It is as follows: Steve Vai - Guitar Jeremy Colson - Drums Dave Weiner - Rhythm Guitar Bryan Beller - Bass Alex DePue - Electric and Acoustic Violin, Keyboards Ann Marie Calhoun - Electric and Acoustic...

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REKUIEM Parts Ways With Drummer

REKUIEM (formerly REQUIEM),the cult NWOBHM band that was at the very start of the British metal movement alongside such names as DIAMOND HEAD and WITCHFINDER GENERAL, has parted ways with drummer Karl Wilcox (DIAMOND HEAD). According to the group, "the band's plan to perform live shows later this y...

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WISDOM IN CHAINS: New Songs Posted Online

The first songs from WISDOM IN CHAINS' upcoming full-length CD for Eulogy Recordings, "Class War", have been posted at the band's MySpace page. "The Land of Kings", "Life Isn't Fair", and "Cap City" were recorded at Mountainside Studio in Tobyhanna, PA in February of 2007. The CD is scheduled for re...

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DAVE MUSTAINE Says He 'Forgave' METALLICA A Long Time Ago

Mark Voger of the Asbury Park Press recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A few excerpts follow: On his 2002 arm injury: "That changed things. I really started to do some introspection. I was brought up in the church. I just decided to recommit myself and straighten th...