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Reunited CARCASS Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Reactivated British extreme legends CARCASS have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are IRON MAIDEN (headliners),CHILDREN OF BODOM, AVANTASIA, KREATOR and SONATA ARCTICA....

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MNEMIC Bass Player Featured In Danish Commercial

MNEMIC bass player Tomas "Obeast" Koefoed makes a "destructive" appearance in one of the new commercials for the Danish music retail chain Hi-Fi Klubben (which is said to be Denmark's answer to Best Buy). Watch the clip at this location. MNEMIC is continuing to support its latest album, "Passenger"....

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VENOM Confirmed For Spain's ATARFE VEGA ROCK Festival

British black metal pioneers VENOM have been confirmed for the Atarfe Vega Rock festival, set to take place December 1 at Coliseo Ciudad Atarfe in Atarfe, Granada, Spain. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BELLADONNA EXCITER GRAVE DIGGER KATATONIA LACRIMOSA LIZZY BORDEN MAYHEM MY DYING B...

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CARCASS Reunion Is 'Definitely Doable,' Says Guitarist MICHAEL AMOTT

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott recently spoke to MTV.com about the possibility of a reunion of CARCASS, the legendary British grindcore band he played in during the early '90s. "It seems like it never goes away — like this ghost that's always hanging over me," Amott explained of the band, which...

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THY WILL BE DONE Signs With STILLBORN RECORDS

Rhode Island-based band THY WILL BE DONE has signed a deal with Stillborn Records. The grpup's full-length debut, "Was And Is To Come", will be released on October 23. The CD will be distributed nationally through Caroline Records/EMI. Completed in early 2007, "Was And Is To Come" features a guest v...

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SEX PISTOLS Add More Dates, JOHNNY ROTTEN Slags STING

The Pulse of Radio (formerly Launch Radio Networks) reports: The SEX PISTOLS have just announced additional dates for their current reunion mini-tour. After their single date at England's Brixton Academy sold out in just 10 minutes, they booked the next two days at the same venue. When asked by Brit...

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MIKE AMOTT: CARCASS Has Rehearsed And May Reunite For Tour

Former CARCASS guitarist Mike Amott (currently in ARCH ENEMY) has revealed that the legendary U.K. death metal band may reunite for a tour. In an exclusive interview with Sweden's Close-Up magazine (web site),Amott said that he and guitarist/vocalist Bill Steer secretly met in Halmstad, Sweden last...

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USURPER Founder Explains Decision To Call It Quits

Guitarist/founder Rick Scythe of Chicago's USURPER has issued the following statement regarding the band's decision to split up: "As some of you may have heard, the band I formed over 13 years ago is now over. I wrote nearly all the music and most of the lyrics. I came up with the lyrical and artwor...

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VENGEFUL Films 'Sentenced' Video

VENGEFUL, the new Montreal-based band featuring current and former members of ATHERETIC and MINDS alongside the session drummer for DESPISED ICON, has just shot a video for the song "Sentenced". Regarding the clip, the group said, "It's violent yet not gory. Artsy yet very death metal. Some of the f...

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USURPER Calls It Quits

Chicago's USURPER has issued the following update: "After 13 and a half years, five studio albums and hundreds of concerts in 17 different countries around the world, USURPER has come to an end. Everyone in USURPER would like to thank their die-hard fans and friends for over a decade of metal insani...

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RIBSPREADER, KNIFE IN CHRIST Members Join Forces In THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE

THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE, the Swedish death metal/grindcore band featuring members of RIBSPREADER, TAEDEAT, and KNIFE IN CHRIST, has released its self-titled debut album via Germany's No Colours Records. According to a presss release, the CD contains "17 songs of relentless brutal death/grind in...

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PITCHSHIFTER: 'Infotainment?' Album To Be Reissued This Month

The long-out-of-print 1996 breakthrough album from U.K. deviants PITCHSHIFTER, "Infotainment?", will be reissued on September 24 via Earache Records. Marking the band's evolution from underground notables to mainstream success, "Infotainment?" perfected the PITCHSHIFTER sound, merging a caustic indu...

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VENOM: New Album Pushed Back To Next Year

British black metal pioneers VENOM have decided to re-record some of the already completed tracks for their upcoming album and push back the CD's projected release date to early 2008. Drummer Antony "Antton" Lant (brother of VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant) explains: "During the Scandinavian tou...

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MNEMIC: Singer's Illness Forces ELSROCK Cancellation

Danish modern thrashers MNEMIC have cancelled their previously announced August 25 concert at the Elsrock festival in Rijssen, Holland, due to a throat infection suffered by the group's singer Guillaume Bideau (ex-SCARVE). Commented the band: "We apologize to anyone who've bought tickets and wanted...

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Former VENOM Guitarist Launches GOATREIGN

Former VENOM/CARCASS guitarist Mike Hickey has just unleashed his brand new project called GOATREIGN. According to a press release, the group's debut CD is "a pummeling collection of gut-wrenching metal," featuring "crushing rhythms, searing lead guitar, wrapped up with a deadly production." Availab...