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DORO Confirmed For LIVE N LOUDER Festival; BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Cancels

German hard rock singer DORO has been added to the second edition of Live N' Louder, the traveling festival that is scheduled to hit Mexico City, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Sao Paulo, Brazil in October. Meanwhile, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY has pulled out of the event, citing scheduling conflicts...

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STRATOVARIUS Guitarist Begins Writing New Material

STRATOVARIUS guitarist/mainman Timo Tolkki has issued the following update: "I have started writing songs. It took a while to gather all the equipment, but now I am done and I can let the creativity flow. May the Muse of Music be with me. First, I am gonna write the songs for the next STRATOVARIUS a...

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STRATOVARIUS Frontman Begins Recording New Solo Album

STRATOVARIUS frontman Timo Kotipelto has entered Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki, Finland in August to begin recording his third solo album, tentatively due in early 2007 via his own label, High and Loud Records. "Mirka [Rantanen] has already laid down some good drum tracks with excellent drum sounds...

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BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL and SCHANDMAUL have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to perform at the festival is the reunited Norwegian black metal ba...

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STRATOVARIUS Guitarist To Guest On 'The Metal Meltdown Show' This Afternoon

STRATOVARIUS guitarist/mainman Timo Tolkki will be calling "The Metal Meltdown Show" on Cleveland, Ohio's WRUW-FM 91.1 with Dr. Metal this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. EST. Questions for Timo can be sent through www.metalmeltdown.com. "The Metal Meltdown Show" can be heard live every Thursday from 4:30 to...

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LULLACRY Schedules Finnish Dates

Finland's LULLACRY has announced the following dates in August: Aug. 08 - Helsinki, FIN @ Tavastia Aug. 11 - Kirkkonummi, FIN @ Night Club Lume LULLACRY is currently writing material for the follow-up to its fourth studio album, "Vol. 4", which was released in the U.S. in February via Century Media...

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STRATOVARIUS Frontman To Begin Recording New Solo Album Next Month

STRATOVARIUS frontman Timo Kotipelto will enter Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki, Finland in August to begin recording his third solo album, tentatively due in early 2007 via his own label, High and Loud Records. KOTIPELTO's sophomore solo album, "Coldness", was released in Europe in April 2004 throug...

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KALEDON To Release New Album In September

Italian power metal band KALEDON will release their fourth full-length album, "Chapter 4: Twilight of the Gods", on September 12 via Universal Metal Production. "Chapter 4: Twilight of the Gods" projected track listing: 01. The Holy Water 02. Hell On Earth 03. War Plans 04. Goodbye My Friend 05. Cla...

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WHITESNAKE, HELLOWEEN, RAVEN, DEATH ANGEL: Photos From BANG YOUR HEAD Festival Available

A number of high-quality photos from this past weekend's (June 23-24) Bang Your Head!!! festival, which took place in Balingen, Germany, have been posted online at Stargazer.it. Check them out: Day 1 (Photos): FLOTSAM AND JETSAM VENGEANCE RAVEN JON OLIVA'S PAIN DEATH ANGEL HELLOWEEN (with special gu...

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NOCTURNAL RITES Bassist: Songwriting For New Album 'Is Going Really Well'

Bassist Nils Eriksson of the Swedish melodic metallers NOCTURNAL RITES has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Songwriting is going really well. At this point we have quite an impressive bunch of roughly schetched out songs, for being us (this early on in the writing proce...

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CELTIC FROST/STRATOVARIUS Manager Joins CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

Century Media Records have strengthened their Dortmund team with the addition of Antje Lange. As of July 1, Lange will assume the position of European Label Manager and report directly to Oliver Withöft. Antje Lange previously led the Modern Music Records GmbH group and its labels Noise, AGR, T&...

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LULLACRY Begin Writing New Material

LULLACRY guitarist Sami Vauhkonen has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Right now when the summer is hot, we are about to start writing some new rockarollahmetal tunes for you! I have lots of different ideas in my twisted head and in my old Aiwa cassette recorder too, ha...

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AOL RADIO Adds 'Power Metal' Station

AOL Radio has added a "Power Metal" station to its lineup. The station will have plenty of DRAGONFORCE, ICED EARTH, HELLOWEEN, KAMELOT, STRATOVARIUS, and tons more. Click here to listen to the station now. The AOL Radio Network is a leading online radio service with over 200 stations of music, news,...

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KALEDON: 'Twilight Of The Gods' Artwork Posted Online

The cover artwork (by Jean Francois Le Gac) for KALEDON's upcoming fourth full-length album, "Chapter 4: Twilight of the Gods", has been posted online at this location. "Chapter 4: Twilight of the Gods" is scheduled for release this summer via Universal Metal Production. "Chapter 4: Twilight of the...

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THUNDERSTONE: 'The Future Of Finnish Metal Is Here!'

Finnish melodic power metallers THUNDERSTONE have posted the following message on their official web site: "THUNDERSTONE spent their second weekend rehearsing and demoing new material for the forthcoming fourth album at Sonic Pump Studios. There are currently five new songs in a very rough form, mis...