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LOUDNESS Signs With FROSTBYTE MEDIA
Veteran Japanese metallers LOUDNESS have inked a deal with FrostByte Media. The band's latest album, "Eve To Dawn", will be released outside Japan this summer. The CD was originally made available in the group's home country last September. In advance of an extensive North American tour around the r...May 10, 2012
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Ex-STRATOVARIUS Mainman TIMO TOLKKI Launches PledgeMusic Campaign For New Solo Album
Former STRATOVARIUS, REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE and SYMFONIA mainman Timo Tolkki has launched a PledgeMusic.com campaign to support the release of his fourth solo album, "Classical Variations 2: Credo". Tentatively due on October 29, 2012, the double album will include over two hours of music and will f...April 10, 2012
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ANIMETAL USA To Release New Single, Album
The opening theme to the anime adaptation of Kenji Taira's Naruto spin-off manga Rock Lee No Seishun Full-Power Ninden is "Give Lee Give Lee Rock Lee" a collaborative track featuring ANIMETAL USA and Hironobu Kageyama. The single for the song will be released tomorrow (Wednesday, April 4). The jacke...April 3, 2012
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CHRIS BICKLEY Solo Debut To Feature Guest Appearances By MIKE VESCERA, KELLY KEELING
Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, guitarist Chris Bickley will release his first solo album, "Tapestry Of Souls", on May 1 via Shredguy Records. The CD was produced by Vic Steffens and mastered by 10-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Grammy Award nominee Jim Chapdelaine. Written and recorded ov...March 28, 2012
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CINDERELLA Pulls Out Of M3 ROCK FESTIVAL; L.A. GUNS, GREAT WHITE Step In
CINDERELLA has been forced to cancel its appearance at the M3 Rock Festival, set to take place on May 11-12 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. According to the festival organizers, CINDERELLA lead guitarist Jeff LaBar "is currently receiving attention for an unspecified medical...March 21, 2012
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NAPALM DEATH Bassist Sounds Off On Illegal Music Downloading, Band's Early Years
Thiago Sarkis of Brazil's Roadie Crew magazine recently conducted an interview with bassist Shane Embury of British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH. Several excerpts from the chat follow below. On the metal and punk roots of NAPALM DEATH: Shane: "Well, this lineup of the band has been together since...March 11, 2012
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NAPALM DEATH: 'Scum' 25-Year Special Edition To Be Released In March
"Scum", the classic 1987 debut album from grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH, will be re-released on limited-edition redux CD and colored vinyl LP on March 5 via Earache Records. To celebrate 25 years since the release of the most influential grindcore album ever made, "Scum" has been remastered especi...February 14, 2012
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ANIMETAL USA Interviewed At NAMM (Video)
Jose Mangin, host/producer MTV.com's web-only show "Headbangers Ball" (and program director/DJ on SiriusXM Octane and Liquid Metal),conducted an interview with ANIMETAL USA — the American counterpart to ANIMETAL, the Japanese heavy metal band which specialized in metal covers of popular Japanese an...February 13, 2012
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QUEENSRŸCHE, CINDERELLA, RATT Confirmed For M3 ROCK FESTIVAL
The heavy metal time machine will turn back to the 1980s and '90s when QUEENSRŸCHE, CINDERELLA, RATT, KIX, WARRANT and NIGHT RANGER are among the 19 bands to take over the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, playing full sets of their glam rock and heavy metal hits. For the first time,...January 31, 2012
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Former FATES WARNING Bassist's 16-Year-Old Son Pounds The Skins For OATH OF INSANITY
OATH OF INSANITY, the Milford, Connecticut-based old-school thrash band featuring 16-year-old drummer Joey DiBiase (son of former FATES WARNING bassist Joe DiBiase),has completed work on a five-song EP with producer (and drummer for TOXIC HOLOCAUST, KINGDOM OF SORROW and JASTA) Nick Bellmore at Dex...January 13, 2012
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BEHIND THE SCENERY Members Release Debut ATHEAN EP
ATHEAN, the German technical death metal project featuring BEHIND THE SCENERY guitarist Simon Abele, has just released its debut EP, "Main-Mast Of The Voyaging Earth", via Serial Six Records. The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Journey Above The Calm Aeons (instrumental) (3:04) 02. P...January 3, 2012
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Live in Armenia
Ya just can't stop the HEEP! Forty years running and URIAH HEEP is anything but a nostalgia act rehashing the oldies on the casino circuit. As we've seen right on up through "Wake the Sleeper" and this year's "Into the Wild" tour de force, the band is writing some of the best music of its ...December 17, 2011
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Heavy Metal Video Racks Up Half Million Views After Being Named 'Most Awful' Clip Of 2011
"The King That Never Was", the new video from Cleveland metallers ALTERNATE REALITY, has racked up more than half a million views on YouTube after being named "The Most Epically Awful Video Of 2011" by Lyndsey Parker of Yahoo! Music's "Video Ga Ga" music blog. Parker writes: "Do not attempt to adjus...December 9, 2011
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DESTRUCTOR Frontman Stars In ALTERNATE REALITY Video
Cleveland metallers ALTERNATE REALITY have released a video for their song "The King That Never Was". The track will appear on the band's forthcoming EP, scheduled for release in 2012. The clip was filmed on location at historic Squire's Castle in Willoughby Hills, Ohio between July and November of...November 28, 2011
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ANIMETAL USA: 'Thesis Of A Cruel Angel' Video Released
"Thesis Of A Cruel Angel", the new video from ANIMETAL USA the American counterpart to ANIMETAL, the Japanese heavy metal band which specialized in metal covers of popular Japanese anime/tokusatsu theme songs can be seen below. The footage was shot by a fan at the group's October 12, 2011 invitation...October 31, 2011
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