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VOIVOD, POWERWOLF, DRIVER, ALESTORM Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival
VOIVOD, POWERWOLF, DRIVER, ALESTORM and CLOVEN HOOF have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 26-27, 2009 in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALESTORM BLIND GUARDIAN CLOVEN HOOF DRIVER HARDCORE SUPERSTAR...February 7, 2009
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Rare SAXON Live Recording Unearthed; Free Download Available
Vocalist Biff Byford of British heavy metal legends SAXON has issued the following update: "I found a rare cassette tape last year in the bags of stuff we saved from the house fire [in early 2005, Biff's house in France was completely burnt down]; our first U.S. headline tour in a big concert hall i...February 7, 2009
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SLIPKNOT, LACUNA COIL To Play Belgium's GRASPOP METAL MEETING
According to Ashladan.be, SLIPKNOT and LACUNA COIL will perform at the 14th edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 26-28, 2009 on the festival grounds of the Boeretang in Dessel, Belgium. The festival biling is shaping up as follows: ANTHRAX BLIND GUARDIAN DAGOBA DEVILDRIVER DI...February 6, 2009
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DREAM THEATER Added To Belgium's GRASPOP METAL MEETING
According to Ashladan.be, DREAM THEATER will perform at the 14th edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 26-28, 2009 on the festival grounds of the Boeretang in Dessel, Belgium. The festival biling is shaping up as follows: ANTHRAX BLIND GUARDIAN DAGOBA DEVILDRIVER DISTURBED DRE...February 4, 2009
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POWER QUEST Joined By BLIND GUARDIAN Bassist
Following the departure of long-standing bassist Steve Scott in early January 2009, British melodic power metallers POWER QUEST have announced that the search for a replacement is now over. The group's new bassist is Oliver Holzwarth, who has been a touring member of the legendary German power metal...February 3, 2009
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LOTHLÖRYEN Announces 'In The Name Of Tolkien - Folk Metal Tour 2009'
Brazilian heavy/folk metal act LOTHLÖRYEN is preparing to hit the road to promote its new album, "Some Ways Back No More", available in Brazil through Die Hard Records. The trek, dubbed "In The Name of Tolkien - Folk Metal Tour 2009", will begin in March and will be a true "bard's alliance" with sup...February 2, 2009
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VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Announces New Singer
Austrian symphonic metallers VISIONS OF ATLANTIS have announced the addition of singer Joanna Nieniewska (pictured below) to the group's ranks. According to the band, "This 20-year-old Austrian girl offers a wide range and a strong soprano combined with a great natural feeling for vocal harmonies."...February 1, 2009
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SAXON Films 'Battalions Of Steel' Video
British heavy metal legends SAXON have just shot a video for the song "Battalions Of Steel". The track comes off the band's latest album, "Into The Labyrinth", which sold around 1,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 29 o...January 31, 2009
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SINBREED Featuring BLIND GUARDIAN Drummer; New Song, Video Available
German power metal band NEOSHINE, which features in its ranks 26-year-old guitarist Flo Laurin alongside BLIND GUARDIAN drummer Frederik Ehmke and SEVENTH AVENUE vocalist Herbie Langhans, has changed its name to SINBREED. The group's recently recorded debut album, "When Worlds Collide", was produced...January 27, 2009
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VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: New Singer Announcement Coming Next Week
Keyboardist Martin Harb of Austrian symphonic metallers VISIONS OF ATLANTIS has issued the following update: "Within the next week we will present you the name and the face of our new female voice and bandmember! At the moment she's at the shooting for her first VISIONS OF ATLANTIS promotional pictu...January 23, 2009
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EPHEL DUATH: New Audio Interview Available
Italian news blog Musica Metal has uploaded an English-launguage audio interview with Davide Tiso (songwriter, guitar, keyboard, vocals) and Luciano Lorusso George (vocals) of Italian avant-garde metallers EPHEL DUATH. (Note: Luciano left the band a few weeks after EPHEL DUATH's new CD, "Through My...January 22, 2009
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CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist Talks Censorship
Censorship and extreme music have clashed on many occasions, and more than once death metal's CANNIBAL CORPSE has been the catalyst for conflict. Speaking in the new issue of the U.K.'s Zero Tolerance magazine, CORPSE bassist and founding member Alex Webster reflects upon his band's run-ins with cen...January 21, 2009
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SAXON: 'Into The Labyrinth' First-Week Sales Revealed
"Into The Labyrinth", the new album from British heavy metal legends SAXON, sold around 1,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 29 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by ne...January 21, 2009
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SAXON: 'Into The Labyrinth' European Chart Positions Revealed
"Into The Labyrinth", the new album from British heavy metal legends SAXON, has registered the following first-week chart positions in Europe: Austria: #53 Germany: #23 (Media Control) Germany: #8 (Media Markt) Sweden: #44 Switzerland: #61 UK: #119 UK: #6 (Rock) "Into The Labyrinth" was released in...January 20, 2009
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The Origin Of The Blastbeat
Alexis Petridis of The Guardian reports that James Hoare, deputy editor of Terrorizer magazine is agitating to have January 29 declared International Blastbeat Celebration Day. The idea started out as a joke on Good Bad Music for Bad, Bad Times, a remarkable blog written by Erich Keller, a European...January 18, 2009
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