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Ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Singer GÖRAN EDMAN Featured On STRATOSPHERE Debut

Escape Music has set an October 22 release date for "Fire Flight", the debut album from STRATOSPHERE, the new Swedish band featuring singer Göran Edman (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, GLORY, JOHN NORUM). The brainchild of keyboard virtuoso Jeppe Lund, STRATOSPHERE's lineup is rounded out by guitarist Jonas Larse...

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BLACK SABBATH's 'The Eternal Idol' Expanded Reissue To Include RAY GILLEN Recordings

According to a posting on the BLACK SABBATH fan site Black-Sabbath.com, expanded reissues of SABBATH's "Seventh Star" (1986) and "Eternal Idol" (1987) albums — which featured Glenn Hughes (ex-DEEP PURPLE) and Tony Martin, respectively, on vocals — will be made available in the U.K. on October 25 via...

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SALOME Completes Work On New Album

Extreme sludge doom metal trio SALOME has completed work on its highly new album, "Terminal". Described as the band "most accomplished and epic work to date," the CD is said to be "an intense 70-plus-minute sonic jaunt of punishing sludge doom metal reverence." Due on November 9 via Profound Lore Re...

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TEXTURES Announces New Keyboardist

Dutch progressive metallers TEXTURES have announced the addition of keyboardist/samplist Uri Dijk to the group's ranks. Commented the band: " This past summer Uri helped out by filling in on keyboards at [our] festival appearances. During the rehearsals and live shows, there was a strong personal an...

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ACCEPT Guitarist Interviewed On Greece's 'Metalzone' (Audio)

Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann of reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT was interviewed on the September 3, 2010 edition of the "Metalzone" radio show with Kostas Purevil Kyriakakis and Helena Mihailidou. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. "Blood Of The Nations", the new album from...

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ACCEPT's 'Blood Of The Nations' Cracks German Top 5

"Blood Of The Nations", the new album from reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 4. This marks the highest German chart entry ever in the band's career and beats the No. 5 position of 1986's "Russian Roulette". Commented ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hof...

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BEHEMOTH Frontman Says He Is 'A Strong Son Of A Bitch'

Adam "Nergal" Darski, the 33-year-old guitarist/vocalist from Poland's greatest extreme-metal export, BEHEMOTH, was recently diagnosed with a life-threatening form of leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming tissues of the bone marrow Since Nergal's health issues were first made public, the band, its man...

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NIGHTFALL: 'Ambassador Of Mass' Video Released

"Ambassador Of Mass", the new video from Greek metallers NIGHTFALL, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants", which is scheduled for release on August 31 (one day earlier internationally) via Metal Blade Records. The cover artwork was create...

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SANDALINAS: New Album To Feature Another Guest Appearance By KING DIAMOND Guitarist

SANDALINAS, the Swedish/Spanish band featuring Mats Rendlert (bass; DREAMLAND),Alvaro Svanerö (drums; LOCH VOSTOK),Jordi Sandalinas (guitar) and Rick Altzi (vocals; AT VANCE),is putting the finishing touches on its third full-length album, "Circles", at Andy La Rocque's (KING DIAMOND) Sonic Train...

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SLAYER Drummer Featured On Snowboard Movie Soundtrack

SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo has contributed to the soundtrack of "9191", a sideways introspective into the bewildering snow-covered dreamscape of international time traveler and mystic of the shred — Gigi Rüf. Every year, Gigi circles the stratosphere in the name of snowboarding and "9191" is the a...

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VOIVOD, PORCUPINE TREE Members Contribute To 'Mean Deviation' Book

Bazillion Points Books has announced the late 2010 release of "Mean Deviation: Four Decades Of Progressive Heavy Metal" by Jeff Wagner, a former editor of Metal Maniacs magazine and veteran supporter of metal's most risk-taking bands. Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive histor...

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NONPOINT: 'Frontlines' Viral Video Released

A "viral video" for "Frontlines", the new single from the South Florida hard rock quartet NONPOINT, can be viewed below. NONPOINT lead singer Elias Soriano, who put together the clip, commented, "'Frontlines' is for our country's armed forces. They risk their lives every day to protect the rights, l...

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ICON IN ME Begins Recording Sophomore Album

ICON IN ME — the Russian/Swedish/Danish modern metal band featuring HOSTILE BREED guitarist Dmitry Frans, Danish drummer Morten Løwe Sørensen (SUBMISSION, THE ARCANE ORDER, SCARVE, INSTANT CARNAGE, STRANGLER, SCARVE, SOILWORK) and Swedish vocalist Tony Jelencovich (M.A.N, ex-MNEMIC, TRANSPORT LEAGUE...

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NIGHTFALL: Two New Songs Available For Streaming

Two brand new songs from reformed Greek metallers NIGHTFALL — "Astron Black" and "Astronomica / Saturnian Moon" — are available for streaming at this location. The tracks comes off the band's new album, "Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants", which is scheduled for release on August 31 (one day earli...

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DECAPITATED Answers Fan-Submitted Questions

On Friday, July 16, Polish technical deathsters DECAPITATED arrived in Los Angeles to prepare for their headlining run on this year's Summer Slaughter Tour. Guitarist Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka, drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner, bassist Filip "Heinrich" Halucha and lead vocalist Rafal Piotrowski stopped by...