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TENEBRE Complete Work On New CD
Sweden's TENEBRE have finished recording their new CD at Tambourine Studios in Malm and are tentatively scheduled to release the effort in late spring. 14 songs were laid down during the sessions, but only 10 of them will make it onto the finished CD. Here are the songs that were recorded for the as...March 14, 2002
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NOCTURNAL RITES Confirmed For Ume Open Festival
Swedish power metal kings NOCTURNAL RITES will be playing at the Ume Open Festival in Ume, Sweden on April 27th. ...March 9, 2002
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VADER Begin Recording New CD, Announce Title Change
Polish death metal veterans VADER have changed the title of their forthcoming album from Epitaph to Revelations. The band's first CD with ex-HUNTER four-stringer Simon (who replaced Shambo last year),Revelations is currently being recorded at Red Studio (the same studio where the group's Litany and...February 26, 2002
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ANCIENT RITES Confirmed For EUROROCK
Belgian black metal act ANCIENT RITES have been confirmed for the Eurorock festival, which is scheduled to take place in Neerpelt, Belgium on August 3-5. Also confirmed for the event are THE GATHERING, among others. ...February 15, 2002
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DKAY.COM Set To Release Sophomore Album In Late April
Germany's DKAY.COM, featuring former DIE KRUPPS mainman Jrgen Engler will release their second, as-yet-untitled album on April 22nd. A European tour in support of the effort is scheduled to start on May 8th, and will include appearances by THE GENITORTURERS (featuring Evil D, aka former MORBID ANGEL...February 7, 2002
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INFERNO 2002 Festival Takes Shape
Inferno 2002 festival is scheduled to take place on March 29th and 30th at Rockefeller in Olso, Norway. So far the following acts have been confirmed to appear: 1349 AURA NOIR BEHEMOTH BLACK COMEDY BLOOD RED THRONE CARPATHIAN FOREST DHG DIMMU BORGIR ETERNAL SILENCE LOCK UP LOST IN TIME LOWDOWN MANAT...January 28, 2002
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VADER Set To Issue "Epitaph" In May
Polish death metal legends VADER are scheduled to enter Red Studio (the same studio where the group's Litany and Reign Forever World CDs were recorded) with producer with Piotr Lukaszewski during February to begin work on their upcoming CD, tentatively entitled Epitaph, for a May 26th release. The b...January 6, 2002
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MEGADETH Official "Killing..." Track Listing Unveiled
MEGADETH have officially confirmed via their web site that the group's upcoming re-mastered version of their 1985 debut CD, Killing Is My BusinessAnd Business Is Good!, will contain the band's rendition of the Nancy Sinatra classic These Boots. However, it appears that the version of the song that w...January 4, 2002
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MEGADETH Set To "Kill" Again In February
The remixed and remastered version of MEGADETH's debut CD, Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! , which was issued in its original form back in 1985, will be released through Loud Records on February 5th. While the official track listing for the reworked edition does not include MEGADETH's...December 31, 2001
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THANATOS Recruit New Basist, Record Mini Album!
Veteran Dutch death metal act THANATOS have recruited bassist Marco de Bruin and will enter a Rotterdam recording studio in the first week of January to record three new tracksDevour the Living, Rites of Retaliation and L'AldilaBeyond Terroras well as a new version of Angelic Encounters. These four...December 25, 2001
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When ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer and BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist Hansi Kursch joined forces to make this album, speculation was strong that the resultant album would end up sounding like a perfect blend of the two bands—a prediction that could not possibly have been more on the mark. Having never be...December 17, 2001
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Renegade
Widely credited for having spearheaded the current traditional metal resurgence in Europe, Sweden's HAMMERFALL have always fallen a bit short of the mark to these ears, boasting a sound that is neither innovative nor particularly convincing, with many of their songs coming across like poor second-ra...December 17, 2001
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Afterlife
One of the most pleasant surprises of the year. NOCTURNAL RITES' fourth studio album is a virtual power metal masterpiece, featuring 10 songs of classy, melodic hard rock that can best be described as a cross between the Tony Martin-era BLACK SABBATH and early HELOWEEN. The bulk of the improvement c...December 17, 2001
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Archive News Nov 30, 2001
Here are some of the latest sales figures for various metal/hard rock releases in the US, as reported by Soundscan for the week ending November 25th, 2001 (number in parenthesis indicates the number of weeks the title has been on the sales chart): ... KID ROCK – Cocky: 223,062 (1) ...November 30, 2001
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Archive News Nov 26, 2001
SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser will be joining former IRON MAIDEN vocalist Paul Di'Anno on stage as a very special guest at the latter's headlining appearance at the Manifesto Bar in Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 11th. Kisser will reportedly perform with Di'Anno at the first show of the sing...November 26, 2001
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