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KATAGORY V: New Album Cover Artwork Revealed

Utah-based progressive/power metallers KATAGORY V has posted the cover artwork for their fourth album, "Hymns of Dissension", due later in the year. Commented bassist and founder Dustin Mitchell: "The new album is complete and the final mix has been sent off to the record labels, so now it is in the...

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VOIVOD Drummer's KOSMOS Launches Video Contest

KOSMOS, the Canadian prog/psych quartet which features VOIVOD's Michel "Away" Langevin on drums, is asking fans to come up with a unique and creative video concept for the song "Grand Grizou" off its forthcoming, self-titled album. The contest runs from today (June 18) to August 1. All video links (...

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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman: 'You've Gotta Run Out There And Grab Life By The Balls'

Aaron Willschick of PureGrainAudio.com recently conducted an interview wwith JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. A few excerpts from the chat follow: PureGrainAudio.com: The last several months have certainly been busy for you from a music and business perspective as back in November, you formed your...

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UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER Discusses New U.D.O. Album 'Mastercutor'

Mark Carras of RockMyMonkey.com recently conducted an interview with former ACCEPT vocalist Udo Dirkschneider. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rock My Monkey: You have a video for the song "Wrong Side of Midnight". Who thought of the concept for that? Udo Dirkschneider: There was a young...

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TURISAS Announces U.K. Headlining Tour

Finnish folk metallers TURISAS have announced a U.K. headlining tour in support of their new album, "The Varangian Way". Commented TURISAS leader Warlord Nygard: "It's been well over a year since the last TURISAS headlining show in the U.K. It seems we have only been over for short one-off support a...

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Canadian AC/DC Tribute Band Takes A Comedic Approach

Canada's Comox Valley Record reports: There are tribute bands — and there's BC/DC. They were born of bush party ashes in the summer of 1999. Some 400 unexpected gigs later, Canada's BC/DC have systematically redefined the concept of a tribute band, garnering iconic status among their diehard fans an...

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KING DIAMOND Talks About Story Behind 'Give Me Your Soul ... Please'

King Diamond recently spoke to AnarchyMusic.net about the story behind his latest album "Give Me Your Soul ... Please". An excerpt follows: King Diamond: "Our distributor in Denmark called our tour manager who does all kinds of stuff with us and said, 'I just saw a painting on some artist's web site...

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EPICA: 'The Divine Conspiracy' Artwork Revealed

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal band EPICA has revealed the cover artwork for its new album, "The Divine Conspiracy", due in Europe on September 10 via Nuclear Blast Records (September 7 in Germany). Check it out at this location. "The Divine Conspiracy", which was mixed by Sascha Paeth, featur...

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Ziltoid the Omniscient

"Ziltoid the Omniscient", Devin Towsend's first "pure solo album" is supposed to be it for a while for the enigmatic and creatively brilliant main man for STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND. And what a fantastic way to end this chapter of a career marked by sheer genius. "Solo" is to be...

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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist To Take Part In 'Vampires Rock' Tour

TWISTED SISTER guitarist Eddie Ojeda will take part in Steve Steinman's "Vampires Rock" tour in Europe during September-December 2007. Commented Ojeda: "It's a great show for me to be a part of and three months of touring with them will be great!" "Vampires Rock" is a musical stage show which premie...

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SYMPHONY X Frontman Talks About Making Of 'Paradise Lost'

FMQB recently conducted an interview with SYMPHONY X vocalist Russell Allen. A couple of excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow: FMQB: With a revolving lineup of musicians over the years, how does it feel to finally record three albums in a row with the same lineup? Russell: It didn't...

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MARDUK Guitarist: 'This Was Probably One Of The Smoothest Recordings We've Ever Done'

Jackie Smit of Chronicles of Chaos recently conducted an interview with MARDUK guitarist Morgan Håkansson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Chronicles of Chaos: I think that my response to hearing "Rom 5:12" for the first time was probably quite similar to a lot of people, in that I could...

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Guitarist JOE STUMP To Shoot New Instructional DVD

Guitarist Joe Stump has issued the following update: "Just a quick update to report some of the stuff I've got in the pipes. First off HOLYHELL will be playing two festivals in Europe, the Kaliakra Rock Fest in Kavarna, Bulgaria on June 30th, and the Magic Circle festival on July 7th. The Magic Circ...

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Finnish Folk Metallers TURISAS At U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival; Video Available

Professionally filmed video footage of Finnish folk metallers TURISAS performing at the Download festival earlier today (Saturday, June 9) at Donington Park, Leicestershire, England has been posted at YouTube. Century Media Records has set a July 17 North American release date for the sophomore albu...

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SYMPHONY X Frontman Talks About Forthcoming 'Paradise Lost' CD

Metal Asylum recently conducted an interview with SYMPHONY X frontman Russell Allen. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Asylum: So it has been a while since SYMPHONY X put out a record ("The Odyssey" released in 2002). You recently started doing some shows in support of the new album "Paradi...