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DARK FUNERAL: More Tour Dates Announced

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have lined up the following tour dates: Apr. 07 - NOR - Oslo @ Inferno Festival Apr. 13 - RUS - St. Petersburg @ Port Club (w/ BELPHEGOR) Apr. 14 - RUS - Moscow @ Tochka Club (w/ BELPHEGOR) Apr. 26 - SE - Gates of Metalbåten - Silja Festival ...

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CONSTRUCDEAD Parts Ways With Drummer, Bassist

Swedish metallers CONSTRUCDEAD have parted ways with drummer Erik Thyselius (TERROR 2000) and bassist Viktor Hemgren. No reason was given for their departures. In other news, CONSTRUCDEAD has issued the following update: "First of all, we postponed the recording [of the fourth CONSTRUCDEAD album] un...

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HANOI ROCKS Frontman: Upcoming CD Will Redefine Band's Sound And Attitude

Frontman Michael Monroe of the Finnish rock 'n' roll legends HANOI ROCKS has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Good news — the new HANOI ROCKS album is coming along very nicely! Last week we had an amazingly productive pre-production/rehearsal-studio session: in just th...

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SCHISM Signs With RISING WORKS

Italian metallers SCHISM have inked a deal with Rising Works. The group will enter Zenith Recording Studio in March with producer Frank Andiver to record its debut album, "Designation Cluster", tentatively due before the summer. According to a press release, SCHISM's musical approach is similar in s...

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METALLICA's HAMMETT Talks About Meeting LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD; Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett about the San Francisco Bay Area club scene and the first t...

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MESHUGGAH Confirmed For Sweden's PEACE & LOVE Festival

Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have been confirmed for the Peace & Love festival, set to take place June 28-30 in the center of Borlänge, Sweden. Also scheduled to appear are HAMMERFALL, CRASHDIET, NEVERSTORE IGGY & THE STOOGES, BABYSHAMBLES, HANOI ROCKS, SABATON, MORGANA L...

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MOONLYGHT: New Album To Be Mastered In Sweden

Quebec City's dark metallers MOONLYGHT will have their newly recorded album, "Shining", mastered by Peter in de Betou at Tailor Maid (DIMMU BORGIR, MESHUGGAH, DARK TRANQUILLITY) in Sweden. The new CD will feature 10 tracks and a running time of more than 70 minutes. A spring release via an as-yet-un...

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THE DUSKFALL Featured In Independent Horror Movie

Swedish metallers THE DUSKFALL will enter the studio on April 1 to begin recording their as-yet-untitled fourth album. In other news, THE DUSKFALL is featured in a new independent horror movie called "Five across the Eyes". "They even liked the chorus for our song 'Case Closed' so much so they used...

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DARK FUNERAL, ENSLAVED: Poughkeepsie Show Cancelled

DARK FUNERAL and ENSLAVED were forced to cancel their scheduled appearance at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, New York tonight (Saturday, February 3) after their tour bus broke down. Two two opening bands — one of them being ABIGAIL WILLIAMS — still performed, but to an almost empty venue. The Chance re...

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MNEMIC: Entire 'Passenger' Album Available For Streaming

MNEMIC's third album, "Passenger", is available for streaming in its entirety prior to the album's North American street date of February 6 at this location. In the band's current feature in Metal Edge magazine, MNEMIC guitarist Mircea discusses the new album and his hopes for what it will accomplis...

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SCARVE: New Song Posted Online

French masters of modern dissonant thrash SCARVE have posted a new song, entitled "Endangered", on their MySpace page. The track comes off of the band's upcoming album, "The Undercurrent", which will be released this April through Listenable Records. The follow-up to the group's critically acclaimed...

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ANONYMUS Announces New Guitarist

Quebec metallers ANONYMUS have announced the addition of guitarist Jef Fortin to the group's ranks. Commented Fortin: "We did about 40 shows together and when we came back from Quebec City on December 24, I realized I really wanted to stay. I just have too much fun with them to let go of this." ANON...

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SOILWORK: New Album Update

Guitarist Ola Frenning of the Swedish metallers SOILWORK has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "We have written a bunch of songs [for the new SOILWORK album] now. Right now we're listening through the stuff, trying to decide which songs we actually will pick for the upco...

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SOILWORK Frontman Jamming With '70s-Style Hard Rock Band HIGHBALL SHOOTERS

SOILWORK vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Songwriting [for the new SOILWORK album] is going great! "Just wanted to take the time to present a new band that I'm jamming with: HIGHBALL SHOOTERS... "I guess some of you guys are thinking, wh...

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Passenger

Denmark's MNEMIC turned quite a few heads with its futuristic thrash, MESHUGGAH-like rhythms and shades of FEAR FACTORY/STRAPPING YOUNG LAD songwriting on 2003's "Mechanical Spin Phenomena" and 2004's "The Audio Injected Soul". While the soon-to-be-released "Passenger" may not reach the heights achi...