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NIGHTWISH Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have been been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXXIS CARCASS...

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OBITUARY: 'Best Of' Collection Due In January

Roadrunner Records has set a January 29, 2008 release date for a "best-of" collection from legendary Florida death metallers OBITUARY. Entitled, appropriately enough, "The Best of Obituary", the CD will feature the following track listing: 01. Internal Bleeding 02. 'Til Death 03. Slowly We Rot 04. C...

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AVATAR: 'Schlacht' Video Posted Online

Swedish metal band AVATAR has released the video for the title track of the group's recently released album, entitled "Schlacht". The clip, which was reportedly filmed in a slaughterhouse, can be viewed below. "Schlacht" was released on October 24 via Gain Records. The group started recording the fo...

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GORGOROTH Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

The Gaahl-fronted version of the Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH has been been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The group will be one of the headliners on the event's "Black Stage." The festival...

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CHUCK SCHULDINER Tribute Concert To Be Held in Massachusetts On Thursday

As part of its monthly "Metal Thursday" concert series, Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner in Worcester, Massachusetts will hold a tribute to late DEATH/CONTROL DENIED mastermind Chuck Schuldiner this Thursday, December 6 at 9:00 p.m. The event, presented by ZIRCON bassist Chris Farmerie, will feature so...

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Late DEF LEPPARD Guitarist STEVE CLARK's Former Lover Dies

According to an obituary in the Guardian Unlimited, Barbara Salisbury, a former publicist for DEF LEPPARD, died from a stroke at her home in Lowestoft, England. LEPPARD's late guitarist, Steve Clark, was reportedly her on-off lover for many years. DEF LEPPARD has been confirmed for the Classic Rock...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

QUEENSRŸCHE have been confirmed as one of the headlining acts for next year's instalment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place on June 27-28, 2008 in Balingen, Germany. The band will deliver a very special three-hour performance with the full "Operation: Mindcrime" sets along with a h...

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TESTAMENT Confirmed For Serbia's LEGACY FESTIVAL

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT have been confirmed for the Legacy Festival, set to take place May 30-31, 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: May 30, 2008: DESTRUCTION VADER OBITUARY DARK FUNERAL THRESHOLD May 31, 2008: JORN LANDE BELPHEGOR...

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PRIMORDIAL, GOREROTTED, POWERWOLF, AUTUMN Confirmed For WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

PRIMORDIAL, GOREROTTED, POWERWOLF and AUTUMN have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXXIS CARCASS CHILD...

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Ex-DIMMU BORGIR/CRADLE OF FILTH Drummer Confirmed For CHUCK SCHULDINER Tribute Concert

Ex-DIMMU BORGIR/CRADLE OF FILTH drummer Nick Barker and the former drum tech for Richard Christy on DEATH's "Perseverance" tour, Jonathan Lee, have been confirmed to perform at a benefit concert to honor late DEATH/CONTROL DENIED mastermind Chuck Schuldiner on December 12, 2007 at the Theatre Imperi...

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The Sound of Resistance

It is not like death metal is intended to be the most inventive music the world's ever known, the progenitors and trailblazers of the genre notwithstanding, but there is something to be said about DM done with passion and conviction. In the case of "The Sound of Resistance" by Montreal's POINT BLANK...

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MELECHESH Pulls Out Of Serbia's LEGACY FESTIVAL, BELPHEGOR Steps In

Mesopotamian metal masters MELECHESH have cancelled their participation in the Legacy Festival, set to take place May 30-31, 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. Replacing them on the bill will be Austrian black/death metal titans BELPHEGOR. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: May 30, 2008: OBIT...

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Reactivated BELIEVER Begins Recording New Album

Guitarist/vocalist Kurt Bachman of the reactivated late '80s/early '90s technical-thrash metal band BELIEVER has issued the following update: "The Trauma Team has started the actual recording [of the new BELIEVER album] and Joey [Daub, drums] has blazed through two tunes today (after many hours gett...

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IMPALED NAZARENE, VREID Confirmed For Germany's PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival

IMPALED NAZARENE and VREID have been confirmed for next year's Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 7-9, 2008 in Bad Berka, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: DEADBORN DEFLORATION ENDSTILLE IMPALED NAZARENE INSISION KAMPFAR LEGION OF THE DAMNED LIVIDITY OBITUARY...

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KONKHRA: 'Hail To The King' Video Being Planned

Danish extreme metallers KONKHRA recently finished re-recording their long-awaited new album, "Nothing Is Sacred", after encountering technical difficulties which forced them to scrap some of the previously completed early tracks. Two songs from the CD — "Religion is a Whore" and "Hail to the King"...