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KATATONIA Explain METALLIANCE Festival Cancellation

Sweden's KATATONIA have issued a statement explaining their reasons for cancelling their appearance at the Metalliance festival in Beauvais, France this past weekend. The statement reads as follows: "First of all we'd like to apologize for not [issuing this statement] sooner, but as you can imagine,...

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LIV KRISTINE Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

LIV KRISTINE (LEAVES' EYES, ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY) is the final artist confirmed for this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 17-19, 2006 in Dinkelsbuehl, Germany. Kristine will be performing with a classical string quartet and various other guests, including D...

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TAPPING THE VEIN Putting Finishing Touches On New Album

According to MTV.com, moody metal group TAPPING THE VEIN are almost done with their new album. The drum, bass and guitar tracks are all finished, and singer Heather Thompson plans to wrap up her vocal tracks this week. "It's sounding much heavier and dark, à la KATATONIA," said drummer Eric Fisher o...

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On a career arc as impressive as OPETH's, minus most of the record sales, Norway's psychedelic prog-metal Vikings continue their journey into accessible dissonance, soaring chords, desolate atmospheres and swirling, ambient aural journeys on this, their eight proper studio album. Moving ever further...

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MORBID ANGEL, 1349, FRAGMENTS OF UNBECOMING Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

MORBID ANGEL, 1349 and FRAGMENTS OF UNBECOMING have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 17-19, 2006 in Dinkelsbuehl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): 1349 AMORPHIS ANGEL BLAKE APOSTASY ASP B...

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AMORPHIS, KATATONIA Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

AMORPHIS and KATATONIA have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 17-19, 2006 in Dinkelsbuehl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS ANGEL BLAKE APOSTASY ASP BLOODFLOWERZ CARNAL FORGE CORV...

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FUELBLOODED To Team Up With DETONATION For U.K. Tour

Dutch melodic death/thrash act FUELBLOODED (formerly SACRAMENTAL SACHEM) will be teaming up with Dutch melodic death monsters DETONATION for a U.K. tour beginning in early May. The tour will kick off on May 4 with a show at Manchester's Satan's Hollow club and will continue until May 10, when both D...

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QUEENSRŸCHE, POISON, LACUNA COIL Land In BILLBOARD's Top 30

QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" has sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 14 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is more than half of the total sales tally registered by the band's last studio album, 2003's "Tribe", which sold 20,000 co...

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KATATONIA: New Single To Feature Exclusive Bonus Material

Sweden's KATATONIA have selected the track "Deliberation" as the second single from their new album, "The Great Cold Distance". Due on May 15, the single will also include two new exclusive tracks: a complete remake of "In the White", now stripped down with acoustic guitars in a contemporary approac...

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UNLEASHED Working On 'One Of Most Memorable Records In History Of Death Metal'

Frontman Johnny Hedlund of the legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED has issued the following update via the group's official web site: "UNLEASHED are currently in the studio, completing the pre-production of our eighth full-length album. We have more qualified songs to choose from than ever b...

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FUELBLOODED To Support DESTRUCTION In Eindhoven

Dutch melodic death/thrash act FUELBLOODED (formerly SACRAMENTAL SACHEM) will be supporting German thrashers DESTRUCTION on September 9 at the Dynamo club in Eindhoven, Holland. Also scheduled to appear are DEAD HEAD and LEGION OF THE DAMNED (formerly OCCULT). FUELBLOODED's debut album, "Inflict the...

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UNLEASHED Drummer 'Making Fast Recovery' Following Lung-Collapse

According to a posting on UNLEASHED's official web site, the group's drummer, Anders Schultz, is "making a very fast recovery" from a recent lung-collapse. "[Anders] sends his thanks to all our warriors for their concern regarding his condition," the band write on their web site. "He is very eager t...

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KATATONIA: More European Tour Dates Announced

Sweden's KATATONIA will be undertaking "The Great Cold Spring Tour 2006" with special guests NOVEMBRE beginning late April. The final dates for the trek are as follows: Apr. 15 - Close Up Festival - Stockholm SWE * Apr. 20 - Cathouse – Glasgow, UK Apr. 21 - Rio – Bradford, UK Apr. 22 - Mean ...

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UNLEASHED Confirmed For Germany's HELLFLAME Festival

Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED have been confirmed for the Hellflame festival, set to take place September 2 in Osnabrück, Germany. No other bands have yet been announced for the festival. As previously reported, UNLEASHED filmed their entire performance at the Up From The Ground festival (August...

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KATATONIA, RAGING SPEEDHORN, DEATHSTARS Confirmed For Sweden's CLOSE-UP FESTIVAL

KATATONIA, RAGING SPEEDHORN, DEATHSTARS, KRUX, NIFELHEIM, CAPRICORNS, BATTERED, RAISE HELL, GADGET and ENGEL have been confirmed for the Close-Up Festival, set to take place April 15-16 at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):...