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DESTRUCTION, EPICA To Headline Belgium's METAL MÉAN FESTIVAL

Germany's DESTRUCTION and Holland's EPICA will top the bill at this year's Metal Méan Festival, set to take place July 21-22 in Méan, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: SKEPTICAL MINDS DYLATH LEEN ANACHRONIA WINE SPIRIT JESUS PROJECT SHAH-MAT THURISAZ For more information, visit...

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GOD DETHRONED Members To Take Part In ROTTERDAM POP ACADEMY Graduation Exam

Guitarist Isaac Delahaye of the Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "On the 4th of July, Ariën [van Weesenbeek, drums] and me will play an exclusive show with SIC in Nighttown, Holland. This project is the initiative of Coen Janssen (...

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AFTER FOREVER Singer To Be Featured On Dutch TV

AFTER FOREVER frontwoman Floor Jansen will be the subject of a short documentary airing today ((June 9) on the Dutch TV station L1 on the program "Ratatoej". The segment will focus on Jansen's work as the AFTER FOREVER singer and as a vocal teacher. The show will be broadast several times throughout...

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AFTER FOREVER: 'It's Time To Take A Big Step Forward'

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal outfit AFTER FOREVER have posted the following message on their official web site: "Today, the contract with our former label, Transmission, has ended. After four full-length albums, one mini-album and a few singles, we think it's time to take a big step forward!...

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THE SISTERS OF MERCY, FREEDOM CALL Added To Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Metal Festival

THE SISTERS OF MERCY and FREEDOM CALL have been added to the lineup of the ninth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to take place June 30 – July 2 at Kaisaniemi in Helsinki, Finland. FREEDOM CALL have replaced U.K. power metallers DRAGONFORCE, who were forced to pull out of the event after la...

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JORN LANDE To Lead All-Star Performance At PROGPOWER USA VII

ProgPower USA promoter Glenn Harveston has confirmed that there will be a very special "all-star" performance led by vocalist Jorn Lande (ex-MASTERPLAN, ARK, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) during his headline set at ProgPower USA this year. Confirmed thus far to join Lande on stage are Zak Stevens (CIRCLE II CIR...

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DAGOBA To Support DEFTONES In France

French metallers DAGOBA, who recently completed a successful 35-date European tour as the opening act for IN FLAMES and SEPULTURA, will support the DEFTONES on the following shows: May 30 - Paris, FRA @ Zenith May 31 - Lille, FRA @ Aronef As previously reported, DAGOBA have been confirmed for the ni...

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AFTER FOREVER: 'Mea Culpa' Two-CD Collection to Include Previously Unreleased Material

AFTER FOREVER's former record label, Transmission Records, has announced plans to release a two-disc compilation album containing the best songs from the band's first ten years of existence, plus previously unreleased material, non-album tracks, alternate takes, rarities and previously unreleased re...

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NINE, EPICA, MENDEED, METSATÖLL Confirmed For Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Festival

NINE, EPICA, MENDEED and METSATÖLL have been confirmed for the ninth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to take place June 30 – July 2 at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland. A total of 32 bands will perform on three stages over the course of three days. In addition, a couple of dozen bands...

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DEW-SCENTED Cancel METALLIANCE Appearance

German thrashers DEW-SCENTED have issued the following statement: "Hello to everybody, especially to our friends in France possibly attending Metalliance festival this weekend: DEW-SCENTED will not perform after all tonight. The promoter decided to not stand by his contract, so there we go (or rathe...

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EPICA Cancel METALLIANCE Festival Appearance

Dutch female-fronted symphic metal band EPICA were forced to cancel their appearance at the Metalliance festival in Beauvais, France yesterday (May 5) "due to some major organization problems," according to a posting on the band's web site. "We hope you guys will accept our apologies, but we also ho...

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NIGHTWISH Mainman HOLOPAINEN Talks About Vocalist Search

RockMidgets.com recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: RockMidgets.com: So back to the present, you've just launched the search for the new singer, how is that going? Any good? Any terrible? Tuomas Holopainen: "It's be...

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AXAMENTA's Collaboration With PAIN OF SALVATION Singer Available Online

Belgium's AXAMENTA, the former band of current EPICA bassist Yves Huts, have uploaded several new samples from their upcoming album, "Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture", at their official web site. Due on May 26 via Shiver Records, the CD was recorded at Hansen studio in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen...

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LEAVES' EYES Confirmed For France's RAISMESFEST

LEAVES' EYES, the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY (who are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull),have been confirmed for the ninth edition of the Raismesfest, set to take place September 9-10 at Le Château de la Pr...

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KAMELOT Continuing Work On Live DVD, Planning Live Appearances

American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT are continuing to work on their first DVD, "One Cold Winter's Night", which was shot in Oslo this past February. "There is a lot of editing for our director Patric [Ulleaus]. We have 18 cameras on this shoot and the concert was nearly 2 hours long," state...