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AMON AMARTH Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

Sweden's AMON AMARTH has been confirmed for the Metalcamp 2007 festival, set to take place July 16-22, 2007 in Tolmin, Slovenia. More than 80 bands will perform on two stages over the course of five days of live music. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLIND GUARDIAN IMMORTAL AMON AMART...

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BLIND GUARDIAN, IMMORTAL, DORO Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

BLIND GUARDIAN, IMMORTAL and DORO are among the first confirmed bands for the Metalcamp 2007 festival, set to take place July 16-22, 2007 in Tolmin, Slovenia. More than 80 bands will perform on two stages over the course of five days of live music. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BLIN...

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THRESHOLD Fans Get Creative

Fans waiting for the new THRESHOLD album "Pilot in the Sky of Dreams" have been getting creative at forum.thresh.net. Following the announcement that the album's artwork is being designed by Thomas Ewerhard (KING'S X, VANDEN PLAS, ASIA),impetuous THRESHOLD fans have been designing their own highly...

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GREAT WHITE Frontman To Guest On New LIBERTY N' JUSTICE CD

Christian rockers LIBERTY N' JUSTICE, whose most recent release, "Soundtrack of a Soul", featured an all-star cast of guest musicians — including Mark Slaughter (SLAUGHTER),Sebastian Bach (SKID ROW),Stephen Pearcy (RATT) and Tony Harnell (TNT) — are back in the studio working on their follow-up ef...

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MONTERREY METAL FEST Pre-Party Final Details Revealed

The official 2006 Monterrey Metal Fest pre-party will be held on Friday, November 17, 2006 at the Cafe Iguana in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico with mini-sets from the following bands: JOE STUMP HYDROGYN BLUDGEON VAINGLORY FORLORN VALE HERENWEN SOULS ON FIRE BLACKSMITH PENTAGRAM The cost of the ticke...

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BLIND GUARDIAN: Video Footage From U.S. Tour Opener Available

Two short video clips of BLIND GUARDIAN's first concert on their current U.S. tour, which kicked off Wednesday night (Nov. 8) at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona, have been posted online at YouTube.com. Check them out: "Welcome to Dying": Video "Lord of the Rings": Video A 12-minute audio inter...

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BLIND GUARDIAN: Australian Dates Announced

German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN have lined up two Australian dates early next year following their tour of Asia. The details are as follows: Feb. 02 - Tokyo, JPN @ Shibuya-Kokaido Feb. 04 - Osaka, JPN @ Namba Hatch Feb. 05 - Fukuoka, JPN @ Zepp Fukuoka Feb. 06 - Nagoya, JPN @ Zepp Nagoya ...

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Punk Bands Cover Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Classics: Audio Available

Punk bands NICOTINE (Japan) and SUN EATS HOURS (Italy) have teamed up to record a split album, "Metal Addiction", featuring covers of heavy metal classics. Due on November 15, "Metal Addiction" (cover) will contain the following track listing: 01. It's My Life (BON JOVI) - NICOTINE 02. I Was Made Fo...

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VIRGIN STEELE Confirmed For PROGPOWER USA VIII Festival

VIRGIN STEELE has ben confirmed for the ProgPower USA VIII festival, set to take place next fall. Also scheduled to appear are REDEMPTION and RAINTIME. VIRGIN STEELE's eleventh album, "Visions of Eden", recently entered the Greek national chart at position No. 37. The CD is said to be "quite epic,"...

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LEAVES' EYES To Support KAMELOT On European Tour

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) — will support KAMELOT on a European tour beginning late March. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Mar. 29 - Zoet...

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THRESHOLD Confirms Album Cover Artist

U.K. progressive metallers THRESHOLD have confirmed that their new CD artwork will be created by Thomas Ewerhard, whose credits include KING'S X, VANDEN PLAS and ASIA. Thomas Ewerhard has been responsible for THRESHOLD's artwork since 1998, including the iconic "Hypothetical" and "Subsurface" covers...

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QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY Co-Authors Book About Origins of Universe

The Associated Press reports that Brian May, who abandoned doctoral studies in astronomy to play guitar with '70s rock legends QUEEN, has returned to his first love as a co-author of the book "Bang! The Complete History of the Universe", which was launched Monday (Oct. 23). Co-written with Patrick M...

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DISILLUSION, NEAERA Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

DISILLUSION and NEAERA have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIAN CANNIBAL CORPSE COMMUNIC DI...

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LIBERTY N' JUSTICE Announces First Guest Singer For 'Independence Day' CD

Christian rockers LIBERTY N' JUSTICE, whose most recent release, "Soundtrack of a Soul", featured an all-star cast of guest musicians — including Mark Slaughter (SLAUGHTER),Sebastian Bach (SKID ROW),Stephen Pearcy (RATT) and Tony Harnell (TNT) — are back in the studio working on their follow-up ef...

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Triumph or Agony

If you were among those disappointed by BLIND GUARDIAN's streamlining of their sound this year, your luxury liner has come in. RHAPSODY OF FIRE have, if anything, gone even further off the deep end into operatic, cinematic, utterly bombastic and gaudy symphonic metal. Choirs swell, drums thunder, st...