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BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL and SCHANDMAUL 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. Also scheduled to perform at the festival is the reunited Norwegian black metal ba...

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BLIND GUARDIAN To Host Listening Party In New York City

BLIND GUARDIAN members Hansi Kürsch and André Olbrich will host a listening party for their new album, "A Twist In The Myth", at Lit Lounge (93 Second Avenue - between 5th & 6th Streets) in New York City on Monday, August 21. Scheduled for North American release on September 5, "A Twist In The M...

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LEAVES' EYES And ATROCITY To Join Forces For Australian Tour

LEAVES' EYES and ATROCITY will be teaming up for an Australian tour in September under the banner "Norwegian Beauty Versus German Atrocity - Under The Southern Cross Tour 2006". Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 18 - Perth, AUS @ Amplifier Bar Sep. 19 - Adelaide, AUS @ TBA Sep. 21 - Brisbane, AUS...

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COLDSEED: 'Completion Makes The Tragedy' To Receive North American Release In September

COLDSEED, the new band featuring former BLIND GUARDIAN/current SAVAGE CIRCUS skinsman Thomen Stauch and SOILWORK singer Björn "Speed" Strid, will release its debut album, "Completion Makes the Tragedy", in North America on September 16 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was issued in Europe on June 3...

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Ex-BLIND GUARDIAN Drummer Forced To Sit Out SAVAGE CIRCUS Tour Dates

Former BLIND GUARDIAN drummer Thomen Stauch will be unable to perform any shows this year with his new band, SAVAGE CIRCUS, due to an unspecified medical/psychological condition. The following is Stauch's official statement on the matter: "Due to ongoing serious private problems in the past months m...

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ASTRAL DOORS: 'Astralism' To Be Reissued With Newly Written Bonus Track

Swedish metallers ASTRAL DOORS will re-release their third album, "Astralism", as a digipack, featuring a newly written bonus track, entitled "21st Century Medieval". "The sound on the album has been polished and has been remastered by a profesional," the band write on their web site. "This is how i...

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Report: Former MOTÖRHEAD Roadie Warned Police About London Terrorist Attack

antiMUSIC is reporting that a former roadie for MOTÖRHEAD tried to warn police about two radical Muslims that helped carry out the July 7, 2005 terrorist attack in London. Martin Gilbertson worked as a computer technician for individuals involved with an Islamic bookshop and youth center Beeston, We...

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LEAVES' EYES: 'Legend Land' EP Enters German Chart At No. 75

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 entered the German Top 100 single chart at position No. 75 with their latest EP, "Legend Land". As previously...

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GOREFEST, MENDEED Confirmed For Germany's EARTHSHAKER FEST

GOREFEST, MENDEED and JUSTICE have been confirmed for the 2006 edition of the Earthshaker Fest, set to take place July 21-22 in Kreuth. In addition, BLIND GUARDIAN will appear at the event as special guests but will not perform. The band will hold a listening session for their upcoming album, "A Twi...

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ERIK NORLANDER To Release DVD Of Russian Concert

Master keyboardist and prolific composer Erik Norlander has announced the July 26, 2006 release of his first DVD documenting his landmark concert in St. Petersburg, Russia. "Erik Norlander and Friends - Live in St. Petersburg" contains 90 minutes of concert material from this spectacular event plus...

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LEAVES' EYES: 'Legend Land' Video Posted Online

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 uploaded their video for the song "Legend Land" at this location (Windows Media). "Legend Land" is the title c...

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PRIMAL FEAR Part Ways With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

German metallers PRIMAL FEAR have parted ways with Nuclear Blast Records, informed sources have told BLABBERMOUTH.NET. In addition, the band's bassist/songwriter Mat Sinner (real name: Matthias Lasch) — who was previously employed by Nuclear Blast as a label manager — is no longer working for the co...

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BLACK SABBATH Among Most 'Ideologically Harmful' Bands On Secret Soviet Rock List

According to a report published in the U.K.'s The Guardian, BLACK SABBATH were named as one of 38 "ideologically harmful" foreign groups in a list sent out in January 1985 by the secretary of the Communist party's youth wing in Ukraine to its local committees. The information, he wrote, was provided...

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LEAVES' EYES To Support BLIND GUARDIAN In North America

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 as the support act for BLIND GUARDIAN on their upcoming North American tour. The dates are as f...

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BLIND GUARDIAN: North American Tour Dates Announced

BLIND GUARDIAN have announced the details of their North American tour in support of their new album, "A Twist In The Myth", which is slated for a September 2006 release via Nuclear Blast Records. The dates are as follows: Nov. 08 - Marquee Theatre - Phoenix, AZ Nov. 09 - House Of Blues - San ...