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CANDLEMASS To Celebrate New Album Release With Hometown Concert
Legendary Swedish doom metallers CANDLEMASS will release their 11th and final album, "Psalms For The Dead", on June 8 via Napalm Records. A limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single contaning two album tracks —"Dancing In The Temple Of The Mad Queen Bee" and "The Killing Of The Sun" — preceded the ful...May 18, 2012
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DEW-SCENTED Unveils New Lineup
German thrashers DEW-SCENTED have announced their new lineup. It is as follows (pictured from left to right in photo below): Rory Hansen - Guitar Marvin Vriesde - Guitar Leif Jensen - Vocals Joost van der Graaf - Bass Koen Herfst - Drums Commented DEW-SCENTED vocalist Leif Jensen: "I'm more than pro...May 14, 2012
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DEW-SCENTED: New Album Title, Cover Artwork Revealed
German thrashers DEW-SCENTED have set "Icarus" as the title of their new album. Vocalist Leif Jensen described the CD's main theme as "a modern-times, very apocalyptic adaption of elements of the Icarus myth, using a lot of its symbolism while interlinking with several other personal or observant su...April 30, 2012
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CANDLEMASS: New Album Title, Cover Artwork Revealed
Legendary Swedish doom metallers CANDLEMASS will release their 11th and final album, "Psalms For The Dead", in June via Napalm Records. A limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single contaning two album tracks —"Dancing In The Temple Of The Mad Queen Bee" and "The Killing Of The Sun" — will precede the f...March 16, 2012
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CANDLEMASS Leader: 'We're Not Splitting Up'
Despite the fact that legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have just completed work on their final studio album, the band's bassist/leader Leif Edling tells Terrorizer magazine that the group is not planning on hanging it up anytime soon. "We're not splitting up," he said. "Yes, this is to be our...February 24, 2012
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HEVEIN Releases New Digital EP
Finnish metallers HEVEIN — who feature in their ranks former APOCALYPTICA and current TARJA TURUNEN cellist Max Lilja — have released a new digital EP containing three new songs ("Spineless", "V", "Gentle Anarchy") and a newly mixed version of "Nor" (originally released as a single in 2011). The tra...January 16, 2012
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KRUX: New Stockholm Performance Footage Available
Fan-filmed video footage of KRUX — the Swedish band featuring CANDLEMASS bassist Leif Edling, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Mats Levén, ex-ENTOMBED drummer Peter Stjärnvind, guitarist Jörgen Sandström (also in THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED/GRAVE),OPETH/ex-ARCH ENEMY guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and keybo...January 9, 2012
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CANDLEMASS: Pre-Production Photos Posted Online
Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS are working on material for their final album, tentatively scheduled for a spring 2012 release via Napalm Records. After a six-month writing period, the band spent two weekends in October in a Stockholm studio. In all, eight songs were recorded for demo purpose...November 25, 2011
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DUFF MCKAGAN Interviewed On FOX 9 NEWS (Video)
On Sunday, October 16, Leif Knutson of FOX 9 News conducted an interview with Duff McKagan (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED) about Duff's new book, "It's So Easy (And Other Lies)". You can now watch the chat below. "It's So Easy (And Other Lies)", which arrived on October 4 via...October 17, 2011
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NECRODEATH To Release 'Idiosyncrasy' In October
Italian black/thrash metal veterans NECRODEATH will release their brand new album, "Idiosyncrasy", in October via Scarlet Records. This new effort is arguably the band's most challenging so far, both musically and lyrically, consisting in one single, 40-minute-long track which sums NECRODEATH's musi...September 13, 2011
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Switchtense
We've heard a lot of this new school, hardcore-tough thrash metal these last several years and fortunately quite a few bands do it well. But progression is not a characteristic of the genre, which suits the bands and many fans of the style just fine. Separation from the pack however is difficult to...June 20, 2011
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'Candlemass Chronicles': New Issue Focusing On 'King of the Grey Islands' Out Now
The latest installment of the CANDLEMASS biography "Candlemass Chronicles" has just been released. In this the fourth issue, focus is set on the "King Of The Grey Islands" album (Nuclear Blast Records, 2007). This era was a turning point and a rebirth for CANDLEMASS, that is still going in this inca...April 28, 2011
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CANDLEMASS: 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus' To Be Re-Released As Special Double-Disc CD
Peaceville Records will celebrate the 25th anniversary of CANDLEMASS' classic debut album, "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus", by re-releasing it on May 14 as a special double-disc CD. "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is a true classic. Heavy metal riffs blended with almost neo-classical touches, plus some th...March 29, 2011
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Ex-THIN LIZZY/MOTÖRHEAD Guitarist BRIAN ROBERTSON: New Song Available For Streaming
It's not for the first time in the history of rock music that coincidence led to the discovery of hidden treasures: a carrier bag full of music tapes (note: tapes!) turned out to be the basis for "Diamonds And Dirt", the first solo release by Scottish guitarist/composer Brian Robertson, due to be re...March 14, 2011
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DARKTHRONE's FENRIZ: 'We Are The Definition Of Keeping It So Real It's Unreal'
Shannon Joy of the LA Music Blog recently conducted an interview with Leif Gylve Nagell, better known in the music community as Fenriz, the drummer and lyricist of the legendary Norwegian black metal band DARKTHRONE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. LA Music Blog: "Circle the Wagons"...February 2, 2011