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RHAPSODY: 'Symphony Of Enchanted Lands' Limited-Edition CD To Include Bonus DVD

The limited-edition version of RHAPSODY's new album, "Symphony Of Enchanted Lands Part 2 - The Dark Secret", will include a bonus DVD featuring the "Unholy Warcry" video, a documentary about the album recordings and an interview with acclaimed actor Christopher Lee ("Star Wars - Episode 2: Attack of...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS Seek Label Home, Begin Mixing New Album

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS guitarist Michael Amott (ARCH ENEMY) has confirmed that the band are still searching for a label home after their previous label, Music For Nations, was folded into parent company Zomba Records Group (the world's largest "independent" music group). Writing to the group's official w...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Percussion Extravaganza

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS drummer Ludwig Witt has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Hi there everybody. We continue to work on the new album. The other day we went back to the school where I first started playing the drums back in 1982 (!). Using some mobile recording equipment,...

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Horror And Metal Find A Home At BLOODWORKS

Producer/manager Christopher Tuffin, who has managed such metal acts as PAINMUSEUM, as well as members of the band HALFORD, has teamed up with former NFL star Glenn Cadrez to form a new horror entertainment company, BloodWorks. Tuffin says that he wants to build stronger ties between the hard rock/m...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Vocal Recordings Completed

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS frontman Janne "JB" Christoffersson has posted the following studio update on the band's official web site: "Alright, JB here. Vocals have been recorded. Alcohol has been consumed. One busy week let me tell you! Me, Mike and Rickard (engineer and vocalist extraordinaire in his own...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS Singer Checks In From Recording Studio

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS frontman Janne "JB" Christoffersson has posted the following studio update on the band's official web site: "JB here, back in the [Slaughterhouse] studio in Halmstad doing vox for the new album. [Guitarist] Mike [Amott] is constantly on my case for singing out of key, ha-ha! So far...

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ORANGE GOBLIN Drummer To Tie The Knot

Drummer Christopher Ian Turner of British doomsters ORANGE GOBLIN will marry Swedish girl Annelie Byström on September 4 in London. As previously reported, ORANGE GOBLIN have lined up several U.K. shows this month in support of their fifth album, "Thieving From The House Of God", available now on Ri...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Studio Photos Posted Online

A bunch of photos of SPIRITUAL BEGGARS recording the follow-up to 2002's "On Fire" (Music For Nations) at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden have been posted online at this location. SPIRITUAL BEGGARS' recording lineup for the new album consists of the following: JB (vocals, GRAND MAGUS),Sharlee...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: New Album To Feature ARCH ENEMY Bassist

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS guitarist Michael Amott (ARCH ENEMY, ex-CARCASS) has posted the following studio report on the band's web site: "We are back home from our recording session at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden. We were in the studio for 8 days and we got all basic stuff down for 12 songs + some...

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KISS Designer To Auction Off Rare Memorabilia

According to KissKollector.com, KISS designer Christopher Franchi will be auctioning off some amazing KISS items from his personal archives in the last week of July and the first week of August. He will be auctioning these items off on e-Bay through his new Pop Rox Gallery company (web site). The it...

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Report: New Details Of RUSH Guitarist's New Year's Eve Arrest Emerge

John Henderson of the Naples Daily News is reporting that new details about RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson's New Year's Eve arrest in Naples, Florida are emerging in hundreds of pages of witness statements, released publicly under Florida law. The statements become public when exchanged between prosecu...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Studio Update

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS guitarist Michael Amott has posted the following studio report on the band's web site: "As usual, recording here at Studio Fredman is wild and strange experience. Mr. Fredrik Nordström is crazier than ever! "In the 4 days we have been here, we have put down all the basic tracks (we...

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Heavy Metal's Premier Guitarists Pick Their Dream G3 Lineups

Norway's Imhotep zine recently asked more than 100 guitarists to choose their own dream G3 lineups. "The respect that the guitar players have for Joe Satriani and Steve Vai is a proven fact," writes the magazine's Thiago Pinto Corrêa Sarkis (also of Brazil's Whiplash). "Anyway, talking with some mus...

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ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Comments On KREATOR Guest Appearance

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott has commented on his guest appearance on the new KREATOR album. Amott has recorded a solo for the song "Murder Fantasies", to be included on KREATOR's upcoming CD, tentatively due in January 2005 through SPV Records. Says Amott: "This is something I was really happ...

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS To Begin Recording New Album Next Week

Swedish hard rockers SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, the band featuring former CARCASS and current ARCH ENEMY axeman Mike Amott, will be entering Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden next week with producer Fredrik Nordström (who worked with the group on their "Ad Astra" and "Mantra III" releases) to begin recor...