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SUIDAKRA Unable To Play Final Show Of 'Pagan Knights' North American Tour

German melodic folk/death metallers SUIDAKRA will be unable to perform on the final date (March 30 at Volume 11 in Raleigh, North Carolina) of their current Pagan Knights North American tour with Faroese Viking metallers TÝR and Scottish pirate metallers ALESTORM due to "scheduling conflicts." The b...

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DOWN, SATYRICON, AMON AMARTH Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

DOWN, SATYRICON and AMON AMARTH have been confirmed for the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 2-8, 2009 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ABORTED ALESTORM AMON AMARTH BLIND GUARDIAN DEATH ANGEL DEATHSTARS DESTRUCTION DIE APOKALYPTSCHEN REITER DIMMU BORGIR D...

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Leviathan

"Captain Morgan's Revenge" demonstrated that folk metal could still rock. Not that the "metal" part was ever in question on the part on ALESTORM's label mates, but the "Scottish Pirate Metal" marauders came with a big set of steel balls to go with their sprightly anthems. On the four-song "Leviathan...

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ALESTORM: New Album Details Revealed

Scottish folk/power metal band ALESTORM will release its new album, "Black Sails At Midnight", via Napalm Records on the following dates: May 27 - Finland, Spain May 29 - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, France, Italy, Spain Jun. 01 - Rest of Europe Jun. 02 - USA, Canada It will be available...

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SEPULTURA, PARADISE LOST Confirmed For U.K.'s HAMMERFEST

SEPULTURA, PARADISE LOST, ARCHITECTS, MARYA ROXX, KIUAS, IMICUS and POWER QUEST have been confirmed for the Hammerfest 2009 festival, set to take place April 24-25 at at Pontins, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales. The festival will feature 50 metal acts in total. The festival billing is shaping up as fol...

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SUIDAKRA: Video Footage From The Road Posted Online

German melodic folk/death metallers SUIDAKRA have posted the first in a series of video reports from their current Pagan Knights North American tour with Faroese Viking metallers TÝR and Scottish pirate metallers ALESTORM. Watch the clip below. SUIDAKRA's ninth album, "Crógacht", was released in the...

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JOURNEY, PRIMORDIAL, HATSTIK Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

JOURNEY, PRIMORDIAL and HATSTIK have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 26-27, 2009 in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is as follows: ALESTORM BLIND GUARDIAN CLOVEN HOOF DRIVER EXODUS HARDCORE SUPERSTAR HATSTIK JOURNEY KISSIN'...

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LITA FORD, TESLA Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

LITA FORD and TESLA have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 26-27, 2009 in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALESTORM BLIND GUARDIAN CLOVEN HOOF DRIVER EXODUS HARDCORE SUPERSTAR KISSIN' DYNAMITE LAAZ RO...

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GRAVE DIGGER: Croatian Concert Footage Available

Video footage of GRAVE DIGGER's February 4, 2009 concert in Zagreb, Croatia can be viewed below (footage courtesy of Z1 TV's "Metal Eye" show). "Ballads Of A Hangman", the new album from GRAVE DIGGER, registered the following first-week chart positions: Germany: #31 Austria: #78 Switzerland: #81 The...

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EXODUS Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 26-27, 2009 in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALESTORM BLIND GUARDIAN CLOVEN HOOF DRIVER EXODUS HARDCORE SUPERS...

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GRAVE DIGGER Frontman Interviewed In Croatia; Video Available

Vocalist Chris Boltendahl of German power metallers GRAVE DIGGER was interviewed by the "Metal Eye" show on Z1 TV when the band performed in Zagreb, Croatia on February 4, 2009. Watch the chat below. "Ballads Of A Hangman", the new album from GRAVE DIGGER, registered the following first-week chart p...

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VOIVOD, POWERWOLF, DRIVER, ALESTORM Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

VOIVOD, POWERWOLF, DRIVER, ALESTORM and CLOVEN HOOF have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 26-27, 2009 in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ALESTORM BLIND GUARDIAN CLOVEN HOOF DRIVER HARDCORE SUPERSTAR...

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Honour Amongst Chaos

Folk metal has really become all the rage these past couple of years, even though many of these bands have been trolling around the circuit for quite some time. And Celtic folk is often the style of preference to cross with metal. In the case of WAYLANDER, the act has been around since 1993, mixes ....

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ALESTORM: Munich Footage Available

Video footage of the Scottish folk/power metal band ALESTORM performing on January 26, 2009 in Munich, Germany can be viewed below (clip uploaded by "eblinternational"). ALESTORM has set "Black Sails at Midnight" as the title of its new album, due in the spring via Napalm Records. The band released...

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GRAVE DIGGER: Munich Footage Available

Video footage of GRAVE DIGGER's January 26, 2009 concert in Munich, Germany can be viewed below (clips uploaded by "eblinternational"). "Ballads Of A Hangman", the new album from GRAVE DIGGER, registered the following first-week chart positions: Germany: #31 Austria: #78 Switzerland: #81 The CD was...