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QUEENSRŸCHE, POISON, LACUNA COIL Land In BILLBOARD's Top 30

QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" has sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 14 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is more than half of the total sales tally registered by the band's last studio album, 2003's "Tribe", which sold 20,000 co...
April 12, 2006
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VENOM: New BBC Session Posted Online

British black metal pioneers VENOM's brand-new session for the BBC, which was recorded last month at London's Maida Vale studios, was broadcast on Radio 1 on April 11 during Mike Davies' "Rock Show". This is the second recording by VENOM since 1985, when they laid down four tracks for Tommy Vance's...
April 12, 2006
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Terror For Sale

The last time I interviewed SOILWORK vocalist "Speed" Strid, he hadn't recorded this new TERROR 2000 album yet. I asked him if it was gonna be stressful or taxing to make another album so soon after "Stabbing the Drama", and he replied, more or less, that "we just have to get drunk and go make ...
April 11, 2006
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ARCH ENEMY, DRAGONFORCE Confirmed For Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Festival

ARCH ENEMY, DRAGONFORCE, SUBURBAN TRIBE and PAIN CONFESSOR have been confirmed for the ninth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to take place June 30 – July 2 at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland. A total of 32 bands will perform on three stages over the course of three days. In addition,...
April 11, 2006
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DAVE MUSTAINE: 'I Don't Want To Have Any Part Of METALLICA Feud Anymore'

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted a short interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: As you watch the finished ["The Arsenal of Megadeth" DVD], what do you feel? You have had some good and some bad in your l...
April 10, 2006
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The Ultimate Destroyer

You knew it would only get bloodier after Chicago's LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR (LOTM) hacked and stabbed with murderous metal rage and old school spirit on 2004's "Carnage". On "The Ultimate Destroyer", lyrical themes based on the savage end of Greek Mythology (with poetic license liberally taken) once ag...
April 10, 2006
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THREAT SIGNAL To Release 'Under Reprisal' In May

Canadian metallers THREAT SIGNAL will release their debut album, "Under Reprisal", in Europe on May 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. An August 22 North American release is expected. THREAT SIGNAL recorded "Under Reprisal" this past fall with producer Christian Olde Wolbers of FEAR FACTORY. "Under Repri...
April 9, 2006
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DEVILDRIVER Frontman: 'We're Bringing In Some Unadulterated Metal'

George Dionne of Rock Is Life recently conducted an interview with DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara (ex-COAL CHAMBER). An excerpt from the chat follows: Rock Is Life: Why do you think other nu-metal bands just faded away? Dez: "It took them almost ten years to put a label on what COAL CHAMBER did, be...
April 6, 2006
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VENOM Confirmed For Germany's EARTHSHAKER FEST

British black metal pioneers VENOM have been confirmed for the 2006 edition of the Earthshaker Fest, set to take place July 21-22 in Kreuth. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ANNIHILATOR ARCH ENEMY BRAINSTORM CALIBAN COMMUNIC DEATHSTARS DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER...
April 6, 2006
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AMORPHIS, DRAGONFORCE, 10 YEARS Confirmed For Italy's GODS OF METAL Festival

AMORPHIS, DRAGONFORCE, HELLFUELED and 10 YEARS have been confirmed for the tenth edition of the Gods Of Metal festival, set to take place June 1-4 at Idroscalo in Milan, Italy. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: Thursday, June 1: VENOM DIMMU BORGIR OPETH DOWN TESTAMENT NEVERMORE SATY...
April 4, 2006
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ENTOMBED, GRAVE, GEHENNAH Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

ENTOMBED, GRAVE and GEHENNAH are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-10 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ALICE COOPER ANVIL ARCH ENEMY ASIA BALDROOM BLITZ BLITZK...
April 3, 2006
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VENOM: New Live Photos Posted Online

British black metal pioneers VENOM performed at the Mean Fiddler in London on March 25, 2006. Check out pictures from Wire Image. As previously reported, VENOM's entire new album, "Metal Black", is available for streaming at MP3.com. Due in North America on April 4 via Sanctuary Records, the CD was...
April 3, 2006
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HATEBREED To Release 'Supremacy' Via ROADRUNNER

MTV.com is reporting that HATEBREED have been in continuing negotiations with Roadrunner Records and are close to signing a deal with the label. "We ended up doing two records with Universal, and our time at that label was killer," frontman Jamey Jasta explained to MTV.com when asked about the talks...
March 31, 2006
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HATEBREED Add Second Guitarist

HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta has posted the following message on the band;'s official web site: "We've decided to become a five-piece again. Mainly because of the new album having a lot of parts that involve second guitar, but also because me and [bassist Chris] Beattie started this band as a five...
March 30, 2006
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TAAKE Frontman, Guitarist Doing Time In Norwegian Prison

A representative for Dark Essence Records has confirmed that TAAKE frontman Hoest (photo#1, photo#2, photo#3) is doing time in a Norwegian prison at the moment. "He will be out in a couple of months, and will then finish the work on the new TAAKE release," the representative said. "Yes, ...
March 29, 2006