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STEELHEART: More U.S. Tour Dates Announced

STEELHEART has lined up the following tour dates: Nov. 03 - Bourbon Street Night Club, New Port Richey, FL Nov. 04 - Bourbon Street Night Club, New Port Richey, FL (w/ NAKED BEGGARS) Nov. 06 - Floyd's Music Store, Tallahassee, FL Nov. 08 - Jaxx, Springfield, VA Nov. 09 - Dingbatz, Clifton, NJ Nov. 1...

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STEELHEART: East Coast Dates Announced

STEELHEART frontman Miljenko Matijevic has issued the following update: "We would like to bring you up to speed on all the great things happening in October and November. The mini U.S. tour is on!!! It will start on November 3, 2006 in Tampa Florida at the Bourbon Street Night Club. Joining Mili wil...

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Taiwanese Black Metal Masters CHTHONIC To Release Fourth Album

Taiwan's biggest metal export, the symphonic black metal band CHTHONIC, will release its fourth album, "Seediqbale", on October 3 through Down Port Music/RED. The weepy sounds of the er-hu, a two-string violin that dates back to Tang dynasty (618-907),gives CHTHONIC's music an ethnic flare while ad...

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IRON MAIDEN's STEVE HARRIS Is 'Delighted' With Reaction To New Album

IRON MAIDEN's new album "A Matter Of Life And Death" has not only been released to enormous critical acclaim across the globe but has also resulted in some of their highest chart placings ever. In addition to their No. 1 chart debut on the Billboard Pan-European chart, the album has now debuted at N...

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DRAGONFORCE Doesn't Want To Be Pigeonholed As "Power Metal' Band

Stuart Derdeyn of Canada's The Province reports that U.K. quintet DRAGONFORCE's "Valley Of the Damned" is another tour de force of super-tight, melodic hard rock with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. Imagine BON JOVI fronting IRON MAIDEN played almost twice as fast and you've got what the gro...

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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Says His Band Does Not Like To Hide Behind The Monitors

Tom Lanham of InsideBayArea.com reports: If you thought professional boxers had a hard time of it in the ring, try joining the ranks of U.K. hyper-metal sensation DRAGONFORCE, invites battered bandleader Herman Li. When the longhaired warhorse of a guitarist steps onstage, he often becomes so pumped...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Announces Asian Tour Dates

Legendary Swedish guitarist YNGWIE MALMSTEEN has lined up the following Australian/Asian tour dates in November: Nov. 04 - Thunderdome - Bangkok, THA Nov. 06 - HITEC - Hong Kong, CHN Nov. 11 - Family Theater - Taipei, TAI Nov. 14 - The Arena Ent. Complex – Brisbane, AUS Nov. 15 - Enmore Theatre - Sy...

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ANGRA: New Album Will Be 'Much Heavier' Than Previous Efforts

Brazilian melodic metallers ANGRA have posted the following message on their official web site: "ANGRA is putting the very final touches unto its new album. The CD is going to be released in October and shall be the main event in the band's 15th anniversary celebrations. "The name of the record has...

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Hong Kong's TRINITY RECORDS Mourns Passing Of DISSECTION Frontman

Hong Kong's Trinity Records has issued the following statement regarding the passing of DISSECTION frontman Jon Nödtveidt: "Trinity Records is saddened to hear of the passing of DISSECTION's Jon Nödtveidt. "It is always a loss to the extreme metal genre when we lose another talented musician and a f...

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VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Confirm First-Ever Appearance In China

Austrian "epic metal" band VISIONS OF ATLANTIS have confirmed their first appearance in China. Rock Empire Music will release the band's album "Cast Away" in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and VISIONS OF ATLANTIS will promote it with a a concert in Beijing, China on December 16, 2006. VISIONS OF ATLAN...

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KAMELOT Continuing Work On Live DVD, Planning Live Appearances

American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT are continuing to work on their first DVD, "One Cold Winter's Night", which was shot in Oslo this past February. "There is a lot of editing for our director Patric [Ulleaus]. We have 18 cameras on this shoot and the concert was nearly 2 hours long," state...

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PROUD PROMOTIONS Brings Heavy Metal To China

Proud Promotions of Hong Kong has announced that they will be releasing music compilations of several genres — including heavy metal — into Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. These releases will be part of an approved cultural exchange program that Proud Promotions has arranged with the Chinese g...

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AUTOPSY: 'Dark Crusades' DVD To Surface In May

Legendary death metallers AUTOPSY will release their long-awaited posthumous double-DVD, "Dark Crusades", on May 22. "Unfortunately, due to length problems, we have had to trim some of the content," reads a Peaceville press release. "It still runs at 3 hours and is filled to bursting with almost eve...

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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 ...

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DRAGONFORCE: 'Inhuman Rampage' To Receive U.S. Release Via ROADRUNNER

Roadrunner Records has announced the signing of U.K. power metal masters DRAGONFORCE. The band's Roadrunner U.S. debut, "Inhuman Rampage", was released in the U.K., mainland Europe and Japan on January 9, 2006 to critical raves and, in nearly three months, 30,000 copies in sales. Since forming in Lo...