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EDENBRIDGE: New Album Release Date, Track Listing Revealed

Austrian "angelic bombast metal" act EDENBRIDGE will release their their fifth album, "The Grand Design", on May 19 via Massacre Records. A single, featuring the band's cover version of the James Bond classic "For Your Eyes Only" (originally sung by Sheena Easton),will precede the album on April 21...

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THIN LIZZY Guitarist Calls For PHIL LYNOTT Statue To be Erected In Birmingham

The Irish Post has issued the following report: The former lead guitarist with Irish band THIN LIZZY has called for a statue of the group's legendary frontman to be erected in Birmingham. Scott Gorham wants a bronze of the late Phil Lynott to be erected in the city of the singer's birth as ...

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KALAS Sign To TEE PEE RECORDS

Oakland, California-based hard music quintet KALAS have signed to New York City's Tee Pee Records. The group, whose roster reads like a directory of seminal San Francisco Bay Area bands that have made their distinct mark over the past decade, will unveil their self titled full length debut on April...

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DRAGONFORCE: 'Through The Fire And Flames' Video Posted Online

DRAGONFORCE's video for the song "Through the Fire and Flames" has been posted online at Yahoo! Music. Alternatively, you can watch the clip at YouTube.com. The track comes off DRAGONFORCE's third album, "Inhuman Rampage", which was released in January. The follow-up to 2004's "Sonic Firestorm" was...

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THIN LIZZY Guitarist Remembers PHIL LYNOTT

THIN LIZZY guitarist Scott Gorham recently spoke to icNorthWales.co.uk about the group's upcoming European tour. "We've gone back to how THIN LIZZY started out, with two guitarists, bass and drums," he said. "The tour is called 20/20 with one show for each year Phil [Lynott] has been gone. They are...

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POWER QUEST To Team Up With PAGAN'S MIND For Co-Headlining Tour

After just finishing a successful support tour with German metal legends HELLOWEEN, Anglo-Italian five-piece POWER QUEST are hitting the road again in March on a co-headlining tour with Norwegian melodic progressive metal band PAGAN'S MIND. Confirmed dates are as follows: Mar. 24 - ProgPower UK Pre-...

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DRAGONFORCE Announce New Bassist

London-based "extreme power metal" band DRAGONFORCE have found themselves a new bassist. Stepping up to fill the slot vacated last year by Adrian Lambert, who left the band to spend more time with his family, is DRAGONFORCE's current "touring bassist" Frederic Leclercq. Formerly guitarist with Frenc...

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WINTERS BANE: 'Redivivus' Release Date Set

DCA Recordings, the label that has brought the metal world albums by BALANCE OF POWER, MAGNITUDE 9, TALAMASCA, and LETHAL, has announced the release of "Redivivus", the comeback album by classic power metal band WINTERS BANE. "Redivivus" will be unleashed in North America and Europe on April 11, 200...

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Ex-BLACK SABBATH Singer TONY MARTIN Guests On New GIUNTINI PROJECT CD: Audio Available

Former BLACK SABBATH frontman Tony Martin has recorded all vocals on the new album from the Italian guitar wizard Aldo Giuntini, which is being released under the GIUNTINI PROJECT "III" banner on April 28 via Frontiers Records. Aldo Giuntini's musical career started in the early '80s in a progressiv...

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HEATHEN: We Have Not Signed Anything Yet

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN have issued a statement refuting a recent press release from the the French record company Season of Mist indicating that they have signed the band to a label deal. In a posting on their official web site, HEATHEN write, "OK, so it looks like the cat...

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Legendary Guitarist GEORGE LYNCH Is Taking Students

After a year in development, legendary guitarist George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB) is launching a Guitar Dojo — the first-ever in the United States. Inside a virtual studio, students of the Dojo will receive lesson plans from Sensei Lynch to hone "The Way of the Axe", a method executed over two disti...

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DIMMU BORGIR Guitarist: METALLICA 'Ruined Everything' When They Used An Orchestra

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: What prompted the group to turn down an offer to tour with KORN? Was it because they have such a different target audience? Silenoz: "For us to play for such a...

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HEATHEN Sign To SEASON OF MIST RECORDS

Season of Mist has announced the signing of veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN. As many fans will recall, HEATHEN were one of the most unique bands to rise from the Bay Area thrash explosion of the '80s/'90s, having released a groundbreaking debut album, "Breaking the Silence", in 1987...

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POWER QUEST Comment On HELLOWEEN U.K. Support Slot

Multi-national, U.K.-based melodic power rockers POWER QUEST will be supporting Gerrman melodic metallers HELLOWEEN on the following dates: Feb. 11 – Bradford, UK @ Rios Feb. 12 – Glasgow, UK @ QMU Feb. 13 – London, UK @ Koko Commented Steve Williams, keyboaristr and mastermind of the Anglo-Italian...

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Singer TONY MARTIN Discusses New Solo Album, BLACK SABBATH Years

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com recently conducted an interview with former BLACK SABBATH frontman Tony Martin. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rockdetector.com: I guess a question a lot of BLACK SABBATH fans are wanting to know is why you've been relatively quiet on the recording...