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FEAR MY THOUGHTS Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

German melodic thrash powerhouse FEAR MY THOUGHTS has been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER...

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NORTHER Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finnish metallers NORTHER have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIAN CANNIBAL CORP...

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INVOCATOR Announces First Live Shows In Three Years

Long-running Danish thrashers INVOCATOR have announced plans to play a few shows in early 2007, including the MTV "Headbanger's Ball" event at Store Vega in Copenhagen on March 31. Also scheduled to perform are GANG GREEN, VOLBEAT and SUFFOCATION. A few warm-up dates will be announced soon. INVOCATO...

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ROB ROCK To Enter Studio In January

Powerhouse heavy metal vocalist ROB ROCK (ex-IMPELLITTERI, DRIVER, JOSHUA) will enter the studio in January 2007 to begin recording his fourth solo album. "No album title has been decided yet but we are definitely planning a 2007 worldwide release," reads a posting on Rock's web site. "The songwriti...

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NEAERA Enlists HEAVEN SHALL BURN Guitarist For European Tour

German metal/hardcore outfit NEAERA has posted the following message on its official web site: "We played our two first ever concerts in Russia last weekend... We were absolutely blown away by the reactions we received! The way you people embraced us and our music was really beyond what we expected....

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HATESPHERE Pulls Out Of UNLEASHED U.S. Tour

Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have issued the following update: "We are very sorry to inform [everyone] that we have pulled out of the U.S. tour with UNLEASHED, KRISIUN and BELPHEGOR that was taking place in February 2007. It was a very hard decision for us to make, and we apologize to everybody who w...

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NAILDOWN: New Album Details Revealed

Finnish melodic death/power metal band NAILDOWN has set "Dreamcrusher" as the title of its second studio album, due on March 14, 2007 via Spinefarm Records. The complete track listing is as follows: 01. Dreamcrusher 02. Judgement Ride 03. Lame 04. P.I.B. 05. Silent Fall 06. Like I Care 07. Deep Unde...

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GAIA EPICUS To Release New Album Via Own Label

Norwegian power metallers GAIA EPICUS have posted the following message on their official web site: "After having reviewed six offers for a new record deal, there was only two that could have been interesting to proceed, but we didn't go with any of these offers. For some time Thomas [Christian Hans...

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MICHAEL KISKE: Track Listing Revealed For Acoustic Album Of HELLOWEEN Classics

Former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske will rearrange and re-record all of the songs that he wrote with his former band for an upcoming CD, to be released next year through Frontiers Records. The projected track listing for the album is as follows: 01. We Got the Right 02. A Little Time 03. Kids Of t...

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DIMMU BORGIR Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND...

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DESTRUCTION Frontman: 'The Latino Metalheads Were Unbelievable Once Again'

Long-running German thrashers DESTRUCTION have just returned from their successful tour of Spain and Portugal. Commented DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer: "The Latino metalheads were unbelievable once again. This was the first time we have headlinded on the Iberian Peninsula ev...

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PARADOX To Carry On As Duo

Long-running German metallers PARADOX parted ways with guitarist Fabian Schwarz, drummer Chris Weiss and bassist Andi Siegl during the recording sessions for the band's fourth album, "Electrify", due in early 2007 via AFM Records. However, "the recordings are not affected by this," the rest of the g...

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NIGHTRAGE: New Album Release Date Announced

Lifeforce Records has set a February 26, 2007 European release date (April 4, 2007 in the U.S./Canada) for the new album from Swedish/Greek melodic death metal outfit NIGHTRAGE. The band entered Hansen studios in Ribe, Denmark today with producer Jacob Hansen (RAUNCHY, MERCENARY, FEAR MY THOUGHTS, H...

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THE VISION BLEAK Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

THE VISION BLEAK have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJESTY BLIND GUARDIAN CANNIBAL CORPSE COMMUN...

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TRAIL OF TEARS Calls It Quits

Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS has split up. The group's official statement on the matter reads as follows: "It is with great regret that we announce that Jonathan [Perez; drums], Kjell [Hagen; bass], Runar [Hansen; guitar] and Kjetil [Nordhus; vocals] yesterday (November 28th, 2006) left TRAIL OF TEARS. T...