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MOONSPELL Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Portugal's MOONSPELL was 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. Also scheduled to perform are IN FLAMES, BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL, SCHANDMAUL and the reunited No...

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CELTIC FROST Launches New Video Online

Visionary extreme metal pioneers CELTIC FROST have captured their innovative and dark art in a new video clip for "A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh", a song taken from their first album in 13 years, "Monotheist". The fascinatingly gloomy clip was filmed by up-and-coming Swiss director Jessie Fisc...

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IN FLAMES Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish metal titans IN FLAMES 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. Also scheduled to perform are BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL, SCHANDMAUL and the reunited Norwegi...

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ATHEIST Frontman Reports On HOLE IN THE SKY Appearance

Vocalist Kelly Shaefer of the technical metal pioneers ATHEIST has posted a lengthy report on the band's appearance at the Hole in the Sky festival, which took place August 23-26 in Bergen, Norway. Read it at this location. As previously reported, a video clip of ATHEIST bassist Tony Choy falling th...

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CARNIVORE To Host 'Greet The Meat' Party In Brooklyn

Duff's Brooklyn — the heavy metal bar located at N. 3rd St & Kent Ave in Williamsburg, New York — will host a "meet-and-greet" party with CARNIVORE on Monday, September 4 at 10:00 p.m. Check out a flyer for the event, dubbed "Greet the Meat", at this location. As previously reported, CARNIVORE h...

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CELTIC FROST: Concert Footage To Air On British, German TV

CELTIC FROST's sold-out concert at the Mean Fiddler in London on August 19, 2006, was filmed for broadcast by Redemption TV. This show marked CELTIC FROST's return to England after 16 long years, and the audience had come to celebrate the occasion in uproarious style at the packed and blisteringly h...

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CELTIC FROST Frontman : 'The Band Has Come Full Circle By Finally Playing In Norway'

CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "Flying in, coming from Bergen, Norway, on Monday evening [August 28], the weather awaiting us in Zurich could not have been more appropriate. The ravaged clouds were dark grey, almost black, and layered...

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ATHEIST: New Audio Interview With KELLY SHAEFER Posted Online

Denmark's Revolution Music (web site) has just uploaded a new audio interview with Kelly Shaefer of the seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST. In the interview, Kelly talks about the band's European reunion tour, how the music scene has evolved and his upcoming projects. The 13-minute chat can be...

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SIX FEET UNDER Frontman: 'We Are Totally Ready To Kill!'

SIX FEET UNDER frontman Chris Barnes has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Just checking in with you all, especially our European fans, to thank you for your undying dedication. We had an incredible time on our most recent tour of Europe! "First off — Wacken — what a kil...

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DAN SWANÖ Comments On Passing Of DISSECTION Frontman

Swedish producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö (EDGE OF SANITY, NIGHTINGALE, SECOND SKY, BLOODBATH) has commented on the passing of DISSECTION frontman Jon Nödtveidt. Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on Wednesday, August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, the apparent vic...

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CARNIVORE: Video Of WACKEN OPEN AIR Performance Posted Online

Video footage of CARNIVORE performing at this year's Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany has been posted online at this location (CARNIVORE appears about 25 minutes into the video). As previously reported, CARNIVORE has scheduled the following U.S. dates in September: Sep. 01 - New Haven, CT...

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IMMORTAL Frontman's I Project: Audio Sample Available

According to I.Battlegrim.net, a radio-broadcast, reduced-quality recording of the song "The Storm I Ride" by I — the new band featuring former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name: Olve Eikemo),original IMMORTAL drummer Armagedda, ENSLAVED guitarist Arve Isdal and GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell — h...

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SCORPIONS: WACKEN OPEN AIR Performance Available For Download

The "Wacken Radio" broadcast of German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS' headlining appearance August 3 at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany — where they were joined by special guests and former bandmates Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker and Herman Rarebell — has been made available for down...

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IMMORTAL Frontman's I Project: World Premiere Scheduled For Tonight

Norwegian rock/metal show "Pyro" will present an exclusive world premiere of a track from I, the new band featuring former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name: Olve Eikemo),original IMMORTAL drummer Armagedda, ENSLAVED guitarist Arve Isdal and GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell. The song "The Storm I R...

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MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP Bassist: WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival Was 'Amazing'

MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (MSG) bassist Rev Jones has issued the following update: "First off, I want to thank everyone for supporting us on the European tour and at all the festivals — you're the best. I played with MSG at the Wacken festival [in Wacken, Germany] last week to over 60,000 people. It wa...