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Lethal Agenda

Don't snicker too much at the name. I'm surprised nobody has come up with TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY yet (maybe they have). Another group of veteran rockers, the band includes bassist Dave Ellefson (ex-MEGADETH, F5),drummer Stet Howland (ex-W.A.S.P.),guitarist Peter Scheithauer (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHI...

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CANDLEMASS To Co-Headline Germany's HEADBANGERS OPEN AIR Festival

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have been confirmed as the co-headliners of the 2007 edition of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 12-14 in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AVENGER BEYOND FALLEN BULLET...

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STEVEN TYLER: There's A Few AEROSMITH Albums I Choose Not To Remember Anymore

U.K.'s Uncut magazine (web site) conducted an interview with AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry for its February 2007 issue. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Uncut: Does AEROSMITH mean as much to you now as it did 30 years ago? Tyler: It's different and yet, it's not so very...

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TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY: U.S. Dates Announced

TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY, the new band featuring former MEGADETH/current F5 bassist David Ellefson, ex-W.A.S.P. drummer Stet Howland, guitarist Peter Scheithauer (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHINE) and vocalist Todd Barnes (13-A),will embark on a U.S. tour in early March. Support at all dates (except the Marc...

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Vulcanus

Germany's FEAR MY THOUGHTS has been honing their musical form on each release, making the term "progression" a most fitting description for what has occurred on the basically traditional thrash of "The Great Collapse" to the more varied work (keys, melodic development) of "Hell Sweet Hell", both rel...

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LAMB OF GOD, KEEP OF KALESSIN Confirmed For Norway's HOVEFESTIVALEN

According to Dagbladet.no, LAMB OF GOD and KEEP OF KALESSIN have been confirmed for Hovefestivalen, a brand new five-day festival set to take place June 25-29 on the island of Tromøy, just outside the city of Arendal, in Norway. Also scheduled to appear are SLAYER, MASTODON, HATEBREED, NEUROSIS, SHE...

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TWELFTH GATE Working With New Vocalist

Chicago-based progressive thrash metal band TWELFTH GATE has issued the following update: "TWELFTH GATE is very excited to report that the band has been working with a new singer, and is finally back on track. Of course, due to the fact that the band doesn't want to make another hasty decision regar...

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URIAH HEEP Parts Ways With Drummer LEE KERSLAKE

U.K. hard rock legends URIAH HEEP have announced that, due to ongoing health problems, longstanding drummer Lee Kerslake will leave the band with immediate effect. During 2006, when URIAH HEEP toured in some twenty territories ranging from Indonesia, India and Thailand through to Brazil, Peru, Russi...

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INSOMNIUM's Video To Premiere On 'Headbanger's Ball'

Finnish metal band INSOMNIUM will make its national video premiere this coming weekend when "Headbanger's Ball" broadcasts the group's video for the song "Mortal Share" from their current album, titled "Above the Weeping World". Released October 17, "Above the Weeping World" was recorded at renowned...

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APOCALYPTICA's EICCA Talks About Upcoming Album

Eicca Toppinen, the primary composer of the Finnish cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA, was recently interviewed by Terrë on the band's official MySpace page. The interview follows here in its entirety: Q: Do you have any shows lined up for this year or are you concentrating solely on the album and making n...

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Former EXHUMED Guitarist Re-Launches BEREAVE Project

Former EXHUMED guitarist Mike Beams has launched a one-man project called BEREAVE. According to Beams, "BEREAVE is a project that was started in '93 as a three-piece doom band. We were trying to recreate CATHEDRAL's 'Forest of Equilibrium' and WINTER's 'Into Darkness' pretty much. We never got anyth...

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DIMENSION F3H Confirmed For Norway's HOVEFESTIVALEN

DIMENSION F3H, the Norwegian death metal band led by Morfeus (LIMBONIC ART),has been confirmed for Hovefestivalen, a brand new five-day festival set to take place June 25-29 on the island of Tromøy, just outside the city of Arendal, in Norway. Also scheduled to appear are SLAYER, MASTODON, HATEBREE...

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STRYPER Frontman To Judge 'Gifted', The Christian Reality Show

STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet will serve as one of the judges on "Gifted", the two-hour primetime TBN television special that culminates months of nationwide searching to find and present the brightest new talent in Christian music. The show will air on January 26 at 7:00 p.m. The official program...

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Funeral For Yesterday

A 4 is high praise indeed, for a band signed too young, crassly marketed as Disney Channel nu-metal for tweener girls, and universally castigated for their inability to play, sing, or write songs. The fact remains, though, that Canadian all-girl troupe KITTIE are slowly getting competent, and on occ...

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Legend EP

Much-hyped Arizona lads putting a more pit-friendly face on black metal, basically welding together the style with Gothenburg thrash and a bit of hardcore. The results, while still fairly conventional and perhaps not deserving of the kudos they've so far received, do show scads of potential and lay...