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DARK TRANQUILLITY, THE HAUNTED, INTO ETERNITY To Team Up For North American Tour?

DARK TRANQUILLITY, THE HAUNTED and INTO ETERNITY have scheduled the following dates in March: Mar. 25 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx Mar. 29 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House Apr. 02 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners More North American dates are expected to be announced soon. DARK TRANQUILLITY recently completed w...

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THE EXPLOITED, CONVERGE Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

THE EXPLOITED and CONVERGE have been confirmed for the Metalcamp 2007 festival, set to take place July 16-21, 2007 in Tolmin, Slovenia. More than 80 bands will perform on two stages over the course of five days of live music. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMO...

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REDEMPTION To Headline Holland's HEADWAY Festival

REDEMPTION, the Los Angeles-based progressive metal band led by guitarist/keyboardist/songwriter Nicolas van Dyk and featuring vocal legend Ray Alder of FATES WARNING, has been confirmed as the headliner of the Headway progressive rock and metal festival, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary i...

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SUFFOCATION: European Tour Dates Announced

Legendary New York death metallers SUFFOCATION have lined up the following European tour dates: Mar. 29 - Paris, FRA @ Scene Bastille Mar. 30 - Rijssen, NETH @ Lucky Mar. 31 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Store Vega Apr. 01 - Glauchau, GER @ Alte Spinnerei (No Mercy Festivals) Apr. 02 - Prague, CZR @ Abaton .....

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SAVAGE CIRCUS: 'THOMEN Is Back!

SAVAGE CIRCUS, the German/Swedish band featuring former BLIND GUARDIAN drummer Thomen Stauch and PERSUADER members Jens Karlsson (vocals, guitar) and Emil Norberg (lead guitar),has issued the following update: "After taking [most] of 2006 off to recuperate, Thomen is back in the limelight with SAVA...

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BLIND MELON Book In The Works

Journalist Greg Prato is currently working on a book about the history of BLIND MELON. He has already done extensive interviews with all the surviving members as well as those close to the band (members of bands they toured with, producers, friends, etc.). Prato has written a few articles about BLIN...

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DOGPOUND: 'III' Release Date Announced

Swedish hard rockers DOGPOUND will release their third album, entitled "III", on March 21. The follow-up to 2005's "A Night in the Gutter" is currently being mixed by Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN, DIMMU BORGIR, CELTIC FROST) at the Abyss Studios in Sweden. "III" track listing: 01. My Own Sin 02....

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HYDROGYN Announces Label Change

The American melodic hard rock band HYDROGYN has announced that effective January 15 they will be moving from Chavis Records over to their new record label DA Records. The move over to DA Records has been made due to the fact that "the band has several new major projects in the works for 2007 and .....

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Producer CHARLIE BAUERFEIND 'Putting Finishing Touches' On New SAXON Album

Producer Charlie Bauerfeind (BLIND GUARDIAN, HALFORD, HAMMERFALL) has posted the following message on his official web site: "Just putting the finishing touches to the new SAXON album, 'The Inner Sanctum'. I'm very happy with the result. It turned out as a killer, full-on metal/heavy-rock album. Wat...

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MEAT LOAF Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

MEAT LOAF has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 6-9 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ANNIHILATOR AXEL RUDI PELL BLACK OAK ARKANSAS BLIND GUARDIAN CIRCUS MAXIMUS DIMMU BORGIR ELDRITCH FALCONER GOV'T MULE HARDCO...

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The Fall of an Empire

Do not let it be said that French symphonic metallers FAIRYLAND tricked you into buying "The Fall of an Empire". If you buy an album from a band called FAIRYLAND and you expect anything other than the utterly over-the-top bard-metal you get, you're either illiterate or retarded. Anyone not into Midd...

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Gloria

It's been a while since we've been given a front-row seat as a band self-destructs this spectacularly. MORGOTH going from bleak death metal to KILLING JOKE in the mid-1990s… the "black metal to weird industrial" metamorphosis of bands like MAYHEM and COVENANT a few years later… and of course, loomin...

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VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Asian Tour Diary Available

Vocalist Melissa Ferlaak of the Austrian/American "epic metal" band VISIONS OF ATLANTIS has posted a tour diary from the band's recent Asian trek with EDENBRIDGE. Check it out at this location. As previously reported, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS has set "Trinity" as the title of its third album, tentatively...

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SWALLOW THE SUN Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finnish melodic death/doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN have been confirmed for this 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): 1349 AMORPHIS BELPHEGOR BENEDICTUM BLACK MAJE...

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PRIMAL FEAR To Enter Studio In Early February

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR are about to start the recordings for their new studio album. The final pre-production is scheduled for next week and then the band will finally enter the recording studio in the beginning of February. Commented PRIMAL FEAR bassist Mat Sinner: "We decided to record...