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ENTOMBED, GRAVE, GEHENNAH Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

ENTOMBED, GRAVE and GEHENNAH are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-10 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ALICE COOPER ANVIL ARCH ENEMY ASIA BALDROOM BLITZ BLITZK...

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Original JUDAS PRIEST Frontman To be Joined By Guitarist MIKE DE JAGER On Upcoming Tour

Original JUDAS PRIEST frontman Al Atkins has announced that he will be joined by South African guitarist Mike De Jager (DANTE FOX) on his upcoming tour. Mike is a "very old friend" of Al's who will appear alongside Chris Johnson (guitar) and Pete "MZ" Emms (bass). Check out a band photo at this ...

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Adultery

Traveling from Spitfire to Artemis and finally finding a home on Rotten Records, Baltimore's DOG FASHION DISCO hits pay dirt on "Adultery", a concept album that continues to showcase the band's lunatic genre blend of strangely accessible hard rock, metal, punk, jazz, ska (you name it) and all-around...

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Another Perfect Day

Lemmy may be God, but you get past "Iron Fist" in MOTÖRHEAD's storied discography, and the blasphemers start crawling out from under rocks and taking potshots at 'im. (Say it to his warts, poseurs!) Some weak-kneed, genitally inferior types even call "Another Perfect Day" the band's downfall, when g...

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GRAVE Announce New Album Title

Legendary Swedish death metallers GRAVE have set "As Rapture Comes" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in July. Recorded at Studio Soulless in Stockholm and mixed by Peter Tägtgren at The Abyss Studio, the follow-up to 2004's "Fiendish Regression" contains "the most brutal songs and so...

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SAXON: 'The Eagle Has Landed Pt. III' Details Revealed

Every truly great act in the history of rock music has had two distinctive traits: a sure hand for hit-worthy compositions, but also the skill and that inner fire to translate these compositions just as hauntingly in their shows. SAXON certainly have both characteristics: having composed countless m...

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GRAVE FLOWERS Part Ways With FIREBOX RECORDS

Long-running Swedish "dark metal" band GRAVE FLOWERS have parted ways with Finland's Firebox Records. "There have been some changes inside the company and GRAVE FLOWERS did not fit into their new plans," the band write on their web site. "We would anyway like to thank Firebox for the time we coopera...

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DEICIDE Begin Recording Vocals For New Album

Floridian death metallers DEICIDE are still in the middle of recording their new album, "The Stench of Redemption", at Morrisound studios in Tampa, Florida for a June 6 release via Earache Records. Commented drummer Steve Asheim: "We're tracking a few more leads and Glen [Benton] has just started on...

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DEATH BREATH Featuring Former ENTOMBED, GRAVE Members: Audio Available

DEATH BREATH, the new Swedish old-school death metal project featuring former ENTOMBED drummer and main songwriter Nicke Andersson (currently the frontman of his rock 'n' roll band THE HELLACOPTERS) and vocalist Jörgen Sandström (who had previously fronted the Swedish death metallers GRAVE),have up...

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LIZZY BORDEN: Itching To Play Metal Again

LIZZY BORDEN frontman and namesake has issued the following update on the band's current activities; "It's been three and a half years since LIZZY BORDEN played our last show together with Alex Nelson, Joey Scott, Marten Andersson and me. Since the untimely death of Alex, I didn't know if LIZZY BORD...

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MOTÖRHEAD Classics To Be Reissued

MOTÖRHEAD is rightfully regarded as a legend. More than 30 years of turning fans' eardrums and brains into a bloody pulp will do that. Iconic vocalist/bassist Lemmy wouldn't have it any other way. Three of MOTÖRHEAD's most important albums — 1983's "Another Perfect Day", 1986's "Orgasmatron" and 198...

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WHIPLASH: 'Insult To Injury' Reissue To Include Live Tracks

Displeased Records has set a March 28 release date for a reissue of cult New Jersey thrash band WHIPLASH's "Insult to Injury" album, complete with several live tracks recorded at the CGBG club in New York City on October 19, 1986. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Voice of...

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DEICIDE's BENTON Comments On Being Kicked off France's HELLFEST

Currently seconded in Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida with producer Jim Morris recording the new DEICIDE album, "The Stench of Redemption", the band's frontman Glen Benton has responded to the organisers of the French Hellfest festival who announced that DEICIDE had been removed from this year'...

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DEICIDE Kicked Off HELLFEST Due To French Grave Desecrations

According to the official Hellfest web site, DEICIDE have been dropped from this year's French festival bill due to circumstances very much out of their control. It seems that the events organizers got the jitters and bowed to local government pressure to have Glen Benton's satanic death metal outfi...

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REBELLION To Enter Studio In April

REBELLION, the German band that features in its ranks former GRAVE DIGGER members Uwe Lulis (guitar) and Tomi Göttlich (bass),have posted the following update on their official web site: "We're in the middle of the songwriting progress, and in April, we'll start to record the new album. The release...