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KORPIKLAANI, SWASHBUCKLE Added To PAGANFEST USA: PART 2

Rock The Nation has announced the final tour lineup of PaganFest USA: Part 2 with two brand new additions to the upcoming traveling spectacle: Finland's folk freaks KORPIKLAANI as the new headliners, and straight off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey's crazy pirate metal drunks SWASHBUCKLE...

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SOULFLY, EXODUS, OVERKILL and HEAVEN SHALL BURN Confirmed For Poland's METALMANIA Festival

The venue for the 23rd edition of Poland's Metalmania Festival, set to take place March 7, 2009, has been changed from Spodek Hall in Katowice to the smaller Stodola Club in Warsaw. SOULFLY, EXODUS, OVERKILL and HEAVEN SHALL BURN are the first confirmed bands for the event, with two special guests t...

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PRIMORDIAL: Dublin Show To Be Filmed For Possible DVD Release

Vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill of the of the Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL has issued the following update: "There has been rumours flying around about the show we are doing on January 24th in Dublin but we can confirm now that it will be pro-filmed for a possible DVD release. The last sho...

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RUDRA Prepares To Film New Video

Singaporean metallers RUDRA have issued the following update: "We are currently preparing for the shooting of our first professional music video for the upcoming 'yet-to-be-titled' album. This epic video will be for a track titled 'Hymns From The Blazing Chariot', directed by Jacen Tan. "We are work...

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SKELETON OF GOD: 'Primordial Dominion' Now Available

Colorado psychedelic death metal act SKELETON OF GOD has released the follow-up to its acclaimed "Urine Garden" EP. The new full-length CD, "Primordial Dominion", is described in a press release as "a 42-plus-minute death/doom/psychedelic song based on a Salvia Divinorum 'trip.'" The band was able t...

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Ireland's FOR RUIN To Enter Studio In January

Ireland's FOR RUIN completed a ten-track pre-production demo of its as-yet-untitled second album in October. Writing duties were shared among the band this time around and some of the working song titles include "Deluge", "Solace", "Elysium" and "Recoil". Artwork for the album will be by Paul McCarr...

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CORMORANT To Record New Album With Producer BILLY ANDERSON

San Francisco, California-based progressive black metal act CORMORANT will enter Sharkbite Studios in Oakland in January 2009 with producer with Billy Anderson (NEUROSIS, PRIMORDIAL, SLEEP, MELVINS) to begin recording its as-yet-untitled full-length debut. The band's progressive death metal approach...

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DARK TRANQUILLITY Confirmed For Norway's KARMØYGEDDON 2009 Festival

Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY have been confirmed for the Karmøygeddon 2009 festival, set to take place April 24-25, 2009 in Haugesund, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: GAMMA RAY DARK TRANQUILLITY BEHEMOTH PRIMAL FEAR AURA NOIR PRIMORDIAL MERCENARY BRAINSTOR...

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BLACKGUARD Frontman Explains Name Change

Vocalist Paul Ablaze of the Montreal-based sympho/black/folk/power metal band BLACKGUARD (formerly PROFUGUS MORTIS) has issued the following update: "Yes, it's true, we have in fact changed our name to BLACKGUARD. One of the main reasons for this change was to avoid possible legal action against us....

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CHICAGO POWERFEST 2009 Announces Dates, Welcomes PAGANFEST

The seventh edition of the Chicago Powerfest will take place at the Pearl Room in Mokena, Illinois on May 7-9, 2009. In keeping with a new annual Powerfest tradition of a Thursday night "kick-off" show, organizers/promoters CRJ Productions will welcome the next Paganfest USA tour, featuring PRIMORDI...

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Heavy Metal Musicians Pick Favorite Live Albums Of All Time

Denmark's Antenna web site has posted a brand new feature where around 30 of the top musicians in today's underground metal scene select their five favorite live albums of all time. Stated Antenna editor Lars Lolk: "It's interesting that a simple feature about preferences in live albums turns out to...

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PRIMORDIAL, ELUVEITIE, MOONSORROW, BLACKGUARD Confirmed For PAGANFEST USA

Brimming with the highly-successful and recent run (and introduction) of PaganFest USA earlier this year, the tour everyone has anxiously been waiting for with high demand will be storming the stages of venues across North America once again! For the fans who have been eagerly counting down the days...

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RAZOR OF OCCAM Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

RAZOR OF OCCAM, the London, England-based black/thrash metal band featuring members of DESTROYER 666 and ADORIOR, has inked a deal with Metal Blade Records. Comments the group: "The Metal Blade back catalogue speaks for itself. We can only hope to be deemed worthy of sitting alongside such illustrio...

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SWORDBEARER: New Song Posted Online

A new track entitled "On Idavoll They Gather" by the New Jersey-based "epic folk metal" project SWORDBEARER is now available for streaming on SWORDBEARER's MySpace page. SWORDBEARER is the solo project of Rhode "Revenge" Rachel, the vocalist for the black metal band MORTUM. Rhode has been working wi...

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PRIMORDIAL To Tour North America In May

Vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill of the of the Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL has issued the following update: "It's been a long summer and an extended autumn, but finally after the Way of Darkness Festival, we are finished the festival season completely and I have to say I couldn't be more g...