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CANDLEMASS, SAHG, ABSU, CYNIC Confirmed For Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival

CANDLEMASS, SAHG, ABSU and CYNIC are among the newly confirmed bands for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Tuesday, August 25 - Hole in the Sky: Incoming SAHG KVELERTAK DER...

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GORGOROTH To Play Special Tribute Set At Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival

After a two-year absence from the live arena, Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH — led by guitarist Infernus (real name: Roger Tiegs) — will headline the last night of the 10th-anniversary Hole in the Sky metal festival on August 29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway, with none other than U.S. doom legends P...

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NACHTMYSTIUM: More 'Doomsday Derelicts' MCD Details Revealed

Battle Kommand Records has announce the label's first in-house CD release in over a year: the brand new MCD from Chicago's purveyors of psychedelic blackened metal NACHTMYSTIUM, entitled "Doomsday Derelicts". The release was arranged in cooperation with Century Media Records, NACHTMYSTIUM's home lab...

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JOE HASSELVANDER Albums To Be Reissued

Ex-PENTAGRAM/DEATH ROW and current RAVEN drum ace, songwriter and metal legend Joe Hasselvander will see three of his greatest albums reissued on June 2 via Season Of Mist. First released in 2000, "Roadkill" is a total explosive bad boy, with the typical big mid 80s' "arena sound". The reissue inclu...

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POWERWOLF's 'Bible Of The Beast' Lands On German Chart

"Bible Of The Beast", the new album from multinational metalheads POWERWOLF, has entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 76. Video footage of POWERWOLF performing the song "We Take It From The Living" at last year's Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany can be viewed below. The...

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Chile's PENTAGRAM To Reunite For CUMBRE DEL METAL CHILENO Festival

Long-defunct extreme metal pioneers PENTAGRAM from Chile will reunite for an appearance at the Cumbre del Metal Chileno festival, set to take place June 14 at Teatro Caupolicán in Santiago. This will be mark PENTAGRAM's first performance since May 27, 2001, when the band played a one-off show to cel...

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POWERWOLF: Clip From Bonus DVD Posted Online

Video footage of multinational metalheads POWERWOLF performing the song "We Take It From The Living" at last year's Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany can be viewed below. The clip is taken from the bonus DVD‚ "The Wacken Worship - Live At Wacken", that is included in the limited-edition di...

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TAAKE: Footage From KINGS OF BLACK METAL Festival Posted Online

Demonia's Blogg has been updated with video footage of TAAKE's performance at the Kings of Black Metal festival, which was held on April 18, 2009 at Hessenhallen in Giessen, Germany. Check out the clips below. After 13 years and four albums, and as controversial as ever, Hoest recently spoke to Terr...

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NACHTMYSTIUM Announces Tour With PENTAGRAM

Chicago-area psychedelic black metal group NACHTMYSTIUM has issued the following update: "It is with much honor to announce our upcoming mini-tour with U.S. rock/doom legends PENTAGRAM!!! The tour kicks off right here in our neighborhood in Chicago and will take us to the West Coast and then down to...

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EARTHEN GRAVE: Audio Interview Available

Chris Mezyk of the WCRX's "The Metal Show" conducted an interview with EARTHEN GRAVE — the new six-piece doom/thrash metal band featuring Mark Weiner on vocals, Ron Holzner on bass, Jason Muxlow and Tony Spillman on guitar, Scott Davidson on drums, and Rachel Barton Pine on an extended-range electri...

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ENSLAVED To Be Joined By DARKTHRONE, EMPEROR, DARKTHRONE Members At Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY

Norwegian masters of progressive/experimental metal ENSLAVED have been confirmed for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. Commented promoter Torgrim Øyre: "Wow, it's been 10 years already. Who would have though that when w...

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PENTAGRAM Confirmed For Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival

PENTAGRAM, the band led by the "Godfather of U.S. doom," Brooklyn-born Bobby Liebling, has been confirmed for the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X),set to take place August 26-29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AURA NOIR NECROS CHRISTOS PE...

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TAAKE: Video Interview, Performance Footage From London Posted Online

Contraband Candy's René Ackermann conducted an interview with vocalist Hoest of the Norwegian black metal band TAAKE on March 7, 2009 at the Underworld in London, England. Watch the 13-minute chat below. After 13 years and four albums, and as controversial as ever, Hoest recently spoke to Terrorizer...

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BLACK HAG Working On Debut Album

BLACK HAG, the "power-doom metal" band featuring drummer Joe Hasselvander (PENTAGRAM, RAVEN, HOUNDS OF HASSELVANDER),vocalist Bob Mitchell (ex-ATTACKER, THE BOB MITCHELL BAND),guitarist Pete Vorias and bassist Eric "Orion" Cabana (HOUNDS OF HASSELVANDER),has commenced work on its self-titled debu...

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THORNAFIRE Studio Update

Chilean death metal warriors THORNAFIRE are recording their sophomore album, "Vorex Deconstrucción", for a tentative July release via Ibex Moon Records. Guitarist Victor Mac-Namara commented, "We have finished the drums and guitars. All that is left is the bass, vocals, some arrangements with synths...