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Australian Guitarists Attempt To Break World Record With DEEP PURPLE's 'Smoke On The Water'
According to Australia's The Age, Melbourne guitarists will attempt to break an 11-year Guinness World Record on Sunday (Oct. 29) by playing the classic riff to DEEP PURPLE's "Smoke on the Water". To celebrate the Hard Rock Cafe's 10th birthday and raise funds for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,...October 27, 2005
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BLOODSIMPLE To Open For DISTURBED On JÄGERMEISTER MUSIC TOUR's Second Leg
The ever-growing, ever-raging Jägermeister Music Tour is set to charge this fall. This time out, DISTURBED leads the assault. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY serves as direct support on the first leg of the tour and BLOODSIMPLE will do the honors on the second leg. Each night a Jägermeister-sponsored band w...October 26, 2005
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GOD FORBID's FURY OF THE FALL Tour Recap
GOD FORBID are currently in the midst of the highly-successful Decibel magazine-sponsored Fury of The Fall tour with MESHUGGAH, THE HAUNTED and MNEMIC, which is the group's first U.S. trek in support of their highly-acclaimed new conceptual opus "IV: Constitution of Treason". The album entered The B...October 24, 2005
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SILENT FORCE Sign With AFM RECORDS
SILENT FORCE, the power metal band featuring ex-ROYAL HUNT singer D.C. Cooper, have inked new deals with Germany's AFM Records and Japan's King Records. The band will enter House of Music studio in Winterbach, Germany in the next couple of weeks with producer Dennis Ward to begin recording the drums...October 24, 2005
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ROYAL HUNT Announce One-Off Russian Concert
Danish/American hard rockers ROYAL HUNT will be playing one-off show at Music hall in St. Petersburg, Russia on November 2, 2005. More information is available at www.musichall.spb.ru. ROYAL HUNT are touring in support of their latest album, "Paper Blood". The follow-up to 2003's "Eyewitness" was re...October 23, 2005
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DEFLESHED: 'Grind And Rewind' Video Posted Online
DEFLESHED's video for the track "Grind and Rewind" has been posted online at this location. "Grind and Rewind" comes off the Swedish death/thrash metallers' latest album, "Reclaim the Beat", available now on Sweden's Regain Records. The follow-up to 2002's "Royal Straight Flesh" was recorded at Dug-...October 23, 2005
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Former ENTOMBED Drummer NICKE ANDERSSON Returns To Death Metal Roots
In 1998, ENTOMBED drummer and main songwriter Nicke Andersson left the legendary death metal outfit to focus on his rock ’n’ roll band THE HELLACOPTERS. Since then he's stayed clear of anything brutal and downtuned. In an exclusive interview in the November issue of the Swedish magazine Close-Up, An...October 21, 2005
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EXHUMED: Fall/Winter Tour Dates Announced
EXHUMED have announced fall/winter tour dates in support of their upcoming release, "Garage Daze Re-Regurgitated", to be issued on Parasitic Twin Records, distributed via Relapse Records. These West Coast gore fiends will kick off their five week tour on October 27 in Aptos, CA. Throughout the cours...October 20, 2005
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METAL BLADE RECORDS Announces Sponsorship Of CENTRAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
As many heavy metal fans may already know, Metal Blade Records owner and CEO, Brian Slagel, is an extreme enthusiast of hockey and has appeared many times as a guest on Canada's TSN "Off The Record" (Canada's version of ESPN) expressing his opinions on the sport and much more as well as supporting C...October 19, 2005
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RAMONES: Norwegian Tribute Album, Special Concert Performance Planned For Next Week
To celebrate the release of the tribute album "Leaving Home - A Norwegian Tribute to the Ramones", 15 Norwegian bands will hit the stage at Rockefeller in Oslo on October 25 to play their favorite RAMONES tunes. The lineup includes acts like BACKSTREET GIRLS w/ CASINO STEEL, SILVER, THE MORMONES, GR...October 19, 2005
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MANILLA ROAD Sign With BLACK LOTUS RECORDS
Veteran metallers MANILLA ROAD have inked a deal with Greece's Black Lotus Records. The group's new album will be recorded early next year for a late 2006 release. Commented guitarist/vocalist Mark Shelton: "MANILLA ROAD is highly honoured to join with the groundbreaking label Black Lotus. We are ve...October 17, 2005
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ROYAL HUNT: 'We're Not The Ones To Blame' For European Tour Cancellation
Danish/American hard rockers ROYAL HUNT have issued the following statement regarding the cancellation/postponement (see previous BLABBERMOUTH.NET story) of their European tour: "Just got home and saw that there´s a lot of different 'statements' and other general opinions (mostly negative) on our re...October 16, 2005
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SILENT FORCE Prepare To Enter Studio
SILENT FORCE, the power metal band featuring ex-ROYAL HUNT singer D.C. Cooper, have posted the following message on their official web site: "The silence is over again! The songwriting for the new album is finished. The recordings will start during the next couple of weeks. Again, we will work with...October 12, 2005
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INTO ETERNITY Wrap Up Fourth 2005 North American Tour, Prepare To Hit The Road With OPETH
Canada's progressive death metal band INTO ETERNITY have wrapped up their fourth 2005 North American tour supporting their latest album "Buried Into Oblivion". This year the band has been privileged to share the stage with metal veterans AMORPHIS, HATE ETERNAL, KRISIUN, INCANTATION, HAMMERFALL, EDGU...October 12, 2005
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Profanity, Not Volume, Unplugs Heavy Metal Concerts In Pinellas Park
Anne Lindberg of Florida's St. Petersburg Times has issued the following report: Five e-mails, five phone calls and a sick cat have put a stop to heavy metal concerts in Pinellas Park. That's what city officials decided after their very first one, on Oct. 1, when an estimated 3,500 people crowded in...October 12, 2005
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