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MALEVOLENT CREATION, DOOMSWORD Drop Off Germany's ROCK HARD Festival

MALEVOLENT CREATION and DOOMSWORD have cancelled their participation in the upcoming the Rock Hard Festival on May 28-30 at Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. MALEVOLENT CREATION are citing their booking agent's failure to book additional dates around the festival as the reason for their cancel...

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EXODUS Drummer: Too Many Drugs Took Focus Away From Music

EXODUS members Tom Hunting (drums) and Gary Holt (guitar) recently spoke to Get Ready To ROCK! about the band's comeback release, "Tempo of the Damned" and the 12-year absence from the recording studio that preceded it. Asked what took them so long to record a new studio album, Hunting said, "We wer...

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Acclaimed Metal Producer ANDY SNEAP: Interview Posted Online

The Earache/Wicked World Records web site has posted a lengthy interview with acclaimed British metal producer Andy Sneap. Sneap, a former guitarist for the once-promising U.K. metal outfit SABBAT (which featured in its ranks future SKYCLAD frontman Martin Walkyier),has worked with a number of the...

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BESEECH Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

Swedish "gothic metallers" BESEECH have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock festival, set to be held June 10-12 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The complete list of bands currently scheduled to appear at the festival is as follows: The complete list of bands currently scheduled to a...

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SWEDEN ROCK Festival: SKID ROW Out, Y&T In

SKID ROW have cancelled their previously announced appearance at this year's Sweden Rock festival and have been replaced on the bill by Y&T. SKID ROW's decision to pull out of the festival is being blamed on "the fact that [SKID ROW guitarist] Snake decided to bring his wife to be to the altar a...

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SWEDEN ROCK Festival Nearing Sell-Out

Last year, Sweden Rock festival sold out all the 15,000 two-day tickets two days before the first band took the stage. That was actually the first time ever the festival was sold out. This year the tickets will sell out much earlier. As of today, more than 13,000 of the 16,000 three-day tickets have...

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MESHUGGAH Confirmed For Finland's PROVINSSIROCK Festival

Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have been confirmed for this year's Provinssirock festival, a three-day event set to take place June 18-20 in Seinäjoki, Finland. MESHUGGAH will perform on Saturday, June 19 alongside HYPOCRISY and DIABLO. Other bands scheduled to appear at the festiv...

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HALLOWS EVE: Reunion Update

Steve Cannon, editor-in-chief of the world's oldest and longest running Internet-based music magazine Vibrations of Doom, has sent us the following update on the reunion of classic '80s thrashers HALLOWS EVE: "For all of you who are wondering, the new HALLOWS EVE lineup looks like this: Returning to...

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RESPONSE NEGATIVE To Open For EXODUS In Florida

RESPONSE NEGATIVE, the Florida-based death/thrash metal band featuring former OVERKILL/GRIP INC. guitarist Bobby Gustafson, will be opening for EXODUS at The Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Wednesday, April 28. Also set to appear are SAQ and KRYPTIC KURSE. In other news, RESPONSE NEGATIVE...

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THRASH OF THE TITANS: Classic REALITY CHECK TV Coverage Posted Online

Reality Check TV's coverage of the legendary August 2001 "Thrash of The Titans" benefit concert for Chuck Billy of TESTAMENT has been made available for free streaming via Netbroadcaster.com. Watch the first part of the report (Episode #243) at this location (28 minutes, Windows Media player require...

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PRIMAL FEAR: Photos From 'The Healer' Video Shoot Posted Online

German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR have finished filming a video for the song "The Healer" in Tilburg, Netherlands with director with director Maurice Swinkels of Lowlifemedia Productions (EXODUS, ABORTED, IMMOLATION, OCCULT). Check put photos from the shoot at this location. "The Healer" comes off...

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'Monsters of Metal Vol. 2': The Ultimate Metal DVD Compilation Returns With Second Installment

Nuclear Blast Records Europe has just released "Monsters of Metal Vol. 2" (view cover here),the second installment of what it calls "the ultimate metal DVD compilation," featuring both Nuclear Blast artists and bands signed to other labels. The complete track listing for the two-disc set is as foll...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: Preview Entire New Album Online

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's entire new CD, "The End of Heartache", can be previewed online via the newly launched KILLSWITCH ENGAGE E-Card. Check it out here. The follow-up to 2002's "Alive or Just Breathing", "The End of Heartache" was produced by guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and was mixed at Backstage Studio...

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'Get Thrashed' Thrash Metal Documentary: Third Preview Clip Posted Online

The makers of "Get Thrashed", the upcoming documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a third preview clip via the project's official web site. The third clip features guitarist Scott Ian (ANTHRAX, ex-S.O.D.) sharing an interesti...

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EXODUS Guitarist: PAUL BALOFF's Death Was Wake-Up Call For Achieving Sobriety

In an exclusive interview with ElectricBasement.com, EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt explained how vocalist Paul Baloff's death caused the band to rethink their ways and get to work on a new album, the recently released "Tempo of the Damned" (Nuclear Blast). "Fourth-fifths of the band — myself included —...