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JUDAS PRIEST's NOSTRADAMUS Concept LP: A Heavy-Metal 'Phantom Of The Opera'

JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford has spoken to Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com about the group's upcoming concept album about the legendary 16th-century French prophet Nostradamus. The bandmembers, who have been working on their ambitious undertaking for more than three months, have already written 90-pl...

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DESTRUCTION, PARAGON Confirmed For Sweden's GATES OF METAL Festival

DESTRUCTION and PARAGON have been confirmed for the Gates of Metal festival, set to take place August 4-5 at at Folkets Park in Hultsfred, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS DEATHSTARS DESTRUCTION DISMEMBER HAMMERFALL HELLOWEEN LUMSK MACHINE MEN M...

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Former ANTHRAX Frontman NEIL TURBIN Confirmed For California's BURNING STAR FESTIVAL

NEIL TURBIN'S DEATHRIDERS, the new band fronted by original ANTHRAX vocalist Neil Turbin, have been confirmed for the Burning Star Festival, set to take place August 5-6 at The Jumping Turtle in San Marcos, CA. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: Saturday, August 5, 2006: HELSTAR NEIL...

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ZONARIA: 'Rendered in Vain' Audio Samples, Video Clip Posted Online

Swedish melodic death metal band ZONARIA — who recently completed a European tour with IMPALED NAZARENE — have posted two tracks from their upcoming single, 'Rendered in Vain", on their MySpace profile. Check out the songs "Rendered in Vain" and "Attending Annihilation" at this location. "Rendered i...

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STIKKI FYKK: 'Cover' Of OBITUARY's 'Slowly We Rot' Posted Online

STIKKI FYKK, the long-running "nasty dirty glam thrash rock" from Germany featuring Dr. Vinnie Stikk (a.k.a. Andreas Preisig, owner of Battle Cry Records),Baron Carloz (a.k.a. Eren Eraslan, former guitar player of STORMRIDER),Sergeant Ryan Vixxen (a.k.a. Mathias Czop, former guitar player for STOR...

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SACRED STEEL Set Release Date For New Album

German metallers SACRED STEEL have set a November 10 release date via Massacre Records for their sixth album. The band will enter the Spiderhouse studio in Berlin on July 10 with legendary producer Harris Johns (VOIVOD, HELLOWEEN, ST. VITUS, DEPRESSIVE AGE, SODOM, KREATOR) to begin recording the eff...

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STIKKI FYKK Featuring Members Of LANFEAR, SACRED STEEL, IVANHOE: New CD Due In July

STIKKI FYKK, the long-running "nasty dirty glam thrash rock" from Germany featuring Dr. Vinnie Stikk (a.k.a. Andreas Preisig, owner of Battle Cry Records),Baron Carloz (a.k.a. Eren Eraslan, former guitar player of STORMRIDER),Sergeant Ryan Vixxen (a.k.a. Mathias Czop, former guitar player for STOR...

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Sacrifice

DEADSOIL are textbook metalcore. They can thrash it up, as on "Cross the Great Divide", or throw in clean singalong choruses, as on "Unspoken" and the melodic "These Stings". They can do the galloping AT THE GATES beat (see "True Belief") and they can do HATEBREED-style breakdowns. What they can't d...

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NEVERMORE, AGENT STEEL, STEEL ATTACK Confirmed For POWER PROG WEST Festival

Iron Room Events and Quadrivium Records have teamed up to present the first annual Power Prog West, set to take place August 27, 2006 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, CA. Confirmed bands so far are as follows: NEVERMORE SCARRED AGENT STEEL STEEL ATTACK CAGE RESISTANCE NOCTUARY NUCLEAR WINTER PR...

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REVEREND Announce New Singer

The surviving members of REVEREND, the band which had previously featured the late frontman David Wayne (ex-METAL CHURCH),have announced the addition of singer Michael Lance to the group's ranks. Michael Lance is no stranger to the metal scene. Raised in San Antonio Texas, Michael began his vocal c...

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DEF LEPPARD Honored With Bronze Star In Sheffield

Sheffield Today has issued the following report: Globe-trotting rockers DEF LEPPARD unveiled their very own bit of hometown pavement — as Sheffield made them the latest famous sons to be honored with a bronze star. [Check out a photo at this location.] And singer Joe Elliott told waiting crowds: "It...

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THY MAJESTIE Complete Work On Five 'Killer' New Songs

Italy's THY MAJESTIE have posted the following message on their official web site: "Just a quick note to inform you that THY MAJESTIE have composed five new songs for the new album. Five killer songs, maybe the best stuff we have ever composed. At the moment, we don't know which record label will re...

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AGENT STEEL: New Audio Sample Posted Online

California-based metallers AGENT STEEL have revealed the tentative track listing for their as-yet-untitled new album, due in early 2007. The songtitles are as follows: 01. Wash The Planet Clean 02. Fashioned From Dust 03. Hail To The Chief 04. Wormwood 05. Liberty Lying Bleeding 06. Tiamat's Fall 07...

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ROB HALFORD Says New Company Gives Him Control

Bruce Simon of Launch Radio Networks reports: Rob Halford has laid out an ambitious release schedule for his new company called Metal God Entertainment (MGE). This year, Halford will reissue some of his non-JUDAS PRIEST material through MGE, starting with the HALFORD albums he made in 2000, 2001, an...

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NOCTURNAL RITES, EASY ACTION Confirmed For SWEDISH METAL EXPO

NOCTURNAL RITES and EASY ACTION are the top names currently confirmed for the Swedish Metal Expo, set to take place September 1-2 at Fryshuset in Stockholm. Also scheduled to appear are BULLET, HELL N' DIESEL, LOCH VOSTOCK, PAPERBACK FREUD, SONIC SYNDICATE, STEEL ATTACK, STREET LEGAL and SUPERGROUPI...