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MOONSPELL Confirmed For Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Portugal's MOONSPELL was have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to perform are IN FLAMES, BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL, SCHANDMAUL and the reunited No...

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CYNIC To Reunite For European Festival Appearances, Possible U.S. Dates

Long-defunct Florida-based band CYNIC, whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, is rumored to be planning a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of festi...

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FORGOTTEN TOMB Completes Work On Fourth Album

Italian masters of depressive doom/black metal FORGOTTEN TOMB have just returned from the studio where they recorded their fourth album, entitled "Negative Megalomania". After releasing three albums on Selbsrmord Services and Adipocere Records, the band recently signed a new contract with Avantgarde...

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IRON MAIDEN Gets Political On New Album

United Press International reports that heavy metal icons IRON MAIDEN have taken a topical direction on their new album, "A Matter of Life and Death". Many of the songs on the British sextet's first new album in three years — including "These Colors Don't Run", "The Longest Day" and "For the Greater...

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SHRUM Featuring Late ACID BATH Bassist: Music Available Online

SHRUM, the long-defunct side-project of late ACID BATH bassist Audie Pitre and drum programmer/keyboardist/vocalist Tomas Viator (DISINCARNATE, SUFFER),had four songs from their "Red Devils and Purple Ringers" CD posted online at this MySpace tribute page . Described as "a psychadelic, death metal...

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PARAGON Completes Drum Tracks For New CD

Bassist Jan Bünning of the German power metallers PARAGON has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Chris [Gripp] has almost recorded most of his drum stuff [for the new PARAGON album]. Tomorrow he will play the final songs and after next weekend I will start to record my ba...

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THUNDERSTORM Announces New Album Title

Italian doom metallers THUNDERSTORM have set "As We Die Alone" as the title of their fourth album, tentatively due late 2006/early 2007 via Dragonheart Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Faithless Soul" was recorded at New Sin Studio in Loria (Italy) and will include a cover version of the JIMI HENDR...

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Ancient Symbolism

Italy's FEAR OF ETERNITY consists of a single individual, Tilenni, who plays all instruments and produces his works. The style is a form of keyboard-based black metal despondency. Typically slow, doom-like tempos with guitar serving as more of a background instrument and Tilenni's croaky vocals are...

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DEICIDE Frontman: Whenever ERIC HOFFMAN Posts Something On BLABBERMOUTH, We Know It's Him

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with notoriously outspoken DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton. Several excerpts from the chat follow: Blasting-Zone.com: What really happened with the Hoffman brothers? Glen: 'Basically, what happened, man, was that for quite a few years now, thei...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: 'The European Invasion' Enters U.K. Chart At No. 4

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's new live DVD, "The European Invasion – Doom Troopin'", has entered the U.K. Music DVD chart at position No. 4. View the whole chart at this location. "The European Invasion – Doom Troopin'" captures BLACK LABEL SOCIETY live on their sold-out European tour last year. Witness the...

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MOONSPELL To Play Finland, Baltic States In September

Portugal's MOONSPELL has announced several dates in Finland and the Baltic states in September. The details are as follows: Sep. 25 - Tartu, EST - Club Illusion Sep. 26 - Riga, LAT - Melna Piektdiena club Sep. 27 - Helsinki, FIN - Nosturi Sep. 28 - Jyväskylä, FIN - Lutakko Sep. 29 - Oulu, FIN ...

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FAITH To Enter Studio In September

Swedish progressive/doom act FAITH has issued the following update: "During the month of September we will start recording sessions of what will be our third full-length album some cloudy day. We are in no particular hurry; for once we'll let it take whatever time it needs in order to reach (in our...

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THE ETERNAL Goes Acoustic

Mark Kelson (guitar and vocals) and Chris Stevenson (keyboards) of the acclaimed Australian ambient/dark/doom metal act THE ETERNAL will be doing a number of acoustic gigs in the upcoming months, featuring both THE ETERNAL songs and "a few surprises.' According to the band, this is not their new dir...

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CANDLEMASS Resumes Recording New Album — Without Vocalist MESSIAH

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS returned to Polar studio in Stockholm this past weekend to add one song to their forthcoming album. The brutally heavy "Of Stars and Smoke" was put down with ease and in a very releaxed working environment. Since the as-yet-untitled CD won't be out until next y...

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MORGANA LEFAY: Photos From Recording Studio Available

Swedish "heavy doom progressive" metallers MORGANA LEFAY recently entered Soundcreation studio in Bollnäs, Sweden to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Grand Materia", tentatively due in late 2006/early 2007 via Black Mark Records. A "studio diary" keeping track of the band's progress has been...