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DAN SWANÖ's '80s Hard Rock Band GHOST: Demos And Live Recordings To Be Released In May

Long before Tobias Forge achieved worldwide fame with GHOST, there was another Swedish hard rock band with the same name. In 1983, then 10-year-old Dan Swanö started GHOST with his 12-year-old friend Anders Måreby, drawing influences from KISS and other classic rock groups of the late '70s and early...

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AMORPHIS And DARK TRANQUILLITY To Tour North America With MOONSPELL, OMNIUM GATHERUM

Melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS will return to North America with a co-headlining trek with DARK TRANQUILLITY this September/October. Joining them are Portugal's premier gothic-metallic-force MOONSPELL, and Finnish melo-death contingent OMNIUM GATHERUM. AMORPHIS will be touring in suppor...

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Watch SONS OF APOLLO Perform DREAM THEATER's 'Lines In The Sand'

SONS OF APOLLO, the "supergroup" featuring former DREAM THEATER members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian alongside Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-GUNS N' ROSES),Billy Sheehan (THE WINERY DOGS, MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE),made its live debut...

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LIGHT THE TORCH Feat. Ex-KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Singer HOWARD JONES: Debut Album Due In March

LIGHT THE TORCH (formerly DEVIL YOU KNOW),the band fronted by former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE singer Howard Jones, will release its debut album, "Revival", on March 30 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The official music video for the album opener, "Die Alone", can be seen below. "'Die Alone' is basically...

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GHOST's TOBIAS FORGE On Upcoming Album: 'It's A Heavy Record With A Heavy Theme'

Swedish occult metal band GHOST will release its as-yet-untitled fourth album in late spring or early summer Loma Vista Recordings. The follow-up to 2015's "Meliora" was recorded last year at Artery studios in Stockholm with producer Tom Dalgety (OPETH, ROYAL BLOOD) and was mixed in January at Westl...

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KOBRA AND THE LOTUS To Release 'Prevail II' Album In April

KOBRA AND THE LOTUS will deliver the second part of its opus magnum one year after the successful release of rock juggernaut "Prevail I". Due on April 27 through Napalm Records, "Prevail II" is the proverbial yang to the yin and continues right where KOBRA AND THE LOTUS left off in 2017. Says vocal...

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ACT OF DEFIANCE Feat. Ex-MEGADETH Members: March 2018 U.S. Headlining Tour Announced

ACT OF DEFIANCE, the group featuring former MEGADETH members Shawn Drover (drums) and Chris Broderick (guitar),alongside ex-SCAR THE MARTYR singer Henry Derek Bonner and SHADOWS FALL's Matt Bachand (bass),will embark on a a U.S. headlining tour this March. Support on the trek will come from SHATTE...

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CARNIFEX, OCEANO And WINDS OF PLAGUE Join Forces For 'Chaos And Carnage' Tour

CARNIFEX, OCEANO, ARCHSPIRE and WINDS OF PLAGUE will team up for the inaugural "Chaos And Carnage" tour in the spring. They will be joined by a killer batch of younger acts BURIED ABOVE GROUND, SHADOW OF INTENT, SPITE and WIDOWMAKER. CARNIFEX vocalist Scott Ian Lewis states: "This is our ONLY tour...

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SATYRICON Announces 'Final' U.S. Headlining Tour

Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON will return to U.S. shores for the final time this spring. The tour starts May 13 in Los Angeles, California and runs through May 30 in Austin, Texas, with two stops in Canada. INQUISITION will provide support on the tour. A complete list of dates can be found...

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TILES Announces 25th-Anniversary Show And Retirement Of Vocalist PAUL RARICK

Detroit-based progressive rock quartet TILES has announced that longtime vocalist Paul Rarick will be retiring and departing from the group, ironically coinciding with the band's 25th anniversary this year. Two years after releasing their crowning achievement, the star-studded and internationally ac...

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HATEBREED To Continue Celebrating Two Album Anniversaries During Spring Tour

Connecticut hardcore/metal masters HATEBREED released their first full-length, the modern hardcore classic "Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire", back in November of 1997. The album set the tone for the type of moshable metal that would eventually go on to define the '00s. 2002's "Perseverance" was...

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Swedish Death Metallers LIK Sign With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Swedish death metallers LIK ("corpse" in Swedish) have inked a deal with Metal Blade. The band's new album will be released in May. LIK comments: "The huge impact Metal Blade has had on the scene is something you can't overlook, and being a part of this family is a 'pinch yourself to see if you're d...

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Former GHOST Keyboardist Releases Home-Video Footage From Band's First-Ever Visit To U.S.

Former GHOST keyboardist Mauro Rubino, who performed with the Swedish band from 2011 until 2016 under the stage name Air, has uploaded personal home-video footage from the group's first ever visit to the U.S., which took place in May 2011. He wrote on his Facebook page: "We were invited to play Mary...

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ICED EARTH's JON SCHAFFER: 'There's A Lot Of Bands Who Would Give Their Left Nut To Be Able To Do What We've Done'

ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer was interviewed on a recent installment of Eddie Trunk's SiriusXM show "Trunk Nation". A few excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the goal of maintaining more control over the band while increasing profits: Jon: "That's absolutely the...

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YouTube Drumming Sensation MEYTAL COHEN Working On Second Studio Album

Los Angeles based heavy-music act MEYTAL, featuring YouTube celebrity drummer Meytal Cohen, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of the band's second studio album, tentatively due next summer. Performing as a five-piece, MEYTAL's debut album, "Alchemy", which was also funded on...