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JON OLIVA'S PAIN To Answer Fans' Questions

Metal legend Jon Oliva (SAVATAGE, TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) and JON OLIVA'S PAIN bandmates are the next participants in the "meet-and-greet" section of Germany's Metal Hammer magazine forum. Fans are invited to post their questions until June 6, to be answered at a later date by the bandmembers them...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist: New Album Will 'Sound More Heavy Metal Than Ever'

Sweden's HAMMERFALL have entered the studio to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken", tentatively due in October via Nuclear Blast Records. Guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following recording update on his official blog: "There were only two songs left...

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PEARL JAM's Digs May Get The Dump

The Associated Press is reporting that PEARL JAM's new Seattle headquarters could face demolition because of the city's plans to build a dump. "We hadn't even finished unpacking and moving into our new space when we heard about the city's waste management site," spokeswoman Nicole Vandenberg said Sa...

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OPETH: 'Ghost Reveries' Deluxe Version Detailed

More information has been released about the upcoming special-edition deluxe version of OPETH's latest album, "Ghost Reveries", due on July 25 via Roadrunner Records. Bonus material on the set will include a 40-minute documentary about the making of the record complete with the band's own private to...

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HANOI ROCKS Complete Work On 'Back In Yer Face' Video

Legendary Finnish rockers HANOI ROCKS have just completed work on the video for the song "Back In Yer Face", taken from their "Another Hostile Takeover" album, available on Demolition Records. The CD is the group's first album to feature Conny Bloom (ex-ELECTRIC BOYS),who joined the band in 2004. H...

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GODSMACK Frontman: We Support The Troops, Not The War

A.J. Hammer of CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna on Thursday, May 11. A transcript of the chat follows: Hammer: Well, here we go again. Another rock group embroiled in controversy over their music and the war in Iraq. But this time, it's not exactly wha...

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'Heavy Metal Thunder' Archive Of Metal-Album Art To Arrive In June

MTV.com reports: A few years back, metal journalists James Sherry (Metal Hammer, Kerrang!) and Neil Aldis (Rock World, Terrorizer) decided to sift through their record collections and put the best of the bunch into coffee-table-book form. That spawned "Heavy Metal Thunder", an extensive archive of t...

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MCQUEEN Sign Worldwide Deal With DEMOLITION RECORDS

MCQUEEN have signed a worldwide deal with Demolition Records to release their debut album, "Break the Silence", later this summer. The CD was recorded in sections in between a healthy touring schedule that has spanned the last two and a half years. The album features a number of tracks mixed by QUEE...

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METAL HAMMER GOLDEN GODS Awards To be Broadcast In Europe On MTV2's 'Headbanger's Ball'

The fourth annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards will be broadcast in Europe this year on alternative music TV channel MTV2 as part of the newly relaunched MTV2 "Headbanger's Ball" show. MTV2 will also sponsor the "Best Video" category, dominated this year by Warner Music, who hold a staggering fou...

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SINISTER Pull Out Of Germany's F*CK THE COMMERCE Festival

Despite a previous announcement to the contrary, reunited Dutch death metallers SINISTER will **NOT** be performing at the 2006 edition of the Fuck the Commerce festival, set to take place May 25-27 at MZA (Mehrzweckhalle) in Luckau, Germany. "We never received a confirmation so we made other plans,...

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VITAL REMAINS Pull Out Of Germany's F*CK THE COMMERCE Festival

VITAL REMAINS have cancelled their appearance at the the 2006 edition of the Fuck the Commerce festival, set to take place May 25-27 at MZA (Mehrzweckhalle) in Luckau, Germany. According to the festival organizers, it was "impossible" for VITAL REMAINS to make the show "because they're playing at th...

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WYKKED WYTCH: 'Awakened' Video Available Online

Florida's WYKKED WYTCH have posted the uncensored video for the title track of their forthcoming album, "Awakened". Check it out at YouTube.com. The audio in the track is from a pre-production demo. A new edit of the video, including fresh audio, will be able as a multimedia file on the completed al...

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Eric the Red

To paraphrase the great Doug Stanhope, being the biggest band on the Faroe Islands is kinda like being the prettiest waitress at a Denny's diner. With a population of less than 50,000 and an area about the size of a large city, this group of tiny isles in the Norwegian Sea is home to numerous ...

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VINNIE PAUL: 'If PHILIP ANSELMO Really Wants To Place Any Blame, He Needs To Look In A Mirror'

Revolver magazine (web site) conducted an interview with former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott for its June 2006 issue. An excerpt from the chat follows: Revolver: Before Dime ["Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist] was killed, there were rumors about a PANTERA reunio...

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HATE ETERNAL, SINISTER Confirmed For Germany's F*CK THE COMMERCE Festival; ORIGIN Cancel

HATE ETERNAL, SINISTER, ACCION MUTANTE, AMBROSSIA, GADGET, LE SCRAWL, VERMIN, SUFFERAGE, DIVISION666, GUT and NOXA have been confirmed for the 2006 edition of the Fuck the Commerce festival, set to take place May 25-27 at MZA (Mehrzweckhalle) in Luckau, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as...