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ALICE COOPER, AMORPHIS Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

ALICE COOPER and AMORPHIS have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 5-7, 2010 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 ALICE COOPER AMORPHIS ARCH ENEMY CALIBAN CANNIBAL CORPSE CORVUS CORAX DESPISED ICON DIE AP...

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BARREN EARTH Announces Second-Ever Live Performance

BARREN EARTH — the new Helsinki, Finland-based project featuring members of KREATOR, MOONSORROW, SWALLOW THE SUN and MANNHAI — will play its second concert ever on February 18, 2010 at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland as the support act for FINNTROLL. BARREN EARTH has set "The Curse Of The Red River" as...

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BLACK SUN AEON: 'Routa' Artwork Unveiled

BLACK SUN AEON — the new "dark, death, doom" project from Tuomas Saukkonen (BEFORE THE DAWN, THE FINAL HARVEST, DAWN OF SOLACE) — entered the studio on December 6 to begin recording its second CD, "Routa" (Finnish for "ground frost"). The follow-up to "Darkness Walks Beside Me" will be a double albu...

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BLACK SUN AEON Begins Recording New Album

BLACK SUN AEON — the new "dark, death, doom" project from Tuomas Saukkonen (BEFORE THE DAWN, THE FINAL HARVEST, DAWN OF SOLACE) — entered the studio on December 6 to begin recording its second CD, "Routa" (Finnish for "ground frost"). The follow-up to "Darkness Walks Beside Me" will be a double albu...

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TURMION KÄTILÖT, DOOM UNIT Confirmed For FINNISH METAL EXPO

TURMION KÄTILÖT and DOOM UNIT have been confirmed to perform at the sixth annual Finnish Metal Expo, which will be held February 19-20, 2010 in Helsinki. Finnish Metal Expo, the main event of Helsinki Metal Meeting, is taking over the Cable Factory for the sixth time next year. This is where more th...

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AMORPHIS Guitarist Talks Christmas

The German edition of Metal Hammer magazine recently spoke about Christmas with guitarist Esa Holopainen of Finnish metallers AMORPHIS. During the chat, Esa talked about what the celebration means to him personally, for his band, and he offered some insight into the Finnish attitude towards Christma...

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BARREN EARTH: New Album Title, Release Dates Revealed

BARREN EARTH — the new Helsinki, Finland-based project featuring members of KREATOR, MOONSORROW, SWALLOW THE SUN and MANNHAI — has set "The Curse Of The Red River" as the title of its full-length debut. The CD will be released on the following dates: March 10: Finland March 8: Rest Of Europe April 6...

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AMORPHIS, KORPIKLAANI Confirmed For FINNISH METAL EXPO

AMORPHIS, KORPIKLAANI, V FOR VIOLENCE and [AMATORY] have been confirmed to perform at the sixth annual Finnish Metal Expo, which will be held February 19-20, 2010 in Helsinki. Finnish Metal Expo, the main event of Helsinki Metal Meeting, is taking over the Cable Factory for the sixth time next year....

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ENSIFERUM: Video Interview Posted Online

HeavyWorlds.com conducted an interview with bassist Sami Hinkka of Finnish folk metallers ENSIFERUM prior to the band's October 20, 2009 concert in Bologna, Italy. Watch the chat below. (Note: Turn up the volume.) ENSIFERUM is currently taking part in a North American headlining tour with support fr...

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TRAIL OF TEARS Frontman Interviewed In London

Elena Francis of SoundShock.co.uk conducted an interview with vocalist Ronny Thorsen of Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS before the band's November 23, 2009 concert at Camden Underworld in London, England. Watch the chat in two parts below. TRAIL OF TEARS is currently on the road with fellow Norwegian bands...

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POISONBLACK To Release 'Of Rust And Bones' In March

POISONBLACK — the Finnish band featuring former SENTENCED frontman Ville Laihiala — has set "Of Rust And Bones" as the title of its fourth album, due in Europe on March 22, 2010 via Century Media Records. The follow-up to last year's "A Dead Heavy Day" was recorded with producer Hiili Hiilesmaa, who...

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THE CHANT Hard At Work On New Album

Finnish melancholic metallers THE CHANT have entered the studio with producer Ville Sorvali (MOONSORROW) to begin recording their second album, tentatively titled "This Is The World We Know", for an early 2010 release via an as-yet-undisclosed label. A studio diary is available at this location. THE...

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AMORPHIS: Video Interview With TOMI KOIVUSAARI Posted Online

E-Rock.gr conducted an interview with rhythm guitarist Tomi Koivusaari of Finnish metallers AMORPHIS on November 1, 2009 when the band played Athens, Greece. Watch the chat in two parts below. AMORPHIS will release its first-ever live DVD in the spring of 2010, in time for the band's 20th anniversar...

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DAYLIGHT MISERY: Three-Song Promo CD Available For Free Download

Greek death metal band DAYLIGHT MISERY has made its three-song promotional CD available for free download at this location (RAR file). The tracks featured on the promo CD are as follows: 01. Meadows of Desire 02. Soul Embraced 03. Depressive Icons DAYLIGHT MISERY recently completed work on its debut...

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MONSTROSITY, VILE, PYREXIA Members Join Forces In ABRAXAS

ABRAXAS, the new death metal band featuring Makoto Mizoguchi (PYREXIA, INTERNAL SUFFERING, HATE ETERNAL) on guitar and bass, Mike Hrubovcak (MONSTROSITY, VILE, DIVINE RAPTURE, I.C.E., AZURE EMOTE) on vocals and Lance Wright (VILE, QUINTA ESSENTIA, TEMPLE OF BLOOD) on drums, will release its debut fo...