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SABATON Back Catalogue To Be Reissued By NUCLEAR BLAST

Available for the first time in North America as non-imports, SABATON's first four full-length albums — 2005's "Primo Victoria (Re-Armed)", 2006's "Attero Dominatus (Re-Armed)", 2007's "Metalizer (Re-Armed)" - (2 CDs) and 2008's "The Art Of War (Re-Armed)" — will be re-issued by Nuclear Blast on Apr...

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SABATON Taps DRAGONFORCE's LECLERCQ For European Tour

Swedish metallers SABATON have recruited DRAGONFORCE bassist Frédéric Leclercq to play guitar on their upcoming European tour. He will be filling in for regular SABATON guitarist Rikard Sundén, who "has decided to multiply himself and will have his first kid at this time," according to a statement r...

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DOTMA, ODD DIMENSION Albums To Be Made Available In North America In March

Scarlet Records has announced its second set of releases in the North American market. DOTMA's "Sleep Paralyses" and ODD DIMENSION's "Symmetrical" will be made available on March 22, 2011. DOTMA was formed in 2005 in the small city of Hyvinkää, Finland, by guitarist and keyboardist Harri Koskela. Fr...

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UNIVERSUM: Audio Samples Of Entire New Album Available

90-second audio samples of all the tracks that will appear on "Mortuus Machina", the sophomore album from Australian melodic death metallers UNIVERSUM, are available at this location. "Mortuus Machina" is tentatively due in early 2011. The follow-up to 2008's "Leto Destinatus" will feature guest app...

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UNIVERSUM: New Song Posted Online

A rough-mix version of a new song from Australian melodic death metallers UNIVERSUM, "Sum Of The Universe", can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The track features guest vocals from Christian Älvestam (SCAR SYMMETRY, SOLUTION .45) along with lead solos from both NIGHTRAGE axemen Marios Iliopou...

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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Says Band Has Yet To Choose New Lead Singer

DJ Marco Garavelli of the Italian web site LineaRock conducted an interview with Herman Li, guitarist, songwriter and producer of the Grammy-nominated British extreme epic power metal band DRAGONFORCE, in late November during Li's Italian clinic tour. When asked about DRAGONFORCE's split with lead s...

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CYNTHESIS Signs To SENSORY RECORDS; Original ZERO HOUR Members Reunited

Sensory Records has announced the signing of CYNTHESIS. The band's debut album, "DeEvolution", is scheduled for release in the spring. The CD is currently being mixed by talented producer/engineer Dino Alden (Marty Friedman, Tony Macalpine, Vinnie Moore, ZERO HOUR). The artwork will be created by De...

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GUS G.: I'm A Bigger BLACK SABBATH Fan Than OZZY OSBOURNE Fan

Guitar Player magazine recently conducted an interview with FIREWIND/OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Gus G. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Guitar Player: How big an influence was Ozzy's music on you? Gus: Very big. I'm a huge BLACK SABBATH fan. I'm a bigger SABBATH fan than Ozzy fan, to be...

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DRAGONFORCE Shredder HERMAN LI Lists His Ten Favorite Guitarists

Herman Li, guitarist, songwriter and producer of the Grammy-nominated metal band DRAGONFORCE, is known for his speed and precision as well as his light-hearted attitude when it comes to shredding. To learn more about where he's coming from, Roadrunner Records caught up with the axe-wielder to ask hi...

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UNIVERSUM: New Album Details Revealed

Australian melodic death metallers UNIVERSUM are putting the finishing touches on their sophomore album, "Mortuus Machina", for a tentative early 2011 release. The follow-up to 2008's "Leto Destinatus" will be mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren of Sweden's Fascination Street Studios (OPETH, SOILWORK,...

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Opposing Forces

Well, what do you know? It's another band on the Stormspell Records roster that takes a tried and true style and performs it with passion, balls, and skill. Greece's CROSSWIND plays what most would call power metal, the difference being that on "Opposing Forces" that playing sounds far fresher and m...

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GUS G. Talks Playing With OZZY OSBOURNE, Upcoming FIREWIND Album

OneMetal.com recently conducted an interview with OZZY OSBOURNE/FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. OneMetal.com: In a previous interview back around the time of FIREWIND's "The Premonition" album, you said you were focusing on FIREWIND and you didn't want to p...

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INSTANZIA To Release 'Ghosts' In November

Metalodic has announced the signing of Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based power metallers INSTANZIA. The band's debut album, "Ghosts", will be released on November 22. Recorded between 2008 and 2010, "Ghosts" was produced by Alexis Woodbury and Francis Gagné, and was mastered by Peter In de Betou (DRAGO...

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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Featured On BULLETBELT EP

Wellington, New Zealand black metal band BULLETBELT — which features the original drummer from Osmose band DEMONIAC — has self-released its debut EP, "The Black Army Stands". The four-song effort features a guest guitar solo on the track "Rape The Angel" from Sam Totman (a.k.a. Hemdall) of DRAGONFOR...

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DRAGONFORCE: Live Album Sample Available

A live version of the song "Through the Fire and Flames" from British extreme epic power metallers DRAGONFORCE is available for streaming at Wired.com. The track comes off the band's first live album, "Twilight Dementia", which will be released on September 13 via Spinefarm Records (Europe) and Road...