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HEARSE: Former ARCH ENEMY Frontman Signs With COLD RECORDS

Swedish "death 'n' roll" band HEARSE, featuring former ARCH ENEMY singer Johan Liiva, have inked a deal with Cold Records. The group recently issued their third album, "The Last Ordeal", through Holland's Karmageddon Media. Formed by longtime friends Max Thornell (drums) and Liiva, HEARSE recorded a...

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BLO.TORCH Recruit Fill-In Guitarist

Dutch death metallers BLO.TORCH have posted the following message on their official web site: "As the visitors of our show at the Metropolis Festival have noticed, a few face has appeared within the BLO.TORCH ranks. This new face is [guitarist] Rory Hansen. For the record: Marvin [Vriesde] has not l...

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GOTHENBURG METAL FESTIVAL To Be Filmed For Upcoming DVD

The year's Gothenburg Metal Festival, which is set to take place Saturday, June 18 at Musikens Hus in Gothenburg, Sweden, will be filmed for an upcoming DVD. The festival billing and running order is shaping up as follows: 19.00 CRYONIC TEMPLE 20.00 PATHOS 21.00 NOSTRADAMEUS 22.00 TORCH 23.00 DESTIN...

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CRYONIC TEMPLE And TORCH Confirmed For Sweden's GOTHENBURG METAL FESTIVAL

CRYONIC TEMPLE and TORCH have been confirmed for the Gothenburg Metal Festival, set to take place June 18 at Musikens Hus in Gothenburg, Sweden. Other groups scheduled to perform at the festival include DESTINY, FALCONER, NOSTRADAMEUS and PATHOS. A video trailer for the upcoming event can be found a...

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VELVET REVOLVER: 'Fantastic Four' Soundtrack Gets A Release Date

In addition to the new VELVET REVOLVER track entitled "Come On Come In", the upcoming "Fantastic Four" soundtrack, due July 5 on Wind-Up Records, will also include the solo debut of former EVANESCENCE guitarist Ben Moody, according to RollingStone.com. Moody's "Everything Burns", a duet with singer...

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VELVET REVOLVER DVD To Feature Live, Backstage Footage

VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum recently spoke to Launch Radio Networks about the group's upcoming DVD, which is tentatively due late summer. "We're working on it right now," he said. "We're cutting it up. Shot that down in Houston early on, and we did a lot of footage backstage and stuff, so it...

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HIRAX Singer Says There Was A Lot More Talent In The Old-School Metal

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with legendary HIRAX vocalist Katon W. De Pena. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: You've obviously experience a lot of line-up changes over the years. Has there been one common factor behind these changes? Katon: "Basically, it's b...

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AC/DC Frontman Throws His Weight Behind Florida's BIG MACHINE

AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson has co-written all of the material and handpicked the members of a new Florida-based band called BIG MACHINE. The quintet has labels and industry folk alike shuffling about trying to find out more about the group performing the first new material written from the iconic...

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AGENT STEEL To Perform Entire 'Skeptics Apocalypse' Album At Germany's KEEP IT TRUE Festival

AGENT STEEL will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic "Skeptics Apocalypse" LP by performing the album in its entirety at the Keep It True IV Festival on April 2 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Koenigshofen, Germany. The complete list of acts currently scheduled to appear at the festival i...

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HEARSE Complete Work On New Album

Swedish "death 'n' roll" band HEARSE, featuring former ARCH ENEMY singer Johan Liiva, have finished recording their third album, "The Last Ordeal", for a summer release through Karmageddon Media. The follow-up to 2004's "Armageddon Mon Amour", "The Last Ordeal" was recorded and mixed at Stockholm's...

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AFTER ALL Pull Out Of KEEP IT TRUE Warm-Up Gig; LANFEAR Step In

Belgium's AFTER ALL have been forced to cancel their previously announced appearance at the Keep It True IV Festival warm-up show on April 1 at Pfarrkeller in Lauda, Germany. "They were invited to support AGENT STEEL on other dates and so cannot play on our warm-up," reads a press release from the f...

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AFTER ALL Confirmed For KEEP IT TRUE IV FESTIVAL Warm-Up Gig

Belgium's AFTER ALL have been announced as the openers at the Keep It True IV Festival warm-up show on April 1, 2005 at Pfarrkeller in Lauda, Germany. Also set to appear at the gig are MARTYR and two other, as-yet-undetermined acts. The Keep It True IV Festival is scheduled to take place April 2, 20...

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AGENT STEEL Prepare To Enter Studio

Reunited California speed metallers AGENT STEEL have finished writing nine new songs for the follow-up to last year's "Order of the Illuminati", tentatively due in 2005. Songtitles set to appear on the as-yet-untitled CD are "Curse Reborn", "Hail to the Chief" and "Wash This Planet Clean" (sample mp...

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SATAN, AGENT STEEL, TORCH Confirmed For Germany's KEEP IT TRUE IV Festival

Reunited British heavy metal legends SATAN, AGENT STEEL and TORCH are among the bands confirmed for Keep It True IV festival, set to be held April 2, 2005 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Koenigshofen, Germany. The complete list of acts currently scheduled to appear at the festival is as follows: AGEN...

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KING DIAMOND And MERCYFUL FATE 'Retro' DVDs On The Way

KING DIAMOND frontman/namesake recently gave a lengthy interview to Metal Sludge as part of the web site's weekly "20 Questions With..." feature. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow: Metal Sludge: What are you currently up to? Briefly plug whatever it is you have to plug so we can get go...