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MOTÖRHEAD, RHAPSODY OF FIRE, TOKYO BLADE Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

MOTÖRHEAD, RHAPSODY OF FIRE and TOKYO BLADE have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 4-6, 2011 in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):...

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ALICE COOPER Confirms ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction

According to The Arizona Republic, legendary rocker Alice Cooper has confirmed that will finally be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the 26th annual induction ceremony, which will be held on March 14, 2011 at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. Also being inducted are Neil Diamond, Tom...

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METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH And ANTHRAX Confirmed For U.K.'s SONISPHERE Festival

METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX will headline the first night of next year's U.K. installment of the Sonisphere festival, which will take place July 8-10, 2011. Saturday night headliner will be BIFFY CLYRO and Sunday's festival closer is SLIPKNOT. Commented METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich: "As...

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HELLOWEEN: Gothenburg Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of HELLOWEEN's December 10, 2010 performance at Lisebergshallen in Gothenburg, Sweden can be viewed below. "7 Sinners", the 13th studio album from HELLOWEEN, sold around 1,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 7 on the To...

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ATHEIST Drummer Interviewed On 'Heavy Metal Thunder' (Audio)

DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's "Heavy Metal Thunder" show recently conducted an interview with drummer Steve Flynn of reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Interview (audio):

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Report: ALICE COOPER To Finally Be Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

According to industry web site Hits Daily Double, legendary rocker Alice Cooper will finally be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the 26th annual induction ceremony, which will be held on March 14, 2011 at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. Also being inducted are Neil Diamond, Tom Wait...

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HELLOWEEN Interviewed By Spain's MSN / ROCK METAL TV (Video)

MSN / Rock Metal TV recently conducted an interview with German power metallers HELLOWEEN. You can now watch the chat below. "7 Sinners", the 13th studio album from HELLOWEEN, sold around 1,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 7 on the Top New A...

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KING DIAMOND Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery

Livia Zita (pictured below),the 26-year-old wife of 54-year-old Danish heavy metal singer King Diamond (real name: Kim Bendix Petersen; MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND),has issued the following update: "Let me catch you all up on the past couple of weeks' happenings, because it affects many things. "O...

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SIX REASONS TO KILL Signs With MASSACRE RECORDS

Koblenz, Germany-based extreme metallers SIX REASONS TO KILL have inked a deal with Massacre Records. The band's fourth album, "Architects Of Perfection", is scheduled for release on January 28, 2011. Commented the band: "After several months of working and recording on our forthcoming album, we're...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Discuss New Album With SoundShock.com (Video)

Faye Coulman of SoundShock.com conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho and keyboardist Janne Wirman of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM on December 10, 2010 at Metropolis Studios in London, England. You can now watch the chat below. CHILDREN OF BODOM will release its new album,...

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HELLOWEEN: Footage From U.K.'s HARD ROCK HELL IV Festival Available

Fan-filmed video footage of former HELLOWEEN's December 4, 2010 performance at the Hard Rock Hell IV festival at Pontins in Prestatyn, North Wales, United Kingdom can be viewed below. "7 Sinners", the 13th studio album from HELLOWEEN, sold around 1,900 copies in the United States in its first week o...

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UNRULY CHILD Singer Interviewed By METAL ASSAULT (Audio)

On November 23, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with vocalist Marcie Michelle Free of the reunited melodic hard rock quintet UNRULY CHILD. You can now listen to the chat below. After disbanding over sixteen years ago, all the original members of the legendary melodic...

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LINKIN PARK, AC/DC, GODSMACK, DISTURBED Among Top-Selling Hard Rock Albums Of 2010

Billboard magazine has published a list of the top-selling hard rock and metal albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. (Note: Not all the albums on the list were actually released during 2010.) It is as follows: 01. Dark Horse - NICKELBACK 02. A Thousand Suns - LINKIN PARK 03....

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AC/DC, METALLICA On BILLBOARD Magazine's 'Top 25 Tours Of 2010' List

AC/DC and METALLICA have made Billboard magazine's "Top 25 Tours Of 2010" list, which is compiled from Boxscore data reported for the Nov. 28, 2009 issue through the Nov. 20, 2010 issue. AC/DC's grossed an impressive $122.6 million and logged more than 1 million in attendance to just 28 shows. METAL...

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BLACK STONE CHERRY Covers ELVIS PRESLEY's 'Santa Is Back' (Audio)

BLACK STONE CHERRY's cover version of the ELVIS PRESLEY classic "Santa Is Back" can be streamed below (courtesy of AOL's Noisecreep). "We love to rock, but we also love our Christmas tunes!" the Kentucky rockers told Noisecreep. "We figured, what better song to cover than one originally made famous...