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H.I.M. To Film New 'Killing Loneliness' Video This Weekend

Finnish goth metallers H.I.M. will be shooting a new video for their song "Killing Loneliness" on Sunday, April 2 in Los Angeles, California. H.I.M. will be joined in the new clip — which is being directed by Nathan Cox (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, MARILYN MANSON, KORN, LINKIN PARK, STAIND, DISTURBED)...

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METALLICA Gets Hardcore With WICKED PIXELS

Wicked Pixels, one of South Africa's leading animation studios was recently briefed to create a cinema and TV commercial to promote METALLICA. What appears to be resurgence in the local ad industry has prompted a return to some braver advertising and Wicked Pixels has been given the license to anima...

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Bassist DIGIORGIO, Drummer MICKELSON 'Dropped' From VINTERSORG Recording Sessions

Despite previous reports to the contrary, bassist Steve DiGiorgio (SADUS, SEBASTIAN BACH, TESTAMENT, DEATH) and drummer Asgeir Mickelson (SPIRAL ARCHITECT, BORKNAGAR) have not been asked to participate in the recording process for VINTERSORG's new album, which is tentatively due later in the year. W...

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RANDY RHOADS' Mother Adds $20,000 To Scholarship Endowment

LA Daily News is reporting that the mother of late OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Randy Rhoads has added $20,000 to the scholarship endowment she created more than 10 years ago at California State University, Northridge, as a tribute to her son, CSUN said. The endowment, now worth $45,000, is designed to o...

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EMPEROR Frontman IHSAHN: 'Invocation' Video Posted Online

EMPEROR frontman Ihsahn's video for "Invocation", the opening track from Ihsahn's forthcoming solo album, "The Adversary", has been posted online at this location (Quicktime required). To download the video to your hard drive, click here (35 MB). The clip was shot and produced in Notodden, Norway by...

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JASON NEWSTED On SUPERNOVA Singer: 'I Already Know What I'm Looking For'

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that hundreds of hopefuls began lining up outside the Rockit Room nightclub in San Francisco on Tuesday (March 21) — some eight hours before the 10 a.m. casting call — in order to compete for the singer slot in SUPERNOVA, the new supergroup featuring MÖTLEY C...

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H.I.M. Bassist Comments On BAM MARGERA Factor

Beat magazine caught up with H.I.M. bassist Migè (real name: Mikko Heinrik Julius Paananen) and asked if he ever finds the "Viva La Bam"/Bam Margera craze that has sewpt up his band a little suffocating. "Well, there are lots of smart people who say 'all publicity is good publicity,'" he said. "Um,...

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Sign With CANDLELIGHT RECORDS

Arizona-based extreme metal band ABIGAIL WILLIAMS have signed a three-album deal with Candlelight Records. According to a press release, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS "take their influences from the best of the best from the old and the new and blend it into a unique and multifaceted hybrid. They have the groove...

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BLOODBOUND Confirmed For Sweden's ALINGSÅS HÅRDROCKSFESTIVAL

BLOODBOUND, the new Swedish metal band featuring Urban Breed (ex-TAD MOROSE; vocals),Fredrik Bergh (STREET TALK; bass, keyboards and backing vocals) and Tomas Olsson (lead and rhythm guitars),have been confirmed for the Alingsås Hårdrocksfestival, set to take place May 6 in Alingsås, Sweden. Other...

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DEICIDE's BENTON Comments On Being Kicked off France's HELLFEST

Currently seconded in Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida with producer Jim Morris recording the new DEICIDE album, "The Stench of Redemption", the band's frontman Glen Benton has responded to the organisers of the French Hellfest festival who announced that DEICIDE had been removed from this year'...

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METALLICA's South African Concert Organizers: Don't Blame Us

Independent Online is reporting that the organizers of Saturday's (March 18) Coca-Cola Colab Massive Mix Tour concert at SuperSport Park in South Africa — featuring a host of local artists and several international acts, including METALLICA — have admitted that there were "huge problems", especially...

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DEICIDE Kicked Off HELLFEST Due To French Grave Desecrations

According to the official Hellfest web site, DEICIDE have been dropped from this year's French festival bill due to circumstances very much out of their control. It seems that the events organizers got the jitters and bowed to local government pressure to have Glen Benton's satanic death metal outfi...

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JEFF SCOTT SOTO Confirmed For ULI JON ROTH's SKY ACADEMY Concerts In Los Angeles

Veteran hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, SOUL SIRKUS, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) will participate as a "guest of honor" in the upcoming Sky Academy concerts featuring former SCORPIONS guitar legend Uli Jon Roth. Other musicians expected to take part in the event include Don Dokken (DOKKEN),E...

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DREAM THEATER: Detroit Show Cancelled

DREAM THEATER have been forced to cancel tonight's (March 20) show in Detroit, Michigan. "James [LaBrie, vocals] is not feeling well and we fear that by doing a fourth show in a row, he'll push himself over the edge and endanger the remaining shows on the tour (and most importantly, the DVD shoot in...

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DIRTY RIG Featuring KORY CLARKE: Song Featured In FX's 'The Shield'

DIRTY RIG, the Long Island, New York-based hard rockers featuring former WARRIOR SOUL frontman Kory Clarke, will have their song "Two" featured in an upcoming episode of "The Shield" on the FX network. "The Shield" is in its fifth season and is one of the highest-rated shows on FX. The episode will...