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SYMPHONY X Frontman To Produce New SHAMAN Album

Powerhouse American vocalist Russell Allen (SYMPHONY X, ADRENALINE MOB) will produce the as-yet-untitled new studio album from the Brazilian progressive/power metal band SHAMAN. The relationship between Allen and SHAMAN began with his participation in the new SHAMAN video, "Nocturnal Human Side". So...

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ENFORCER: New Song Available For Streaming, Download

Swedish metallers ENFORCER will release a seven-inch single, "Mesmerized By Fire", on January 18, 2013. The track listing for the effort will be as follows: Side A: "Mesmerized By Fire" Side B: "You Can Be" (non-album track) In addition to the limited-edition vinyl, there will also be a digital rele...

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IRON FIRE Frontman To Record 'Dark, Aggressive Progressive Metal' Solo Album

Vocalist Martin Steene of Danish metallers IRON FIRE has announced plans to record a solo album with a "cool band." He states: "It's all been in the making for years in different forms, and it will happen. I will be exploring a more dark/aggressive prog metal path with this project." In related news...

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VOIVOD Drummer Says New Guitarist 'Was Very Well Accepted By Everybody'

Patrick Prince of Powerline magazine recently conducted an interview with drummer Michel "Away" Langevin of Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Powerline: You have said that you think this new album has all the elements of VOIVOD throughout its history. Obvio...

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PORTNOY, KOTZEN, SHEEHAN Project Completes Work On Debut Album

The new project featuring Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB),Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG) and Richie Kotzen (MR. BIG, POISON) has completed work on its debut album for a 2013 release. Sheehan says: "I'm really pleased with it. Richie sang his ass off and played amazingly uni...

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LANDMINE MARATHON: Re-Recordings With New Singer Now Available On iTunes

Arizona grinders LANDMINE MARATHON recently re-recorded two songs — "Bile Towers" and "Dead Horses" — with new vocalist Krysta Martinez (TRANSIENT) that are now available digitally worldwide through iTunes. Martinez recorded the vocals for both tracks remotely from Haywire Studios in Portland, Orego...

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TRIUMPH: New Audio Interview With MIKE LEVINE

Jorge Fretes of Spain's GoetiaMedia.com recently conducted an interview with bassist/keyboardist Mike Levine of Canadian rock legends TRIUMPH. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. The fans demanded it, and the fans finally got it. After 20 years apart, the long-awaited TRIUMPH r...

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Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie

[Note: The original review of "Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie", which was written by Scott Alisoglu upon the DVD's initial release in 2010, can be found at this location.] There once was this heavy metal band that preferred tea over whiskey, so much they had boxes of it shipped from England on their...

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Silverthorn

A few years back, I was stranded outside a venue as guest of a band opening for symphonic metallers KAMELOT. My hosts had been detained at customs on the same day as the gig, hence their late arrival. Fortunately for me, I'd interviewed former KAMELOT vocalist Roy Khan a week prior and the band spie...

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The Great Bear

What if K.E. Tsiolkovsky instead of Robert Goddard was revered worldwide as the grand wizard architect of the great space race from the 1950s and '60s? The cosmonauts land Vostok 3 and 4 on the moon ahead of Apollo 11. It's an alternate parallel universe perhaps only DC Comics and film producers Tim...

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HELLOWEEN's 'Nabataea' Video Released

The official video for "Nabataea", the first single from "Straight Out Of Hell", the new album from German power metallers HELLOWEEN, can be seen below. The seven minute-plus composition about the legendary kingdom, located in today's Middle East, where the first real democracy existed over 3000 yea...

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RUDY SARZO, ZAKK WYLDE Attend 'Randy Rhoads: The Quiet Riot Years' Screening In Los Angeles

Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO),Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) and Tim Mahoney (311) spoke to Artisan News at the premiere screening this past Wednesday, December 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California of "Randy Rhoads: The Quiet Riot...

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DIGNITY Completes Work On Sophomore Album

DIGNITY, the Danish/Austrian metal band featuring singer Sören "Nico" Adamsen (ex-ARTILLERY),has finished recording its second studio album, "Balance Of Power", for an early 2013 release via Napalm Records. The cover artwork for the CD was created by Anthony Devine and can be seen below. A teaser f...

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CODE FOR SILENCE: 'The Art Of Being A Coward' Video Released

"The Art Of Being A Coward", the new video from Finnish melodic death metallers CODE FOR SILENCE, can be seen below. According to a press release, the clip is "a story-like piece that presents a view to music mafia's efforts at middle-sized city in Finland." "The Art Of Being A Coward" comes off COD...

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INTEGRITY Signs With INDIE RECORDINGS

Indie Recordings has announced the signing of INTEGRITY, the metallic hardcore band originally from Cleveland, Ohio that formed in 1988. The group will release a new seven-inh single, "Black Heksen Rise", on February 8 in Norway, Germany and Austria and February 12 in the rest of Europe. Limited to...