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HAMMERFALL: 'Blood, Sweat And Tears... But A Wonderful Result!'

Sweden's HAMMERFALL have entered the studio to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken", tentatively due in October via Nuclear Blast Records. Guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following recording update on his official blog: "This was a good day! Everyone...

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HATEBREED Officially Sign To ROADRUNNER RECORDS

Roadrunner Records has officially announced the signing of Connecticut's HATEBREED. The band, who celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2005, land at Roadrunner following the announcement of their 2006 Ozzfest participation and the release of their exclusive track on "Headbanger's Ball: The Reveng...

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HAMMERFALL: New Album To Include Ten-Year-Old Instrumental

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on his official blog: "Today, Stefan [Elmgren, guitar] and I have gone through and (slightly) rearranged an intrumental track he wrote ten (!) years ago. I heard it for the first time last week, he appearently found it on a CD somew...

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HAMMERFALL Complete Nine Songs For New Album

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on his official blog: "We have once again spent three days in the rehearsal room, playing through the now nine songs finished for the album. I can't remember feeling this good about the material before a recording, ever. Especially...

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HAMMERFALL: New Songtitles Revealed

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on his official blog: "We're looking at another weekend of rehearsals, and I am excited! I completed the eighth song for the album a few days ago, and am hard at work finishing one more before the rehearsal starts. I'll keep the rem...

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TWELFTH GATE Part Ways With Singer, Announce Replacement

Chicago-based power metallers TWELFTH GATE have announced that vocalist Scott Huffman has decided to quit the band. Replacing him in the group is Brent "Red" Erickson. Commented bassist Rob Such: "This may come as a surprise to some, but it's actually something that Scott's been hinting at for well...

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HATEBREED Explain Canadian Tour Cancellation

HATEBREED have posted the following message on their official web site: "We are super-bummed to announce that [the] Core Across Canada [tour] has been postponed until August. To all of our Canadian people, please forgive us, we promise to get up there as soon as we can, which now looks like August....

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SHADOWKEEP Frontman Laying Down Vocals For New CD

Vocalist Richie Wicks of the U.K. power metallers SHADOWKEEP is currently in the studio laying down tracks for the band's as-yet-untitled third album, tentatively due later in the year. "The sessions have been phenomenal!" stated Richie, "Richard West [keyboard player with U.K.'s THRESHOLD and renow...

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HATEBREED To Release 'Supremacy' Via ROADRUNNER

MTV.com is reporting that HATEBREED have been in continuing negotiations with Roadrunner Records and are close to signing a deal with the label. "We ended up doing two records with Universal, and our time at that label was killer," frontman Jamey Jasta explained to MTV.com when asked about the talks...

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HATEBREED Add Second Guitarist

HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta has posted the following message on the band;'s official web site: "We've decided to become a five-piece again. Mainly because of the new album having a lot of parts that involve second guitar, but also because me and [bassist Chris] Beattie started this band as a five...

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HATEBREED: 'To The Threshold' Video Posted Online

HATEBREED's video for the song "To the Threshold" has been posted online at this location. The clip was shot on February 25 and "tells a story of young kid who uses our music to escape the abuse of a man his mother is seeing," says HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta. "We shot our performance ...

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DEFIANCE: Former VIO-LENCE Drummer MARK HERNADEZ Is 'A Perfect Fit'

Reunited Oakland, California thrashers DEFIANCE, best known for their seminal late '80s/early '90s Roadrunner releases "Void Terra Firma" and "Beyond Recognition", have posted the following message on their official blog: "Yesterday [Saturday, March 18] we had our first rehearsal with our new drumme...

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Threshold of Revelation

I had been patiently waiting for the follow-up to 2003's "Summoning" from Chicago's TWELFTH GATE, figuring that if it is in league with the NEVORMORE-esque, mildly proggy traditional/thrash metal of the debut that I'd be in for a treat. After parting ways with Crash Music, Inc., the band settled on...

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MTV2's 'Headbanger's Ball' To Showcase 'The Revenge' Compilation In April

MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" will air a special showcasing Roadrunner's "all-killer, no filler" compilation "MTV2 Headbanger's Ball: The Revenge" on April 8 — just a few days before you'll be able to find the two-disc, 38-track, 2 1/2-hour collection of today's newest, biggest, and baddest in hard roc...

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Bay Area Thrashers DEFIANCE Sign With CORPORATE PUNISHMENT RECORDS

Oakland, California thrashers DEFIANCE, best known for their seminal late '80s/early '90s Roadrunner releases "Void Terra Firma" and "Beyond Recognition", have inked a deal with Los Angeles-based Corporate Punishment Records. The group will enter Trident Studios in Concord, CA with producer Juan Urt...