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KING DIAMOND: Treviso Cancelled, Athens Rescheduled

KING DIAMOND's manager, Ole Bang, has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Regretfully, and due to circumstances beyond our control, there will be a change of date and venue in Athens, Greece, which also caused us to cancel the show in Treviso, Italy. New date for Athens is...

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DAATH: Back In The Recording Studio

Recent Roadrunner signings DAATH (pronounced like "goth," but with a "D") are currently in the studio working on new material for their debut album, "The Hinderers", due out this fall. Besides the title track, some other songs set to appear include "Festival Mass Soulform", "Ovum", "Above Lucium" an...

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TRIVIUM: Video Update From MATT HEAFY

TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy has checked in with a quick video update from AudioHammer studios in Sanford, Florida, where the band are recording their third album, "The Crusade", for a fall 2006 release via Roadrunner Records. Check it out at link text this location. In a recent interview with Live-M...

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VICIOUS RUMORS Mixing New Album

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have posted the following message on their official web site: "Congratulations to Larry Howe [VICIOUS RUMORS drummer] who has been asked to play drums for W.A.S.P. on their U.S. and European tours this summer! And also to Carl Albert's [late VR...

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APOCALYPTICA Single Featuring MAX CAVALERA, MATT TUCK: Video Posted Online

Finnish cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA's video for their new single "Repressed" — which features guest appearances by Max Cavalera from SOULFLY and Matt Tuck from BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE — has been posted online at this location. As previously reported, the "Repressed" single is scheduled for release on...

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Former FUEL Frontman Is CIRCUS DIABLO's New Bassist

Former FUEL frontman Brett Scallions has joined CIRCUS DIABLO as the group's new bassist. "Friends with both Billy Duffy [guitar; also in THE CULT] and Billy Morrison [vocals; ex-THE CULT touring bassist and current CAMP FREDDY guitarist] for a few years now, Brett heard the [already completed CIRCU...

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SHADOWS FALL Guitarist Schedules Acoustic Dates

SHADOWS FALL guitarist Matt Bachand will be playing several solo acoustic shows in late May/early June. Joining Matt at all dates will be Mark Schwaber, a songwriter and musician from western Massachusetts. Bachand will reportedly be performing his acoustic songs, including a version of SHADOWS FALL...

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W.A.S.P. Part Ways With Guitarist DARRELL ROBERTS

W.A.S.P.'s management has confirmed to BLABBERMOUTH.NET that guitarist Darrell Roberts has left the band. Roberts, who joined W.A.S.P. in 2001 before the "Unholy Terror" American tour to replace Chris Holmes, is in the process of putting together a four-piece group that he will be fronting. "I am lo...

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SOCIETY 1 To Release 'The Years Of Spiritual Dissent' Collection In July

SOCIETY 1 have set "The Years of Spiritual Dissent" as the title for their first release through Crash Music, Inc. "The Years of Spiritual Dissent" is a collection of songs that appeared on SOCIETY 1's first two albums — "Slacker Jesus" and "Words as Carriers" — along with two cover songs, a brand n...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE To Open For GUNS N' ROSES In New York City

According to Ticketmaster.com, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE will be the opening act for GUNS N' ROSES at all four of their scheduled concerts at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. The dates are May 12, May 14, May 15 and May 17. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE will be teaming up with WALLS OF JERICHO ...

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ALL SHALL PERISH Complete Work On New Album

Oakland's death metal bruisers ALL SHALL PERISH have set "The Price of Existence" as the title of their second Nuclear Blast offering, tentatively due this summer. According to a press release, "this new album from ALL SHALL PERISH shows incredible maturity and a more focused approach to both songwr...

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THY MAJESTIE Announce New Singer

Italy's THY MAJESTIE have announced the addition of singer Matt Aub (TIMELORD) to the group's ranks. "Matt sent us a demo of 'Maiden of Steel' sung by him and... WOW, brilliant! Great 'heavy metal' voice," the band write on their web site. "So we decided to accept him, even if he lives thousand mile...

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Invaders

A few years after someone, somewhere, thought stoner rock was gonna be the next big thing, a younger and hipper-looking contingent came along and decided trucker caps, three-quarter-sleeve baseball jersey shirts, and velvet blacklight posters were pretty cool after all. Some old-schoolers got caught...

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Kalas

A bruising slab of ponderous metal riffing from this San Franciscan supergroup, helmed by Matt Pike (HIGH ON FIRE, SLEEP) on vocals. The band's aesthetic is uniformly slow, plodding, dirty and dirge-y, Pike yowling quasi-tunefully over pork-fisted riffs and thudding rhythms. The effect is somewhere...

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Former MINISTRY Drummer teams Up With R.E.M., KING CRIMSON Members In SLOW MUSIC

Greg Prato of Billboard.com is reporting that former MINISTRY/current-R.E.M. drummer Bill Rieflin has teamed up with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and KING CRIMSON guitarist Robert Fripp is a new project called SLOW MUSIC. The completely improvised band also features keyboardist Hector Zazu, bassist F...