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GRAND MAGUS To Support FIREWIND In U.K.

Swedish powerhouse GRAND MAGUS has confirmed that it will tour the U.K. in April as special guests to power metal outfit FIREWIND. The band have also been been selected to play as main support to CANDLEMASS at their forthcoming 20th anniversary show at the Shrine in Stockholm on March 31. GRAND MAGU...

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CANDLEMASS: 20th-Anniversary Gig Details Announced; New Album Title Revealed

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have posted the following message on their official web site: "One of Sweden's heaviest and most popular metal bands of all time celebrate 20 years with a huge party at Stockholm's Kolingsborg. CANDLEMASS perform with three (!) different vocalists, a bunch of f...

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ZAN CLAN Confirmed For Sweden's ROCKHIMLEN Festival

ZAN CLAN, the Swedish group fronted by former SHOTGUN MESSIAH vocalist Zinny Zan, has been confirmed for the Rockhimlen festival, set to take place July 13-14 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Part of the proceeds from the concert will go to "Barncancerfonden" (Children With Cancer). The festival billing is s...

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CANDLEMASS Mainman To Talk About Upcoming Solo Album On Sweden's 'Dist'

Bassist/mainman Leif Edling of the legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS will discuss his upcoming solo album and the group's first LP with new singer Robert Lowe of SOLITUDE AETURNUS on Sweden's "biggest hard rock radio show" "Dist" this Sunday, January 28. "Dist" airs on Sveriges Radio (SR),Swed...

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SOLITUDE AETURNUS Guitarist Comments On Singer Joining CANDLEMASS

SOLITUDE AETURNUS guitarist John Perez has issued the following update via the band's MySpace page: "First, we would like to thank everyone thus far that has sent such kind words of enthusiasm on our webpage and MySpace concerning our new album, 'Alone'. The response has been nothing short of overwh...

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CANDLEMASS Taps SOLITUDE AETURNUS Singer To Replace MESSIAH MARCOLIN

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have issued the following update: "After months of auditions it is now official who replaces Messiah Marcolin in CANDLEMASS. Robert Lowe, well known for his work with SOLITUDE AETURNUS, is the man who killed all the competition and showed that he beyond doubt i...

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KRYPTOS To Enter Studio This Month

Bangalore, India-based thrashers KRYPTOS are set to hit the studio on January 25 to begin recording their follow-up to their debut album. The new CD, entitled "The Ark of Gemini", will feature "ten new tracks of heavy, precision, melodic metal with lethal doses of thrash aggression," according to a...

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DEATHCHAIN Parts Ways With Singer, Announces Replacement

Finnish death/thrash metallers DEATHCHAIN have issued the following update: "We have considered the current state of the band for some time now and as a result DEATHCHAIN has made unanimous decision to change our singer. Therefore, Rotten will step aside and K.J. Khaos will take over as a full-time...

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Alone

When those stately riffs ponderously march in, and that voice soars above them, the criminally long wait since the last SOLITUDE AETURNUS album will disappear in your mind. The hair will raise on the back of your neck, your spine will tingle, and that inimitable doom sound will flood your spirit onc...

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KEEN OF THE CROW: Debut EP Out Now

KEEN OF THE CROW, the Southern California-based quintet featuring drummer Rhett Davis and bassist Justin Christian of renowned doom druids MORGION, has just released a three-song EP, entitled "Premonition", via Grau Records. Described as "a mixture of doom, death, and black metal yet eclectic in nat...

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CANDLEMASS Focusing On Singer Hunt

Legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have posted the following message on their official webi site: "In these days of stress and X-mas overload to celebrate the commersial interests, CANDLEMASS will instead focus on the hunt for a new singer. The band will try some interesting people over the week...

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SILENT MEMORIAL: New Song Posted Online

CLOUDSCAPE frontman Mike Andersson has uploaded a song called "Human Mind" from the upcoming second album from the Swiss project-band SILENT MEMORIAL, to which he has contributed lead vocals. The CD, which is currently being mixed and mastered at the RoastingHouse studio in Malmö, Sweden by Pontus L...

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ZAN CLAN Begins Recording New Album

ZAN CLAN, the Swedish group fronted by former SHOTGUN MESSIAH vocalist Zinny Zan, has started recording its new, as-yet-untitled album at Polar and Platform studios in Stockholm with producer Chris Laney (EUROPE, CANDLEMASS, ANIMAL, CRASHDIET, CRUCIFIED BARBARA). Video clips from the recording sessi...

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ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Checks In From The Road

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "We are ten days into the European tour. The Scandinavian leg of it as been very cool…slightly weird for us to play close to home (guest lists are rammed!). We are playing great shows, the set list i...

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DEATHCHAIN: Guitarist's Illness Forces Helsinki Cancellation

Finnish death/thrash metallers DEATHCHAIN have issued the following update: "We've been forced to cancel our show at Gloria, Helsinki [on Saturday, November 25]. B. Undertaker [guitar] is suffering from heart infection and bronchitis and the doctor's orders where loud and clear: He must rest and tak...