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LANA LANE: 'Lady Macbeth' Album Details Revealed

Frontiers Records has set an April 11 European release date for the new studio album from LANA LANE. Entitled "Lady Macbeth", the CD is said to be a symphonic rock concept album based on the famous "Macbeth" play by vanguard English poet William Shakespeare. Lana Lane herself bears no resemblance wh...

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BELPHEGOR To Tour Europe With ARKHON INFAUSTUS, IN AETERNUM

Austrian death/black metal act BELPHEGOR will be teaming up with ARKHON INFAUSTUS (France) and IN AETERNUM (Sweden) for a two-and-a-half week European tour beginning on March 31, 2005. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. In other news, BELPHEGOR recently parted ways with drummer Torturer...

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BELPHEGOR: New Album Release Pushed Back A Week

Austrian death/black metal act BELPHEGOR have had the European release date of their fifth full-length album, "The Goatreich - Fleshcult" (Napalm Records),pushed back a week to February 28, 2005. The follow-up to last year's "Lucifer Incestus", "The Goatreich - Fleshcult" was recorded at Mastersoun...

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BELPHEGOR Set Release Date For 'The Goatreich – Fleshcult'

Austrian death/black metal act BELPHEGOR have set a February 21, 2005 European release date through Napalm Records for their fifth full-length album, "The Goatreich - Fleshcult". The follow-up to last year's "Lucifer Incestus" was recorded at Mastersound Studio in Fellbach, Germany and will be avail...

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Former SPINESHANK Singer Looking To Form 'Straight-Up Metal' Band

Former SPINESHANK singer Jonny Santos is currently seeking musicians for a new band. "He is looking for a drummer and a guitarist in the L.A. area," Scott Stokes of Sinister Management writes in an online posting. "Mind you, this project is going to be straight-up METAL!! That's right, hardcore shit...

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LAST CRACK Set Release Date For Double Live Album

Reunited Midwest hard rockers LAST CRACK have set "Burning Funkhouse Live" as the title of their upcoming double live album, slated to be released digitally on December 15, 2004 on Rökker Records' download site and on CD on January 15, 2005. "Burning Funkhouse Live" documents LAST CRACK's reunion co...

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ISLE OF MAN Sign Licensing Deal With GARDEN OF EXILE RECORDS

Dutch death/grindcore band ISLE OF MAN have signed a distribution-and-promotion deal with Garden of Exile Records. The five tracks the band recorded last year will be released by the end of November 2004 under the title "Breathe Plastic". In addition to the five tracks, the disc will contain a video...

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rEVOLVEr

One listen to "rEVOLVEr", the fourth album in six years from Sweden's prolific THE HAUNTED, and it's clear why they did the not-so-subtle capitalization in the middle of the title. The band is trying to stretch out their sound somewhat, by varying tempos and moods more than ever before, while also b...

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DEATH BECOMES YOU Drummer On 'The Howard Stern Show': Audio Available

Drummer Chris Lee of the Floridian grave wave rockers DEATH BECOMES YOU was on "The Howard Stern Show" on Monday, July 19. An MP3 of his appearance on the show can be downloaded at this location. DEATH BECOMES YOU will be playing two rare West Coast dates on August 6 in Las Vegas ...

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INFINITED HATE: New Album To Feature Appearance By SCARVE Drummer

Dutch "extreme death metal" act INFINITED HATE, featuring members of SINISTER and HOUWITSER, have set "Heaven Termination" as the title of their sophomore album, to be released through Displeased Records. The follow-up to the group's 2004 debut, "Revel In Bloodshed", will feature a guest appearance...

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BLAST CORPS Sign With FOREVER UNDERGROUND

BLAST CORPS, the Dutch death metal band featuring former and current members of SADISTIC, SINISTER, HOUWITSER and PUTREFIED, have signed a deal with Forever Underground Records. The group's upcoming CD, entitled "Gloryfied", will be "a mix of old school Swedish death metal but with the brutality of...

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Review: JUDAS PRIEST Generated More Crowd Excitement Than BLACK SABBATH

Sean Daly of The Washington Post reviewed the Ozzfest 2004 traveling festival when it hit the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, VA Sunday (July 18). "With all apologies to the lovable burnout who created this still-mighty bacchanal of 20 beastly bands, lumbering Sasquatchian riffs and a truly sinister foo...

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LAKE OF TEARS: 'Black Brick Road' Complete Track Listing Revealed

Sweden's LAKE OF TEARS have revealed the complete track listing for their new album, "Black Brick Road", due on August 30 through Noise Records. The follow-up to 2002's "The Neonai", "Black Brick Road" will feature cover artwork by Kristian Wåhlin, who has painted all of the previous LAKE OF TEARS c...

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MARDUK Pull Out Of Turkey's ROCK THE NATIONS Festival

Swedish black metallers MARDUK have cancelled their previously announced appearance at the Rock the Nations festival in Istanbul, Turkey "due to [the] incompetence of the organizer," according to a posting on the group's web site. "The band was stranded on the airport in Sweden trying to pick up tic...

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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist Says New Album Sounds Like 'Traditional PRIEST'

JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing has spoken to Canada's Chart Attack about the group's upcoming studio album — the first to feature vocalist Rob Halford since 1990's classic "Painkiller". "It happened very quickly," says Downing. "We haven't beaten around the bush. And immediately, obviously with...