It is not often that a band comes along that can be compared to any number of bands yet embody each of them equally.
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MISERY INDEX, DEW-SCENTED and COLDWORKER will team up for the following European shows in June: Jun.
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FC Metal Recordings has announced as its inaugural signing the exceptional heavy metal band from Asturias, Spain, DARKSUN.
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U.D.O., the band led by former ACCEPT frontman Udo Dirkschneider, will release its new album, “Mastercutor”, on May 18 via AFM Records.
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TESLA bassist Brian Wheat has issued the following update: “We are real proud to announce the ‘Real to Reel World Tour’.
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SILVERSTEIN, MY ALAMO, FASTWAY, CAT THE DOG, DAMONE, VOODOO SIX, PRIESTESS, IN THIS MOMENT, FAIR TO MIDLAND, AS I LAY DYING, FLOOD OF RED, ARMY OF FRESHMAN, LOST ALONE, ELIOT MINOR, CYNIC, PANIC CELL and ARCHITECTS have been confirmed for the Download festival, which is set to take place June 8-10 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, England.
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OZZY OSBOURNE has reportedly been tapped to perform on next week’s “SmackDown” World Wrestling Entertainment program.
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Whether you’re a beginning player or have already achieved shredder status as a guitarist, George Lynch knows that you always have room to improve.
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On Monday (May 14), the U.K.’s Metal Hammer will conduct an interview with AKERCOCKE for the magazine’s “Spanish Inquisition” featrure.
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NECROPHAGIST, BURY YOUR DEAD and DECAPITATED are among the confirmed bands for the Infest 2007 festival, set to take place June 2 at The Crocodile Rock in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Doro Pesch recently recorded a new version of the WARLOCK classic “All We Are” with a backing band consisting of DESTRUCTION frontman Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer, AFTER FOREVER guitarist Bas Maas and well-known session drummer Tim Husung.
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Swiss metal experimentalists SAMAEL shot a video for the song “Slavocracy” last week in Germany.
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