Chris Cornell’s (SOUNDGARDEN, AUDIOSLAVE) official web site has been updated with the following message: “The 12-year break is over and school is back in session.
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SAEL, the French black metal band which features in its ranks members of ASMODEE, REVERENCE, OFFENDING and ACARUS SARCOPT, will release its debut album, “The Sixth Extinction”, on April 30, 2010 via Pictonian Records.
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German black metallers MEMBARIS will release their third full-length album, “Grenzgänger”, in early 2010 via ARTicaz.
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Huntsville, Alabama death metallers CHAOS INCEPTION have released their debut album, “Collision With Oblivion”, via Colombia’s Brutalized Records.
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Corrosion TV conducted an interview with U.K.-based experimental/progressive extreme metallers XERATH at the Hellfire II festival, which was held November 6-8, 2009 at the NEC in Birmingham, England.
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RUFFIANS, the reunited power metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area, has scheduled the following dates: April 01 – Gloppe – Leeuwarden, The Netherlands April 02 – Sounds – Lübeck, Germany (RockTower Festival Warm-Up Show) April 03 – RockTower Festival – Lübeck, Germany April 04 – Treue – Bremen, Germany RUFFIANS’ latest 11-track studio album, “Desert of Tears”, is available in the U
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HARADWAITH, the German black metal band featuring former ENDSTILLE frontman Iblis, has posted a rough-mix version of a new song, “Thoughts Of Exit”, on its MySpace page.
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FULL SCALE RIOT, the band featuring Tim McMurtrie (rhythm guitar; original member of M.O.D.), has parted ways with Rob Moschetti (vocals/lead guitar; ex-PRO-PAIN) due to “differences” and has teamed up with Kevone (BULLDOZE) on lead vocals.
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Guitarist Brian Delaney has left Irish doom titans MOURNING BELOVETH and has been replaced by Pauric Gallagher (DECAYOR).
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Legendary actor Christopher Lee, who has appeared in such cinematic milestones as “Lord Of The Rings”, “Star Wars”, “The Man with the Golden Gun” and “Dracula”, will release “Charlemagne”, a concept album with original words and symphonic metal music, on March 15, 2010.
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HEXVESSEL, the solo musical outlet of Mathew “Kvohst” McNerney (CODE, DØDHEIMSGARD) with collaborations with other occult musicians and lyricists, has released its debut track on the “Death Aesthetics” CD via Paradigms Records.
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VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N’ ROSES bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his weekly column, which appears every Thursday on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com.
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Shrapnel Records has set a January 26, 2010 release date for “Instrumental Intensity”, a new compilation from Michael Schenker (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, UFO, SCORPIONS).
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