Fight! magazine recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine.
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DEMONICA, the solo project of MERCYFUL FATE guitarist Hank Shermann, will release its debut album, “Demonsotrous”, on February 26, 2010 via Massacre Records.
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The Pulse of Radio reports: KORN frontman Jonathan Davis is known to love the holiday season, especially now that he has kids, and the singer told The Pulse of Radio that he likes to go overboard with the Christmas decorations as well.
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DARK FUNERAL, ABORTED, HOLLENTHON, FLESHLESS, SANATORIUM and PARSIFALL have been confirmed for next year’s edition of the Kaltenbach Open Air festival, set to take place July 15-17, 2010 in Spital am Semmering, Austria.
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BOMBS OF HADES, the Swedish old-school death metal band featuring new THE CROWN vocalist Jonas Stålhammar, has finished mixing its debut album, “Chambers Of Abomination”.
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Peter Bailey of the Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom-based “Metalheadz” radio show conducted an interview with Chicago heavy rockers SOIL on November 3, 2009 in Wrexham prior to the band’s U.K.
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Revolver magazine’s PANTERA/”Vulgar Display Of Power” commemorative issue ? with cover artwork by award-winning graphic illustrator Tim Bradstreet ? is available on newsstands through February 22.
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SOULFLY entered Edge Of The Earth studios in Hollywood, California on November 6 with producer Logan Mader (MACHINE HEAD, DIVINE HERESY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, GOJIRA, DEVILDRIVER) to begin recording its new album, “Omen”, for an early 2010 release via Roadrunner Records.
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Russia’s Darkside has posted high-quality photos of former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen’s December 22, 2009 concert at B1 Maximum in Moscow.
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Dutch death metallers ROTTEN ? who feature in their ranks members of RADICAL NERVE DISTORTION, REBORN and HACKSAW ? have finished recording their version of GAMMA RAY’s “Leaving Hell” for an upcoming tribute album to HELLOWEEN and GAMMA RAY.
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Christopher Porter of the Washington Post Express recently conducted an interview with Demonaz of Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL.
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Netherlands-based Painkiller Records (a sub-label of Apollon Entertainment UN Limited) has added Norwegian extreme metallers BYFROST to its roster, and will release the band’s debut full-length album, “Black Earth”, in the spring.
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