Greek extreme metallers ROTTING CHRIST will support BOLT THROWER on their upcoming European tour.
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FEAR FACTORY and CHILDREN OF BODOM will headline the 10th-anniversary edition of the Bloodstock festival, set to take place August13-15, 2010 at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
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Fredrik “North” Norrman (guitar) and Mattias “Kryptan” Norrman (bass) have both left Sweden’s KATATONIA.
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Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release their first-ever DVD, “Alive”, in the U.S.
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Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) talks guitars, his health, “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and 30 years of Guitar World magazine in the clip below from the CD-ROM that comes with the January 2010 30th-year commemorative issue of Guitar World.
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Former MEGADETH lead guitarist Jeff Young will respond to the recent accusations made by the band’s frontman, Dave Mustaine, during an appearance on JFL Radio’s “Westlake and The Pig” show on Saturday, December 26.
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Californian rockers RATT have selected “Best Of Me” as the first single from their new album, “Infestation”, due in March 2010 via Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records.
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HardTimes.ca has uploaded a two-camera shoot of HATEBREED’s December 17, 2009 performance at Metropolis in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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M.A.N ? the group formed out of the ashes of Sweden’s TRANSPORT LEAGUE (featuring former MNEMIC frontman Tony Jelencovich) ? has posted the second in a series of webisodes documenting the recording sssions for the band’s third album, entitled “Massive, Audio, Nerve”.
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Swedish death metallers SYN:DROM (formerly BLACKBREATH) recently entered Nevo studios in Sundsvall, Sweden to begin recording their debut album.
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EPISODE 13, one of the longest-running and best-known black metal bands in Turkey, has entered Midasin Kulakligi Studios in Ankara to begin recording its third full-length album, “Death Reclaims The Earth”, for an early 2010 release.
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Belgian black metallers ENTHRONED have completed work on their eighth album, “Pentagrammaton”, for an early 2010 release via Regain Records.
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