Earache Records has announced the signing of Canadian thrash metal pioneers ANNIHILATOR to a European deal.
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The German edition of Metal Hammer magazine recently spoke about Christmas with guitarist Esa Holopainen of Finnish metallers AMORPHIS.
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British hard rock legends DEEP PURPLE have been confirmed for next year’s edition of the Rockweekend festival, set to take place July 8-10, 2010 in Kilafors (two hours north of Stockholm), Sweden.
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KISS, nominated for the first time this year for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after being snubbed for a decade, was left out of the honors.
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John Garcia (KYUSS, UNIDA, HERMANO) will perform an entire set of KYUSS songs at next year’s Roadburn festival, which will be held at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland from Thursday, April 15 through Sunday, April 18, 2010.
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Norwegian extreme metal veterans KEEP OF KALESSIN are competing in the national Eurovision Song Contest called “Melodi Grand Prix”.
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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 first in a series of webisodes documenting the recording sssions for the band’s third album, entitled “Massive, Audio, Nerve”.
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Music lesson web site PlayThisRiff.com is now featuring lesson videos with guitarists Flattus Maximus and Balsac The Jaws Of Death of GWAR.
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BareBonesMusic.com recently conducted an interview with THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’s Ben Weinman (guitar) and Greg Puciato (vocals).
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Virginia-based technical melodic death metallers ARSIS will film a video for the song “Forced To Rock” later this month in New York with MyGoodEye (THE RED CHORD, GOATWHORE, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER).
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Reunited ’80s Dutch metal band PICTURE has posted a very special version of the song “Now It’s Too Late” on the group’s MySpace page.
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British Metal legends IRON MAIDEN are coming back to Norway for a show on August 11, 2010.
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Behind-the-scenes footage from the “Burn This City” video shoot from Swedish modern metallers SONIC SYNDICATE can be viewed below.
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