Hart Baur of MiamiHerald.com recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN’s Nicko McBrain about the drummer’s newly opened restaurant in Coral Srings, Florida, Rock N Roll Ribs.
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Finnish metallers SOTAJUMALA entered Studio Audio in Jyväskylä, Finland earlier today (Monday, January 11) to begin recording their third album, “Kuolemanpalvelus”, for a late spring release through Cobra Records.
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Belgian black metallers ENTHRONED have will release their eighth album, “Pentagrammaton”, on March 22 via Regain Records.
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ANVIL, the Canadian heavy metal band whose “Cinderella” story, “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”, is nominated for a Critics’ Choice movie award in the category of “Best Documentary”, will travel to Los Angeles to attend the awards presentation that will be held at the Hollywood Palladium this Friday, January 15.
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Norwegian black metallers SARKOM have issued the following update: “One of the founding members, Renton, has decided to quit his job as drummer for the band.
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Greece’s Arkeyn Steel Records will reissue “One Small Voice”, the 1989 album from U.S.
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Experience Hendrix LLC and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on Tuesday, March 9, with the release of “Valleys of Neptune”, a newly curated album of 12 fully realized studio recordings, more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Jimi Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called the greatest gu
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Quebec City, Quebec, Canada-based female-fronted power metal band FORGOTTEN TALES has tapped Lucie Fortier to design the artwork for the group’s third album, tentatively due later in the year.
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RIBSPREADER, the Swedish “old-school death metal” band featuring guitarist/vocalist/bassist Rogga Johansson (PAGANIZER, CARVE, HUMANITY DELETE), has finished recording the as-yet untitled follow-up to 2008’s “Opus Ribcage” for a spring/summer release via Vic Records.
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According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Geoff Morgan conducts Highway to Hell tours around Fremantle, Australia every Sunday, visiting sites in the area that were pivotal in the life of rock’n’roll legend Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.
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“Monolith”, the second full-length album from Swedish melancholic metallers IN MOURNING, is available for preview at this location.
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Norwegian black metallers GRAVDAL will join fellow countrymen GORGOROTH and KEEP OF KALESSIN on a short European tour in April.
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More than a dozen metal bands will descend to the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on January 29-30 for a two-day metal festival at Gus’ Pub.
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