Danish metal band DIE has inked a deal with Unique Leader Records for the release its debut album, “Rise Of The Rotten”.
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21 of South Africa’s top metal bands will perform at the MotherFUDD festival, set to take place March 12-14, 2010 at Malonjeni Guest Resort, South Africa.
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THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, the band led by Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR), kicked off its North American tour with BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, CYNIC and SCALE THE SUMMIT this past Friday night (January 8) in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The fourth in a series of webisodes documenting the making of “We Are The Void”, the ninth album from Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY, can be viewed below.
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German guitarist AXEL RUDI PELL and his solo band have finished recording their new studio CD which he calls “definitely our masterpiece!” He adds, “Everybody in the band is so excited about the new songs and I really can say that it will be our best album by far.” Pell and producer Charlie Bauerfeind (BLIND GUARDIAN, HAMMERFALL, RAGE) are currently finalizing the new album mix for a tentative
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Vocalist Chuck Billy of San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT was interviewed on the January 3, 2010 edition of the “Heavy Metal Mayhem” radio show with Mike “The Big Cheese”.
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Vocalist Brian Vollmer of Canadian hard rock veterans HELIX has issued the following update: “Yesterday we filmed most of [the new HELIX video] ‘Make ‘Em Dance’ at an undisclosed location in Woodstock, Ontario.
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According to JonLord.org, former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord will release his next album, “To Notice Such Things”, on March 22 through Avie Records.
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Drummer Will Carroll (DEATH ANGEL, VICIOUS RUMORS, SERPENT CROWN) was interviewed on the latest edition of Metal Rules! Radio.
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Germany-based singer Cloudy Yang (pictured below) has joined the list of guest musicians who will appear on the forthcoming release from EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet’s AVANTASIA project.
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MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer and METHODS OF MAYHEM mastermind Tommy Lee dropped by The Public Record booth at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, January 9.
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According to PyroMusic.net, members of various Australian metal bands ? collectively known as FROZEN ? will perform an hour-plus-long set of songs from Finnish dark metal outfit SENTENCED as a tribute to the group’s former guitarist and main songwriter, Miika Tenkula, who was found dead at his home on February 19, 2009.
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Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach was interviewed earlier this month on “The Paulie Z Show”.
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