According to The Orange County Register, fans of the Huntington Beach, California hard-rock band AVENGED SEVENFOLD turned out Friday evening (January 8) for a candlelight vigil in memory of the band’s drummer, Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan.
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FEAR FACTORY ? the newly revamped band featuring original FF members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C.
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Sonic Excess recently conducted an interview with vocalist Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth of New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL.
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Long-running Finnish “dark metal” band THROES OF DAWN will release its fifth album, “The Great Fleet of Echoes”, via Firebox Records during the Finnish Metal Expo on February 19.
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Norwegian power metallers GAIA EPICUS are putting the finishing touches on their fifth album, “Dark Secrets”, to be released this spring.
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Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH kicked off their North American “Evangelia Amerika” headlining tour this past Thursday night (January 7) at the Theater Of The Living Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (with support from SEPTICFLESH and LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH).
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Chris “Kris” McCaddon, lead singer and co-founder of the Dallas, Texas-based death metal band THE FAMINE, has exited the group.
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Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER have contributed a brand new instrumental song, “Raw Dog”, to the digital extended play (EP) soundtrack for the highly anticipated PlayStation3-exclusive videogame “God of War III”.
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In April and May, Danish extreme metallers ILLDISPOSED will embark on a headlining tour of Denmark as well as a co-headlining tour of parts of Europe.
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Swedish melodic doom/death metallers SLUMBER will enter Panic Room Studios in Skara, Sweden tomorrow (Sunday, January 10) to begin a four-week recording/mixing session for the band’s new album, entitled “Resonance”.
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“That Old Temple”, the new video from American heavy rockers DEAD MEADOW, can be viewed below.
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DEVOURMENT, SUICIDAL ANGELS, VARG and NECROPHAGIST have been confirmed for this year’s edition of the Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2010 in Bad Berka, Germany.
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Finnish metallers DARK DAYS AHEAD, who feature in their ranks members of TIMO RAUTIAINEN & TRIO NISKALAUKAUS, MANUFACTURERS PRIDE and WHERE VICTIMS LIE, have uploaded four new tracks from their upcoming promotional CD on their MySpace page.
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