Polish progressive rock/metal band VOTUM will release its sophomore album, “Metafiction”, in March via Mystic Production.
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There’s something about the kind of potent rock and roll fury that AIRBOURNE cranks out, all cylinders firing, that makes you want to chug a beer straight down your throat and punch the air as though it’d touched your wife inappropriately.
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The previously announced “One Last Night With Talisman” concert ? featuring the remaining members of TALISMAN performing one last time in memory of their dear friend (and TALISMAN bassist) Marcel Jacob who tragically passed away in July last year ? has been postponed.
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Spanish gothic metal band OLVIDO will release its full-length debut, “Neurosis de Destino”, on January 26 via DFX Records.
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Guitarist Mathias Röderer has left ATROCITY and LEAVES’ EYES (featuring ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY) for “family reasons.” ATROCITY says in a statement, “Matze has been a part of ATROCITY from the beginning and did music with the band for more than 20 years.
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On January 3, Washington D.C.’s WTTG Fox 5 aired a four-minute report on TOOL/PUSCIFER frontman Maynard James Keenan’s involvement in Northern Arizona’s burgeoning wine industry.
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FINAL PRAYER, LAST MILE, MEMORIAL and ESSENCE have been confirmed for the Day of Decay, a new one-day festival set to take place August 14 in Aalborg, Denmark.
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Danish modern metallers MERCENARY have announced the addition of drummer Morten Løwe Sørensen (THE ARCANE ORDER, SUBMISSION, SLUGS) to the group’s ranks.
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Australian/American tech-metallers DEVOLVED have posted two new tracks on their MySpace page .
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INCANTATION, ORIGIN, ACHERON, REGURGITATION, INFERNAL REVULSION and SEPTYCAL GORGE have been confirmed for this year’s edition of the Central Illinois Metalfest, set to take place July 23-24, 2010 at the Canopy Club in Urbana, Illinois.
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Denmark-based hard rockers ROYAL HUNT have revealed the cover artwork and track listing for their 10th studio album, “X” , due later this year.
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NEVERMORE frontman Warrel Dane made his solo live debut on December 19, 2009 at Studio Seven in Seattle, Washington.
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