German power metal band SINBREED (formerly NEOSHINE), which features in its ranks guitarist Flo Laurin, BLIND GUARDIAN drummer Frederik Ehmke and SEVENTH AVENUE vocalist Herbie Langhans, will release its debut album, “When Worlds Collide”, in North America on April 6 via Nightmare Records.
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MAN MUST DIE has replaced NOX on the billing of this year’s edition of the Neurotic Deathfest, set to take place April 30 – May 1, 2010 at 013 in Tilburg, Holland.
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Finnish female-fronted symphonic metallers AMBERIAN DAWN entered the studio on November 23, 2009 in Hyvinkää, Finland to begin recording its new album for a spring 2010 release.
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Mike Devlin of the Canwest News Service recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars.
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ORDEN OGAN, the melodic/power/folk metal band from Arnsberg, Germany, will release its new album, “Easton Hope”, on January 22, 2010 via AFM Records.
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DROWNING POOL will support SEVENDUST on the following dates: Feb.
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Former/current members of BLIND GUARDIAN, RHAPSODY OF FIRE and REBELLION have joined forces in a brand new Germany-based project called BRUTAL GODZ.
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MAYHEM, ORPHANED LAND, ROTTING CHRIST and BLACK BLEEDING are the first confirmed bands for the sixth edition of the Metal Mean festival, set to take place August 21 in Méan, Belgium.
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Drummer Owe Lingvall of Swedish power metallers NOCTURNAL RITES told Sweden’s Västerbottens Folkblad newspaper earlier this week that the band will enter the studio this spring with an as-yet-undisclosed new guitarist to begin recording its new album for a tentative late 2010 release.
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Scottish folk/power metal band ALESTORM has been confirmed for the Rockstad: Falun festival, set to take place May 28-29, 2010 at Ingarvet in Falun, Sweden.
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Massacre Records has set a March 26 European release date for “At The Graves”, the long-awaited three-disc DVD set from KING DIAMOND.
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Mark Hamill, who played the boyish hero Luke Skywalker in all three of the original “Star Wars” films, will make a guest appearance on “Bekoming”, the sophomore album from THE ALIEN BLAKK, the band led by guitarist/producer Joshua Craig Podolsky.
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CBS News has posted a short video report on METALLICA’s first-ever appearance in Peru, which took place this past Wednesday night (January 19) in Lima.
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