It’s been nearly 20 years since WILDSIDE played Sunset Boulevard but that will change Saturday February 27, 2010.
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DEMONICA, the new project featuring MERCYFUL FATE guitarist Hank Shermann, will release its debut album, “Demonstrous”, on February 26, 2010 via Massacre Records.
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MUSICA DIABLO ? the São Paulo, Brazil-based thrash metal project featuring SEPULTURA singer Derrick Green, guitarist André NM (NITROMINDS), bassist Ricardo Brigas, guitarist André Curci (KORZUS, THREAT) and drummer Edu Nicollini (NITROMINDS) ? spent the month of January recording 11 songs for its debut album.
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DEICIDE, MARDUK and VADER have been confirmed for this year’s edition of the Rockharz Open Air festival, set to take place July 8-10 at Flugplatz in Ballenstedt/Harz, Germany.
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German thrash metal veterans KREATOR have inked a deal with Nuclear Blast Records.
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Progressive/power metal band KATAGORY V has set “Resurrect The Insurgence” as the working title of its fifth album, which is tentatively due before the end of the year.
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U.D.O., the German band led by former ACCEPT frontman Udo Dirkschneider, has been confirmed for this year’s Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 9-12, 2010 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden.
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Dutch “epic battle metal” band ELEXORIEN has announced the addition of 19-year-old singer Lotte (pictured below) to the group’s ranks.
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Las Vegas metallers SEVENTH CALLING will enter Sound Vision Studios in the band’s hometown on February 15 to begin recording their second full-length album, “Epidemic”, for a late 2010 release via Heaven And Hell Records.
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Atlanta-based extreme metal quintet DAATH has commenced work on the follow-up to last year’s “The Concealers” for a late 2010 release via Century Media Records.
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Emerging from the caustic burrows of Chicago comes the monolith of metal known as LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR, a sonic “fuck you” to the current trends and sub-genres of metal who carry the torch of metal’s roots (CELTIC FROST, SLAYER, MOTÖRHEAD) with a death breath of fresh air, and spitting gas on the flames.
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Ohio’s WOE OF TYRANTS will release its third album, “Threnody”, on April 13 via Metal Blade Records.
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Multinational melodic metallers EDEN’S CURSE will film/record their first live DVD and album in the USA in May.
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