GRAND MAGUS, the three-piece Swedish heavy rock band featuring “JB” Christofferson (guitar, lead vocals), Fox Skinner (bass, backing vocals) and Sebastian “Seb” Sippola (drums), has finished recording and mixing its fifth album, “Hammer Of The North”, at 301 studios outside of Stockholm for a spring/early summer release via Roadrunner Records.
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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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Bryan Harley of Motorcycle-USA.com reports that New Hampshire-based Dirico Motorcycles has been contracted by GTECH to build three of its Pro-Street motorcycles with an AEROSMITH “Dream On” theme for the Ohio lottery which has an AEROSMITH promotion in the works.
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Canadian metallers NEURAXIS have posted performance photos of their new lineup taken at the band’s last two shows in Sherbrooke and St-Hyacinthe.
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MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine tells AOL’s Noisecreep that he is no longer calling the band’s bassist David Ellefson “Junior” like he used to back in the 1980s and 1990s.
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San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans TESTAMENT will make their live debut in the Phillipines as part of the Pulp Summerslam 10, set to take place April 17, 2010 at the Amoranto Stadium in Quezon City.
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According to The Daily Swarm, the reunited SOUNDGARDEN is expected to co-headline the 2010 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.
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Richmond, Virginia metallers LAMB OF GOD will be touring the Pacific Rim and Japan in April.
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DOOM, CATTLE DECAPITATION, INCANTATION, WARBRINGER and PUTRESCENCE are among the confirmed bands for the Obscene Extreme 2010 festival, set to take place July 15-17, 2010 in Trutnov, Czech Republic.
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Rob Zombie’s track-by-track breakdown of his fourth solo album, “Hellbilly Deluxe 2”, can be found on MSN’s metal music section Headbang.
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Bringing forth a mighty brand of blues-rock in the early 1970s, FREE was a critical piece of foundation in hard rock’s roots.
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Tomi Joutsen (AMORPHIS, SINISTHRA, CORPSE MOLESTER CULT), Christian Palin (ADAGIO, RANDOM EYES, ESSENCE OF SORROW) and Seppo Nummela (FOUL CIRCLE, KILLER KACHINA) are among the musicians who make guest appearances on the second EP from the Finnish hard rock group TEN FOR NONE, entitled “Out From The Dark”.
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