“Eparistera Daimones” ? the debut album by TRIPTYKON, the group founded by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior ? will be released as deluxe mediabook CD edition (including a 28-page booklet and extensive liner notes) as well as gatefold double LP via Century Media Records under exclusive license from Prowling Death Records Ltd.
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Matt Dalley of the Arbiter Online conducted an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson on March 2 before the band’s concert at the Knitting Factory in Boise, Idaho.
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TRIDENT, INHUME and IN SOLITUDE have been confirmed for the Dokk’em open-air festival, set to take place June 11-12, 2010 in Raard (near Leeuwarden), Netherlands.
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According to Interia.pl and GazetaPrawna.pl, vocalist/guitarist Adam “Nergal” Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH was formally charged on Monday (March 8) for insulting Roman Catholics.
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Quality footage of THE 69 EYES’ March 5, 2010 performance at Le Nouveau Casino in Paris, France can be viewed below.
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SILENT CIVILIAN, the band led by SPINESHANK vocalist Jonny Santos, will release its sophomore album, “Ghost Stories”, on May 18 via Mediaskare/Century Media.
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San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans DEATH ANGEL recently entered Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with producer Jason Suecof (TRIVIUM, AUGUST BURNS RED, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, ALL THAT REMAINS, WHITECHAPEL, DEVILDRIVER) to begin recording their new album for a tentative September release via Nuclear Blast Records.
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ARMORED SAINT/FATES WARNING bassist Joey Vera was interviewed on this past Saturday’s (March 6) edition of the “Maximum Threshold” show.
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According to CDJapan.co.jp, DOKKEN’s new greatest-hits package, “Greatest Hits 2” ? a collection of all-new versions of tracks such as “Dream Warriors”, “Breaking the Chains” and “Just Got Lucky”, paired two new songs and two covers (including a version of “Lies”, originally recorded by THE KNICKERBOCKERS) ? will be released in Japan on April 21 via King Records.
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Drummer Steven Sweet of California rockers WARRANT has issued the following update: “I realize we haven’t been around much lately (that’s subject to physical location by the way, because if you were near any one of us…
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Reunited Massachusetts hard rockers EXTREME will release the “Take Us Alive” live CD and DVD on April 23 in Europe and May 4 in the U.S.
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Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most unconventional frontmen, will perform “Elect the Dead Symphony” ? a very special orchestral interpretation of Tankian’s critically acclaimed solo debut “Elect the Dead” ? for two very special live shows to take place this summer.
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A 28-minute Swedish TV (SVT) special, “Hitlåtens Historia” (“The Story Of The Hit”), dedicated to the classic METALLICA song “Enter Sandman” can be viewed in four parts below.
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