Seattle metallers NEVERMORE will headline this year’s instalment of the Elsrock Festival, set to take place August 25 in Rijssen, The Netherlands.
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DIMMU BORGIR has entered the Norwegian album chart at No.
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German power metallers PARAGON have announced the addition of bassist Dirk Seifert to the group’s ranks.
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Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON will play three shows in Mexico in June.
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Cult Art, in association with Ross Halfin, has added three monster legends of rock to its fast growing international online gallery of collectable art and photography.
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Finnish modern death metallers OMNIUM GATHERUM have lined up the following dates: May 16 – Nosturi – Helsinki, Finland May 17 – Inferno – Tampere, Finland May 18 – Club25 – Vaasa, Finland Aug.
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Writer Joel McIver recently interviewed QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE/EAGLES OF DEATH METAL’s Josh Homme for Music Mart magazine’s June issue.
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DIMMU BORGIR’s new album, “In Sorte Diaboli”, has registered the following first-week chart positions: Norway: #1 Finland: #6 Germany: #7 Sweden: #10 Austria: #11 Switzerland: #30 Holland: #37 Denmark: #61 Canada: #73 USA: #43 A video interview with DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz, conducted on April 22 by PureGrainAudio.com during the band’s stop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has be
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After a few mastering delays, U.K.-based extreme suicidal blackened sludge doomsters ATAVIST have completed work on their latest album, to be released later this year in North America via Profound Lore Records and in Europe via Invada.
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Former lighting designer for such bands as JUDAS PRIEST and AC/DC, Mickey Curbishley has been named senior vice president of Production Resource Group’s (PRG) concert touring group.
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VINCE NEIL, WARRANT, WINGER, WHITE LION, SEVEN MARY THREE, FASTER PUSSYCAT, COLD FILTERED and GEAR DOWN have been confirmed for Waterstock 2007, set to take place June 30 at Water Works Park in Des Moines, IA.
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Green Day’s cover of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” can now be purchased at iTunes.
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SIKTH’s forthcoming tour in July under the “This Ain’t The Summer Of Love” banner will be the last with singers Mikee Goodman and Justin Hill.
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