PRIMAL FEAR guitarist Magnus Karlsson will sit out the band's upcoming touring activites during 2014 so that he can spend more time with his "little kids." Filling in for him will be PRIMAL FEAR's founding member Tom Naumann. Says Karlsson: "My friends in PRIMAL FEAR are very understanding about my situation and for that I'm ...
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Frontiers Records will release "Delivering The Black", the tenth studio album from German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR, on January 24 in Europe and January 28 in North America. Audio samples of all the tracks that are set to appear on the CD can be streamed at Amazon.com. After some very intense songwriting sessions ...
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Frontiers Records will release "Delivering The Black", the tenth studio album from German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR, on January 24 in Europe and January 28 in North America. After some very intense songwriting sessions and pre-production schedule, the band started to record the new CD in summer 2013 at the House Of Music studios in ...
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Danish hard rockers PRETTY MAIDS are recording a new album for a spring 2014 release. The effort will consist of re-recorded songs from the era between 1995 and 2006. The band states: "The reason for doing this project is to give those songs a different spin with the band and producer we have now. It ...
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"Invincible", the third single from AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", is out now, accompanied by a video directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, who has previously worked with DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE and KAMELOT, among others. The video was shot on location in Hollywood, Las Vegas, the Nevada desert ...
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Frontiers Records will release "Delivering The Black", the tenth studio album from German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR, on January 24 in Europe and January 28 in North America. After some very intense songwriting sessions and pre-production schedule, the band started to record the new CD in summer 2013 at the House Of Music studios in ...
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Frontiers Records will release "Delivering The Black", the tenth studio album from German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR, on January 24 in Europe and January 28 in North America. After some very intense songwriting sessions and pre-production schedule, the band started to record the new CD in summer 2013 at the House Of Music studios in ...
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World-class Brazilian digital artist Gustavo Sazes will hold his first public exhibition in December. "From Chaos to Progression / The Art Of Gustavo Sazes" will take place at Hard Club in O Porto, Portugal. More than 100 pieces of artwork divided in 20 sections will be shown, including select pieces from the following acts: ARCH ...
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After long and careful consideration, Andreas Solveström has chosen to step down as the "growl" vocalist in the Swedish melodic metal band AMARANTHE. The group states: "The split is completely amicable and friendly, and not the result of any hard feelings. Andy has been a brother through the last two and a half years of ...
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Metal-Trails.com recently conducted an interview with bassist Rene Shades of Danish hard rockers PRETTY MAIDS. You can now watch the chat below. PRETTY MAIDS' latest album, "Motherland", was released on March 22 in Europe and March 26 in North America via Frontiers Records. After their successful and highly acclaimed 2010 album "Pandemonium", PRETTY ...
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Elize Ryd of Swedish metallers AMARANTHE has uploaded an audio recording of her singing the NIGHTWISH song "Nemo". Ryd laid down the vocals for the track in 2006 when the Finnish symphonic metal band was seeking a replacement for Tarja Turunen. Check it out below. Says Ryd: "I've been saving this for a special moment. ...
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Metal-Trails.com conducted an interview with guitarist Ken Hammer of Danish hard rockers PRETTY MAIDS at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held August 1-3 in Wacken, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. PRETTY MAIDS' latest album, "Motherland", was released on March 22 in Europe and March 26 in North ...
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Danny Shipman of Reality Check TV conducted an interview with Elize Ryd of Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE on July 30 at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California. The 37-minute report, which includes performance footage, can be seen below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week ...
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Metal Kaoz recently conducted an interview with Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 12 on the Top ...
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EMP Rock Invasion recently conducted an interview with Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE. You can now watch the chat below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 12 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists ...
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Vaios R. Koloklotronis of Greece's Rock Overdose recently conducted an interview with Elize Ryd of Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed ...
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8747 Productions recently conducted an interview with Jake E and Elize Ryd of Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE. You can now watch the chat below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 12 on the Top New Artist ...
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Victoria of Skullbanger.net conducted an interview with Swedish metallers AMARANTHE before the final show of their U.S. tour on July 30 at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. ...
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Drum-cam footage of the recording sessions for the song "Iconic" from MERIDIAN DAWN, the new American / Finnish / Belgian melodic death metal band featuring vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (NERVOSIA, ex-NIGHTRAGE) and drummer Johan Nunez (FIREWIND, NIGHTRAGE, SUICIDE OF DEMONS), can be seen below. The clip was filmed in January at Ear We Go Studio in ...
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Drum-cam footage of the recording sessions for the song "Iconic" from MERIDIAN DAWN, the new American / Finnish / Belgian melodic death metal band featuring vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (NERVOSIA, ex-NIGHTRAGE) and drummer Johan Nunez (FIREWIND, NIGHTRAGE, SUICIDE OF DEMONS), can be seen below. The clip was filmed in January at Ear We Go Studio in ...
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On July 20, Ukrainian NIGHTWISH fan club Nighthearts conducted an interview with with Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 12 on ...
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The official lyric video for the song "Iconic" from MERIDIAN DAWN, the new American / Finnish / Belgian melodic death metal band featuring vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (NERVOSIA, ex-NIGHTRAGE) and drummer Johan Nunez (FIREWIND, NIGHTRAGE, SUICIDE OF DEMONS), can be seen below. The clip was created and directed by Niklas Sundin of DARK TRANQUILLITY and Cabin ...
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On July 22, Maloree Johnson and Will Weyant of WXAV 88.3 FM conducted an interview with Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, Illinois. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first ...
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On July 23, Josh Rundquist (a.k.a. That Drummer Guy) conducted an interview with Jake E (clean vocals) and Morton Løwe Sørensen (drums) of Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE at The Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around ...
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MERIDIAN DAWN, the new American / Finnish / Belgian melodic death metal band featuring vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (NERVOSIA, ex-NIGHTRAGE) and drummer Johan Nunez (FIREWIND, NIGHTRAGE, SUICIDE OF DEMONS), is working on its self-titled debut album for a tentative late 2013/early 2014 release. Hämäläinen, Nunez and guitarist Brandon Johnson recorded a plethora of demos from the ...
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Kaaos TV conducted an interview with Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE after the band's June 30 performance at the Tuska open-air festival in Helsinki, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position ...
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"Burn With Me", the new video from Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE, can be seen below. The clip was directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, who has previously worked with DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE and KAMELOT, among others. "Burn With Me" comes off AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", which sold ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of AMARANTHE's April 27 concert at Moscow Hall in Moscow, Russia can be seen below. AMARANTHE's first U.S. headline tour will kick off on July 17 at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City. Support on the trek will come from KOBRA AND THE LOTUS. AMARANTHE's sophomore album, "The Nexus", sold around ...
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TIMO TOLKKI'S AVALON album "The Land Of New Hope" has registered the following first-week chart positions: Finland: #7 Sweden: #42 Switzerland: #59 Norway: #80 Germany: #90 Released in North America on May 21 via Frontiers Records, "The Land Of New Hope"'s story takes place more than 40 years in the future when most of the ...
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TIMO TOLKKI'S AVALON album "The Land Of New Hope" has entered the official Finnish chart at position No. 7. Released in North America on May 21 via Frontiers Records, "The Land Of New Hope"'s story takes place more than 40 years in the future when most of the planet has been destroyed by natural disasters. ...
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