British "folk metal" act SKYCLAD has issued the following update: "Seeing as the site has been quiet for a while, we thought we should post a little note here to keep everyone informed as to all things SKYCLAD as we head towards the end of 2007. It has been, when all is said and done, ...
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Austrian deathcore band INZEST has made the video for the song "Skinstripped" available on YouTube. The track comes off the band's second album, "Grotesque New World", which will be released in early 2008 via Burnside Records. Watch the clip below. "Grotesque New World" was mixed and mastered at Stage One Studios with producer Andy Classen ...
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The MetalList webzine has uploaded video footage of TANKARD and SKYCLAD's performances at the Oktobierfest in Moscow, Russia on Saturday, October 13, 2007. Watch the clips below. TANKARD will make a one-off U.S. appearance on March 9, 2008 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City. Tickets are available via ...
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Swiss death metallers REQUIEM have released their first-ever video clip — for the title track of their "Premier Killing League" CD. The clip was shot on August 25 with director Sandro Klopfstein and can be viewed below. The follow-up to 2006's "Government Denies Knowledge", "Premier Killing League" was released in March via Massacre Records. The ...
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British "folk metal" act SKYCLAD played its first-ever gig in Russia on Saturday, October 13 at the Oktobierfest in Moscow (along with TANKARD and BEERMEN GAME). Fan-filmed video footage from the show can be viewed below. The group's setlist can be found at this location (Note: The band didn't perform tracks #19 and ...
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BREAKER will reunite with original lead vocalist Jim Hamar to play the Bang Your Head!!! festival at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany June 27-28, 2008. The band is also tentatively scheduled to appear at the Bang Your Head!!! warm-up show on June 26, 2008 at the Rockdisco WOM in Hechingen. Hamar, who also fronts the band ...
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KORPIKLAANI, BREAKER and CONTRACRASH have been confirmed for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 27-28, 2008 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AGENT STEEL AGE OF EVIL BREAKER CONTRACRASH ENSIFERUM GRAVE DIGGER GREAT WHITE KORPIKLAANI LIZZY BORDEN ONSLAUGHT RAGE SAXON TANKARD TYR WHITE ...
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SAXON, ONSLAUGHT, ENSIFERUM and LIZZY BORDEN have been confirmed for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 27-28, 2008 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AGENT STEEL AGE OF EVIL ENSIFERUM GRAVE DIGGER GREAT WHITE LIZZY BORDEN ONSLAUGHT RAGE SAXON TANKARD TYR WHITE LION ...
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GREAT WHITE, RAGE, AGENT STEELand TYR have been confirmed for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 27-28, 2008 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AGE OF EVIL AGENT STEEL GRAVE DIGGER GREAT WHITE RAGE TANKARD TRAMP'S WHITE LION TYR For more information, visit ...
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WHITE LION, GRAVE DIGGER, TANKARD and AGE OF EVIL are the first confirmed bands for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take palce June 27-28 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. WHITE LION was removed from the opening slot of the POISON / RATT co-headlining summer tour due to a threat of legal action ...
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Swiss death metallers REQUIEM shot their first-ever video clip — for the title track of their "Premier Killing League" CD — on August 25 with director Sandro Klopfstein. "It was a hellblast of fun for everybody participating and will also set some new standards in post-production effects," the band writes on its web site. "The ...
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Italian dark metal band GRAVEWORM will hit the road in October to promote its latest album, "Collateral Defect", out now on Massacre Records. The tour will include labelmates DISBELIEF, IN SLUMBER and DEADBORN. The dates are as follows: Oct. 19 - DE Essen Turock Oct. 20 - NL Arnhem Goudvishal Oct. 21 - NL Rotterdam ...
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SOLACE OF REQUIEM, an old-school and technical death metal band from Virginia Beach, Virginia, has issued the following update: "A new guitar player!! Chris Armijo from San Diego, California will be joining SOLACE OF REQUIEM for their upcoming project in Germany. SOLACE OF REQUIEM would like to assure their fans that the new guitarist has ...
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Swedish power metallers DRAGONLAND have been confirmed for the Face Your Underground festival, set to take place September 1 at Hof ter Lo in Antwerp, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: CADUCITY CRUSADER DEMON DRAGONLAND EXILE MOKER PICTURE OF THE MOON PUTRID INBRED REQUIEM SABATON TANKARD For more information, visit
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Video footage of MANTICORA's July 8, 2007 performance at the Romanian festival The Fest Of Oradea has been posted at Metalhead.ro. MANTICORA released their sixth full-length album, "The Black Circus Part 2 - Disclosure", in the U.S. on June 26 via Locomotive. The companion CD to last year's "The Black Circus, Part 1 ...
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Long-running Frankfurt, Germany-based thrash metallers TANKARD entered Stage One studios in Borgentreich, Germany earlier in the year with producer Andy Classen (DEW-SCENTED, CALLENISH CIRCLE, TANKARD, OCCULT) to record new versions of their biggest "hits" — from "(Empty) Tankard" and "Chemical Invasion" to "The Morning After" and "Space Beer". The resulting collection, "Best Case Scenario: 25 ...
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Austrian deathcore band INZEST has finished mixing and mastering its second album, "Grotesque New World", at Stage One Studios with producer Andy Classen (DEW-SCENTED, CALLENISH CIRCLE, TANKARD, OCCULT). A studio report (in German) with pictures can be found at the Austrian webzine Stormbringer.at. "Grotesque New World" track listing: 01. Grotesque New World 02. ...
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"Collateral Defect", the latest album from Italy's premiere gothic-tinged black metal act GRAVEWORM, is now available for streaming at MP3.com. The album will be up until Sunday, June 3 and will be released in North America on June 5 via Nuclear Blast Records. "Collateral Defect" was recorded at Stage One studios in Borgentreich, ...
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More high-quality photos taken at this year's Rock Hard Festival, which was held May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, have been posted online at Metal-Experience.com: Friday, May 25: Photos Saturday, May 26: Photos Sunday, May 27: Photos Included in the batch are pictures of the following artists: AMON AMARTH ARMORED ...
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High-quality photos taken at this year's edition of the Rock Hard Festival, which was held May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, have been posted online at the Rock 'n' Roll Reporter web site. Included are pictures of the following artists: ARMORED SAINT AXEL RUDI PELL CRUCIFIED BARBARA DARK FUNERAL DEATH ANGEL GRAVE DIGGER HAMMERFALL ...
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German thrashers DEW-SCENTED have replaced NAGLFAR on the billing of this year's edition of the Rock Hard Festival, set to take place May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The lineup is now as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH ARMORED SAINT AXEL RUDI PELL BULLET CATARACT CRUCIFIED BARBARA DARK FUNERAL DEATH ANGEL DEW-SCENTED GRAVE DIGGER HAMMERFALL ...
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German black metallers SYCRONOMICA have been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABSOLUTE AFTER FOREVER AMON AMARTH BLACK MESSIAH BOLT THROWER CALIBAN COMMUNIC CREMATORY DAGOBA DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DEADLOCK DIE ...
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DARK FORTRESS and SAMSAS TRAUM have cancelled their appearances at the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABSOLUTE AFTER FOREVER AMON AMARTH BLACK MESSIAH BOLT THROWER CALIBAN COMMUNIC CREMATORY DAGOBA DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY ...
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Virginia Beach, Virginia death metal trio SOLACE OF REQUIEM has issued the following update: "Friday, May 11th and Saturday, May 12th SOLACE OF REQUIEM will be back on the road. The first of their two shows is in Superior, Wisconsin at Bev's Jook Joint. There the band will be teaming back up with the Twin ...
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SOULFLY has been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABSOLUTE AFTER FOREVER AMON AMARTH BLACK MESSIAH BOLT THROWER CALIBAN COMMUNIC CREMATORY DAGOBA DARK FORTRESS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DEADLOCK DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN ...
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Long-running Frankfurt, Germany-based thrash metallers TANKARD recently entered Stage One studios in Borgentreich, Germany in with producer Andy Classen (DEW-SCENTED, CALLENISH CIRCLE, TANKARD, OCCULT) to record new versions of their biggest "hits" — from "(Empty) Tankard" and "Chemical Invasion" to "The Morning After" and "Space Beer". The resulting collection, "Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In ...
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Germany's beer-swilling, fart-smelling, fat and happy drunken thrash jokers should need no introduction to any old-schooler worth his denim. While many in the 1980s would have probably predicted a short shelf life for TANKARD and their lowbrow antics, the band has lasted for twenty-five years now (!), because they've always backed up their goofy lyrical ...
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Long-running German metallers PARADOX have set an October 26, 2007 release date for their fourth album, "Electrify". Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Second Over Third By Force", "Monument", "Portrait in Grey", "Hyperspeed Hallucinations", "Bridge to Silence", "Infected", "Disconnected", "Cyberspace Romance", "Electrify", as well as a cover of BLACKFOOT's "Good Morning". PARADOX, who ...
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German "dark Satanic metal" band MYSTIC CIRCLE has inked a new deal with Armageddon Music. The group is planning on entering Stage One studios in Borgentreich, Germany on October 1 with producer Andy Classen (DEW-SCENTED, CALLENISH CIRCLE, TANKARD, OCCULT) to record its new album, tentatively due in January 2008. MYSTIC CIRCLE's seventh full-length album, entitled ...
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DEATH ANGEL, THIN LIZZY, CRUCIFIED BARBARA and NAGLFAR have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Rock Hard Festival, set to take place May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH ARMORED SAINT AXEL RUDI PELL BULLET CATARACT CRUCIFIED BARBARA DARK FUNERAL DEATH ANGEL ...
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