Paula Febbe of TV Rock's "Rock de Batom" conducted an interview with former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen in August 2008 at the São Paulo, Brazil stop of Turunen's South American tour. Watch the four-and-a-half-minute chat below. Tarja Turunen recently announced the backing band for her just-launched European solo tour. She is being joined by the ...
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UK's Terrorizer magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with vocalist Candice of the Marseille, France-based female-fronted metalcore band ETHS. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Terrorizer: Introduce yourself and your band to those who don't know. Candice: "I'm Candice, the singer from ETHS since 1999 when we formed the ...
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Several Spanish dates have been announced for the "Priest Feast" tour featuring JUDAS PRIEST, MEGADETH and TESTAMENT. The schedule is now as follows: Feb. 10 - Dublin, Ireland - O2 Feb. 11 - Belfast, Ireland - Odyssey Arena Feb. 13 - Sheffield, UK - Sheffield Arena Feb. 14 - Birmingham, UK - NEC Feb. 16 ...
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Roadrunner Records will release the "Roadrunner United The Concert" DVD on December 9, 2008. The double-disc set hits shelves almost three years to the day after the now-legendary concert held at the Nokia Theater in Times Square in New York City on December 15, 2005. The show — which celebrated the release of the groundbreaking ...
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Guitarist Silenoz of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR was one of the featured guests on the October 5, 2008 edition of Indie 103.1 FM's specialty metal program "Chaos with Full Metal Jackie". The interview is now available for streaming at this location. Silenoz told MTV's "Metal File" earlier ...
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Peter Atkinson of KNAC.COM recently conducted an interview with GOJIRA guitarist/vocals Joe Duplantier. An excerpt from the chat follows below. KNAC.COM: Let's go back to this summer. Because you were recording, you couldn't do the tour with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY either, which had to have been tough? Duplantier: Yeah, but GOJIRA is my priority, ...
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DIVINE HERESY, the Southern California-based metal band led by former FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares, is hard at work on material for its sophomore album — the group's first with Travis Neal on vocals. DIVINE HERESY plans on hitting the studio early next year once again with acclaimed producer Logan Mader (SOULFLY, MACHINE HEAD, GOJIRA, ...
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Due to overwhelming demand, former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen's October 28 concert in Bulgaria has been moved to a larger venue. According to News.bg, the show will now be held at the 6,000-capacity Festivalna, which is said to be twice as big as Universiada, where the gig was originally scheduled to take place. Tickets can ...
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Several German dates have been announced for the "Priest Feast" tour featuring JUDAS PRIEST, MEGADETH and TESTAMENT. The schedule is now as follows: Feb. 10 - Dublin, Ireland - O2 Feb. 11 - Belfast, Ireland - Odyssey Arena Feb. 13 - Sheffield, UK - Sheffield Arena Feb. 14 - Birmingham, UK - NEC Feb. 16 ...
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Former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen has issued the following update: "Before returning back to Finland, I was in the studio in Buenos Aires recording the song 'Enough' and two other songs. "Singing 'Enough' was fun for me, because I had already sang the song many times on tour. Still the recording process is very different ...
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Former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen has announced the backing band for her upcoming European solo tour. She will be joined by the following musicians: Mike Terrana (MASTERPLAN, ex-RAGE) - drums Maria Ilmoniemi - keyboards Oliver Holzwarth (BLIND GUARDIAN, ex-SIEGES EVEN) - bass Alex Scholpp (ex-FARMER BOYS) - guitar Max Lilja (HEVEIN, ex-APOCALYPTICA) - cello Upcoming ...
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What was Roadrunner Records supposed to do after the label corralled 56 musicians from 44 different bands spanning the label's entire 25-year history to release one groundbreaking album, called "Roadrunner United: The All-Star Sessions"? Simple. Throw one helluva party! The label did just that, holding a party complete with an all-star performance by artists once ...
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Eugene Hütz, the Ukrainian-born singer, lyricist and visionary of the critically-acclaimed New York Gypsy punk rock band GOGOL BORDELLO, has told Brazil's O Globo magazine that his first-ever collaboration with a Brazilian musician will be with former SEPULTURA and current SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera. After praising Brazil and its cultural scene in the interview, Hütz ...
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Former PANTERA and current HELLYEAH drummer Vinnie Paul will publish a paperback photo book/DVD on his late brother, PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, on November 18 via Vinnie's Big Vin label. Entitled "He Came To Rock", the book will contain over 400 pictures of Dimebag along with a biography of his life written by authors ...
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Guitarist Silenoz of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR and Glenn Danzig will be the featured guests on this Sunday's (October 5) edition of Indie 103.1 FM's specialty metal program "Chaos with Full Metal Jackie" at 10:00 p.m. PST (1:00 a.m. EST Monday morning). To listen to the show live via the Internet, ...
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Oklahoma-based band BLEED THE SKY, resurrected Texas thrash legends DEVASTATION, and Arizona's INCITE (the Phoenix, Arizona-based band fronted by SOULFLY/CAVALERA CONSPIRACY frontman Max Cavalera's stepson Richie Cavalera) have been confirmed as the support acts for SOULFLY's upcoming U.S. tour. The dates are as follows: Nov. 01 - Riverside Multiplex - Victoria, TX Nov. 02 - ...
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Former PANTERA and current HELLYEAH drummer Vinnie Paul is tentatively slated to publish a large-sized photo book on his late brother, PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, on November 18. The book was compiled by Vinnie and his father Jerry Abbott and has been in the works for more than a year. "We are very excited ...
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Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have not inked a three-year deal with Roadrunner Records. Guitarist Silenoz told MTV's "Metal File" this week that he's heard rumors suggesting his band's next album would not be issued by Nuclear Blast but shot them down. "I don't know where this rumor is coming from," he ...
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Guitarist/vocalist Max Cavalera of SOULFLY was interviewed earlier this week by Andrew Haug of Triple J's "Full Metal Racket" (based in Australia). Listen to the interview in streaming audio at the Triple J web site: Windows Media, Real Media (NOTE: Part one of the Max Cavalera interview begins around the 45-minute ...
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Former NIGHTWISH vocalist Tarja Turunen has added shows in Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Israel, Russia and the Ukraine to her touring itinerary. Her schedule is now as follows: Oct. 18 - Oktoberhallen - Wieze, Belgium (Metal Female Voices Fest) Oct. 19 - Rockhal Club - Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg Oct. 21 - Hala Folimanka - Prague, Czech ...
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The Italian branch of Roadrunner Records conducted an interview with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY/ex-SEPULTURA drummer Igor Cavalera and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY/SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo when CAVALERA CONSPIRACY played the Evolution Festival in Milan, Italy in early July. Watch the chat at this location. "Inflikted", the debut album from CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, sold 9,000 copies in the United ...
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German melodic hard rock masters JADED HEART are preparing to enter the studio to begin recording the follow-up to 2007's "Sinister Mind". According to the band, "The new material sounds very fresh. It embraces all the different trademarks of JADED HEART. It is a continuation of 'Sinister Mind' and 'Helluva Time'. It will also be ...
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French progressive metallers GOJIRA are currently streaming 10 of the 12 songs from the band's forthcoming "The Way Of All Flesh" album on their MySpace page. According to the band's manager, Richard Gamba of Sphere Management, "we had planned to stream the whole 'The Way of All Flesh' album from September 29 up ...
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Profesionally filmed video footage of SOULFLY performing the song "Paranoia" at the Area4 Festival, which was held August 29-31 in Lüdinghausen, Germany, can be viewed below. The 12th annual D-Low Memorial show — the yearly Arizona-based festival held in memory of SOULFLY mainman Max Cavalera's stepson, Dana Wells (article) — which was originally ...
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New Jersey's THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN has issued the following update: "Ben Weinman [guitar] has been holed up like a mad scientist blasting out the furious DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN insanity that will eventually find its way onto our next release. When Ben says that the stuff he's been writing has actually been giving HIM a ...
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French progressive metallers GOJIRA are putting the finishing touches on the video for the song "Vacuity" from the band's forthcoming "The Way Of All Flesh" album. In a recent interview with Metal Hammer magazine, GOJIRA guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier stated about the track, "Vacuity. Absence of matter, emptiness, but full of light. Ultimate presence beyond the ...
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A new audio interview with former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen conducted by Vassil Varbanov of Bulgaria's Tangra Mega Rock is available for download at this location (MP3, 4 MB). An excerpt from the chat follows below. Tangra Mega Rock: The occasion to have you with us on the radio is this ...
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INCITE, the Phoenix, Arizona-based band fronted by SOULFLY/CAVALERA CONSPIRACY frontman Max Cavalera's stepson Richie Cavalera, has been confirmed as the support act on the upcoming SOULFLY U.S. tour. For a list of upcoming shows, go to this location. INCITE's entire "Divided We Fail" three-song EP is available for streaming on the group's
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SEPULTURA's Jean Dolabella was interviewed for the current issue of Sick Drummer magazine. Check it out at this location. SEPULTURA has posted more video footage from the recording sessions for its new album, "A-Lex". The latest clip, which features footage from the bass- and vocal-recording stages of the production process, can be viewed ...
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SOULFLY will embark on a U.S. headlining tour in November. So far, the following dates have been confirmed: Nov. 03 - Granada Theatre - Dallas, TX (ages 17+) Nov. 04 - White Rabbit - San Antonio, TX Nov. 05 - Meridian - Houston, TX Nov. 09 - Culture Room - Ft. Lauderdale, FL Nov. 11 ...
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