HATEBREED will be supporting SLIPKNOT and SLAYER in Europe from September 20 through October 24. HATEBREED will also be doing a bunch of off-day shows, including make-up shows in Greece and Bulgaria. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. In other news, HATEBREED have posted a message on their official web site apologizing to ...
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When you're watching a SLIPKNOT show, you can be reasonably sure that the guys onstage in the costumes are actually the members of the Iowa-based band. But if you ran into someone on the street who said he was a member of SLIPKNOT, could you be certain he was telling the truth? Apparently some people ...
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SHADOWS FALL singer Brian Fair has issued the following update: "It has been a whirlwind week in the SHADOWS FALL camp. We just returned home after an amazing European tour with our good friends in KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, CHIMAIRA and GOD FORBID with some crazy festivals thrown in along the way. A huge thank you to ...
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Albany's Capital News 9 has posted a two-minute video report from this weekend's Aggressive Music Festival, which featured performances from a number of national heavy metal bands, including SLAYER, SLIPKNOT, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, CHIMAIRA, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, SHADOWS FALL, HATEBREED and LIFE OF AGONY. Watch the video here. Around 4,000 music fans from the Capital ...
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Brand-new tracks from AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE ("Cowards") and ICEPICK ("Born to Crush You", featuring HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta and SKARHEAD singer Lord Ezec) have been posted online at this location. Both cuts will appear on the upcoming "UFC Ultimate Beatdowns Vol. 1 Metal" compilation, due on August 24 through Nitrus Records. The complete ...
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A brand-new SHADOWS FALL song, entitled "The Power of I & I", has been posted online in MP3 format at this location. "The Power of I & I" is the first single off the group's new album, "The War Within", due on September 21 through Century Media Records. The follow-up to the band's ...
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HATEBREED singer Jamey Jasta has spoken to the Troy Record about this weekend's Aggressive Music Festival, an 18-band marathon that is being billed as "upstate New York's biggest and heaviest event ever of hardcore and metal mayhem." "It's not for everybody," Jasta said about the festival which he helped organize. "It's just like the whole ...
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Deanna Amore of The Saratogian is reporting that The Aggressive Music Festival, a two-day event featuring a number of national heavy metal bands (including SLAYER, SLIPKNOT, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, CHIMAIRA, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, SHADOWS FALL, HATEBREED and LIFE OF AGONY), sparked off a controversy (video) in the Glens Falls area when ...
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DROWNING POOL will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" airing Monday, July 19. The live show begins at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET, and fans are encouraged to call in with questions during the program at (800) 344-ROCK (7625). To find a station near you, check out
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The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald have published separate reviews of the second date of the Ozzfest 2004 tour, which took place Monday (July 12) at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA. A couple of review excerpts follow: Boston Globe: "The show sold out, though the one-night stand was down from two nights in ...
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HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta has issued the following statement regarding the cancellation of the last four shows of the group's European tour: "What's up everyone. We're home now. THANK GOD. We cut out tour 4 days short for various reasons WHICH ARE NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS. Just kidding. For all you people who HAVE ...
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Sony Computer Entertainment America will reunite with the long-running summer festival Ozzfest as a sponsor for a fourth year. As a veteran sponsor, Sony Computer Entertainment America is giving fans the chance to win tickets to witness the historic BLACK SABBATH and JUDAS PRIEST reunions along with the music of SLAYER, SLIPKNOT, HATEBREED, and Zakk ...
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Orpheus Spiliotopoulos, Chief Editor of the popular Greek webzine Metal-Temple.com, has submitted the following report on the disastrous events that led to a partial cancellation of the Athens Open Air festival in Athens, Greece this past weekend: "The Athens Open Air 'I wannabe a' festival was supposed to take place on the 5th ...
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A brand-new SHADOWS FALL song, entitled "What Drives the Weak", has been posted online at this location [UPDATE: File has since been removed]. "What Drives the Weak" comes off the group's new album, "The War Within", due on September 21 through Century Media Records. The follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed disc, "The Art of ...
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Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has confirmed the addition of ex-ICED EARTH guitarist Ralph Santolla to his solo group. "I am truly excited to welcome guitarist Ralph Santolla to the band!" Sebastian writes in a statement. "I look forward to taking the music, both classics from the past and new material we ...
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SLIPKNOT, MESHUGGAH, KORN and HATEBREED were among the bands that performed during the first two days (July 1-2) of the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark. Check out the photos from Wire Image: MESHUGGAH (photos) SLIPKNOT (photos) WITHIN TEMPTATION (photos) HATEBREED (photos) KORN (photos) ...
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SHADOWS FALL have achieved another great milestone in their already illustrious career, as their latest album, "The Art of Balance", has officially surpassed the 100,000 mark, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This is a huge accomplishment not only for the band, but also for Century Media, who have both grown considerably over the past few years. ...
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New Jersey metal titans GOD FORBID will continue their rigorous U.S. touring schedule all summer long on Ozzfest, which kicks off in Hartford, CT. on July 10. The quintet also locked down a series of Ozzfest off-dates alongside such premier artists as DIMMU BORGIR, SLAYER and SUPERJOINT RITUAL, among others. Their new video for "Antihero", ...
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Datapix Agency has uploaded photos of several acts that performed at this past weekend's Graspop Metal Meeting at De Boeretang in Dessel, Belgium. Check them out (remember to scroll down for most recent photos): FEAR FACTORY (photos) KILLSWITCH ENGAGE (photos) TESTAMENT (photos) THERION (photos) DEATH ANGEL (
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A 67-second video clip of former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach performing live at the Bang Your Head festival in Balingen, Germany on Saturday (June 26) has been posted online at this location. Other bands that appeared at the event included ICED EARTH, ALICE COOPER, QUEENSRŸCHE, CHILDREN OF BODOM, TESTAMENT, UFO and ANTHRAX. ...
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HATEBREED will be cutting their European tour short due to various issues that need to be resolved at home before the band leaves for Ozzfest, according to a posting on the group's web site. All shows between July 3 and July 7 have been canceled. "The band would like to apologize to all the fans ...
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German death metallers DISBELIEF have replaced Norway's GRIMFIST at the 11th edition of With Full Force festival, a three-day event set to be held July 2-4 at airport Roitzschjora, Löbnitz near Leipzig, Germany. GRIMFIST were forced to withdraw from the festival following their split with drummer Horgh (HYPOCRISY, ex-IMMORTAL). The complete list of bands confirmed ...
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SLAYER, DAMAGEPLAN, SEPULTURA and ICEPICK (the new band featuring HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta and SKARHEAD singer Lord Ezec) are among the artists featured on the "Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Beatdowns, Volume 1" compilation, due on August 24 through Nitrus Records. The complete track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. SLAYER - "Warzone" 02. ...
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Leamington, Ontario-based metallers BLOODSHOTEYE will be filming a video for the track "Hitlist" in mid-July. "We have been awarded VideoFACT funding to complete a shot-on-film, major-budget video," the band write on their web site. "Thanks to our friend Justin at Unstable Ground for making this happen and who will also be taking the project under ...
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Former IRON MAIDEN vocalists Paul Di'Anno and Blaze Bayley are expected to team up for a duet as part of their appearance at the Rock The Nations Open Air Festival in Istanbul, Turkey early next month, according to the festival's organizers. The three-day event, which is scheduled to take place July 2-4 at the Maslak ...
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HATEBREED's second video off "The Rise Of Brutality" is nearing completion is expected to start airing in July, according to a posting on the group's web site. In other news, HATEBREED have been confirmed to appear at the Jagermeister tent all summer long on Ozzfest to "meet the fans and hang." The exact times when ...
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ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has posted the following message on the band's official web site (as part of his regular online column, dubbed "Alpha Mail"): "Comrades, if it's Wednesday it must be Glasgow, and you know what that means. Tonight has been sold out for a while and will probably be the best show of ...
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A 96-second video trailer for former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach's first-ever DVD, "Forever Wild", has been posted online in Real Media format at this location. "Forever Wild", due on June 15 through Eagle Vision Entertainment, features a 1998 live performance at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood as well as ...
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HDPvidz.com is currently hosting a couple of professional-quality video clips of MACHINE HEAD performing live on June 4 at the Rock Am Ring festival in Germany. Download the files at the following locations: "Imperium" (MPG, 63 MB), "The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears" (MPG, 51 MB). In other news, ...
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Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has selected Zeuss (HATEBREED, SHADOWS FALL) to produce his upcoming solo album, tentatively due in early 2005 through Eagle Rock Entertainment. The follow-up to 2000's "Bring 'em Bach Alive!" will be recorded later in the year and will include the track "Always & Never The Same", which appears in ...
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