Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED have been confirmed for the Hellflame festival, set to take place September 2 in Osnabrück, Germany. No other bands have yet been announced for the festival. As previously reported, UNLEASHED filmed their entire performance at the Up From The Ground festival (August 26-27, 2005) for their upcoming full-length DVD, tentatively due ...
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SAXON, ARMORED SAINT, DEATH ANGEL, DARK LUNACY, DEATH SS, LABYRINTH, MACBETH and NIGHTMARE are the final bands to be confirmed for this year's edition of the Evolution Festival, set to take place July 14-16, 2006 at Toscolano Maderno Campo Sportivo in Brescia, Italy. The festival billing is now as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH ...
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KATATONIA, RAGING SPEEDHORN, DEATHSTARS, KRUX, NIFELHEIM, CAPRICORNS, BATTERED, RAISE HELL, GADGET and ENGEL have been confirmed for the Close-Up Festival, set to take place April 15-16 at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH BATTERED BLINDSIDE BOLT THROWER BURST CAPRICORNS CROWPATH CULT OF LUNA DEATHSTARS ...
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Several members of the now-defunct Swedish band A CANOROUS QUINTET have announced plans to carry on playing together under a new name, THE PLAGUE. A CANOROUS QUINTET was formed in 1991 by Fredrik Andersson (AMON AMARTH), Mårten Hansen and Linus Nirbrant and the lineup was completed with the addition of Leo Pignon and Jesper Löfgren. ...
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Swedish metalcore act CROWPATH have been confirmed for the Close-Up Festival, set to take place April 15-16 at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH BLINDSIDE BOLT THROWER BURST CROWPATH CULT OF LUNA EVERGREY IMPERIAL LEATHER KHOMA OPETH PATH OF NO RETURN RENTOKILLER SATYRICON SKITSYSTEM ...
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Italian melodic power thrashers ELDRITCH have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Evolution Festival, set to take place July 15-16, 2006 at Toscolano Maderno Campo Sportivo in Brescia, Italy. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH (SWE) ANNIHILATOR (CAN) ARTHEMIS (ITA) ATHEIST (USA) CRADLE OF FILTH (UK) ...
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Sweden's OPETH have been confirmed for the Metalcamp 2006 festival, set to take place July 21-23 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Main Stage: AMON AMARTH ARCH ENEMY CATARACT DEATHSTARS DECAPITATED DIMMU BORGIR EDGUY EVERGREY GOREFEST HEAVEN SHALL BURN HYPOCRISY KATAKLYSM MY DYING BRIDE NEVERMORE ONE MAN ARMY & THE ...
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Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have been confirmed for the Close-Up Festival, set to take place April 15-16 at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH BLINDSIDE BOLT THROWER BURST CULT OF LUNA EVERGREY IMPERIAL LEATHER KHOMA OPETH PATH OF NO RETURN RENTOKILLER SATYRICON SKITSYSTEM TAINT ...
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Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED have announced the addition of drummer Jonas Tyskhagen (INCARDINE, PELLE & THE POORBOYS) as the temporary replacement for Anders Schultz, who is recovering from a recent lung-collapse. Tyskhagen will join the band for their appearance at the Metalmania festival on Saturday, March 4 in Katowice, Poland. "UNLEASHED have waited a long ...
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ARCH ENEMY, GOREFEST, HYPOCRISY and MY DYING BRIDE have been confirmed for the Metalcamp 2006 festival, set to take place July 21-23 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Main Stage: AMON AMARTH ARCH ENEMY CATARACT DEATHSTARS DECAPITATED DIMMU BORGIR EDGUY EVERGREY GOREFEST HEAVEN SHALL BURN HYPOCRISY KATAKLYSM MY DYING BRIDE ...
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MSG (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP), ULI JON ROTH and VICTORY have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. Michael Schenker and Uli Jon Roth will also perform with the SCORPIONS as their special guests. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ...
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UNLEASHED mainman Johnny Hedlund has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Some bad news first, Anders [Schultz, drums] has been hospitalized for about a week due to a lung-collapse [as first reported by BLABBERMOUTH.NET on Feb. 16]. He's been through some serious pain and literally been to hell and ...
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DIMMU BORGIR, SAXON, TESTAMENT and NEVERMORE are among the newly confirmed bands for the Metalcamp 2006 festival, set to take place July 21-23 in Tolmin, Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Main Stage: AMON AMARTH CATARACT DEATHSTARS DECAPITATED DIMMU BORGIR EDGUY EVERGREY HEAVEN SHALL BURN KATAKLYSM NEVERMORE ONE MAN ARMY & THE ...
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Japanese "cult" band D'ESPAIRSRAY (web site) have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CELTIC FROST CHILDREN OF BODOM D'ESPAIRSRAY DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN ...
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Sweden's OPETH have announced the details of their South American/Mexican tour, set to take place in September/October. Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 22 - Mexico City, MEX - Circo Volador Sep. 23 - Monterey, MEX - Café Iguana Sep. 24 - Guadalajara, MEX - Hardrock Café Sep. 27 - Santiago, CHL - Teatro Caupolican ...
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Metal Blade Records has released the details of the upcoming AMON AMARTH DVD, "Wrath of the Norsemen", due in Europe on April 24 (April 21 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The three-disc set will be released in a deluxe 10-page digipack with special gold-laminated slipcase. The main body of the DVD is the Cologne show from ...
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Sweden's AMON AMARTH have posted the following message on their official web site: "It's been a tough job to piece everything together, but we're finally closing in on the release of our DVD entitled 'Wrath of the Norsemen'. The release dates are: Germany, Austria, Switzerland: April 21 Rest of Europe: April 24 USA and Canada: ...
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It was seven years in the making, but Amon 418 finally completed his debut HATE PROFILE release, "Opus I: The Khaos Hatefile". The first of a planned trilogy, "The Khaos Hatefile" is "a spiritual and existential growth concept," and I'll spare you any feeble attempts at interpreting the rest. Musically, "Opus I: The Khaos Hatefile" ...
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Norwegian quartet WE and Italy's THE DOGMA have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CELTIC FROST CHILDREN OF BODOM DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER EKTOMORF ...
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UNLEASHED drummer Anders Schultz spent a couple of nights in the intensive care unit at a Swedish hospital earlier this week after his lungs completely collapsed. According to a source close to Anders, the drummer began feeling chest discomfort/pain on Tuesday, which increased dramatically before Schultz was able to reach the emergency room. The doctors ...
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OPETH's April 1, 2006 performance at at the Theatre Club in Tel Aviv, Israel completely sold out within nine days of tickets going on sale, according to the concert organizers. As previously reported, OPETH have been confirmed as the headliners of the Close-Up Festival, set to take place April 15-16 at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden. ...
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Former FAITH NO MORE and current FANTOMAS frontman Mike Patton has told MTV.com that the last four months of his life have been devoted exclusively to finishing the first of three PEEPING TOM records in the works, which is due May 30. "I'm overjoyed to finally have this out of my hair," Patton ...
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To celebrate 15 years as Sweden's leading magazine for metal, hardcore and punk, Close-Up magazine will stage a two-day festival in Stockholm. The grandiose event will take place April 15-16 at Münchenbryggeriet. Confirmed bands so far are OPETH, BOLT THROWER, AMON AMARTH, EVERGREY, BLINDSIDE, CULT OF LUNA, KHOMA, BURST, TAINT, SKITSYSTEM, PATH OF NO RETURN, ...
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Long-running German hard rockers SCORPIONS have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CELTIC FROST CHILDREN OF BODOM DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER EKTOMORF EMPEROR END ...
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OPETH, BOLT THROWER and AMON AMARTH have been confirmed for the Close-Up Festival, set to take place on April 16 in Stockholm. No further details are currently available. As previously reported, OPETH will hold several special performances, dubbed "Chronology MCMXCIV- MMV - A Live Observation By Opeth", in select U.S. markets on their upcoming tour. ...
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According to their record label (Dockyard 1), German "dark Satanic metal band" MYSTIC CIRCLE have have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CANNIBAL ...
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The genre called "viking metal" begins to lose some of its meaning when one realizes it has, rightly or wrongly, been applied to bands as diverse as AMON AMARTH and FALKENBACH. Yet in the case of Sweden's THYRFING it is hard to argue with it, at least from the standpoint of lyrical content and the ...
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Finnish "fantasy metal" band BATTLELORE have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CANNIBAL CORPSE CELTIC FROST CHILDREN OF BODOM DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER EKTOMORF ...
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Florida-based death metallers SIX FEET UNDER have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CANNIBAL CORPSE CELTIC FROST CHILDREN OF BODOM DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER ...
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AMON AMARTH and METAL INQUISITOR have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ATHEIST BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CANNIBAL CORPSE CELTIC FROST CHILDREN OF BODOM DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER EKTOMORF ...
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