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CATHEDRAL: New Album Title Announced
28 Oct 2009
Veteran British doom/stoner band CATHEDRAL will enter Chapel studios (THE DARKNESS, NAPALM DEATH, URIAH HEEP, WET WET WET, SIMPLE MINDS) in Lincolnshire, U.K. in November to record its ninth full-length album and second for the Nuclear Blast label. Entitled "The Guessing Game", the new CD will once again be produced by Warren Riker (DOWN, CROWBAR) and sport stunning new artwork from band collaborator Dave Patchett. Songtitles set to appear on the CD (among others) include:
* Journeys Into Jade * The Casket Chasers * Funeral Of Dreams * Death Of An Anarchist * La Noche Del Buque Maldito (a.k.a. Ghost Ship Of The Blind Dead) * Open Mind Surgery "T ... |
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Live Nation Announces Ultimate Access Wednesday with Anvil!
28 Oct 2009
Live Nation Announces Ultimate Access Wednesday with Anvil!
October 28th with Anvil at The Hard Rock Café in Toronto TORONTO - This Wednesday Live Nation gives fans ultimate access Anvil. For one day fans will be given the chance to meet the band and buy a ticket to their upcoming concert with no service fees. WHEN: Wednesday, October 28th from 5-7pm
WHAT: “Ultimate Access Wednesday” WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe Toronto, 279 Yonge St. at Yonge and Dundas Square ... |
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SABBAT's MARTIN WALKYIER Working On New THE CLAN DESTINED Material
22 Oct 2009
British vocalist Martin Walkyier (SABBAT, SKYCLAD) has issued the following update:
"It is my great pleasure to announce that I am currently working upon writing and recording some brand-new material for THE CLAN DESTINED. "Due to the literally thousands of emails and messages I've received from you kind people via the THE CLAN DESTINED website and my MySpace page, I have now decided that the time has come to compose a follow-up to the critically acclaimed 'In The Big Ending...' CD and DVD release. I also promised my father that I would write something to honour his memory just one week before he died in February 2007; and as I'm sure you will all appreciate, this was ... |
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KARMA TO BURN U.S. tour dates announced!
22 Oct 2009
A cult band with an extensive, highly cherished back catalog, KARMA TO BURN reunited earlier this year after laying dormant for most of the decade and soon embarked upon a reunion tour, including a coveted spot on this year's Download Festival. All this action is captured on the Live 2009 - Reunion Tour DVD, to be released domestically on December 15th by Napalm Records, the band's new label home. Here are the band's current confirmed dates/venues: 10.22.09 - Mechaniscsburg, PA / West Shore Hardware Bar 10.23.09 - Columbus, OH / Ravari Room 10.24.09 - Richmond, VA / Canal Club 10.25.09 - Jacksonville, NC / Hooligans 10.27.09 - F ... |
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Full PELICAN Album Streaming Now!
22 Oct 2009
In advance of its October 27th release, all eight tracks of PELICAN's upcoming Southern Lord debut album What We All Come To Need is now streaming on the band's Myspace page! Stop by and check it out today: http://www.myspace.com/pelican. PELICAN is out on a full US tour with label mates Black Cobra now through mid-December. Please note, the NYC show initially scheduled for December 2nd has also been moved to November 30th. 10/20/2009 The Marquis Theatre - Denver, CO w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra 10/21/2009 Club Vegas - Salt Lake City, UT w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra 10/22/2009 Neurolux - Boise, ID w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra 10/24/2 ... |
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AVANTASIA's Next Chapter Will Be Spread Over Two Albums
22 Oct 2009
EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet has decided that the forthcoming chapter from his AVANTASIA project will be spread over two albums. He explained: "I have always given my very best, but this new chapter in AVANTASIA's history is too much and too ambitious to be just a regular album. I have worked on it for years now, and it has become even more than two albums!
"I don't know if I will release one first, or both simultaneously, or maybe even both in one special package. It's all up to whatever label is going to release it; we'll see. "The production is so massive and I have so many guests this time. "It's the continuation of the 'Scarecrow' story. " ... |
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TYR to tour North America in January 2010
22 Oct 2009
Still riding high on the success of latest NAPALM album By the Light of the Northern Star, TYR will be touring alongside former labelmates KORPIKLAANI as well as WHITE WIZZARD and SWASHBUCKLE. Here are the CONFIRMED dates/venues thus far: Jan 8 Worcester, MA @ Palladium Jan 9 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda Jan 10 Toronto, ON @ Opera House Jan 11 Detroit, MI @ Blondie's Jan 12 Chicago, IL @ Jaguar Club Jan 13 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's Jan 14 New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater Jan 15 Allentown, PA @ The Sterling Hotel Jan 16 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx Jan 17 Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11 ... |
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EVILE Bassist Dies At 32
05 Oct 2009
Just a few days into the band's European tour with AMON AMARTH, bassist Mike Alexander of British thrashers EVILE was suddenly taken ill and rushed to hospital, but tragically passed away in Luleå, Sweden [on Monday, October 5]. He was 32 years old.
EVILE members Matt Drake, Ol Drake and Ben Carter have released the following statement: "This is so hard to find the words to express fully how we feel. We can't believe or accept what's happened. One minute we're talking to our buddy, Mike, the next minute we can never speak to him again. "There's so many things rushing through our heads that we want to say, do and feel. We half expect him to come round the cor ... |
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NEGURA BUNGET: New Album Title Revealed
05 Oct 2009
NEGURA BUNGET — the Romanian band that incorporates elements of black metal, progressive metal, folk metal and dark ambient — has set "Vîrstele Pamîntului" (English translation: The Ages of the Land/Earth) as the title of its new album, tentatively due in early 2010. The group states in a press release, "'Vîrstele Pamîntului' is an album about embracing your destiny, about choosing and consciously assuming a way of life. The earth is where we came from and where go back into, the one from above and beyond us. Understanding and respecting it is understanding yourself, your purpose and destiny.
"'Vîrstele Pamîntului' is an album about places of the earth and places of the ... |
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CULT OF LUNA Preparing To Hit Studio
04 Oct 2009
Swedish "art rockers" CULT OF LUNA have issued the following update:
"CULT OF LUNA will gather soon for a shorter recording session. One weekend in the middle of October in Umeå. It is not a recording related to an album, though; it is for something else. We'll definitely try to put this project into words for you during this particular weekend." CULT OF LUNA's DVD, "Fire Was Born", was released on April 27 via Earache Records). Along with an epic live show recorded on July 1, 2008 at Scala in London, England, the disc — which was mixed, edited and designed by the band — features footage of Johannes Persson and Anders Teglund (keyboards) answering questions from ... |