Away-Team.com conducted an interview with DISTURBED frontman David Draiman on February 16, 2009. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

Away-Team.com: Let's talk about the latest album, "Indestructible". First of all, congratulations on "The Night" being your fourth single to be released from that album, and also your incredible Grammy nomination for the single "Inside The Fire". Even though you were totally screwed by the academy when they handed the award to THE MARS VOLTA, a band that isn't even really hard rock…the fact is, a friggin' metal band got nominated and you guys are totally creating roads for those that come behind you. Did you ever, in a million years, think you' ...

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DIMMU BORGIR guitarist/songwriter Silenoz is featured on ShockHound's "Stella Can't Cook" show.

"I come from a musical background where you don't really have much cash," states Silenoz, "so you have to spend the little you have on cheap stuff."

Check out the video below of Silenoz's preparation of grilled hot dogs with shrimp salad wrapped in tortillas with show host Stella (who is a terrible cook).

Silenoz's favorite countries to eat in are: Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and the U.S.

The recent "Blackest Of The Black" tour with DANZIG helped support DIMMU's latest DVD titled "The Invaluable Darkness", which debuted at No. 5 on the Top Music Videos chart ...

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Former FAITH NO MORE singer Mike Patton's publicist has confirmed that the hugely influential '90s alt-metal band will reunite for a summer tour. At the moment, it appears that the group will only perform in Europe and there are absolutely no plans to tour the States.

The news was broken in the final line of a press release sent late Monday night (February 23) promoting Patton's involvement in the "major motion film 'Crank 2: High Voltage', which listed Patton's upcoming performance schedule, including a stop at the Coachella festival and "the highly anticipated reunion tour with FAITH NO MORE in Europe this summer."

As previously reported, a source close to guitarist J ...

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Contraband Candy's René Ackermann conducted an interview with veteran Welsh death metallers DESECRATION at last year's Damnation Festival, which was held November 22, 2008 in Leeds, U.K. Watch the nine-minute chat below.

DESECRATION's sixth studio album, "Forensix", was released late last year via Metal Age Productions.

For more information, visit the band's MySpace page.

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Ruth Harrison of FemaleFirst recently conducted an interview with keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen of the Finnish/Swedish symhonic metal band NIGHTWISH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

FemaleFirst: Hey Tuomas, how are things in the world of NIGHTWISH at the moment?

Tuomas: Well, actually, we are on a three-month break at the moment after the first leg of the tour finished last November in South America. The story continues on the 11 of March in London, from where we start our European tour and it goes right up until the end of September; so there are still five of six more months to go.

FemaleFirst: Wow, what a busy life... so what made ...

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Long-running U.K. rockers THE WILDHEARTS have completed the demo/pre-production process for their new album. Vocalist/guitarist Ginger states, "we had a blast in Finland recording at Seawolf studios. We even managed to drag our new manager, Virpi, out of engineering retirement to record these songs for us.

He continued, "The styles are very mixed up but this time we've tried to keep the lengths of the songs to 3:30 each. And overall we've succeeded. I think only one song exceeds the 3:30 mark, and that's the last track, complete with run-off riff/melody.

"The album is very melodic and very riffy. Ritch [Battersby, drums] described some of the songs as ''Sky Babies', onl ...

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Norway's MADDER MORTEM will release its new album, "Eight Ways", in Europe on May 18, and in North America on June 16 via Peaceville Records.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. Formaldehyde
02. The Little Things
03. Armour
04. Resolution
05. A Different Kind Of Hell
06. Riddle Wants To Be
07. Where Dream And Day Collide
08. The Flesh, The Blood And The Man
09. Get That Monster Out Of Here
10. Life, Lust & Liberty
11. All I Know
12. The Eighth Wave

The band says, "We're also working on two music videos for the new album. The release dates and details for these will be published later."

"Metal" Mike Chlasciak (SEBASTIAN BACH, HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM), considered by many to be one of metal's premiere guitar shredders, is currently in the studio finalizing pre-production for new solo material, after concluding a U.S. trek as a sideman axe-slinger for ex-SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach. Bach toured the sheds and arenas last summer with DOKKEN and POISON on the "Live, Raw & Uncut Summer Tour". An official announcement regarding the project is expected sometime early spring.

In other news, Chlasciak has signed a personal representation deal through his C.M.M. Entertainment, LLC, with Chicago's sports and entertainment company MMW Marketing, LLC.

MMW Marketing is ...

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"We've Lost You", the new video from Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed on December 15, 2008 in São Paulo, Brazil with director André Moraes. Check out photos from the video shoot at this location.

"A-Lex" — SEPULTURA's first LP to be recorded without either of the founding Cavalera brothers (Max and Igor; on guitar/vocals and drums, respectively) — sold around 1,600 copies during its first week of release in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

SEPULTURA's previous CD, "Dante XXI", has sold 19, ...

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Bulgaria's Tangra Mega Rock recently conducted an interview with SAMAEL frontman Vorph. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Tangra Mega Rock: [Let's] talk about [the upcoming SAMAEL album] "Above". Where does the excitement for this one came from?

Vorph: Well, you've probably heard about that. First we thought we'd do a side project called ABOVE, so we were doing this without knowing we are going to release it as a new SAMAEL album. So it was a different work. We wanted to do an album that was a more stripped down metal album. We didn't want to ...

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