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BELPHEGOR Split With NAPALM RECORDS, Prepare To Record New Album
15 Oct 2005
Austrian death/black metal act BELPHEGOR have officially severed ties with Napalm Records.
"[Napalm] worked into another direction than we wanted, and we don't want others to meddle into our things because we know for ourselves what's the best," the band write on their web site. "Unfortunately, they did too [little] for us in the live sector and we are really not amused to wait all the time. For the already successful BELPHEGOR will enter producer Andy Classen's Stag ... |
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IN FLAMES Sign North American Deal With FERRET RECORDS
15 Oct 2005
Sweden's IN FLAMES have inked a U.S. record deal with Ferret Records. The band's already completed new album, "Come Clarity", is scheduled for a February 7, 2006 North American release. The CD will be issued in Europe on February 6, 2006 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The follow-up to 2004's "Soundtrack to Your Escape", "Come Clarity" was mixed at Tonteknik studio in Umeå, Sweden and is "the best one we've ever done," according to IN FLAMES guitarist Jesper Strömblad. "It's kind of a mixture between the new stuff and the old stuff," Strömblad told Greece's Metal Temple webzine in a recent interview. "Like the previous two albums were a little bit experimental for us, we changed producers ...
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PRIMAL FEAR Bassist: 'It's Better To Kiss My Own Ass Than Someone Else's'
15 Oct 2005
Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with PRIMAL FEAR/SINNER bassist Mat Sinner. Several excerpts follow:
Blasting-Zone.com: What inspired the title [of the new PRIMAL FEAR album] "Seven Seals"? Mat: "It's a Bible thing. The revelation of Johannes is a very nice book to read and to make your own story out of it. With this kind of music, my intention was that it wasn't right to write songs about whiskey, highway driving or hot chicks (laughs). We were looking for a story that was interesting and a little on the mystical side. ... |
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Lost Horizon issues Update
14 Oct 2005
Great Lost Horizon news! A minimal foretaste of a new song for Lost Horizon's 3rd album is available for download at this site. Wojtek Lisicki, the guitarist of the Swedish True Metal band, has posted the following message on Lost Horizon's website: "I thought it would be great to share with you a short clip from one of Lost Horizon's new songs, so you can see that the magic is strong and vital and that I am not sleeping my days away. This is not a proper studio recording — as we are not even close to it — it's a mix between midi (drums & keyboards) and audio (guitar & bass), directly from my beloved companion — ProTools — in my home studio."
Topic: Band News
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NORTHER Part Ways With Drummer, Seek Replacement
08 Oct 2005
Finland's NORTHER have parted ways with drummer Toni Hallio. "The decision was totally [made by] Toni [and] there are no hard feelings!" the band write on their web site. "Toni wants to focus on other things in the future. Toni
wishes all the best for the band and the fans! He will [still] play the
two [scheduled] gigs this week, so if you want to see him (or the band)
come to the gigs!!"
As a result of Toni's departure, NORTHER are currently looking for a replacement drummer. Interested parties can contact the band at rumpali@norther.net. Only "very experienced drummers" need apply. NORTHER recently entered St ... |
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UNEXPECT Announce Album Title
08 Oct 2005
Montreal's eclectic/classical/black metal act UNEXPECT have set "In A Flesh Aquarium" as the title of their debut album for The End Records, tentatively due in early 2006. The band will perform two songs from the upcoming CD at the Day of the Equinox festival on October 14 in Toronto. Other acts scheduled to appear at the festival include GREEN CARNATION (making their exclusive and only North American appearance), AGALLOCH, DECEASED, NOVEMBERS DOOM and WOOD OF YPRES. More information is available at DayOfThEquinox.com.
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New Lilitu songs
08 Oct 2005
Click on the link below to listen to three brand new Lilitu songs. Another Session, Bleeding Me For Needing You, and Strike Another Promise And Watch It Burn. Enjoy!
Topic: Band News
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MOONSPELL To Record New Album In November
03 Oct 2005
MOONSPELL frontman Fernando Ribeiro has posted the following message on the group's official web site:
"We are in train of taking real important decisions in our life and carreer as a band and the next update should be a vast one with the definitive news about the 'Lunar Still' DVD final contents and release date; the new album approach with the title revealed as well as our label decision and the unavoidable new dates, plans and words from the lunar quarter. "As for now the Halloween show is taking shape, I guess we will be able as well to announce an extra date in Portugal before the end of October. Pre-production of the new record starts 3rd of ... |
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BLIND GUARDIAN To Complete New Single In November
03 Oct 2005
BLIND GUARDIAN frontman Hansi Kürsch has posted the following message at the band's web site:
"Although time keeps on ticking quickly, things go very well in the GUARDIAN camp. To be more precise: we are still on schedule, and even though everyone is totally busy and concentrated, the atmosphere is very lifely and still relaxed to a certain extent. The material for the single will be accomplished at the end of November. To make that happen, this particular stuff will get most of our attention for the next four weeks. Everyone is already involved in the recording process and we are really excited about the album's progression. It is too early to say when w ... |
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The EMPEROR is back!!! (For a while)
01 Oct 2005
Influential Norwegian extreme metal outfit EMPEROR will reunite for the 2006 edition of the Inferno Festival, set to take place April 13-15 in Oslo, Norway, it was announced Friday night at Scream Magazine's 15-year anniversary event at the Rockefeller in Oslo. Tickets for the festival have just been made available via Ticketmaster.no. EMPEROR will also headline Wacken open-air 2006. EMPEROR split up on a high note following the release of 2001's "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire..." The members have since concentrated on other bands such as ZYKLON and PECCATUM.
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