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Dagor Dagorath - First Album To Be Released Soon

The Israeli symphonic black metal band, Dagor Dagorath, published on its official Myspace a new song entitled "Heaven in Hell". This track is one of seven on the band's debut album, to be called "Yetzer Ha'Ra".

The album's artwork is made by Greek artist Seth Siro Anton known for his work with Septicflesh (that did work for bands such as Moonspell, Vader, Belphegor, Paradise Lost).

Song list for the album "Yetzer Ha'Ra" is as follows:

1. The Hell in Heaven
2. The devil on the chain.
3. Heaven in Hell
4. The maze of madness
5. Vicious circle
6. The Call
7. Wind Cry

Official Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dagordagorath

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Source: myspace.com
Posted: 26.10.2008 by Jeff | Comments (0)


AC/DC - Black Ice Available Online

AC/DC's Black Ice is currently streaming on VH1's "The Leak", giving fans a taste of AC/DC's first album in eight years a week early. Black Ice will officially be available for purchase starting Monday, October 20th.

Check out Black Ice here:
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/acdc/2342912/album.jhtml?popThis=playIt()

Events surrounding AC/DC's Black Ice launch in NYC and LA this week, bringing fans a first taste in the countdown to the excitement of Black Ice's release date. Fully decked-out interactive Black Ice trucks and "pop-up" stores will enhance the fan experience to new heights.

Beginning Thursday, October 16, AC/DC fans will be able to visit the Black Ice trucks in various locations (see schedule below) to listen to the Black Ice album in full, try out the yet-to-be-released AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack video game and compete for AC/DC concert tickets amongst like-minded super-fans. Fans are invited to join the celebration at Times Square on Sunday, October 19 where Wal-Mart and MTV will unveil the AC/DC Rock Band-branded store, selling the first copies of Black Ice available to the public (which will be on-sale from the nearby Black Ice truck as well).

LA Locations:

10/16 12PM - 8PM Hollywood & Highland
10/17 12PM - 8PM The Grove
10/18 Roving Hollywood
10/19 10PM - 2AM Hollywood & Highland (Album release 12:01 am)
10/20 12PM - 8PM Hollywood & Highland
10/21 12PM - 8PM Universal City Walk
10/22 12PM - 8PM Farmer's Market all day

AC/DC's Black Ice World Tour opens on October 28th at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The worldwide tour - the band's first since 2001 - promotes Black Ice, AC/DC's latest studio album.

Black Ice will be released on October 20th and sold in the US exclusively at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, and www.acdc.com. The album is currently available for pre-order at www.walmart.com and www.acdc.com.

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Source: sonybmg.com
Band profile: AC/DC
Posted: 15.10.2008 by Jeff | Comments (2)


ProgPower Scandinavia - Mekong Delta Replaces Zero Hour

Unfortunately ZERO HOUR had to cancel their ProgPower Scandinavia appearance due to bassist Troy Tipton having to undergo surgery end of October. We are very saddened to hear this, and we wish Troy a speedy recovery, and hope to see them at ProgPower Scandinavia next year. Please find below the statement from Jasun Tipton in Zero Hour:

. . . .

This is very tough for me to write as we deeply regret to say Zero Hour has to cancel the upcoming live performance at ProgPower Scandinavia. My brother Troy has been struggling with Tendonitis for many years and in the last year the pain in his Ulnar nerve and tendons have pushed him to his limits. Troy has already run up a large amount of medical bills this year. Having met the deductible requirements of his health insurance policy, Troy needs to have the surgery done (followed by 6 weeks of rehabilitation) before the year is up. Unfortunately this created a scheduling conflict with ProgPower Scandinavia.

I want to thank Claus of Intromental/ProgPower Scandinavia for being nothing but supportive towards our decision. Claus is a class-act and has done an amazing job with his promotions work (Intromental Promotions) for Zero Hour over the years. This was going to be our first time playing in Denmark and we were so excited to come play ProgPower Scandinavia. Claus has put together an awesome lineup as all the bands are very talented. We hope ProgPower Scandinavia is a great success because it's a great event run by great people.

We want to apologize to everyone who was looking forward to seeing Zero Hour at ProgPower Scandinavia. This is the first time we've canceled an event and never wanted to be known as that type of band. It's very hard to see my brother in the condition he's in and this is the best thing for Troy and the band in the long run. ProgPower Europe will be our last event of 2008 and we'll do our best to let you know the status of Troy and the band in 2009.

METAL!!
Jasun/ZH

. . . .

With regards to ProgPower Scandinavia, we are of course very disappointed by the fact that we once again have to find a replacement band, as this year seem to be the year of several cancellations. However, we decided to find a band similar to Zero Hour in musical expression, so we chose German technical prog-thrashers MEKONG DELTA to be a suitable and very welcomed replacement band. MEKONG DELTA is a band that we actually had in mind for the original line-up of PP Scandinavia 2008, but with Zero Hour already on the bill, we did not want two bands so close in sound. The unfortunate situation with Zero Hour gives us a good reason for picking up MEKONG DELTA, and we are very proud of having them perform at our festival. If you do not know who MEKONG DELTA are, we urge you to check out their latest album "Lurking Fear" from 2007 or some of their classic albums like "Dances Of Death and Other Walking Shadows" 1990 and "The Principle of Doubt" 1989. MEKONG DELTA is really one of the original progressive metal bands in Europe, and with their hard thrash metal roots, they should make ProgPower Scandinavia into a truly original event.

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Source: progpowerscandinavia.com
Event: ProgPower Scandinavia
Posted: 16.09.2008 by Jeff | Comments (4)


Kivimetsän Druidi - Female Singer Joins The Band At Full Time

This is a message from Kivimetsän Druidi concerning the departure of Leeni-Maria Hovila from her former band Exsecratus.

"Leeni-Maria Hovila, vocalist since October -06, has left the band Exsecratus due to personal reasons.

She is going to cover some upcoming Exsecratus gigs as well as the next album 'Beloved Serpent'.

Leeni-Maria will continue with symphonic fantasy/folkmetal band Kivimetsän Druidi as well as with other future projects."

Source: kivimetsandruidi.com
Band profile: Kivimetsän Druidi
Posted: 15.09.2008 by Jeff | Comments (7)


Metallica - 2nd Single Available On Www.Metallica.com And ITunes

Metallica just released the second single off their upcoming album, Death Magnetic today. Entitled "My Apocalypse", the track is now available on www.metallica.com and for download on iTunes. Metallica fans should also check out iTunes where you can also purchase the riveting track "The Day That Never Comes" which premiered last week.

Official streaming: http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601136

iTunes link here

Additionally, the band have recently unveiled a new widget that the band will frequently updated with news, a trailer for their MissionMetallica.com fan site, and other Death Magnetic related material. The widget can be embedded onto most social networking sites and blog applications.

Widget link here

Death Magnetic will be available everywhere on September 12th.

Note of Metal Storm: According to some rumours, the band should release a new "digital" single every new Monday until the release date of the album.

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Source: totalassault.com
Band profile: Metallica
Posted: 26.08.2008 by Jeff | Comments (39)


Metallica - Single Available On Metallica.com, Myspace And ITunes

Metallica have just released the first single off their upcoming album, Death Magnetic. The epic track is entitled "The Day That Never Comes" and it's now available through iTunes. The band recently filmed a video for the track with Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg which will premiere soon.

Check out the track which is now streaming on www.Metallica.com at this location:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601119

or on MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/metallica

"The Day That Never Comes" is also available through iTunes now:

iTunes

Death Magnetic the new album from Metallica will be available worldwide Friday, September, 12, 2008.

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Source: totalassault.com
Band profile: Metallica
Posted: 21.08.2008 by Jeff | Comments (92)


AC/DC - New Album To Be Released In October 2008

Columbia Records announced today the October 20th release of AC/DC's widely-anticipated Black Ice, the band's first studio album in eight years. Black Ice features 15 new tracks from brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson, Cliff Williams, and Phil Rudd. The album was produced by Brendan O'Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC.

Rock 'N' Roll Train the album's first single, will debut on August 28th. The video will premiere in September. And the band is set to kick off its first world tour since 2001 in late October.

Black Ice will be sold in the U.S. exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club retail locations at the special price of $11.88. Online, the CD will be available with free shipping and handling via the band's website, http://www.acdc.com. It will also be sold at Walmart.com and Samsclub.com.

The cover is visible here http://www.acdc.com/bin/galImg/siteFiles/31e50a6e18

Black Ice is currently available for pre-order at http://www.acdc.com and www.Walmart.com.

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Source: sonybmg.com
Band profile: AC/DC
Posted: 18.08.2008 by Jeff | Comments (24)


Hellfest 2008 - Last Online Tickets

In a few days, HELLFEST gates will open, and at the moment you're reading this, tickets had never been sold so quickly!

Due to technical reasons, ticket-booking via our website (Digitick System) will be available only until Wednesday night, however there will still be tickets sold at the gates of the Festival, subject to availability.

The sky still looks nice here, and allow us to think we will enjoy a much more pleasant weather during the festival, so all conditions seem to be brought together for a memorable edition !

In addition, Arkhon Infaustus will not be able to perform on Sunday the 22nd, they will be replaced by English Hardcore band Your Demise

See you in a few days for the opening of HELLFEST gates!

Hellfest Team

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Source: hellfest.fr
Event: Hellfest Summer Open Air 2008
Posted: 17.06.2008 by Jeff | Comments (11)


Gothic Metal Palace - Festival Cancelled

According to the website of the Gothic Metal Palace which should take place in Zuidlaren, The Netherlands the 20 of June 2008, the festival is cancelled.

The following update was posted on the official website of the festival:

"Dear all,

Inspite of all our efforts to make this festival happen we simply cannot go through with it.

We tried everything we could with many commercials and live broadcasting on several national radiostations, ads in several newspapers and magasins and on websites, promotion over the internet and so on.

Nevertheless no more then 700 tickets are sold and that is far to little to make this happen.

We are very sorry that we have to cancel. This is so awful for you, for the bands and for all the people involved. For us it means one year of hard work with this result.

We really hope you understand that untill today we did everything we could. Of course your tickets will be refunded. We will inform you this week about that.

The organisation of Gothic Metal Palace."

Event: Gothic Metal Palace [CANCELLED]
Posted: 17.06.2008 by Jeff | Comments (13)


Hellfest Contest 2008 - The Winners

This is the result of the "Metal Storm - Hellfest 2008 contest":

The correct answers to the questions were:

- Question 1: How many Hellfest festivals have been organized in Clisson if you count this year as well?

Answer: 3

- Question 2: Name the famous band playing at Hellfest that is doing its farewell tour this year.

Answer: Ministry

- Question 3: According to Clisson history in which century was the castle of Clisson built?

Answer: Between the 12th and 13th Century (both answers were accepted!)

The great winners of the 3-Day Festival tickets are:

- Mark B. (South Africa)
&
- Jean R. (France)

The winners will be contacted by email for instructions and confirmation as soon as possible.

Thank for your participation and see you at Hellfest 2008!

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Source: metalstorm.ee
Posted: 01.06.2008 by Jeff | Comments (4)


Hellfest 2008 - The Last Names

We can finally give you the last names of the Hellfest 2008!

Slayer (Sunday) and Venom (Friday, only date in Europe) will be the two last headliners. The Swedish Doom Monsters Candlemass will be on the line up too.

Plus: Danko Jones, Punish Yourself, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, Krisiun, Disfear, Shai Hulud, Black Tide and two contest winner bands which will be known in May.

Sadly Angra, Himsa, 7 Seconds and Red Sparowes are cancelled.

The new Hellfest website and the "one day tickets buying system" will be online Friday 4th April 2008. We can already tell you that a lot of people from France and also from all around the world (thx Metal Storm right? ) have already bought their 3-Days tickets! Hellfest will be better and bigger than ever this year!

Metal Storm will be one of the official partners of the festival so be sure that other news will come later, stay tuned!

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Source: hellfest.fr
Event: Hellfest Summer Open Air 2008
Posted: 03.04.2008 by Jeff | Comments (16)


HellFest 2008 - New Names In The Line Up

And the new names for the HellFest 2008 are:

Cavalera Conspiracy + Motörhead + Apocalyptica + Iced Earth (with Mr Matt Barlow!) + Helloween Vs Gamma Ray (for a special fighting show!) + Porcupine Tree + Morbid Angel + Katatonia + Airbourne + Rose Tattoo + Death Angel + Soilwork + Haemorrhage + Impaled Nazarene + Misanthrope + Nightmare + Envy + Red Sparowes + Raintime + Kruger + Between The Buried And Me

Two headliners and twelve other bands will be announced in March. The "discovery stage" will be there one more time and some bands will start to play on it at 11/12 am.

Once more, Metal Storm will be a partner of the Hellfest festival! More news about it will come soon!

The official poster is visible here =>

http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hellfestvy1.jpg

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Source: hellfest.fr
Event: Hellfest Summer Open Air 2008
Posted: 22.02.2008 by Jeff | Comments (21)


Anathema - News About Two New Albums

The following news comes from Anathema's myspace page.

"Greetings to all?

We have taken all of our recording equipment to a house in England where we have built a studio and begun the first of two records to be released this year. The recording has been going very well.

This first record is a semi-acoustic recording of many of our most loved older tracks. This will be released on Peaceville records. The working title is 'temporary peace.'

The songs to be included on 'temporary peace' are:

Angelica, leave no trace, inner silence, one last goodbye, are you there, fragile dreams, a natural disaster, temporary peace and flying.

The record will be a substantial work, arranged by Danny and performed and produced by the band, recorded and engineered by our own Les Smith, who was responsible for the recordings of 'everything' and the other new songs released online last year.

This will also feature the cello of Dave Wesling, who previously toured with Vincent and Danny in 2004 and is featured on the DVD 'a moment in time.'

It may also include a reworking of one or two classic tracks from the very early days of anathema.

In late winter/early spring, immediately following the recording of this semi-acoustic album, we will enter a studio to record the next full length anathema album, which be produced by Anathema and mixed by Steven Wilson, independently from a record company.

Upon completion, the new album will be licensed around the world, giving us artistic and creative control and keeping the rights to the music in our own hands.

All being well, you will see the release of two records from anathema this year. A semi acoustic classic tracks album, and a full length new album.

Then touring?

Best wishes to all,

Anathema"

Band profile: Anathema
Posted: 10.02.2008 by Jeff | Comments (16)


Skiltron - Skyclad, Korpiklaani And Stille Volk Members To Play On The Upcoming Album

Argentinian folk metal act Skiltron have announced very special guests to play on their upcoming album ''Beheading The Liars'', set to be released in May 2008. The guests include Kevin Ridley, Steve Ramsey and Georgine Biddle of Skyclad, Jonne Järvelä of Korpiklaani and Patrice Roques and Patrick Lafforgue of Stille Volk.

The tracklist with the guests musicians reads as follows:

01. Skiltron
02. The Beheading
03. I'm What You've Done
04. Praying Is Nothing (featuring Jonne Järvelä)
05. Calling Out
06. The Vision Of Blind Harry
07. Hate Dance
08. Signs, Symbols And The Marks Of Man (featuring Kevin Ridley, Steve Ramsey and Georgina Biddle)
09. Let The Spirit Be
10. Fast And Wild
11. Crides (featuring Patrice Roques and Patrick Lafforgue)

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Source: skiltron.net
Band profile: Skiltron
Posted: 04.02.2008 by Jeff | Comments (4)


Anthemon - Call It Quits

After 10 years of existence ? during which time the band released one demo, one EP and three full-length CDs ? French dark metallers Anthemon have decided to call it a day.

At the time of the group's split, Anthemon was working on the material for the follow-up to 2005's "Kadavreski", entitled "Alois..."

However, Marc (bass) would like to introduce his new E-shop, Epiphora Productions:

http://www.epiphoraproductions.fr/

Epiphora Productions Eshop, at last, opens its doors!!! Its goal is to promote unsigned bands, underground labels and help them to sell their products (CD, Demo, Tape, T-Shirt, etc.). We can also help associations, promoters by selling gigs tickets.

Don't hesite to send us all the informations (dates, flyers,...) in order to promoter your work.

All Anthemon CDs (the four CDs) are available for only 20 euros at this location!

Labels, bands, associations, please contact us for more informations: info@epiphoraproductions.fr

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Source: epiphoraproductions.fr
Band profile: Anthemon
Posted: 05.11.2007 by Jeff | Comments (11)