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Kataklysm - European Tour Dates

As promised, Kataklysm has rescheduled its previous Euro tour dates, The band has decided to share a co headlining bill with friends and Polish war machine Behemoth for the first half of the tour, additional support will come via Belgium's Death Metal Gore masters Aborted and German Black Metal band Lyfthrasyr.

Kataklysm is currently reeking havoc and gaining big momentum in North America on the "Invaluable Darkness" tour, together with label mates Dimmu Borgir.

More tour dates are planned for Kataklysm's "Road to Devastation" world tour this year and will be available shortly.

Kataklysm w/ Behemoth / Aborted / Lyfthrasyr

26/ Sep LUX Esch/Alzette Rockhal
27/ Sep CH Pratteln Z7
28/ Sep IT Milan Rainbow
29/ Sep AT Linz Posthof
30/ Sep CZ Zlin Masters Of Rock Cafe
1/ Oct HU Budapest Petoefi Csarnok
2/ Oct SB Belgrade SKC
3/ Oct SI Ljubljana VPK Media Park
4/ Oct AT Wörgl Komma
5/ Oct AT Graz Orpheum
6/ Oct FR Strasbourg La Laiterie
7/ Oct NL Zaandam De Kade
8/ Oct DK Aarhus Studentenhouse
9/ Oct SE Gothenburg Musikens Hus
10/ Oct SE Stockholm Klubben
11/ Oct DK Copenhagen The Rock
12/ Oct NL Leeuwarden Romein
13/ Oct BE Vosselaar Biebob
14/ Oct FR Lyon CCO Villeurbanne
15/ Oct ES Barcelona Apolo 2 *
16/ Oct ES Madrid Ritmo & Compas *
17/ Oct ES Irun Tunk! *
18/ Oct FR Paris Nouveau Casino *
19/ Oct UK London Underworld *
20/ Oct UK Leeds Rio *
21/ Oct IR Dublin Voodoo Lounge *
22/ Oct SCO Glasgow Soundhaus *
23/ Oct UK Mansfield The Intake Club *
24/ Oct UK Kingston The Peel *
25/ Oct FR Rennes Ubu *
26/ Oct NL Nijmegen Doornrosje *
27/ Oct DE Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Hall (NB festival 20 years)**

* Kataklysm / Aborted only
** Kataklysm only

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Source: kataklysmrocks.com
Band profile: Kataklysm
Posted: 06.05.2007 by Unknown user | Comments (7)


Kamelot - New Video Online

A video for the titeltrack of the new Kamelot album "Ghost Opera" is finally out. You can watch it here or on the new Ghost Opera website.
Ghost Opera is due in store June 1, 2007.

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Source: kamelot.com
Band profile: Kamelot
Posted: 06.05.2007 by LeDruide | Comments (8)


Amorphis - New Album Details

According to a posting on the band's website, "Silent Waters" will be the title of the upcoming Amorphis album. Prior to its release, the title track will be issued as a CD single in Finland and as a download single worldwide. Like its predecessor "Eclipse", the new album will be thematically based on an episode from Finland's national epic, the Kalevala.

Tracklist:

01. Weaving The Incantation
02. A Servant
03. Silent Waters
04. Towards And Against
05. I Of Crimson Blood
06. Her Alone
07. Enigma
08. Shaman
09. The White Swan
10. Black River
11. Sign (bonus track on digipak)

Release date: August 29 (FI)/August 31 (other countries)

"The Silent Waters" single will contain the following tracks:

01. Silent Waters (edit)
02. Sign
03. Silent Waters (album version)

Release date: June 27

Source: kingfooentertainment.fi
Band profile: Amorphis
Posted: 06.05.2007 by EddieGunner | Comments (4)


Earthshaker Roadshock Tour - Remaining Dates Cancelled

The remaining dates on the Earthshaker Roadshock tour ? featuring Finntroll, Tarot, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, After Forever, Machine Men and All Ends ? have been cancelled from Vienna May 5 th onwards. According to the official website, more info will follow soon.
The following dates have been affected:

May 05 - Vienna, Austria @ Planet Music
May 06 - Padova, Italy @ Sottoopra
May 07 - Pratteln, Switzerland @ Z7
May 08 - Essen, Germany @ Zeche Carl
May 09 - Saarbrücken, Germany @ Garage
May 10 - London, UK @ Scala
May 11 - Heerhugowaard, Holland @ Waerdse Tempel
May 12 - Strasbourg, France @ La Laiterie
May 13 - Paris, France @ La Locomotive

A statement regarding the cancellations by After Forever can be found at this location. And one by Finntroll at this location.

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Source: earthshaker-roadshock.com
Event: Earthshaker Roadshock Tour [CANCELLED]
Posted: 06.05.2007 by Thryce | Comments (1)


Heavenly - To Open For Scorpions In France

Posted on the official Heavenly website:

"Heavenly has been chosen to be the Scorpions opener for their french tour.
So the Scorpions and the Heavenly boyz gives you a "rendez-vous" in Paris, Nantes, Dijon & Rouen in order to "burn" all this Zenith!"

Source: heavenly.fr
Band profile: Heavenly
Event: Scorpions: 2007 World Tour
Posted: 04.05.2007 by GT | Comments (4)


Onslaught - Forced To Cancel UK Dates

Posted on the official blog on Onslaught's MySpace:

"UK Thrashers Onslaught have been forced to cancel the remaining dates of their British tour due to a serious health issue concerning vocalist Sy Keeler.
The Onslaught frontman was rushed to hospital during the soundcheck at Leeds Rios suffering from an acute loss of vision. Keeler has since undergone an emergency operation to repair a detached retina in his left eye. If it was not for this immediate procedure the doctors said he would have almost certainly lost the sight in this eye.
Following the bands announcement to the Rios crowd regarding the situation , Onslaught were taken aback by the overwhelming warmth and support showed to them by the enthusiastic audience. This compelled the band to quickly reorganise and power through a few chosen classics with guitarist Nige Rockett handling the bulk of the vocal duties. Eviles' Matt Drake also joined the band onstage to scream out a thunderous version of Shellshock
Speaking from hospital a distraught Sy Keeler expressed his sincere apologies to all the fans that were looking forward to the first leg of the 'Killing Peace' tour and is hoping to be fit enough to hit the road as soon as is humanly possible
Onslaught are currently looking into re-scheduling the cancelled dates for later in the year."

Source: blog.myspace.com
Band profile: Onslaught
Posted: 04.05.2007 by SteTech | Comments (3)


Gorefest - New Album Details

The following update has been issued by guitarist Frank Harthoorn on Gorefest's official webpage:

"Exciting times in Gorefest-land. Tue Madsen's finished mixing some of our finest songs ever, and an excellent job he did. He managed to make everything sound even heavier than we'd imagined. Which is quite a feat, actually, because boy, our imaginations can be all over the place, I'll tell ya! Anyway, I guess it's pretty obvious we're quite pleased with the whole thing and, indeed, ourselves. Now, for some even more exciting details: the title of this Headbanger's Delight will be "Rise To Ruin". Nuclear Blast will be releasing it throughout Europe on august 3rd, with a UK release following 3 days later. I have no idea why, but there you go. Details on the US release date TBA. As with our previous CD La Muerte, "Rise To Ruin" will feature some wonderful artwork by british artist Rob 'Mid' Middleton.

Tracklist is as follows:

1. Revolt
2. Rise To Ruin
3. The War On Stupidity
4. A Question Of Terror
5. Babylon's Whores
6. Speak When Spoken To
7. A Grim Charade
8. Murder Brigade
9. The End Of It All

All this excitement will culminate in an undoubtedly quivering orgasm of aural glory at a listening session which will be held at Plein 79 in Den Bosch on wednesday, may 9th. Lots of very important press will be invited for this, so to make sure there's actually some people there, I'll put the first ten fans that drop me an email on request@gorefest.nl on the list as well. Drinks are on us!"

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Source: gorefest.nl
Band profile: Gorefest
Posted: 03.05.2007 by Thryce | Comments (3)


Mercyful Fate - No Reunion At Hand

Rumours that Mercyful Fate was going to play again started after the wedding of one of Force Of Evil's guitarists on March 19th.

This is what was written back then on Covenworldwide, the official Mercyful Fate and King Diamond webpage:
"A rare meeting took place at Michael Denner's wedding on March 17th.. Members from original Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Force Of Evil and Zoser Mez were all present to support Michael in getting married. Mercyful Fate presented 5 members, King Diamond presented 3 members, Force of Evil presented 5 members and Zoser Mez presented 4 members. Ole Bang, Tourmanager of all 4 bands since the beginning, was making sure all musicians were in place for the photoshoot."
You can see that photo here.

It seams that many fans were expecting Mercyful fate reunion but Ole Bang wrote the following announcement on the official King Diamond and Mercyfull Fate webpage on May 2:
"Despite uncollaborated rumours I have to inform you; There is no plan for a Mercyful Fate reunion !!!"

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Source: covenworldwide.org
Band profile: Mercyful Fate
Posted: 03.05.2007 by APOHAKC | Comments (6)


Hellfest - Schedule Time Table & Information

Hello everybody!

The schedule time table is online here. You can already start to prepare your planning!

Note by the way this important notification: Cameras with flash will be strictly forbidden on the Sunday! Don't forget it if you don't want to go back to your car or your tent when you'll be all the way at the gates of the festival.

The camping will be better this year with more sanitary conditions, toilets but also showers and you'll be able to have breakfast in the morning (though the breakfast will not be free).

The price of the camping will be ?10 (for 1 or 4 nights). It's not free but you have to know that the price that we have to pay for the fields for the camping and parking is really expensive. On the other hand, we will offer to all the campers a special "Hellfest Metal Bag" where they will be able to put their refundable glass bottles, their purchases of the day at the Extreme Market and where they will find some presents of our partners.

Finally, don't hesitate to check out the contests of our partners, Vestal, Rock A Gogo, Metal Storm, and soon also on VS-Webzine.com and on our MySpace page.

Hellfest's staff

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Source: hellfest.fr
Event: Hellfest Summer Open Air 2007
Posted: 03.05.2007 by Jeff | Comments (14)


The Old Dead Tree - To Record New Album

Plucked from the official Seasons Of Mist Newsletter:

"French Goth Metal act The Old Dead Tree will soon enter the Stage One Studio in Germany, to record their forthcoming album. The recording sessions will start on next June 3rd and last three weeks. Once again, the band decided to give trust to producer Andy "Master" Classen.

The band describes the new material as "a twisted and schizophrenic blend of evocative riffs and arrangements put together with an overload of sheer emotion. The new songs do widen the previous artistic borders without disavowing the typical musical identity of the band".

The Old Dead Tree's yet to be named third album is tentatively due for a worldwide release in autumn 2007, on Season of Mist. We will get you more details as soon as possible..."

Source: season-of-mist.com
Band profile: The Old Dead Tree
Posted: 03.05.2007 by Thryce | Comments (4)


Lake Of Tears - Another New Song Online

Another new song 'Island Earth' from the upcoming album "Moons And Mushrooms" is now available on Lake Of Tears MySpace's page here.
You can also find on the same link another song 'Last Purple Sky' from "Moons And Mushrooms" which was released previously.

The 7th album from Lake of Tears, "Moons and Mushrooms" was released on April 22. The album comes in two editions: one standard jewel case and one limited edition digipack with the bonus track "Is There A Better Way".

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Source: lakeoftears.net
Band profile: Lake Of Tears
Posted: 03.05.2007 by White Winter Sun | Comments (1)


Theatres Des Vampires - New Video Available

The following message was posted on Theatres Des Vampires' official website:

"Theatres Des Vampires is going to participate in the soundtrack of the animated short Murnau The Vampire.
'Bring Me Back' will be the main track of the film, from his latest production Desire Of Damnation. Besides of 3 re-arranged versions of Jester's Shadow, Carnival Day and Curse Of Headless Christ.

They also confirmed his participation on the album, "Listen The Children Of The Night" with a remix of "La Danse Macabre Du Vampire". The original version of this song is part of the "Desire Of Damnation" album.

OM Animation Studio will follow the realization of the videoclip 'Bring Me Back' from the album "Desire Of Damnation", and this videoclip will be included in the upcoming DVD: "Murnau The Vampire".

This video was directed by Oscar Alvarado and you can download it here (rar archive)".

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Source: theatres-des-vampires.com
Band profile: Theatres Des Vampires
Posted: 03.05.2007 by White Winter Sun | Comments (3)


Vader - Live Video And More

The following message was posted on Vader's official website:

"A video clip of Polish death metal veterans Vader performing a cover of Slayer's "Raining Blood" Friday night (April 27) at The Gaelic Club in Sydney, Australia has been posted online at HailMetal.Com (free registration required). Photos from the gig can be found here.
In other news, Vader frontman Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek was recently interviewed by Andrew Haug of Triple J's "Full Metal Racket" (based in Australia). Listen to the interview in streaming audio at the Triple J website: Windows Media, Real Media".

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Source: vader.pl
Band profile: Vader
Posted: 02.05.2007 by White Winter Sun | Comments (1)


Graspop - Final Line Up

The lineup for the 2007 edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting is finally complete!

GMM is proud to present another top act with the final batch of names for GMM 2007:

Joe Satriani

Joe 'Satch' Satriani is one of the greatest contemporary guitar heroes. His first instrument was the piano, but he was so impressed by Jimi Hendrix that the guitar became the most important thing in his life. Joe initially earns his money playing in local bands and teaching guitar (Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett being famous pupils). Then in 1987, his instrumental second album 'Surfing with the Alien' forces an international breakthrough'. He hasn't looked back since and in the meantime this guitar virtuoso has compiled an impressive discography.

These are the new additions:

Friday: Joe Satriani, Epica, Fastway, Static X (+ Aerosmith, Chris Cornell, Within Temptation, Type O Negative, Blind Guardian, Papa Roach, Therion, Celtic Frost, Thin Lizzy, Pain Of Salvation, Sabaton, Grave Digger, Vader, Amorphis, 1349.

Saturday: Legion Of The Damned, Rose Hill Drive, Spiralarms (+ Iron Maiden, Korn, Heaven And Hell, Life Of Agony, Stone Sour, Dimmu Borgir, Cannibal Corpse, Tiamat Atheist, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Lamb Of God, Less Than Jake, Sirenia, Brutal Truth, Drowning Pool, Lauren Harris)

Sunday: As I Lay Dying, Mercenary (+ Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer, Velvet Revolver, Children Of Bodom, Black Label Society, Hammerfall, Amon Amarth, Finntroll, Mastodon, Moonsorrow, Chimaira, Devildriver, Korpiklaani, In This Moment, Turisas, Eluveitie, Unearth)

Have been added to the Metal Dome bill: El Guapo Stuntteam, Stormrider, Oceans Of Sadhess and Scarve (+ several other bands...)

The exact timetable will be posted online as soon as possible!

You will find all information about Graspop Metal Meeting on:

http://www.graspop.be

or

http://www.myspace.com/graspop

Source: Graspop

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Source: graspop.be
Event: Graspop Metal Meeting 2007
Posted: 02.05.2007 by Jeff | Comments (11)


Månegarm - Live Session Drummer Wanted

As posted on the official website:
Månegarm is searching for a live session drummer. You should live in the area of Stockholm and have quite a lot of earlier live experience. If you are interested and serious contact the band at: moonjarm@hotmail.com

Source: manegarm.com
Band profile: Månegarm
Posted: 02.05.2007 by Warman | Comments (0)