Bleeding Through & As I Lay Dying Support Danzig

Bleeding Through and As I Lay Dying will be the support bands for the two special Danzig shows in Las Vegas on December 28th and Los Angeles on December 30th. For each show, Danzig will be performing a special Misfits set with Doyle for each show.

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Callenish Circle Set US Release Date

Candlelight Records confirms January 25 as the US release date for "Forbidden Empathy," a 2cd retrospect from Holland's Callenish Circle. Featuring 29 songs that chronicle the five-piece's complete and previously unavailable early recordings, the special-priced release is a must have for stateside fans of the melodic metal band.

Callenish Circle recorded their first and only demo, titled "Lovelorn," in 1995. Produced by Han Swagerman (The Gathering), it swiftly sold-out its limited 1000 pressing. The band's full-length debut, "Drift of Empathy," would follow in 1996 and successfully thereafter the band's "Escape" EP and 1998's impressive "Graceful Yet Forbidding." All, however, failing to reach via proper channels, stateside fans curious about the dutch band. Commenting on the stateside release singer Patrick Savelkoul says, "definitely in the US these recordings were extremely hard to find, so we are very excited that our fans in the US will be able to buy all our previous material in one single buy for the price of a regular CD."

Formed in 1992, Callenish Circle have released four full length albums and have performed at numerous high profile festival performances - including Wacken Open Air, Summer Breeze, European Ozzfest. The band are currently writing for their fifth album, expected sometime late 2005.

"Forbidden Empathy" track listing: More...

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Forever Slave Shoots Video For "Ophelia's Eyes"

The band Forever Slave has started to film their upcoming video, "Ophelia's Eyes."

You can find this song in their new CD, "Resurrection," where you will find dark ambients, violins, chorus, a main female voice by the gothic model Lady Angellyca and powerful guitars by Servalath and Oswalth in this cd. Besides Kristian Gundersen (guitar and singer in bands like Sirenia) collaborates in lyrics.

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Iron Maiden DVD Trailers Posted Online

The Iron Maiden official website has posted several trailers of the new DVD, "The Early Days," at this location.

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Monterrey Metal Fest To Be Filmed For DVD Release

The first-ever Monterrey Metal Fest, set to be held on Saturday, November 13, 2004 at the Coca Cola Auditorium in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, will be filmed with 10 stationary, mobile and crane-mounted cameras and will be released in the future in DVD format worldwide, according to a press release from Cage, one of the bands scheduled to appear at the festival. Other groups set to perform on the main stage include Twisted Sister, Dio, Dokken, Quiet Riot, Shaman and Hatebreed.

The secondnd stage will feature the hottest Mexican metal bands currently on the scene: Next, Evilheart, Argos, Aglarond, Calvaria, Marco Ferrigno - The Quest, Stentor, Eon, Skeptic Universe, Divina Lez and Aiwass.

To visit the Monterrey Metal Fest web site, click here.

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Pantheist Looking For Drummer

UK based doom band Pantheist is currently looking for a drummer. Rehearsals will take place in the West London area. They have just recorded their second album and are currently signed at Firedoom Music.

Pantheist is mainly a studio band, but a few select gigs will be played occasionally. Ideally, some gigs will be played after the release of their second album.

Auditions are welcome for the position of permanent drummer or session live drummer.

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Exmortem Confirm Album Details, Mp3 Available

Danish Death Metal savages EXMORTEM have confirmed the final details for the upcoming Nihilistic Contentment album, set for release on January 17th through Earache sub-label Wicked World. An mp3 of the track ‘Bitter Disciplin’ can be found here.

Exmortem are currently looking to announce details of an imminent UK tour for early 2005. Details as they become available.

Meanwhile, the new album festures the following tracklisting: More...

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Sirenia Announce Session Guitarist For The Tour

SIRENIA, the Norwegian gothic metal band featuring former TRISTANIA guitarist/vocalist Morten Veland, have announced the addition of session guitarist Bjørnar Landa for their upcoming European tour with TIAMAT, PAIN and THEATRE OF TRAGEDY. Landa joins the group as the temporary replacemen for guitarist/"clean" vocalist Kristian Gundersen, who left the band this past summer due to his commitments to his other groups, NEW BREED and ELUSIVE.

The tour dates are as follows: More...

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Impaled Nazarene Issue Live Album Update

Finnish Black metallers have issued the following update:

Here is the update about our live album and let me tell you, somebody out there seem to be against this album a lot.

Original plan (as it was announced here earlier) was to record three shows in Italy. Things got, well, really fucked-up. Our first show was in Milan and we had flights via Paris with Alitalia. We arrive to Milan, our luggage does not. After spending (read fighting) hours there, we manage to get info that some of our luggage will arrive later that day. Well, we got some stuff but our guitars and bass remained in Paris.

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Carpathian Forest Announce European Tourdates

Norwegian Black metallers CARPATHIAN FOREST, along with their mates from TSJUDER, WYKKED WYTCH and E-FORCE, have confirmed the dates of an European tour starting in February. The itinerary looks like this: More...

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Godsmack Songs Featured On New Prince Of Persia

Godsmack are to have songs included on the new video game 'Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within', which is due shortly, and is the follow-upl to the hugely successful 2003 game 'Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time'.

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Thunder Confirm UK Tour Dates For 2005

Thunder have confirmed the following British dates for next year: Sheffield University March 4, Birmingham Carling Academy 5, Bristol Carling Academy 6, Southampton Guildhall 7, Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall 9, London Shepherd's Bush Empire 10, Newcastle City Hall 12, Glasgow Academy 13, Manchester Academy 14, Norwich UEA 16.

The band's new single, 'I Love You More Than Rock 'N' Roll', is released on November 22.

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Vince Neil Cancels UK Tour

Vince Neil has cancelled his UK tour. No official explanation has yet been offered. Perhaps this is related to the Motley Crue reunion and tour? More details as they become available.

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Gorgoroth Causes Riots In El Salvador

Gorgoroth made the headlines in the major papers in Latin America after performing a show which created big riots in San Salvador. The audience got so extatic over the presence of the first black metal act visiting their country that the situation got totally out of control. The secutity and the police could not handle the people outside the venue so they had to call in the special forces "del cuerpo de Proteccion a Personalides Importantes" (PPI). When the PPI reached the venue the masses of people not getting a ticket for the already sold out show kicked in the entrancedoor and lots of fighting between the audience began. The audience started to kick in doors and toilets, several injuries occured and major damages to the venue. The PPI decided in the end to use gas on the audience to get the situation under control. When Gorgoroth entered the stage 30 security people had to be on stage preventing the audience to enter it. The fighting maintained through Gorgoroths performance and the PPI and the police had to hold the audience inside the venue with firearms to get the band in safety. Gorgoroth came from the incident without any injuries.

Pictures and links will come later (at gorgoroth.org)

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