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| MORTAL SIN To Play At WACKEN OPEN AIR 2008. |
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 mapex writes "MORTAL SIN have been confirmed to once again play the Wacken Open Air festival in germany 2008.
Playing on the True Metal Stage at midday on friday the 1st of August.
Also on the bill are Iron Maiden, Carcass, At the gates, Kreator, Children Of Bodom, and many more!
For more information visit MortalSin.Com.Au"
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| MORTAL SIN Return From a Successful Tour Of Europe With OVERKILL. |
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 Legendary Australian heavy metal band MORTAL SIN have sent in the following update to HailMetal.Com e'zine regarding their tour of Europe with OVERKILL:
"The month of March will be remembered by MORTAL SIN as the most successful venture away from their home territory ever when they supported U.S. thrash legends OVERKILL through 15 shows in Europe. Beginning with two Metalmania Festivals headlined by MEGADETH in The Czech Republic and Poland, the tour then rolled into the former capital Munich. With many of the shows being sold out, Overkill vocalist Bobby Elsworth paid tribute to Mortal Sin as "a perfect match up for Overkill, a great package for promoters...- we tried for months to get Exodus as the support, but you know what? Fuck Exodus, Mortal Sin have done way better than we would have hoped Exodus would do!" Overkill made Mortal Sin more than welcome and fun times were had in each of the cities we played."
"By the time the tour reached Essen (home town of Kreator), the crowds were getting louder and louder for Mortal Sin. It was like a time machine had transported us all back to 1987 - wristbands, denim jackets, hair flying everywhere and bodies landing on the stage non stop throughout the Mortal Sin and Overkill sets. In Gothenburg, Sweden on the last show of the Overkill tour Mortal Sin were invited up on stage to sing "Old School" with Bobby and the gang, such was the respect shown - the offer was accepted and the respect returned!'
"From Sweden Mortal Sin travelled North to Oslo in Norway for the 2008 Inferno Festival, one of the most important Scandinavian metal festivals, this year featuring Onslaught, Behemoth, Vreid, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Unleashed, 1349, Overkill and Destruction among others. At minus 4 degrees, it was the coldest night of the tour and the streets were covered in Ice. Mortal Sin opened the main stage in the Rockefeller Centre and won over the predominantly Black Metal crowd with a blistering set which was recorded on CD and will be soon be released as an official Live Bootleg. It was a brilliant end to a brilliant tour."
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| TESTAMENT: Touring Australia In September? |
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 According to a press release by Chris Maric from RIOT Entertainment, legendary thrashers TESTAMENT will be returning to Australia in September of this year.
The band will release a new album titled "The Formation Of Damnation" in April 25 in Oz. To hear samples go to this location [45MB].
Thanks: Chris @ RIOT.
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| CHILDREN OF BODOM To Return To OZ & NZ. |
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CHILDREN OF BODOM will be returning to Australia and New Zealand in June this year. Confirmed dates are as follows:
June 20 @ The Arena Entertainment Complex, Brisbane, AUS (All Ages)
June 22 @ The Palace Theatre (formerly The Metro), Melbourne, AUS
June 24 @ The Enmore Theatre, Sydney, AUS (All Ages)
June 26 @ The Transmission Room, Auckland, NZ (All Ages)
June 28 @ Fowler's Live, Adelaide, AUS (All Ages)
June 30 @ Capitol Theatre, Perth, AUS
Tickets go on sale on Monday, March 17.
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(comments?) Monday, March 10 @ 16:27:14 EDT (1366 reads) |
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| LEICOHTICA & NEVETHERYN Announce Joint Australian Tour. |
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SMiM writes "Australia's multi-layered gothic black metal band LEICOHTICA and unconventional epic post-rock/metal act NEVETHERYM have announced Australian mini-tour dates for March/April 2008. The groups will be supporting their latest releases, "The Balance of Fire" and "Rendezvous", respectively.
Mar 28 @ The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, TAS
Mar 29 @ The Central Club, Melbourne, VIC
Mar 30 @ Newmarket Hotel, Bendigo, VIC
Apr 02 @ The Bass Bar, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Apr 03 @ The Basement, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Apr 04 @ The Basement, Canberra, ACT
Apr 05 @ The Harp, Sydney, NSW
Apr 06 @ The Grand Hotel, NSW
According to LEICOHTICA's official bio, the group's latest CD has been described by critics as "defiantly beautiful and angelically graceful whilst simultaneously bearing the full force of hell down upon its listeners." To get this sound the band uses soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone operatic voices with crushing death metal growls, furious double kickers and devastating guitar riffage to create its disobediently eclectic "beauty-and-the-beast" style.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/leicohtica.
Source: Blabbermouth.net"
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(comments?) Sunday, March 09 @ 16:23:15 EDT (1340 reads) |
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| OPETH Set "Watershed" As Upcoming Album Title. |
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 "Watershed" is the name of Opeth´s 9th studio observation. The album has just been mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren with M. Åkerfeldt. The album consists of 7 songs and the titles are as follows:
1. Coil
2. Heir Apparent
3. The Lotus Eater
4. Burden
5. Porcelain Heart
6. Hessian Peel
7. Hex Omega
All the songs have been written by M. Åkerfeldt apart from "Porcelain Heart" which was co-written with Fredrik Åkesson. One additonal track, "Derelict Herds" has also been recorded and this was written by Mikael Åkerfeldt and Per Wiberg. On top of this, 3 cover songs has been recorded. "Bridge of sighs" from Robin Trower´s 1974 Lp with the same title, "Den ständiga resan" (sung in Swedish) by Marie Fredriksson as well as the classic Alice in Chains song, "Would?".
The follow-up to 2005's "Ghost Reveries" is the first OPETH release to feature new guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and drummer Martin Axenrot and is the band's second effort for Roadrunner Records.
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| IRON MAIDEN Live In India. Setlist, Concert Footage, Photos Posted Online. |
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 Fan-filmed video footage of IRON MAIDEN performing the song "Wasted Years" Friday night night (February 1) at the opening show of the band's Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour '08 at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India can be viewed below. Check out photos from the concert at MaidenNorway.com.
The group's setlist was as follows:
01. Intro - Churchill's Speech
02. Aces High
03. 2 Minutes to Midnight
04. Revelations
05. The Trooper
06. Wasted Years
07. The Number of the Beast
08. Run to the Hills
09. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
10. Powerslave
11. Heaven Can Wait
12. Can I Play With Madness?
13. Fear of the Dark
14. Iron Maiden
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15. Moonchild
16. The Clairvoyant
17. Hallowed Be Thy Name
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| Bosnian TOXICDEATH To Play In Serbia. |
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 InMetal writes "Bosnian death metal act TOXICDEATH have been confirmed for the Castle Festival, set to take place on July 1-5 in Smederevo Fortress, Sebria.
The festival will also feature the following bands: Judas priest, Avantasia, Helloween, Lordi, At The Gates, Sodom, Soilwork, Evergrey, Dismember, Manticora, Sybreed, Secret Sphere + many others.
Further info @ CastleFestival.org"
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| CHRIS BRODERICK Joins MEGADETH. |
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 MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has officially confirmed that the band has parted ways with guitarist Glen Drover and replaced him with Chris Broderick (NEVERMORE, JAG PANZER).
"I've noticed [on the Internet] that people are pissed with me over the way things were handled with Glen quitting the group," says Mustaine, "but they're gonna be pissed even more when they hear how fierce we are with Chris! MEGADETH is playing at a new level."
In a November 2007 posting on the forum of MEGADETH's official fan club, MegaFanClub (accessible to members only), Mustaine stated about Drover, "sadly, Glen is having a really difficult time handling the demands of touring and we are finding that we are having to cut our European run down already, but that it is going to be one of the last long ones for some time."
Broderick will make his live debut with MEGADETH on February 4 in Finland, where the group — Mustaine, Broderick, drummer Shawn Drover and James Lomenzo on bass — is kicking off a long string of international dates which wrap March 14 in Bangalore, India.
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| DOBULE DRAGON: Enter Studio To Record Debut Album. |
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DoubleDragon writes "Australia's DOUBLE DRAGON have entered the studio to record their highly anticipated debut album titled 'Devastator'.
After releasing their debut EP 'Scars Of Fire' in 2006, the critically acclaimed release took the band to new heights, headlining shows across Australia and also landed them supports with international metal acts Slayer, Mastodon, Cephalic Carnage, Black Dahlia Murder, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity and also landed them a spot on the Australian music festival, The Big Day Out. Double Dragon have returned to the studio with producer Ian Miller, promising to make a work of metal that will stand the test of time and cement Double Dragon in Australian metal history.
As for the songs, vocalist Lee states "This is our heaviest work to date, and in hindsight its probably the sound we have been searching for since day 1. There are new elements to the songs, alot more experimentations but at the same time we have concentrated on our strengths, which essentially is twin guitar harmonies, groove and lots of melodic riffs".
"Lyrically the songs are darker, and the vocals will be a heavier than previous Double Dragon releases, but we have also written a couple of ballady type tracks, more classic rock in the vein of mellow Black Sabbath. We will always be a metal band, but the freedom of playing metal music gives us alot of room to experiment with different sounds, and I think our weed smoking fans will understand where we are coming from with the mellow tracks. I really feel these songs are going to be great live, and I cant wait to hit the road again and show the world a good ole fashioned Australian metal ass kicking".
'Devastator' is due for release in June 2008."
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(comments?) Saturday, January 05 @ 20:42:25 EST (1334 reads) |
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