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FOLKSTONE's New CD coming soon

Over a month of hard sessions and recording to define what will be the first Folkstone's full-length, the metal-medieval italian Alpe's band that is quickly spreading in the european metal environment.

This work, that will be available from April, the 24 on Fuel records label/SELF distribution (www.self.it), will be in luxury-digipack, with 16 pages long booklet, mountains locations photos and Jacopo Berlendis' paintings.

The cd will contain 10 electric songs plus 2 acoustic tracks (Intro and Outro for opening and closing) to make even more beautiful this precious work arisen from more than 2 years of music on the road, like a busker or a poor minstrel: the trouble was the chose of the tracks between many others. In the end, the definitive list includes 4 remastered old songs.

Definitive track list:
01. Intro
02. FolkStone
03. Briganti di Montagna
04. Rocce Nere
05. Avanti (trad. del xv secolo)
06. In Taberna
07. Oltre il Tempo
08. Con Passo Pesante
09. Lo Stendardo
10. Igni Cena (Schelmish tribute)
11. Alza il Corno
12. Outro

Following the release of the cd, the metal-folk band will go on a european tour that will take them in castles and medieval village and in prestigious locations like Lucerna (Ch)-Sedel, MusicDrome(Mi), Biella-BeltaneFestival, Lipsia(D)-Gotik Treffen+Corvus Corax, Zurich(Ch)-Fiesta Pagana+Finntroll, Hamburg(D)-Hoernerfest, AdroRock+ Mago de Oz, Selb(D)-Mediaval Festival+Subway to Sally etc.., a travel of 2 months trough the most important rock festivals.

If you'll have occasion to see one of their bloody shows, you'll personally understand their carrying and contagious happyness, and the warm answer of
the people from every part of the world, and above all the enormous quantity of beer that floods on their stage.

If you want to know some more, visit www.myspace.com/FolkStone


Monday, May 12, 2008

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OPPOSITION PARTY european dates 2008

Singapore's punk/metal pioneers, OPPOSITION PARTY, will be in Europe in June for the following dates.

June 13 - Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d’Or - Barbara, PARIS (FRANCE)
June 14 - ScumFest, LONDON (UK)
June 15 - The Grosvenor, LONDON (UK)
June 16 - 1 In 12, BRADFORD (UK)
June 18 - Le Pix Bar, PARIS (FRANCE)
June 19 - L'Espace Blues, PARIS (FRANCE)
June 20 - tba, LIEGE (BELGIUM)
June 21 - tba, (LUXEMBOURG)

Check out www.oppositionparty.net for latest updates and band information.

Song samples are available at www.oppositionparty.net/media.htm for free download.

Friday, May 09, 2008

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Sight of Emptiness - ACAM AWARDS 2008 - 2 NOMINATIONS

Sight Of Emptiness, the international acclaimed Metal act from Costa Rica, has been nominated in two categories for this years ACAM Awards (May 26th). ACAM (Asociacion de Compositores y Autores Musicales de Costa Rica) is the equivalent of ASCAP in the USA.

One of Sight Of Emptiness nominations comes as a big surprise to many, they are nominated in the biggest category of the award show: "Artist Of Greatest International Exposure 2007". They are nominated together with two other Costa Rican acts, one Jazz act "Swing en 4" and the other a Latin Pop band "Escats". This is the first time ever a Metal band is nominated in this category.

Sight Of Emptiness other nomination is for their debut album: "Trust is a Disease", which is in the "Best Metal Album 2007" category.

Sight of Emptiness had this to say about their nominations:

- "We are extremely honored and of course surprised to be nominated, not only in one category, but two! Finally, people in Costa Rica and the world are taking notice, we are a band to watch out for. We have big goals and this nomination really helps to remind us that we are on the right way. Expect a new album of Extreme Melodic Metal without FILLERS."

www.sightofemptiness.com
www.myspace.com/sightofemptiness

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

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P.O.D. Interview - Album Delayed for 8 Months

P.O.D.'s Marcos Curiel commented in an interview with Mitchell Blatt how the band's latest album When Angels and Serpents Dance has been delayed progressively from August, 2007, to September, November, December, etc, all the way up to April. (P.O.D. Interview)

He also commented on his thoughts on school shootings from the song "Youth of the Nation":

"I think people are more aware. I’m not sure the situation has gotten a whole lot better, though, because there are still a lot of shootings going on. They aren’t even just going on at schools anymore. They’re happening at the mall now. I think a lot of it is, people need to be aware of their surroundings, and if they see any warning signs, they need to speak up. I think sometimes people just assume that everyone is okay, and that’s not always true.

I have a really different viewpoint on the world, and I think a lot of times the conditions that we live in here in America causes these sudden outbursts."

And how kids can be so influenced by music. For example, when they were filming the video for "Youth of the Nation":
"We had a girl sitting on the hood of the car going down the highway. MTV had us edit that out because kids are so easily influenced.”

Monday, March 17, 2008

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DENDURA Joins UNEXPECT and SHADOWSIDE

Dendura Joins Unexpect and Shadowside at Flight of the Valkyries Festival.

Dendura (USA), the Egyptian-inspired, female-fronted progressive band with belly dancers, will join co-headliners Unexpect (Canada) and Shadowside (Brazil) for the second-annual Flight of the Valkyries festival at Station 4 in St. Paul, MN, on Saturday, June 28. Flight of the Valkyries is the only festival in the USA to feature a complete lineup of female-fronted metal bands.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

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Loudrage signs with Hatework

Hatework announces the first management & production project, repared and discussed for the last few months: Loudrage signs with Hatework.
Loudrage became an important name of the death metal scene in Romania, being the only band labelled as "groovy death metal", and having multiple live concerts from which the opening for Sepultura and Vital Remains and the Romanian tour with the US thrash/death act Rictus Grin stand tall.

After just releasing "Rage Unleashed - Tale of a Murderer", their first EP, Loudrage signed a management & production deal with Hatework, and we started preparing together with Halfdark Productions the first professional video-clip, "Another One of Us", set to go on-air in April 2008.

http://www.loudrage.com is updated with all info regarding the band
biography, tour-dates, interviews, and future plans.

The groovy strikes hard:
Loudrage prepares a lot of live gigs on Romanian soil for the near future, as well as a two weeks tour with Rictus Grin in the USA for October 2008 and has been scheduled for various radio shows in Romania, Canada, USA, Argentina, Venezuela, and so on.

"Rage Unleashed" can be ordered from the website.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008· More info at loudrage.com »

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REDEMPTION. New album out Now!

Randomwalk's debut album "Redemption" is now available. It contains nine songs plus "Faces Down" video clip.

Track listing of "The Origins Of Ruin"

1. The Suffocating Silence
2. Bleed Me Dry
3. The Death of Faith & Reason
4. Memory
5. The Origins of Ruin
6. Man of Glass
7. Blind My Eyes
8. Used to Be
9. Fall on You
10. Precious Things (cover song Tori Amos - Japan only)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

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SEVERED MASS back in action

Back in action after a long break and an ever-changing line-up.

The new site is located right here:
http://www.myspace.com/severedmass

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

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Crocell searching for label, new songs up

Together with Jacob "Formanden" Olsen the Danish band Crocell (with members and ex-members from Compos Mentis, Adversary, Slugs, Demolition Inc. and Mare Crisium) recently finished mixing their debut album in Tue Madsen's studio, The Antfarm.

The album features eleven tracks of fierce thrashy death metal and the band is now looking for a suitable label to release the album - interested parties are hereby urged to get in touch!

Also, the band has just uploaded two new tracks from the forthcoming album to their Myspace profile (www.myspace.com/crocelldk), namely "Winter is Coming" and "The God We Drowned".

Friday, February 01, 2008

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MUDVAYNE Webisode 2: Go-Kart Racing In Italy

MUDVAYNE's latest Kyte.tv webisode has been posted, featuring footage of the alternative metal act racing go-karts in Italy, having trouble figuring out currency conversion and the language, and offering some post-race
commentary. Watch the clip below.

MUDVAYNE's new collection of rarities, demos and live recordings, "By The People, For The People", sold 22,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 51 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Fans helped choose the songs on "By The People, For The People" at Mudvayne.com, with the group deciding on the final selection. The record contains demo versions of some of MUDVAYNE's most popular songs, including "Death Blooms", "Fall Into Sleep", "Not Falling" and "Happy".

The set also features a previously unreleased cover of THE POLICE's "King of Pain", plus live and acoustic versions of other MUDVAYNE favorites.

"By The People, For The People" contains one new song called "Dull Boy". Although the band has been working on its next CD, singer Chad Gray told The Pulse of Radio that the track does not represent what the fourth MUDVAYNE
album will sound like. "'Dull Boy' is not, like, how the rest of the songs are," he said. "You know what I mean, like, it's kind of out there in its own sense and it's not like...I'm wondering how people will react to that,
like thinking if that's how the new record is, it's all like that. Which I don't want to comment on, how the new record is, 'cause it's not, in my eyes right now I don't feel like it's necessarily complete."

Gray's other band, HELLYEAH, recently issued a live DVD titled "Below The Belt".

Video link:
http://www.kyte.tv/channels/view.html?uri=channels/19152

Monday, January 07, 2008

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