A lot has happened since the first Finnish Metal Expo in January 2005. Finnish metal has really gone where no one ever thought it would go, both domestically and internationally. Top of the charts, gold records and headline tours. Hell, the Finns even won the Eurovision Song Contest. Well, that's almost metal. The third annual ...
Swedish melodic metallers HAMMERFALL have been forced to postpone their Finnish headlining shows (originally scheduled for early January) in order to allow singer Joacim Cans enough time to recover from an operation which he is due to undergo in December. Commented Cans: "After a couple of months of serious vocal problems, my doctor finally tracked ...
Swedish death metallers DISMEMBER have cancelled their previously announced West Coast tour with GRAVE "due to financial reasons." According to a posting on DISMEMBER's web site, "the band is really sorry for this and has already started working on a new U.S. tour for the spring of 2007 to make up for the lost dates." ...
Drummer Anders Jakobson (ex-NASUM) of the Örebro, Sweden-based band COLDWORKER has issued the following update: "Unfortunately COLDWORKER have to cancel the European tour with NECROPHAGIST and MISERY INDEX due to work-releated reasons. This is a very sad thing as we were psyched about the tour, the bands and the route, but unfortunately we got struck ...
Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL will issue a special-edition CD/DVD version of their latest album, "Memorial", on December 4 in Portugal. More details (in Portuguese) on the release are available at this location. As previously reported, MOONSPELL has posted the animated video for its song "Luna" at this location. MOONSPELL was named "Best ...
SON OF SCIENCE, the tech-metal band formed by former DRAGONFORCE bassist Adrian Lambert, has recruited Tom Maclean of dark-prog metallers TO-MERA as a stand-in guitarist for their upcoming shows. Adrian says, "TO-MERA remains Tom's main project but the fact he's helping us out means we have more time to recruit a permanent guitarist who we're ...
German death metallers DEBAUCHERY have inked a deal with AFM Records. The group recently spent time at House of Music studios in Winterach, Germany with producer Dennis Ward recording its debut album, "Back in Blood", for a 2007 release. The new set will come as a double digipack, featuring a bonus CD containing seven cover ...
PITTS VS. PREPS — the Louisiana-based band featuring former EXHORDER/FLOODGATE and current ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY frontman Kyle Thomas — has made its "Below and Beyond" CD available for purchase via CDBaby.com. Thomas had previously said about PITTS VS. PREPS' musical direction, "It is centered around the truest sound of heavy metal in the realm ...
German death metal act COMMANDER will support DEICIDE, along with VISCERAL BLEEDING and PSYCROPTIC at Hafen in Innsbruck, Austria on January 25, 2007. COMMANDER released its acclaimed debut album, "World's Destructive Dommination", earlier this year via Bad Land Records/Point Music. As previously reported, German melodic/epic black metal band SYCRONOMICA will be utilizing the services of ...
