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UK rockers The Treatment will guest with ex-Gn’R & Velvet Revolver axe-man Slash on four shows in February & March; the dates – including one headline show in Northern Ireland – are as follows:-

February

28 Nottingham Arena, Nottingham (w/ Slash)

March

01 Empress Ballroom, Blackpool (w/ Slash)
02 The Diamond Club, Ballymena (headline show)
03 Olympia Theatre, Dublin (w/ Slash)
04 Olympia Theatre, Dublin (w/ Slash)

Tickets for the dates with Slash are available here: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Slash-tickets/artist/771959

Tickets for the headline show in Ballymena are available here: http://tinyurl.com/atomrjg; this will be the second time the Cambridge outfit have played The Diamond Club.

The Treatment are no strangers to touring with genuine rock legends, having ...

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TURBOGEIST ANNOUNCE ‘ANCIENT SECRETS’ EP FOR MARCH 11TH RELEASE
VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS
+ ARTWORK REVEAL
++ STREAM OF SINGLE, ‘MERMAIDS REVENGE’

http://soundcloud.com/spinefarmrecords/mermaids-revenge/s-h6cUs

LONDON-BASED rockers, Turbogeist, will release their brand new 5-track EP, ‘Ancient Secrets’, on March 11th 2013 via Spinefarm Records.

Says guitarist / vocalist, Jimmy…

“Ancient Secrets pertains to our obsession with all things fantastical and cryptic. It’s an abstract title, but these are abstract times. We didn’t wanna make an oi oi punk angst record, although that’s how we started out. We wanted to make something more tongue-in-cheek, more weird. We were always turned on by a splatter gun of influences...

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VON HERTZEN BROTHERS ANNOUNCE BRAND NEW STUDIO ALBUM, ‘NINE LIVES’, FOR MARCH 18TH RELEASE VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS + UK FESTIVAL & HEADLINE SHOWS…

FINLAND’s NUMBER ONE rock act, Von Hertzen Brothers, will release their fifth studio album, ‘Nine Lives’, on March 18th 2013 via Spinefarm Records.

Jari Salo aka James Spectrum (Pepe Deluxe) joined VHB in the studio to once again produce & mix ’Nine Lives’, following his work on their 2011 album, ‘Stars Aligned’ – the band’s third consecutive No 1 outing in Finland!

With ‘Nine Lives’, the initial idea was to give greater freedom to the more accessible side of the music, but it wasn’t long before deep-rooted instincts started to play a part…

“Suddenly, it all span out of control,” laughs vocalist/guitarist Mikko Vo...

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January 15th – Danish metal band Volbeat has revealed the band is in the studio recording a new album for release in Spring, 2013. Titled Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, the sessions are being produced by Rob Caggiano, alongside Jacob Hansen, who has a long history with Volbeat having produced and mixed the band’s prior four releases. Caggiano’s producer credits include The Damned Things, Bleeding Through and Anthrax amongst others.

Front man Michael Poulsen reveals: “We’re back in the studio, this time breaking some of our old habits and this sometimes means leaving our comfort zone...

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Me, who never lived the rock ’n roll life in the 80s, Im extremely happy to just look around nowadays and meet more and more bands, who give the feeling of that great, heroic time of rock and the life around it. This style seems that – thanks good- started to spread again, as a nostalgy nowadays, hopefully getting over one day the stupid trendy pop songs.

I met quite by chance Shock Rocket, a young band ruined in Italy. The four guys, -not more than 20 years old boys Im talking about-, not just play or try to play the rock n’ roll, they really live that life and the music at all. And its absolutely right: topics, songs, and the all enviroment around Marty, Marco, Andrew and Joey is full with the emotion what we usually love to call hard rock...

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Stället är en sportbar i Gamla Stan och jag blir osäker på om jag kommit rätt så jag frågar vakterna om det är här banden ska spela. Och det ska dem, nere i källaren där klubben Pussy A Go Go huserar och jag känner mig genast mer hemma i de nedre regionerna där det är mörkt och mysigt än bland de fjantiga sportfånarna
När Styggelse från Göteborg gör entré ökar mysfaktorn ordentligt och deras punkiga black gör sig finfint från den här lilla scenen. Det känns exklusivt. Det hörs att Styggelse hämtat näring från den riktigt tidiga blacken och det råa, opolerade angreppet tilltalar mig mycket. Bandet har funnits sedan 2003 och under dessa tio år färdigställt några demos, en EP och fullängdaren ”Heir Today-God Tomorrow”...

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It’s been a long wait since British heavy metal band Beholder released their last album (The Awakening – released in 2009). Since then there has been one lineup change – Simon Cliffe being replaced on guitar by Scott Taylor (maybe having three Simons in the band just got too confusing). The four year gap doesn’t mean the band have been sitting around resting though – they’ve been touring regularly throughout this time and playing festivals such as Bloodstock. I enjoyed their last album, and their live shows are always great, and having heard some of the new songs live when the band supported Lawnmower Deth in December I was looking forward to hearing this new album.

Well, it was definitely worth the wait. If I was to try and sum up the album with just four words, those words would be…...

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Combichrist’s latest release is ”No redemption”, which is thirteen new songs written for the computer game series Devil May Care. In addition to the standard 13 track cd, ‘No Redemption’ will be released as a limited deluxe 2 disc edition which contains a second disc which contains ten classic Combichrist tracks that are also used in the game.

Combichrist have always had a distinctive sound that blends Metal, Industrial and electronic dance sounds. It’s a sound that has won them a lot of fans, particularly when they toured supporting Rammstein.
This new album is quite different – with some tracks the electronic sounds have been scaled down dramatically and what you’re left with is a more generic Metal/Industrial sound which I found extremely disappointing – tracks such as ”Age of mu...

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nulldB come from Würzburg in Germany and in 2008 won the ”German Rock and Pop Award” as the best newcomer in the category ”Hard ‘n’ Heavy”. In 2009 they released their debut album ”In the Eye of the Storm”.
The bands biography describes them as ”Neue Deutsche Härte” (New German Hardness), which I have to say isnt a term I was familiar, but after some digging it turns out to be a a style that is influenced by German rock, alternative metal, hard rock along with elements from electronica and techno, and the genre includes bands such as Rammstein, Stahlmann, ASP and Die Apokalyptischen Reiter.

If you’re expecting a Rammstein clone, then you’re out of luck – while there are some similarities at times, NulldB are very different to Rammstein...

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ALESTORM

AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND TOUR
JANUARY 2013

Holy whale barnacles! ALESTORM are hauling themselves back to AUSTRALIA!!!
Having plundered the world mercilessly on the back of their ‘Back Through Time’ album, ALESTORM are sailing their way through the seas of time, to their favourite place on the planet with one last mission in mind…….the filming of their very first live DVD!!!
To be titled “LIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD”, director TOMMY JONES ( Lamb of god , Kataklysm , Soilwork, Death angel) will be filming the entire ALESTORM Australian/ NZ tour to catch all the craziness, all the debauchery, all the tomfoolery, all the heroic drinking shenanigans and every single Australian metal fan is invited to be part of this world exclusive...