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3 DOORS DOWN TO RELEASE THE GREATEST HITS NOVEMBER 19

Collection Features Three New Songs and Nine US #1 Remixed and Re-Mastered Hits Including

BAND OFFERS FREE DOWNLOAD OF LEAD SINGLE ‘ONE LIGHT’

3 Doors Down will release The Greatest Hits via Universal Records on November 19, 2012. The collection features nine US #1 hits that have been remixed and re-mastered, alongside three new songs.

On October 3, the Billboard cited the Top 100 Songs over the past two decades based on actual airplay. 3 Doors Down was honored with inclusion of two tracks in the Top 25, with ‘Here Without You’ at #8 and ‘Kryptonite’ at #25. The lead single from The Greatest Hits is ‘One Light’ and impacting radio now.

The full track-listing includes:
Kryptonite
When I’m Gone
Here Without You
It’...

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NEW ‘ANCIENT SECRETS’ EP PRIMED FOR RELEASE + UK DATES WITH CANCER BATS

LONDON-BASED rockers, Turbogeist, will release their ‘Ancient Secrets’ EP on January 14th 2012 via Spinefarm Records.

Co-produced by the band & Chris Sheldon (who has previously worked with Pixies, Radiohead & Foo Fighters, amongst others), ‘Ancient Secrets’ was recorded at Livingston Studios in North London, and will be available as a digital download plus a numbered, coloured vinyl 10”.

Inspired in part by Apocalyptic times, ‘Ancient Secrets’ includes five ripping tracks, with man’s stuttering evolution at the core of the action; the featured songs include ‘Mermaid’s Revenge’ (about our ill-fated attempts to conquer nature), for which a video has just been filmed, and ‘Zero Friends’ (society’s sl...

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VON HERTZEN BROTHERS ANNOUNCED TO PLAY INAUGURAL HRH PROG FESTIVAL IN APRIL 2013!

VON HERTZEN BROTHERS, Finland’s number 1 rock band, will return to the UK in spring 2013 for an appearance at the first ever HRH PROG festival.

This event will take place at MAGNA Science Adventure, a spectacularly renovated Steel Works in Rotherham on April 6th / 7th.

The festival line-up reflects the full range of Prog in 2013, bringing together new faces and established names, from Tesseract & Touchstone through to Caravan & The Enid.

Von Hertzen Brothers’ vocalist/ guitarist Mikko is especially pleased to be sharing stage space with headliners, Hawkwind…

“When I was growing up in Finland, Hawkwind was one of my favourite bands...

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First crazy video of Swedish metalband, The Embodied is recently published on Youtube, around the music-world. That „movie” is their really first, official muic video. By the network, video was visible from last Thursday, but already almost more than a thousand people checked it. Seems like, these guys just go upper and upper. So, as they always say: STAY METAL!

The Embodied band from middle-Sweden was formed in 2006 in the city of Jönköping. During these first 6 years, they have played with Amon Amarth, Engel, Bullet, and Arch Enemy, and their Hungarian-born drummer has stimulated tours in Central Europe.

In the autumn of 2011 after some really successful EP, they published their first album, cooperating with the well-known producer Andy La Rocque...

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Massacre/Sound Pollution

Once bitten absolutely not twice shy, the band of FIREWIND drummer Michael Ehré (also GAMMA RAY, METALIUM etc.), LOVE.MIGH.KILL, returns with their second effort in two years. Their debut “Brace for Impact” came highly recommended by yours truly, can they top that?

One half-hearted intro of more length than usual later this album moves into high gear. I actually think they have topped their debut...

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Emanes Metal Records

THRUSTOR has a longer pedigree than the name hints. The band´s mainstays, brothers Phil and Tony Sardo made their first mark with SCEPTRE back in 1983, featuring on the infamous Metal Blade Records compilation “Metal Massacre Volume 4”. Other luminaries of that CD were TROUBLE, LIZZY BORDEN, ABBATOIR and ZOETROPE… As they transformed into SARDO both support gigs with the likes of DARK ANGEL, and headliner shows followed betwixt 1985-87. As SARDO combusted the brothers breathed life into THRUSTOR, and released their first full-length “Night of Fire” in 1999. Since 2006 the band has been remixing that album with world-renowned producer Neil Kernon (QUEENSRYCHE, NILE etc.), as well as commencing n this album back in 2010...

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Napalm/Sound Pollution

LIV KRISTINE has been on top of her game since the mid-nineties, and she will always be the first angelic voice in gothic music. Romanticism and the supernatural is always involved in her lyrics, but the bands and co-operations involves THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, LEAVE`S EYES, as well as a joint venture with CRADLE OF FILTH, and efforts with Nick Holmes of PARADISE LOST and various TV-scores. Here she is, almost on her own, but there is of cause a duet with with the German winner of “Pop Idol” Tobias Regner.

The opening “Interlude” involves piano notes and a cozy rhythm, but that is basically it...

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Frontiers/BAM

Harry Hess rose to fame as vocalist of HAREM SCAREM, which lasted for seventeen years. AS of late he has been redesigning his career into production work and songwriting but he also found time for a solo career. The basis for this album is Harry´s travels in Europe and the USA, and he strives to recall certain sounds and atmospheres from that period. Featured musicians include former HAREM SCAREM members Pete Lesperance, Creighton Doane, and Darren Smith, but also the likes of Howie Simon (TALISMAN), Magnus Karlsson (Just about everyone), Tommy Denander (senast i IMPERA) etc.

Harry opens with the title track, and it fares well. The arrangements and the refrain are in the class that one expects from this caliber of musicians...

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Frontiers/BAM

LOVERBOY might not mean a lot to people today, at least not here in Scandinavia, but the States is another place. The Canadian band has sold more than 10 million albums , with a lot of awards in the US, and that is and that is mostly due to four albums released in the first half of the eighties! They are listed as one of the most prosperous touring acts in the world, which of cause prerequisites that they tour in big nations. They have had a short hiatus, but in 2005 they celebrated 25 years together etc. They returned to making albums in 2007, with “Just Getting Started”, and now this one. But this one is not quite new, not since more than half of the songs are old favorites in slightly reworked versions.

When you are through the first three tracks, you´re done with the...

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Last Friday night streets of Göteborg was loud by sounds of the weekend, and something other: retro metal in the air..!

Too bad, that this night wasn’t longer… Dödaren, and another, a bit older metalgroup, Year of the Goat took the party-line this on 27th of October at the famous Sticky Fingers Pub. Unnecessary to over explain it. Dödren from Göteborg made something new, something unusual, giving an incredible mood of music listening by it.

Somebody asked me before the concert, how could I paraphrase the music of this band. I’ve just told them: it’s like young Pink Floyd, in a metal version. And the audience liked it...