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METALITALIA.COM FESTIVAL 2022: SODOM, WATAIN, CORONER, ABBATH, ASPHYX & more bands confirmed


After two years of forced hiatus, Metalitalia.comVertigo and Cerberus Booking are pleased to look to the future with optimism and announce the first bands for the Metalitalia.com Festival 2022! The event, scheduled for mid-September, this time will gather the hardest, most infernal and darkest metal around, for two days of extreme music set to take place at the Live Music Club in Trezzo Sull’Adda (Milan, Italy).

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WATAIN announce co-headline tour with ABBATH


Notorious Swedish black metal collective Watain are proud to announce that they will team up with Norwegian genre icon Abbath for a co-headline tour entitled ‘Chariots Of Fire European Tour 2022‘, featuring a London date on 30th September at venue Earth. With the addition of Swedish dark metal shooting stars Tribulation and unconventional Swiss blackened death metal duo Bölzer, this is the tour that European extreme metal fans truly deserve, after a seemingly endless period of drought.

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W.A.S.P. Announce the Postponement and Rescheduling of the 2022 European Tour to Spring 2023


Hollywood, CA (February 15, 2022) — W.A.S.P. will be postponing the European 40th Anniversary Tour scheduled for Spring of 2022. With great disappointment, because of the world wide covid pandemic, the band are forced to postpone the tour until Spring of 2023.

The new European dates for the continuation of the 40th Anniversary World Tour have been rescheduled for March, April and May of 2023. Those new dates are available to view at WASPNation.com/tour. Please check those new dates to find the dates and venues near you. All tickets previously purchased for the 2022 tour will be valid at the rescheduled 2023 shows.

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SABATON Tell the Story of ‘The Unkillable Soldier’ in New Single


Sometimes, the difference between bravery and insanity is indistinguishable. Over the course of four wars in six decades, Adrian Carton De Wiart proved himself to be the most unkillable soldier of all time. The Belgian-born British Army Officer survived several plane crashes, lost an eye and a hand, sustained eleven grievous injuries: He fully dedicated his life to military services. Whenever there was a war, Adrian Carton De Wiart was there. “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war,” he said – peacefully passing away at the age of 83 in 1963.

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NAPALM DEATH Launch Visualiser Video for ‘Resentment is Always Seismic (Dark Sky Burial Dirge)’ + Mini-Album out now


Continuing the fearless exploration of their legendary sound’s outer limits, UK Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH are releasing their newest Mini-Album Resentment is Always Seismic – a final throw of Throes today via Century Media Records.

A visualiser video created by Chariot Of Black Moth for the record’s experimental final track ‘Resentment is Always Seismic (Dark Sky Burial Dirge)’ is now available here: https://youtu.be/VcS9HU4s1sA 

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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Announces Debut Solo EP ‘Portals’


Kirk Hammett of Metallica makes his solo debut with Portals, a four-song instrumental EP to be released April 23, 2022 via Blackened Recordings across digital platforms, on CD, and as a Record Store Day Exclusive Ocean Blue Vinyl EP (including a download card).

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