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Finally, tourdates from the upcoming The 3rd and the mortal tour through Germany and Holland. Check their website www.mortal.info

Style Drift is the upcoming second full length album from Fontanelle. Like it's predecessor Style Drift was recorded at the band's Magnetic Park studio. The album will be released on november 4th by Kranky.

The premium vinyl pressing of Aphex Twin Drukqs is scheduled for release on September 9th. It will be available at Warp Records, and in good UK independent shops. It's limited to 1000 individually numbered copies.

World Serpent has announced the release of Plastic Spider Thing, a release by Black Sun, using music from the Coil archive. Black Sun have been performing live with Coil recently and the album serves as the soundtrack to The Plastic Spider Thing.

The two full-length albums currently being recorded by Opeth at Nacksving/Maestro Music studios with producer Fredrik Nordström are scheduled to be mixed during September. The "heavy" one under the watchful eye of Andy Sneap and the "mellow" one by Porcupine Tree frontman Steve Wilson. As previously reported, the heavy CD — due worldwide on October 28th — will be typical Opeth with all its ingredients, including mellow parts, while the "mellow" CD — set for release in March 2003 — will contain more laid-back material.

The new Nightmares On Wax website is up and running. You will need flash 6 to use the site, otherwise you'll just get a weird blue square.

Warp Records are testing out a new digital download system and the visitors are the official guinea pigs. If you want to pay £1 for 2 high quality digital tracks from the new Squarepusher album Do You Know Squarepusher then go and check it out: Download page.

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Go to www.dizzymizzlizzy.com to download an exclusive previously unreleased track. The Siren was recorded during the sessions for the first Dizzy Mizz Lizzy album and is the only one that remained unreleased.

UK rockers Paradise Lost have reportedly changed the title of their forthcoming album from Deus to Symbol Of Life.

Fourteen unreleased Radiohead tracks, from a 1991 demo surfaced on various fansites this week. The popular Ateaseweb is down because due to excessive bandwidth use, as fans jammed servers trying to download the MP3 files. More info about these interesting songs at Pitchforkmedia and download the tracks here.

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Samael delivered to Century Media a 10 tracks project under the name Era One in order to fulfil their label's request. This consists of programming and vocals work not involving any guitars or other live instruments. Release date is expected for this fall. This will mark the end of the contract between Samael and Century Media, much to the relief of the swiss band. Era One should not be considered as the new Samael full-length.

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Right now The Gathering streamlined their upcoming album into a 10 track full length, a mere 50 minutes of music. The band has done a track called A life all mine with Trickster G (Ulver) singing which turned out totally amazing. Other track titles are: Even the spirits are afraid, Broken Glass, We just stopped breathing, Golden Grounds, Jelena, You learn about it, Souvenirs, and some other tracks which don't have a title yet. More info at www.gathering.nl

Norway's Satyricon will be collaborating with famed Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund (i.e. Metallica, Ozzy, Madonna, The Prodigy) on a video for the song Fuel For Hatred, which is set to appear on the group's forthcoming Volcano CD, due on September 2nd through Capitol Records in Scandinavia and Nuclear Blast Records in other parts of the world.

Institut have cancelled their performance at the Turku gig 21.9.2002 and will be replaced by IRM. So IRM and Coph Nia will be the line-up at TVO, Turku, Finland on saturday the 21.9. Ticket cost 6 euros. There is now also concert information in English on our website at www.kuolleenmusiikinyhdistys.net

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Sindrome-vocalist Troy Dixler offers both legendary demo's free for download at a small Sindrome-site.

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Main Entry: dic·tio·nar·a·o·kePronunciation: 'dik-sh&-"ner-A-O-keDefinition: Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and today. The fun of karaoke meets the word power of the dictionary. Have fun.

Marty Friedman and Dave Ellefson, of the late Megadeth, teamed up with country artist Steve Richards to do a cover of the, also late, Buddy Holly. It's one of the last songs Buddy wrote before his untimely death in 1959 and it's called That Makes It Tough and will be released on Richard's upcoming album Southbound Train.

Direct your own rockband or be an upsetter with the brand spanking new Dub Selector.

Henry Rollins is featured on 2 new tracks from Dutch rockband Green Lizard. The song Common God from the new album Newborn, out August 27 on Epic Records. The song Die Fucker from the new single Wrong, out September 10 on Epic Records.

Structural Suffering Recordings and Blunted Beats present Oorworm, a festival where many artists in the breakcore, electronic, noise and other experimental music genres will play live. Highlight of the festival is Venetian Snares. It will take place 18th of October at the Steeple in Waregem, Belgium.

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Drone masters SunnO))) have just finished recording their 4th album (known as The white album), said to be their most eclectic work to date. Two guests took part in the recordings: ex-Earth, ex-Melvins member Joe Preston and ex-Thorr's Hammer vocalist Runhild. More info here

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Download the Mr Bungle Quote Unquote videoclip right here at www.antipopvideos.com (44MB, but worth it).

The Ulver remix album has become a double-cd,set for release January 2003. Final score of partaking artists will be announced this October. The act also has been employed for the soundtrack to the upcoming Norwegian anti-Dogma outburst Svidd neger. The Lyckantropen soundtrack has been completed and will be released via Jester within a couple of months. More at Ulver News.

Bassist Sean Malone, Jim Matheos, Kevin Moore and Mike Portnoy have a new band called OSI (Orchestra of Strategic Influence) of which we reported earlier. Pain Of Salvation-vocalist Daniel Gildenlöw has left the project. The release is set for august the 5th.