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24 Sept 2003

INSOMNIUM - are completing work on their album

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24 Sept 2003

FOREFATHER - Metal tributes to their Anglo-Saxon ancestors

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19 Sept 2003

PROJECT: FAILING FLESH - "A Beautiful Sickness"

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19 Sept 2003

SOULREAPER - will perform live in Sweden

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19 Sept 2003

PRIMORDIAL - begun to write new songs

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19 Sept 2003

IMPIOUS - writing new material

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19 Sept 2003

DIMENSION F3H - pre-production of the new album

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19 Sept 2003

BLOOD RED THRONE - mini-tour in Italy

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19 Sept 2003

ANCIENT RITES - exclusive concert in Rome

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18 Sept 2003

HAMMERFALL - live CD/DVD

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18 Sept 2003

TIAMAT - new video

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18 Sept 2003

DEAD OF WINTER

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18 Sept 2003

INCANTATION - search for a guitarist

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18 Sept 2003

WOLVERINE - new track posted online

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17 Sept 2003

IRON MAIDEN - cuts of all new songs posted online

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17 Sept 2003

DESTRUCTION - new video posted online

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17 Sept 2003

NOSTRADAMEUS - fourth album in early 2004

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16 Sept 2003

SENTENCED - support local ice hockey team

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16 Sept 2003

SWALLOW THE SUN

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16 Sept 2003

PYREXIA - to enter Sabella Studios in October

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