The 2007 edition of Germany's With Full Force festival (www.withfullforce.de) is scheduled to take place from June 29th to July 1st in Leipzig (Germany). The latest acts confirmed for the festival is BAD MANNERS, THE BUSINESS, BOLD, DIE KASSIERER, DRY KILL LOGIC, MISCONDUCT. Acts on the bill now include: BAD MANNERS, BOLD, BY NIGHT, CANNIBAL CORPSE, CHILDREN OF BODOM, CREMATORY, DAGOBA, DIE KASSIERER, DRY KILL LOGIC, EKTOMORF, KAMPFAR, LOUSY, MANOS, MISCONDUCT, NEAERA, PETER PAN SPEEDROCK, ROTTEN SOUND, THE BUSINESS, VENEREA, VOLBEAT. More information at www.withfullforce.de

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As previously reported, METALLICA are releasing the The Videos DVD on December 5th in North America.

The international release dates are as follows:

Europe: December 4th;
South America: December 4th;
Japan: December 18th;
Australia: December 2nd.

More details about his DVD can be found here

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A number of new acts have been confirmed for the Ragnarök festival, set to take place March 30-31, 2007 in Lichtenfelts, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

AASKEREIA
BLACK MESSIAH
CRUACHAN
ELUVEITIE
FJOERGYN
GERNOTSHAGEN
HEIDEVOLK
HEL
HELHEIM
KAMPFAR
KOLDBRANN
KROMLEK
MANEGARM
MINAS MORGUL
SYCRONOMICA
TAAKE
TYR
URGEHAL
VREID
WOLFCHANT

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BW&BK reports that Feral House has just published "American Hair Metal" , described by the publisher as author Steven Blush 's "extravagantly visual tribute to the spandex, rouge and eyeliner days of '80s glam rock glory." According to the Feral House web site, the book celebrates this orgy of flamboyance, androgyny and animal magnetism, of big-haired alpha males and the beautiful women who surrounded them." It features "rare photographs of the biggest bands and unsung heroes surround revealing quotes about the sex, drugs and rock & roll style of '80s American hair metal." The pix (by the likes of hair-metal-lensing specialists William Haines , Frank White , and Eddie Malluk ) "tell as much, if not more, of the subgenre's story as the actual music," according to Amazon .

For more information, including book excerpts, go to this location .

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