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Published: 19 April 2013

Flughafen Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
10th & 11th August 2013
M’era Luna 2013: Nightwish, HIM, ASP, Front 242, DEine Lakaien (acoustic), Blutengel, Front Line Assembly, Apoptygma Berzerk, Mono Inc.  and many more…

Since 2000, the M’era Luna festival has become one of the biggest dark music events of Germany, Europe and the world. Visitors spend an eventful camping-weekend in laid-back atmosphere at the grounds of the regional airport Hildesheim Drispenstedt, near Hannover. The festival is known and beloved for its first class music program (goth, metal, industrial), the familial atmosphere, the short distances at the festival grounds, the medieval and clothing fair, scene related readings, glamorous fashion shows and late night parties. All of these make the M’era Luna festival a special event for visitors from all over the globe. Every year more than 20.000 fans with extravagant outfits travel to Hildesheim, a town enjoying to welcome the guests ever since the first festival took place.

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The recording sessions for the new masterpiece are finished and POWERWOLF are announcing the title of their upcoming masterpiece and are presenting you a new stunning band picture. The album is called "Preachers of the Night", and will contain 11 burning hot Heavy Metal hymns. Furthermore, the wolves will lay the stage in ashes as the co-headliner for Kreator at the Metal Hammer Awards. The event will take place at the Kesselhaus in Berlin on September 13. And here you´ll get the tracklist of "Preachers of the Night":

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With a stunning vocal performance from AMARANTHE singer Elize Ryd, the song shows the more melodic side of Tolkki's songwriting and sets the pace for the wide variety of musical styles that it is possible to find on the full album. "The Land of New Hope" is Tolkki's glorious return to music in full force. He managed to gather an amazing cast of singers and performers including Michael Kiske (UNISONIC), Elize Ryd(AMARANTHE), Rob Rock (IMPELLITTERI), Russell Allen (SYMPHONY X), Sharon Den Adel (WITHIN TEMPTATION) and Tony Kakko (SONATA ARCTICA). Rounding up the stunning line-up of this album are: Alex Holzwarth (RHAPSODY of FIRE) on drums and Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS), Derek Sherinian (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION), Mikko Härkin (SONATA ARCTICA) on keyboards, with Tolkki taking care of all guitars and bass recordings and of course production duties. You can enjoy a full EPK presentation of the album following this link. And here's the video for "Enshrined in my Memory".

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Published: 18 April 2013

For a heavy metal band that’s been around for nearly three decades, selling more than 38 million albums worldwide, earning numerous accolades including 11 Grammy® nominations, scoring five consecutive platinum albums—including 1992’s two-million-selling Countdown to Extinction—Megadeth’s founder, leader and primal guitar-slinger and lyricist Dave Mustaine feels the best is yet to come, especially after signing an exclusive worldwide deal with Universal Music Enterprises. Currently working in their studio in San Diego on their 14th studio album titled Super Collider, Mustaine, along with bassist Dave Ellefson, drummer Shawn Drover and guitarist Chris Broderick, are looking forward to its release on May 31, 2013. Megadeth’s Super Collider is the first release through Mustaine’s new label, Tradecraft, through UMe.

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Sweden's Classic-Rock heavyweights SPIRITUAL BEGGARS have released their 8th studio album, "Earth Blues", as of this week via InsideOutMusic. A full album stream is now available via the website of 3voor12 for you to check out this great new release. April 16th show by SPIRITUAL BEGGARS in Cologne's Underground was filmed by WDR's Rockpalast and will be broadcasted on TV Monday, May 13th from 0:15 - 2:00 AM. More details can be found here! A live teaser of the song "One Man Army" from last night's recording can be seen here! And here are two special acoustic tracks recorded with SPIRITUAL BEGGARS' Per Wiberg and Apollo Papathanasio as special bonus for the Rockpalast program:

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