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Published: 24 October 2012

Much to the excitement of music fans across the planet, Dutch rock legends Focus will be undertaking a worldwide tour beginning November 2012 in support of their forthcoming CD 'Focus X'. With their unique brand of progressive rock, Focus manifested themselves at the start of the '70s as the most successful and appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. Fronted by founding member Thijs Van Leer, and best known for their hits “Hocus Pocus”, “House of The King” and “Sylvia”, as well as critically acclaimed albums 'Moving Waves', 'Focus 3' and 'Hamburger Concerto', the iconic Dutch music masters are back with their tenth album, which is guaranteed to please their legions of fans!
 

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Sentence, a progressive death metal band from Paris, France, have just revealed the very first extract of their upcoming first album, called 'Everywhere'. You can listen to 'Everywhere of Nowhere' here: http://soundcloud.com/sentencefr/everywhere-of-nowhere-1. Everywhere will be released on December 15th, 2012. Formed in 2008 in Paris, France, Sentence is a progressive death metal band in the vein of Death, Cynic or The Faceless. Having released a demo in 2009 and an EP called H.A.A.R.P in 2010, Sentence is coming again with their first full-lenght album Everywhere, featuring 56 minutes of original and technical metal, mixing a lot of influences.

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Following a bunch of shows in the uk with Evanescence, Utah rockers The Used are set to head back to Europe in 2 weeks. The band has just released their new single "Put Me Out" form the band's highly successful 5th studio album, VULNERABLE. Turning personal adversity into art is The Used's trademark and Vulnerable was a record that simply had to be made. It marks a particular triumph for singer Bert McCracken, who is now reenergized after suffering a broken hand and elbow last year, falling from a stage in Orange County, Calif., and then spending four months getting surgery and recuperating. The experience partially birthed the title and concept of Vulnerable.  "Music has been a constant saving grace in my life - says the lead singer Bert McCracken - and I know a lot of people can relate. When I am at a rock show, I am able to simply be myself."

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Swedish rockers HEX inked a deal with logic(il)logic Records to release their self-titled debut album, scheduled for this winter. HEX was formed in October 2011 by Jonas Hygren on vocals, Jerker Johansson on bass guitars, Micke Backelin (ex Lord Belial) on drums and Jörgen Svärd on lead guitars. In march 2012 the lineup was changed a bit, Jerker started to play the rhythm guitars and handed over the bass guitar to a new recruit called Timo Hagström. HEX has now a complete lineup and are ready to play live! The music style is some kind of mix of metal, hard rock with a little touch of industrial elements in the forms of samples and keyboards.

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GOLDEN APES' brand-new longplayer named "Riot" will be given birth soon this autumn, on november, 30th 2012. Two of the significant changes to the past works are a new producer named "Ragnar" and a change to the well-known independent label afmusic/Al!ve. A tour of the band supporting the new release will start on november, 16th, among the record release party celebrating the new songs. That night will be shared by the musical guests Age of Heaven, Moonrise and Reptyle. For more Information visit: www.goldenapes.com or www.facebook.com/GoldenApes. 

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