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The Swedish rock/hardrock act The Poodles have taken Sweden by storm and now it’s time for the band to conquer Europe. They have recently finished off a support tour with Hammerfall and Krokus through Europe and now it’s time for the rest of the world to know more about The Poodles, this is what lead singer Jacob Samuel and I talked about when we met up for a chat.

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Anders Fästader at Hagenburg Law & Management for setting up this interview

Promo pictures are from the bands homepage

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Type O Negative and Celtic Frost

Tuesday, April 11, 2007
First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN, USA

Review & Live Pics By J. Campbell

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Amon Amarth / Finntroll / Octavia Sperati
18th April 2007
Carling Academy, Islington / London, England

Review & Pics by HannTu

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Metal Will Stand Tall

2006, Lionheart

Rating: 3.5/5

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Traveller

2007, Frontiers Records/Zink Music

Rating: 4,5/5

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Influence

2007, Frontiers Records/Zink Music

Rating: 3.5/5

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The Enemy Within

2007, Escape Music/Zink Music

Rating: 2.0/5

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Roc De Light

2006, Musicmould/Zink Music

Rating: 3.0/5

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The Angel And The Rain

2006, Repo Records/Sound Pollution

Rating: 2.0/5

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No More Kings

2007, Astonish Ent.

Rating: 2.5

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How many of you still remembers Toxik which put out two albums in the end of the 80′s when thrash/speed metal was raging all around the world ?! As usual several thrash/speed bands having out put a couple of albums in the end of the decade usually vanished from the scene without leaving any trace just like Toxik. Now this melodic thrash speed combo has returned to the limelight. Both WORLD CIRCUS and THINK THIS have been out of print for years, but Displeased will be re-issueing both the album with bonus material within the year. Toxik will be seen on the European soil in the upcoming KEEP IT TRUE festival. It was about time to ask both Brian Bonini and Josh Christian about the past and the present of Toxik. 

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SONATA ARCTICA
Interview With Vocalist Tony Kakko

Interviewed by EvilG
Transcription by Tony Wilson

All Live photos by Brat
Taken at Rock To The River Festival
Imatra, Finland / 12 & 13 August 2006

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After the posting of 2 columns from Alex, we received a response from another metalhead in < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Iraq, Mustafa. The difference this time is that he’s not a soldier but a citizen living in Iraq! We asked Mustafa if we could post his message and asked if he’d like to add anything else…below are his words. We think it’s very cool to know that there are ‘brothers of metal’ even in Iraq so we’d like to give our readers the opportunity to hear what it is like to be a metalhead in this kind of a situation. It should put into perspective little things like being unable to find a certain CD or the release that costs a couple of bucks too much. Thank the metal gods we don’t all have to struggle though a situation like Mustafa finds himself in.

If you have any questions on the column, send them here.

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Interview with Tom G. Warrior

Interview & live/off-stage  pictures by Luxi Lahtinen

Celtic Frost stopped by  Helsinki on 4th of April 2007, as a part of their co-headlining “Monotheist” tour with the German pioneer thrashers Kreator. Tour openers also included the Swedish blacksters Watain whose most primary task was, I guess, to warm up the night before the headliners jumped on the stage. The Tavastia Club show was completely sold-out, just like many of their other shows have been on this European tour thus far.

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I met briefly the legendary Celtic Frost frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer (a.k.a. Tom Gabriel Warrior) at one cozy-looking, 5-star hotel in the downtown of Helsinki about 5 hours prior to showtime. Tom seemed to be in a good and friendly mood for the interview. A friendly handsake, some chit-chat talking for starters - and both of us were relaxed enough, ready for discussing more.

We naturally discussed their ongoing tour, curfews, Giger, the band´s latest album MONOTHEIST, DVD plans and so on.

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Nick Holmes and Greg MacIntosh

Interview by Marko Syrjala

The British doom metal band Paradise Lost is one the most succesfull and best known bands from its genre. The band was originally formed in 1988 in Halifax and their debut album "Lost Paradise" was released in early 1990. During the following years they released such classic metal albums as "Icon", "Draconian Times" and "One Second". After a a couple of more "experimental" albums, like "Host" in 1999, the band returned back to their metal roots with "Symbol of Life" which continued from where they left off with "One Second" in 1997. Years have gone by and now we are living in 2007. Paradise Lost are just about to release their brand new album "In Requiem" in May and the first single release "The Enemy" is already out in most European countries. Readers who are willing to find details about the new album would be disappointed because this interview was done some months ago while the band was still in the midst of their recording process for that upcoming album. The band visited Finland last year and here are the results of my lenghty conversation with Nick and Greg backstage at Club Tavastia in Helsinki. CHEERS !!

Transcription by Andy Osborn

Pictures by Marko Syrj�l� and www.paradiselost.co.uk

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