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Spider Rockets

Ever After

2006, Hog Records

Rating: 2/5

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High Voltage

2006, RCD Music

Rating: 3.5/5

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DEREK SHERINIAN

Derek Sherinian, a keyboard virtuoso, having appeared on such records as Alice Cooper’s "The Last Temptation" (1994) and Dream Theater’s "Change of Season" (1995), "Falling Into Infinity" (1997) and "Once in A Livetime" (1998) and touring with Kiss, now shares his time between solo albums and Planet X as well as touring and recording with Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force and Billy Idol among various other ventures. Read on for some insights on Derek’s eventful career.

Interview by Marko Syrj�l� and Jarno Huovila.

Live pics by Marko Syrj�l�

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Children of Bodom

and Amon Amarth

Sunday December 17, 2006

Nokia Theater

New York City, NY

* Live review and photos by Shaq

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Interviewed by Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Sound Pollution for the promo pictures of the band
Thanks to the Astral Doors manager for lending me more promo pictures of the band

I had a chat with singer Nils-Patrik Johansson from Astral Doors about their new album ASTRALISM which was released earlier this year. Mr. Johansson is a busy man and he is also involved in the band Wuthering Height’s that also have released an album that’s going to come up in Metal-Rules.com in the near future. 

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Jeff Hanneman – S L A Y E R

Interview, off – and onstage pictures by Luxi Lahtinen

Thanks to Carlos A, Jason B, Craig K, Arto L, Owen M and Zach T for the help with the questions.  

Thanks to Duke for the transciption

“The Unholy Alliance” tour stormed Finnish shores on November 12th and 13th 2006. It featured 5 popular metal acts in the same package: Thine Eyes Bleed, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, In Flames - and of course the headliners of the whole tour, no less than the true Thrash kings from Los Angeles… Slayer. Last time the same tour hit European soil in 2004, having such highly popular American metal bands as Mastadon and Slipknot booked on the tour line-up.

With such a variation of metal bands both from today and yesterday, it was the kind of tour that appeals to many generations of metal fans. For the younger metal loving generation, bands like Children of Bodom and In Flames surely gave a good run for their money – and for the old fucks (ha!) like me, Slayer was basically the only good reason that dragged my lazy ass to witness this happening that took place at the Ice Hall in Helsinki on a snow storming Sunday evening, on the 12th of November´06.

Before the show got started at the Icehall of Helsinki, I managed to meet and talk briefly to Jeff Hanneman from Slayer in their tour bus for about 20-minutes about the band´s ongoing tour, the band´s warmly welcomed new album CHRIST ILLUSION, Jeff´s collection of Nazi-medals, censorship problems of the new Slayer album in India, and naturally we couldn´t avoid talking a bit about the past times either.

It was actually very nice to meet Jeff as normally it´s been both Kerry and Tom who have worked as spokeman for Slayer in the interviews. Jeff turned out to be a really nice, mellow and funny guy, as this interview with him proves this fact so well… 

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Kill Cheerleader

All Hail

2006, Spinerazor Records

Rating: 3/5

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Music for Sinners

2006, Spinerazor Records

Rating: 2/5

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CJ Sleez
Back From The Brink  E.P.
2006, Spinerazor Records
Rating; 4/5

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Skillet

Comatose

2006, Atlantic Records/Lava

Rating: 3/5

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Ho! Ho! Hoey: The Complete Collection

2003, Surfdog Records

Rating: 4/5

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LACUNA COIL

Interview by Anders Sandvall

Questions by Anders Sandvall and Lord of the Wasteland 

Pictures of Cristiano Migliore by Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Jenny Walroth at Century Media Sweden for setting up this interview
Thanks to Century Media for the promo pictures of the band

When the Italian act Lacuna Coil was in Malmö Sweden on their European tour I met up with one of the bands guitarists, Cristiano Migliore, for a brief interview. We talked about the band’s latest album KARMACODE and what the band will be up to next.

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Arch Enemy
Close-Up Made Us Do It Tour
Kulturbolaget
Malmö
Sweden
16th of November – 2006

By: Anders Sandvall
Pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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Interviewed by Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Gerrit Mohr at Century Media Europe for making the interview possible
Thanks to Century Media for the promo pics

It’s time for an update with Dream Evil bass player Peter Stålfors. UNITED is the title of the band’s new album. This is more of an update on what is going on in the Dream Evil camp since the last time I spoke to the guys.
 

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Interviewed by Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Malin Gustavsson at Sound Pollution for making this interview possible
Thanks to Sound Pollution for the promo pics of Death Breath

Death Breath is the new band formed by the famous Nicke Andersson known from Entombed, The Hellacopters, The Solution and much more. The band plays classical good old Death Metal and have recently released their debut album STINKING UP THE NIGHT. Even though I have followed Andersson career closely for the last 15 years I have never interviewed him… until now. 

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