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| x Dimmu Borgir |
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Dimmu Borgir (pronounced /ˌdɪmuː ˈbɔrɡɪr/ in English) is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu borgir means "dark cities" or "dark fortresses" in Icelandic and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation...
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| x Megadeth |
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Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983. Founded by Dave Mustaine following his departure from Metallica, the band has since released twelve studio albums, six live albums, two EPs, twenty six singles,...
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Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo, formed in 1993. The band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho (vocals/lead guitar), Roope Latvala (guitar), Janne Wirman (keyboards), Henkka Seppälä (bass), and Jaska Raatikainen ...
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| x Emperor |
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Emperor were a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. Over the years, the band's music changed to what can be called "extreme symphonic metal" in their later days. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival...
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Dio is an American heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who formed it in 1982 after leaving Black Sabbath. In an interview, available on the special edition re-release of Holy Diver, Dio states that he never intended to begin a solo...
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Sepultura (Portuguese for "tomb" or "grave") is a heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and their later experiments...
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| x Fields of the Nephilim |
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Fields of the Nephilim are a semi-active English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer...
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| x Apocalyptica |
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Apocalyptica is a Finnish rock band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists and, since 2003, a drummer. Three of the cellists are graduates of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. Their...
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Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V: The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention...
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| x Within Temptation |
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Within Temptation is a Dutch rock/metal band. The band was founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. Their music is described as symphonic metal, gothic metal , although in an interview, Den Adel said they fell...
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| x Therion |
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Therion is a Swedish heavy metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion (θηρίον), meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation. However, the band's name is an homage to the...
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| x Lacuna Coil |
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Lacuna Coil is an Italian rock band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing...
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| x Porcupine Tree |
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Porcupine Tree is a rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Frequently associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, their music has been also influenced by trance, krautrock and ambient...
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| x Phil Lesh and Friends |
Phil Lesh and Friends is an American rock band formed and led by Phil Lesh, bassist of the Grateful Dead.
Phil & Friends is not a traditional group in that several different lineups of musicians have played under the name, including groups featuring...
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Anathema is an English band from the city of Liverpool, which, together with Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, helped to develop the death/doom sound, a subgenre of doom metal. However, their album Eternity was a departure from doom and metal, and...
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| x Saxon |
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Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous...
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| x London Astoria |
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The London Astoria was a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road in London, England. It had been leased and run by Festival Republic since 2000. The Astoria closed on 15 January 2009 and has since been demolished.
The Astoria was built on the site of...
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| x My Dying Bride |
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My Dying Bride is an English doom metal band formed in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride has released one demo, three EPs, several singles, ten full-length studio albums, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, one live CD/DVD release, and...
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| x Paradise Lost |
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Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band formed in 1988 in Halifax, England. While the band's earlier albums are classified as death/doom metal, they later began to incorporate several different styles of rock into their recordings and are now mainly...
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Moonsorrow is a heavy metal band formed in Helsinki, Finland, in 1995. The band call their sound "epic heathen metal" and try to distance themselves from the term "viking metal" as much as possible, as the vast majority of their lyrics do not...
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| x In Flames |
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In Flames is a Swedish band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre. Since the band's conception in 1990, they have received numerous awards and released nine...
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Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen subsequent to his departure from After Forever.
In early 2002, Mark Jansen left After Forever due to creative differences. He then began looking for musicians who...
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Masterplan is a German power metal band founded by Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow upon leaving Helloween.
Masterplan was formed in August 2001 by Roland Grapow and Uli Kusch, after the two were fired from the power metal band Helloween . The first MCD...
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| x Sunn O))) |
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Sunn O))) (pronounced sun) is an American experimental band that incorporates some elements of the ambient, noise and black metal genres. The band consists of Stephen O'Malley (also of Khanate and Burning Witch) and Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake)....
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| x Amon Amarth |
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Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, founded in 1988 (current name since 1992), and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. As of 2009, the band is signed...
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Turisas are a Finnish folk metal band from Hämeenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström and named after an ancient Finnish God of war.
Turisas is a folk metal band, incorporating elements of power metal, with some...
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Lauren Harris (born 6 July 1984) is a British vocalist. She is the daughter of Iron Maiden bassist and founder Steve Harris. She was discovered in a pub by Russ Ballard, who was unaware of who she was.
Lauren and her band toured extensively in 2006...
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| x Earth |
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Earth is an American musical group based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1990 and led by guitarist Dylan Carlson.
Earth's early work is recognized as pioneering the genre of drone doom — an experimental offshoot of doom metal, characterized by...
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Lordi is an finnish hard rock/heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1996. Lordi is known for monster masks and pyrotechnics exploiting concerts.
Lordi won 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with 292 points, giving Finland its first ever...
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Lacrimas Profundere is a gothic metal band from Germany. Their name means "to shed tears" in Latin. Their stylistic aesthetic has evolved over time, originally a death doom rooted gothic metal band, they have progressively changed their style to a...
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The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal...
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| x London Forum |
The London Forum is a well-known venue for concerts in Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom owned by the MAMA Group. The venue was built in 1934 and was originally used as an art deco cinema. After the closure of the cinema, The Town & Country Club...
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| x Octavia Sperati |
Octavia Sperati, formerly known as Octavia, is a gothic metal/doom metal band from Bergen, Norway.
The group released their debut album Winter Enclosure in 2005. Their second album, Grace Submerged, was released in May 2007. Both albums were...
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| x Grave Digger |
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Grave Digger are a German heavy metal/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s.
After various appearances at small festivals, the band, comprising Chris...
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Boris are a Japanese musical group, known for their genre-hopping in between and on records. As of 2008, personnel are drummer/vocalist Atsuo, bassist/guitarist/vocalist Takeshi, and guitarist/vocalist Wata. Though rooted mostly in the hard rock and...
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| x Oceansize |
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Oceansize is a five-piece rock group formed in Manchester, England, in 1998. The band consists of Mike Vennart (vocals, guitar), Steve Durose (guitar, backing vocals), Richard "Gambler" Ingram (guitar, keyboards), Mark Heron (drums) and Steve Hodson...
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| x Kiuas |
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Kiuas is a heavy metal band from Espoo, Finland. Their music has influences from power metal, folk metal and different styles of extreme metal. Influences from progressive metal can also be heard in some songs. The band has had a steady line-up ever...
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Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, actress, and best-selling author. She has her own late-night talk show, Chelsea Lately, on the E! Cable Television Network. In 2009, she won a...
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| x Sabaton |
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Sabaton are a grammis-nominated power metal band from Falun, Sweden formed in 1999. The band's main lyrical theme is that of historical wars. This can be heard on the albums Primo Victoria and Attero Dominatus where all of the songs, except the...
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| x Nick Swardson |
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Nicholas Roger "Nick" Swardson (born October 9, 1976) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and writer. He is best known for his recurring role of Terry Bernardino in the now canceled Comedy Central series Reno 911!, and for his numerous acting...
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| x Knitting Factory |
The Knitting Factory is a New York City, Hollywood, Boise, and Spokane music club and concert house, originally specializing in jazz and experimental music.
The Knitting Factory was opened in 1987 by Michael Dorf and Bob Appel, both from Milwaukee,...
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The Sword is an American heavy metal band that formed in Austin, Texas in 2003. Since its inception, the band has comprised vocalist and guitarist John "J. D." Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Trivett Wingo. Signed to...
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| x Astoria 2 |
The Astoria 2, formerly known as the Mean Fiddler and the LA2, was a nightclub at 165 Charing Cross Road in London, England.
The venue was connected to the London Astoria such that the two venues could function as a single venue where needed. Like...
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To-Mera are a progressive metal band from South Oxfordshire in the UK. The band plays a technical style of metal characterized by long songs, multiple time changes and jazz interludes.
To-Mera was formed by Julie Kiss and Lee Barrett (ex:Extreme...
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Girlschool are a long-running British all-female heavy metal band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.
Though enjoying little commercial success beyond the early 1980s, they maintain a worldwide cult following and were...
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| x Priestess |
Priestess is a Canadian hard rock band formed, in Montreal, Quebec in 2003 by Mikey Heppner (vocals/guitar), Mike Dyball (bass), Vince Nudo (vocals/drums), and Dan Watchorn (vocals/guitar).
Priestess was formed in 2003. Mikey Heppner was playing...
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| x The Wedgewood Rooms |
The Wedgewood Rooms is a venue, in Southsea (in Portsmouth), Hampshire, UK, that hosts music and comedy events.
It has a capacity of under 400 people, and is located on Albert Road in Southsea. Recently it has hosted events from up-and-coming...
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Witchcraft is a Swedish doom metal band founded in 2000.
Magnus Pelander (formerly of Norrsken) formed Witchcraft in 2000 in order to record a tribute to Pentagram's Bobby Liebling and Roky Erickson. The "No Angel or Demon" single was released in...
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Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland, formed in 1990. The band's first release was an EP entitled Pitchfork, which debuted in October 1990. Their first studio album, Transnational Speedway League, was released three years later...
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| x Paddy Casey |
Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin. From an early age he spent a great deal of his time learning his craft by busking on the streets of Dublin and Galway. Paddy was discovered by Sony A&R; Scout Hugh Murray at the...
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Kate Victoria Tunstall better known as KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975 in St Andrews, Scotland) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later......
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| x Taint |
Taint are a three-piece, UK based hardcore/rock/metal band. Their unique sound journeys through elements of sludge, modern metal, hardcore punk, doom, and stoner rock. They formed in 1994 as teenagers in the South Wales DIY punk/metal scene (see...
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| x The Warfield |
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The Warfield, also known as The Warfield Theater, is a 2,300 seat music venue located at 982 Market Street, San Francisco, California. It was built as a vaudeville theater, and opened as the Loews Warfield on May 13, 1922.
In the 1920s, The Warfield...
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The O2, visually typeset in branding as The O2, is a large entertainment district on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, UK, including an indoor arena, a music club, a cinema, an exhibition space, piazzas, bars and restaurants. It was...
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| x Chrome Hoof |
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Chrome Hoof are an experimental orchestra based in London, England. The group was formed in 2000 by Cathedral bassist Leo Smee and his brother Milo Smee. Initially performing as a duo, their music was mostly electronic. Since the start, however, the...
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| x Engel |
Engel is an melodic death metal band with alternative influences from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are currently signed to SPV/Steamhammer Records and have released their debut album Absolute Design via the label on October 31st, 2007. The album will...
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