Horns Up Rocks' "TURN THE PAGE" (News & Tour Updates) - 9/26/2012 Edition!

Today more than ever before, people want their information fast and presented to them in an original form. While we always strive to bring you the most up to date Heavy Music news and tour updates, we understand that many of you are busy with your own personal lives and lets face it: our generation are lazy readers.

We recently premiered a brand NEW series called "TURN THE PAGE". The concept is very simple, we want to bring you guys the most relevant up to date Heavy Music news and tour information in a video format. While we select what we believe is the most important information and post it here on a daily basis, keep in mind that our main platform (www.HornsUpRocks.com) is the place where you can get the majority of the information you need.

Without further due, here is the second installment of "TURN THE PAGE", this is the 9/26/2012 edition. We hope you enjoy it!



Full details on the news stories and tours mentioned on the video above, can be seen below.

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NEWS:
GREEN DAY's Billy Joe Check Into Rehab Following Melt Down 
KORN's Jonathan Davis Forced To Cancel Appearance From "Twins Of Evil Tour"
ANTHRAX's 'Worship Music' Reaches The 100,000 Record Sales Mark
METALLICA's Kirk Hammett NEW Book & Meet and Greet Events
THY WILL BE DONE's NEW EP 'Temple'
GOATWHORE's NEW Video For "Death to the Architects of Heaven"
DETHKLOK's NEW Song "Andromeda"
CENTURY MEDIA Records vs ICED EARTH's Illegal Downloaders
DEFTONES' NEW Song "Leathers"
AVENGED SEVENFOLD's New Song "Carry On"
PARADISE LOST's Music Video For "Fear Of Imperial Hell"
Banger Films Announce Fund Raiser For "The Lost Episode: Extreme Metal" Of METAL EVOLUTION
GOJIRA Premieres Lyric Video For "The Axe"
Charles Manson's Letter To Marilyn Manson
NEW Single "Downside Up" By Marc Rizzo
FREE REVOCATION EP 'Teratogenesis'
DIO's "Stand Up And Shout' Cancer Gala
SUFFOCATION Reveal NEW Album Details

MACHINE HEAD Selected As "Best International Band" At Metal Hammer Awards

TOUR UPDATES:
IRON MAIDEN To Headline The 2013 DOWNLOAD FEST
RAMMSTEIN To Headline The 2013 WACKEN Open Air Festival
WACKEN Open Air Festival Sold Out
HIGH ON FIRE's North American Tour With GOATWHORE
MORBID ANGEL's North American Tour
Tickets for LAMB OF GOD's North American Tour
DOWN Joined By Rex Brown In Texas
The 2013 Maryland Death Fest
DYING FETUS' North American Tour
METAL BLADE RECORDS' 30th Anniversary With AS I LAY DYING & BATTLECROSS

Highlights From The 2012 Wacken Open Air Festival!

This past weekend, the 2012 edition of Germany's elite Heavy Metal festival Wacken Open Air took place in Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein.

What was Wacken like in this year? Wacken 2012 was a bit of sun, a lot of rain, mud,... even more mud, outstanding bands, brilliant fans and an amazing good mood!

For all of those who had to stay at home for some reasons and all who still wallow in memories we want to refer on the following clip.

Watch now the W:O:A impressions trailer with the best moments of this year´s Wacken Open Air!


This year, the organizers of the event lined up yet another historical event. For three days,  80,000+ maniacs indulge themselves into the Metallic sounds of bands like Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Cradle Of Filth, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir, Napalm Death, Six Feet Under, Sick Of It All, and many more.

Join the revolution, contribute to our Indiegogo campaign! Click HERE: www.indiegogo.com/hornsup
 

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Educate Yourself & Watch "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" Right Now!

"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", is a film starring Sam Dunn (the creator of "Metal Evolution" and itdiscusses the traits and originators of some of Metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Nu Metal, Glam Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, and Death Metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular Metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of Heavy Metal culture. Notable segments include Dunn taking a trip to the Wacken Open Air festival, an interview with Dee Snider providing an analysis of the PMRC attack on Heavy Metal music, and an interview with several Norwegian Black Metal bands.

Watch the entire film right here:



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WACKEN OPEN AIR: Live Stream Available Right Now!

In case you have been living under a rock, Wacken Open Air takes place every year at the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and is easily one of the most crushing summer music festivals in the entire world. Ever since its inception in 1990, the festival has opened the doors to hundreds of high profile Heavy Music artists such as Slayer, Motörhead, Dio, Doro, Cradle Of Filth, Fear Factory, Dimmu Borgir, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Dark Funeral, Opeth, Machine Head, Morbid Angel, Type O Negative, Immortal, At The Gates, Killswitch Engage, Testament, GWAR and Overkill, just to mention a few.

This year, the organizers of the event have lined up yet another historical event. For three days, ranging from today (August 2nd) until Saturday August 4th, 80,000+ maniacs will indulge themselves into the Metallic sounds of bands like Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Cradle Of Filth, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir, Napalm Death, Six Feet Under, Sick Of It All, and many more.

Guess what? SEPULTURA is about to go on! So click HERE to watch a live stream of Wacken Open Air!

Join the revolution, contribute to our Indiegogo campaign! Click HERE: www.indiegogo.com/hornsup
 

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First-ever European Heavy Metal Cruise Announced - Stops Include Amsterdam, Hamburg & More!

This just in: The organizers of Wacken Open Air, have released the following press release:

Be prepared for the first and the biggest Metal Cruise in Europe: From 5th to 12th of May 2013, the FULL METAL CRUISE brings the real festival feeling to the sea.

The FULL METAL CRUISE starts in Hamburg and enters the harbors of Southampton (UK), Le Havre (F) and Amsterdam (NL). After 7 days full of sea & relaxing and Metal & party feeling, the ship then returns to Hamburg with a special show at the harbor anniversary fest.

Whilst there will be big fireworks and a special show on board, the cruise will return to the harbor and this will be one of the many things leading to a great overall experience for every metal-sailor!

The special features of this Metal Cruise:

- Drinks and food are included
- No difficult travelling to the starting point
- Hamburg, the gateway to the world!
- Concerts take place onboard and onshore
- Interesting shore excursions for every metal-heart

More than 20 high-quality bands from the Metal and Rock scene will perform on 3 stages at the Mein Schiff 1. Certainly there will be everything which provides you with festival fun onboard: Meet & Greets, Metal Karaoke, movie nights, metal comedy, workshops for musicians and much more.
In the many lounges onboard, the metalheads can party and meet the artists – nowhere else it is possible to have such a direct connection to the musicians.

Furthermore, Metalheads can book shore excursions with more concerts at the harbors. The line up of the shows at the seaports and onboard of the cruise will be announced soon. You can find more information about this Heavy Metal Cruise at the link below.

"Heavy and hard music and a cruise don’t conflict with each other", says Wacken boss Thomas Jensen. "With the FULL METAL CRUISE we want to bring a real Metal festival to the sea!"

You can purchase your FULL METAL CRUISE ticket from 18th of July on!

On this seven days FULL METAL CRUISE, the food and drinks are included alongside with the floating festival program: drinks such as beer, wine and softdrinks are free of charge at all times, from 18 o´clock on also most of the spirituous beverages and cocktails will be for free. In addition, there is no need to pay for the food in most of the restaurants onboard.

Attention: The tickets for this very special festival are limited to an amount of 2000. The quick ones can show the whole world that they will attend the cruise: the first 500 metal sailors will receive an exclusive Full Metal Cruise Shirt!

Join the cruise, Metalheads!

Related links:
www.full-metal-cruise.com

Get Your Band On WACKEN OPEN AIR; W:O:A Metal Masters 2012 Starts Soon!

The video online voting for Metal bands (whether with or without a record deal, newcomer or part of the Metal scene since years) starts in a few days. Participating bands will get their chance to compete for a slot at Wacken 2012 and also the possibility to show their music to a huge mass of users.

Interested bands can upload their video from the March 5th until April 29th at Wacken Tube.com. The 3 leading bands will compete into the final voting which will begin on the 1st of May and ends on May 21st.

The winner band will get the unique possibility to present their music to a huge audience at the Wacken Open Air 2012.

Further Info about Metal Masters can be found HERE.

Bands confirmed for the 2012 WACKEN OPEN AIR:

Amaranthe
Amon Amarth
Aura Noir
Axel Rudi Pell
Broilers
Chthonic
CircleIICircle
Coroner
Cradle of Filth
Crimes of Passion
D-A-D
Danko Jones SW
Dark Funeral
Darkest Hour
Dead By April
Decapitated
Delain
Dimmu Borgir
Dødheimsgard
DRI
Electric Wizard
Eisenherz
Endstille
Eschenbach
Forbidden
GammaRay
Gehenna
Ghost Brigade
Graveyard
Hammerfall
Henry Rollins - Spoken Word
In Extremo
In Flames
Insomnium
Kamelot
Kylesa
Leningrad Cowboys
Machine Head
Manimals
Manticora
Massacre
Megaherz
Ministry
Moonspell
Napalm Death
Nasum
Oomph!
Opeth
OverKill
Paradise Lost
Red Fang
Riotgod
Sacred Reich
Saturnian
Sanctuary
Saor Patrol
Saxon
Schandmaul
Scorpions
Sick Of It All
Six Feet Under
Suicide Silence
Sylosis
Testament
The Black Dahlia Murder
The BossHoss
U.D.O
Unearth
Vogelfrey
Volbeat
Warbringer
Warrior Soul
Watain
WBTBWB
Winterfylleth
Wölli & Die Band...

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The Haunted - "No Ghost" Live at Wacken Open Air + 1st Ever Chinese Takeover!

Swedish Metal icons The Haunted, have been busy promoting their latest album titled "Unseen" (available now via Century Media). The bands seventh studio album hit the charts at #5 in Sweden as well as #26 in Finland upon release.

After an Australian tour and a busy Summer schedule which saw the band appear at major European open air festival events like Sweden Rock (Sweden), Hellfest (France), Wacken (Germany) and Summer Breeze (Germany), The Haunted recently announced a series of tour-dates that will take place in Sweden. The tour will feature fellow countrymen Entombed as part of the 2011 edition of the "Close-Up Made Us Do It" tour. The band has also announced a couple of headlining shows in Greece, as well as a (re-scheduled) tour of Japan together with Norwegian acts Ihsahn and Leprous. Additionally, The Haunted will be performing three shows in China (in collaboration with XOUNDFORCE) for the first time ever! All tour-dates can be seen below.

Today, The Haunted is happy to launch the first promotional video clip for the "Unseen" album. The song "No Ghost" (in a special live rendition from Wacken Open Air festival 2011) can be right here.



This intense live version of "No Ghost" was filmed by Marcel Schleiff (Record Film) and edited by The Haunted's lead guitarist Anders Björler (At The Gates Production). The live sound recording was engineered by Jacky Lehmann (Audiosound Lehmann) and then mixed by the band's long-term producer Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studio in Denmark.

"A little update from The Haunted camp: We are proud to share the following live video for 'No Ghost' which was filmed this summer at 'Wacken Open Air'. The Wacken crew did a great job filming and Tue Madsen did exceptional work mixing this time around.

We are currently preparing for some club shows in Greece, in Sweden with Entombed, as well as a tour of Japan & China. China will be a first for us and we are very excited about this. We are also looking at some more touring next year, but more info about that soon. 'Til then, keep checking our website & facebook for updates and news."

The Haunted dates for the last quarter of 2011:

- 22.10.2011: Athens, Greece - Gagarin 205
- 23.10.2011: Thessaloniki, Greece Block 33
- 24.11.2011: Stockholm, Sweden - Göta Källare + ENTOMBED & WALKING WITH STRANGERS
- 25.11.2011: Göteborg, Sweden - Brew House + ENTOMBED & WALKING WITH STRANGERS
- 26.11.2011: Malmö, Sweden - Kulturbolaget + ENTOMBED & WALKING WITH STRANGERS
- 05.12.2011: Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya O-East + IHSAHN & LEPROUS
- 06.12.2011: Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro + IHSAHN & LEPROUS
- 07.12.2011: Osaka, Japan - Big Cat + IHSAHN & LEPROUS
- 09.12.2011: Hang Zhou, China - Nineball live house
- 10.12.2011: Shang Hai, China - Shan Hai live house
- 11.12.2011: Beijing, China - Mao live house

For gamers, the song "No Ghost" had already been made available earlier this year on the RockBand network. Click here for more information

The Haunted's Discography:

\m/ Studio albums

- The Haunted (1998)
- Made Me Do It (2000)
- One Kill Wonder (2003)
- Revolver (2004)
- The Dead Eye (2006)
- Versus (2008)
- Unseen (2011)[11]

\m/ Live albums

- Live Rounds In Tokyo (2001)
- Road Kill (2010)

\m/ Compilation albums

- Warning Shots (2009)

\m/ EPs

- Tsunami Benefit (2005)

The Haunted is:

- Patrik Jensen: rhythm guitar
- Jonas Björler: bass
- Anders Björler: lead guitar
- Peter Dolving: vocals
- Per Möller Jensen: drums

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Organizers of Wacken Open Air 2012 Announce Headlining Act!

Wacken Open Air takes place every year at the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and is easily one of the most crushing summer music festivals in the entire world. Ever since its inception in 1990, the festival has opened the doors to hundreds of high profile Heavy Music artists such as Slayer, Motörhead, Dio, Doro, Cradle Of Filth, Fear Factory, Dimmu Borgir, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Dark Funeral, Opeth, Machine Head, Morbid Angel, Type O Negative, Immortal, At The Gates, Killswitch Engage, Testament, GWAR and Overkill, just to mention a few.

In 2012, the organizers of the event are lining up yet another historical event. For three days, ranging from August 8th to August 4th, 80,000+ maniacs will indulge themselves into the Metallic sounds of bands like Amon Amarth, Cradle Of Filth, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir, Napalm Death, Six Feet Under, Sick Of It All, and many more.

Today, it was announced that the Wacken Open Air 2012 will be headlined by Bay Area Metallers Machine Head! Additionally, the event will mark the last open air performance ever by German Heavy Metal band Scorpions.

Here are the bands that have been confirmed thus far for next years fest!

- Amon Amarth
- Axel Rudi Pell
- Coroner
- Cradle Of Filth
- Dark Funeral
- Dimmu Borgir
- Endstille
- Forbidden
- Gamma Ray
- Hammerfall
- Henry Rollins
- In Extremo
- Machine Head (Headliner)
- Ministry
- Moonspell
- Napalm Death
- Paradise Lost
- Scorpions (Last Open Air Show)
- Sick Of It All
- Six Feet Under
- U.D.O.
- Watain
- Winterfylleth



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