The 2010 winner of the "Finnish Metal Battle" BATTLE BEAST has been confirmed for this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 4-6, 2011 in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ACCU&a...

According to a report from Anwalt24.de, Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA has been ordered to pay 45,000€ stemming from an advertising campaign in Germany from the band's 2007 release, Worlds Collide. The judgment was entered in Germany late last week awarding compensation to RAMMSTEIN for trademark infringement. In 2007,...

Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA has released a statement clarifying a report that was originally published on the German web site Anwalt24.de which indicated that the band was forced to pay approximately $59,000 in damages to German industrial rockers RAMMSTEIN. According to the site, the legal action arose in connection with a German a...

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Finnish rock cello quartet APOCALYPTICA has been forced to pull the vocals of SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith off the band's new single, "Not Strong Enough". Smith's vocal track remains on the version found on the group's latest album, "7th Symphony". Bu...

German industrial metallers Rammstein have won a lawsuit for copyright infringement against Apocalyptica's record company, Sony Music Entertainment GmbH.The case, which was heard at the Regional Court Of Berlin last month, was brought against Sony Music's after the label's now defunct subsidiary, Gun Records, claimed in marketing literature that...