STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Howdy folks! It's yer big buddy Gene here, ready to open a can o' whoopass on ya! Oh, wait a minute — I'm being informed it's lima beans. Eww. "Sorry it's been a few days since I've been ...
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On Tuesday, November 15, OPETH will be guests on Norwegian National Radio P3. The program is called "Pyro", and two of the band's members will play their favorite songs from the history of rock. "Pyro" airs between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. CET. OPETH will be guests in the last hour, and the show can ...
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Backstage Auctions will be presenting the 2005 "KISS My Auction" event which will feature hundreds of items from the private collections of more than a dozen original KISS crew and company members from the glorious days of the 1970s. "KISS remains one of the top collectible bands today and with a large array of items ...
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DARKANE guitarist Christofer Malmström has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "It's been a few days since I was on the computer! We've played Grand Rapids where I had lots of trouble with my gear, but I think the rest of the guys had a good show. Then we had a ...
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Greg Prato of Billboard.com recently spoke to KISS frontman Paul Stanley and guitarist Tommy Thayer about the group's double-disc concert DVD, "Rock the Nation Live!, due on Dec. 13 via Image Entertainment. Taped this summer in Washington, D.C., and Virginia Beach, the DVD features core members Stanley and Gene Simmons flanked by Thayer ...
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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Yesterday, we spent a very uneventful day-off in Cleveland. Stayed at a Radisson right across the street from Jacob's Field, where the Indians play. Country artist Keith Urban was playing at whatever enormo-arena also across the street, so ...
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Sweden's OPETH will be the featured guests on this weekend's episode of "Headbanger's Ball". The two-hour program will air Saturday, November 5 beginning at 10:00 p.m. on MTV2. OPETH are currently touring in support of their new album, "Ghost Reveries", available now on Raodrunner Records. As previously reported, OPETH's video for the track "The Grand ...
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For over 30 years, Waring Abbott has been one of the leading photographers. He worked with the likes of KISS, LED ZEPPELIN, LOU REED, THE WHO, STYX, BEE GEES, Clint Eastwood and many others. In 2002, the legendary photographer released a photo book titled "Kiss - The Early Years", which featured extensive liner notes by ...
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A video clip of OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt teaching the crowd how to growl death metal-style at the band's October 30 show in Worcester, MA has been posted online at this location. OPETH are currently touring in support of their new album, "Ghost Reveries", available now on Roadrunner Records. OPETH utilized the services ...
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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Hey, since I seem to be able to write my own headlines on Blabbermouth, I figured I'd throw oot a few...'Hoglan cures cancer-develops Death Ray in the process.' 'Hoglan replaced by trained monkey-admits monkey can probably do as ...
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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Happy Halloween, ya freaks! Well, we made it to Minneapolis, and we're playing The Quest Club tonight, which was originally owned by Prince. Tonight, it gets owned by a band with an equally goofy logo — US! That's ...
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NEIL TURBIN'S DEATHRIDERS, the new band fronted by original ANTHRAX vocalist Neil Turbin, are continuing work on material for their debut album, tentatively titled "Diary of a Metal Thrashing Madman", to be released in 2006. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Relentless", "Face Your Fears", "Riders of the Apocalypse", "The Test of Time", ...
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According to The New York Times, former KISS manager Jesse Hilsen pleaded guilty Monday (Oct. 31) to a federal misdemeanor charge that he failed to pay child support. Hilsen, 65, has been in prison for the past year and three months awaiting trial on charges that he failed to pay support to his ...
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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Here we are at Pop's in Sauget, Illinois. The town of Sauget is basically a giant parking lot, housing Pop's Niteclub, and 4 strip bars. Legend has it that Pop owns Sauget, strip bars included, and is not ...
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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "As you all know, STRAPPING is hittin' the road. Actually, we've hit it. We're in Lawrence, Kansas tonight, as the 'Category 5-Fifteen Years of Fear' shitstorm blows into town. I am gonna do my best to document this ...
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Ex-KISS manager Jesse Hilsen, a former Upper East Side shrink who has been described as New York City's "worst deadbeat dad," has been offered a plea deal by the feds that could allow him to walk free and keep his psychiatry license, The New York Post reports. Hilsen could get time served after spending the ...
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POISON drummer Rikki Rockett has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "So I've decided to do a Podcast. For those of you not familiar with what a Podcast is, the Wikipedia Encyclopedia describes it, in part as follows: Podcasting is a method of publishing audio and video programs via the Internet, ...
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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "First off, all of us in the extended STRAPPING family would like to wish Jed [Simon, guitar] and his lovely bride, Susanna, congratulations on their recent nuptials. They were married in New Jersey on Sunday, October 2, in ...
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KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons donated a custom-made casket to the family of Staff Sgt. Jerry Bonifacio Jr., a Vacaville, California resident who was killed Oct. 10 in Iraq, for Bonifacio's burial. Check out pictures: Photo#1, Photo#2. According to TheReporter.com, Bonifacio, who loved heavy metal music and comic books, had mentioned to ...
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Alice Cooper's radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper" will be celebrating this year's Halloween by launching "6 Nights of Fright" radio beginning on Monday, October 24. Confirmed guests are as follows: Oct. 24: Edgar Winter Oct. 25: Horror master Wes Craven, Rob Zombie Oct. 26: "Ghostbusters" star Dan Akroyd, Ronnie James Dio Oct. 27: Film ...
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According to KissOnline.com, the release date of the new live KISS two-disc DVD set, "Kiss - Rock The Nation Live!" (Image Entertainment), has been pushed back to December 13 from the previously announced December 6. Shot in High Def, the DVD will feature the hottest songs from the Washington, D.C. and Virginia Beach, VA concerts, ...
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The winners from the second series of the television show "Gene Simmons' Rock School" — the band who are calling themselves NO COMMENT — have just landed the gig of a lifetime! Selected as the opening act for metal gods JUDAS PRIEST in Long Beach, California as part of the "Priest Feast" triple bill that ...
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Gene Simmons' original Spector bass that he used while touring with KISS during the late '70s into the early '80's (including during KISS' "Unholy" video shoot) is being auctioned via eBay. Included with the guitar is the strap from '70s (with blood on it), the original guitar case as well as Gene's signature on the ...
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OPETH guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Peter Lindgren will be interviewed on "Chaos" on Indie 103.1 FM (KDLD) tonight (Oct. 19) between 10:00 p.m. and midnight PST. The show can be streamed online at www.indie1031.com. OPETH are touring in support of their new album, "Ghost Reveries". Opening the shows are FIREBALL MINISTRY (Oct. ...
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Pro-Mark drumsticks and Revolver magazine have joined forces to bring you the "Faces of Metal" contest and make it possible for you to purchase the drumsticks used by three of today's hardest hitters. In addition, you could win $500 in Pro-Mark gear and receive a personal phone call from one of these Pro-Mark artists: Jason ...
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KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons was a guest on the "Frank Skinner Show" in London, England on Wednesday (October 12). Check out pictures from Globe Photos. As previously reported, Britain's Channel 4 recently gave the go-ahead to a second series of "Gene Simmons' Rock School". The show, which follows Simmons as he tutors teens ...
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DARKANE — who formed in the late '90s and hail from Helsingborg, Sweden — have performed only once before on North American soil and were received with raving applause at 2001's Milwaukee Metalfest XV. With their first full-fledged tour of North America set to launch on October 28 at Granada in Lawrence, Kansas, guitarist and ...
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ContactMusic.com is reporting that Latin rocker Carlos Santana has slammed outrageous KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons by questioning his musical ability and branding him "Las Vegas entertainment." Santana is appalled by the standard of Simmons' music and insists the rocker hides his lack of skill behind layers of gothic clothing and black make-up. Santana says, "He's ...
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More details have been revealed regarding the upcoming "Hard Rock Treasures" "rockumentary" DVD, due on November 21 via Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Featuring exclusive interviews with some of the most important rock bands ever, including DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN, METALLICA, KISS and many more, "Hard Rock Treasures" follows Don Bernstein, Head of Collections for ...
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Spin magazine recently published an exclusive interview with MARILYN MANSON. Several excerpts from the chat follow: Spin: How different is the career you've had from the one you envisioned back in Florida in the late '80s? Marilyn Manson: "I can't say I envisioned how it would turn out precisely, but I always thought — after ...
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