Writer Joel McIver recently interviewed QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE/EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's Josh Homme for Music Mart magazine's June issue. Excerpts from the chat follow: On the frequent offers from concert promoters to reform his previous band, KYUSS: "The offers come in all the time. They're getting more and more expensive, and more and ...
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Taking their sound to raised levels of brutality, SWORN ENEMY are currently recording their new album that will be released this fall through Abacus Recordings. Since SWORN ENEMY formed in 1997 they have represented New York hardcore well, having released two highly popular full lengths and touring the world countless times with bands such as ...
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DARKANE guitarist Christofer Malmström has posted the following message on his web site: I'm back! First of all, I am very proud to announce that I am now officially endorsing Seymour Duncan guitar pickups! I'm very excited about this, and I'm still deciding on which models I will use but it's gravitating towards the SH-6b ...
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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello appeared as his political folk alter ego, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, at a May Day rally at Mac Arthur Park (Wilshire & Park View) in Los Angeles, California on May 1. The rally, which saw people marching from different corners along Vermont Ave to Mac Arthur Park, benefitted MIWON, the ...
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Oakland, California's ALL SHALL PERISH has been added to the Hell On Earth 2007 tour, set to kick off in early September. Also scheduled to appear are WALLS OF JERICHO, FEAR MY THOUGHTS and BORN FROM PAIN. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Sep. 13 - Batschkapp - Frankfurt A.M., GER Sep. 20 - ...
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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE has reportedly scheduled a date at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin on August 24. RAGE currently has four shows scheduled this summer on the Rock The Bells tour. Following the 20-minute sell-out of the July 28 Rock The Bells concert at Randalls Island in New York City, a second New ...
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Metal Blade Records has launched a brand new online player for fast-rising Arizonian extreme metal heroes JOB FOR A COWBOY. You will be able to stream two tracks off the band's upcoming debut album, "Genesis", and, among some other pretty cool features, you'll be given a chance to win hot JFAC stuff! "Genesis" ...
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Ozzy Osbourne has told MTV.com that he be playing several songs from "Black Rain" at Ozzfest this summer but will of course dip into the archives to play some of his older solo material, as well as some BLACK SABBATH classics. But he can't take credit for this summer's gratis tickets. "I'm the ...
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Kalle Aalto of Imhotep webzine recently conducted an interview with STONE SOUR/SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Imhotep: Did the success of STONE SOUR surprise you? Corey: "It definitely took as by surprise, as we were expecting a success similar to the level of a debut album. As ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: What's next for RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE? The band closed the Coachella Festival on Sunday night (April 29) with its first show in seven years (video), and has four more dates scheduled this summer on the Rock The Bells tour. But while guitarist Tom Morello told Launch that more ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will perform together for the first time in seven years this Sunday night (April 29) as the political rock group headlines and closes the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California. Guitarist Tom Morello, who's also performing at the festival on Saturday (April 28) as ...
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Norwegian death metallers BLOOD RED THRONE have completed work on their new album, due on June 25 via Earache Records. Tchort of BLOOD RED THRONE states: "Yet another tough birth is over and the BLOOD RED THRONE crew is proud to announce its newest album is born! People familiar with the band and its past ...
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David Glessner of the Express-News recently conducted an interview with legendary heavy metal vocalists Ronnie James Dio (BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN AND HELL, DIO, RAINBOW). A few excerpts follow: On Dio's universally recognized forked-fingers devil-horn salute: "You see it at Britney Spears concerts now and that's when you know you've lost it. I certainly ...
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Former WWE champion and FOZZY lead singer Chris Jericho will co-host Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM this Friday, April 27 beginning at 11:00 p.m. EST. If you live in the U.S., you can listen to the show live on the Internet at this location. Chris Jericho ...
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CRADLE OF FILTH guitarist Charles Hedger is selling two of his ESP (LTD) guitars in a rare one-off sale as he has recently changed endorsement to LAG guitars. He is happy to sell them internationally, but for all those who cannot collect locally (Charles is based in Essex, U.K.), they must pay all postage costs. ...
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RAGING SPEEDHORN guitarist Gareth Smith has issued the following update: "We've just finished recording and mixing the new album. We've spent two weeks at the wonderfully isolated Foel Studio in North Wales, with Larry Hibbitt, recording ten songs. "The studio was the perfect place to record such an album. Literally in the middle of nowhere, ...
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Midwest Metal recently conducted an interview with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn. An excerpt from the chat follows: Midwest Metal: MACHINE HEAD has always had its share of longer songs. However on "Through the Ashes of Empires" you seemed to take it a bit further. Now on "The Blackening" there's some of the ...
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Former WWE champion and FOZZY lead singer Chris Jericho will release his memoir, on October 25 through Grand Central Publishing. The book, called "A Lion's Tale" (book cover), focuses on his formative years in the wrestling business. For more information, visit Amazon.com. FOZZY's third album, "All That Remains", was released in ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello has watched along with the rest of the nation as the story of Monday's (April 16) horrifying massacre at the Virginia Tech campus has unfolded over the past two days. While there have been calls to revive the subject of gun control in the ...
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Liechtenstein-based gothic metal group ELIS — whose lead singer, Sabine Dünser, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on July 7, 2006 during rehearsal and passed away the following day in hospital — will support the Frankfurt, Germany-based gothic rockers ASP on the second leg of their "Requiembryo" tour this fall. Confirmed dates are as follows: Nov. 02 ...
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German modern melodic death hopefuls FEAR MY THOUGHTS have been added to the Hell On Earth 2007 tour, set to kick off in early September. Also scheduled to appear are WALLS OF JERICHO and BORN FROM PAIN. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Sep. 13 - Batschkapp - Frankfurt A.M., GER Sep. 20 - ...
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Dayton, Ohio metal/hardcore act TWELVE TRIBES will finish up its U.K. tour on May 1 and then head out for its first-ever headlining European tour starting May 4 in support of its album "Midwest Pandemic", with RAGING SPEEDHORN and BRIDGE TO SOLACE opening. Check out the band's U.K. tour blog at this location. ...
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QUEEN guitarist Brian May's company BrianMayGuitars.co.uk has issued the following update: "In the very near future, we are hoping to produce a Brian May guitar to bridge the gap between the standard model and the Andrew Guyton model. "In response to demand from many guitarists, this guitar will be of a closer spec to the ...
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Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., the Hendrix family music company which owns and administers the Jimi Hendrix music rights, has issued the following press release: Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. recently obtained a stipulated court order of almost $900,000 against music entrepreneur Ed Chalpin. The payment to Experience Hendrix was the culmination of a 2006 lawsuit commenced in New ...
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According to MTV.com, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello's solo alter ego, is buddying up with friends for three concerts at Los Angeles' Hotel Café taking place Tuesday, April 17 and April 24. A diverse cast of characters is expected to join Morello for the Tuesday performances, including Alanis Morissette, ...
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Germany's beer-swilling, fart-smelling, fat and happy drunken thrash jokers should need no introduction to any old-schooler worth his denim. While many in the 1980s would have probably predicted a short shelf life for TANKARD and their lowbrow antics, the band has lasted for twenty-five years now (!), because they've always backed up their goofy lyrical ...
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Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX has issued the following update: "We have begun initial songwriting for the follow up album to 'Discordia', and we have already two to three songs in a skeleton form. We will be taking the majority of the rest of this year to only write, so we hope to record by next ...
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Long-running German metallers PARADOX have set an October 26, 2007 release date for their fourth album, "Electrify". Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Second Over Third By Force", "Monument", "Portrait in Grey", "Hyperspeed Hallucinations", "Bridge to Silence", "Infected", "Disconnected", "Cyberspace Romance", "Electrify", as well as a cover of BLACKFOOT's "Good Morning". PARADOX, who ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello told Billboard.com on Tuesday (March 27) that the reactivated rap-rock pioneers have no plans at the moment to mount a full-fledged tour beyond the handful of shows already announced. Morello said, "Right now there are four shows booked. There's Coachella and then there's the ...
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SKIP SUSHI, the Memphis, Tennessee-based band featuring former members of Sebastian Bach's (ex-SKID ROW) BACH TIGHT FIVE, has posted several new songs on its MySpace page. According to SKIP SUSHI's official bio, "this four-piece band from Memphis, Tennessee mixes their different influences to create a unified elixir of infectious melodies and strong vocal ...
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