Former QUIET RIOT bassist Rudy Sarzo has spoken to ElectricBasement.com about his recent experience as the touring bassist for YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and his current gig with DIO. Asked how he hooked up with Ronnie James Dio, Sarzo replied, "What happened was someone gave me the heads-up that Ronnie was looking for a bass player early ...
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EIDOLON drummer Shawn Drover has issued a statement clarifying the status of their new singer, Nils K. Rue, with respect to his other band, PAGAN'S MIND. Says Shawn: "After announcing that Nils K. Rue is now the new singer for EIDOLON, we have received many e-mails from people asking if Nils has left ...
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SUICIDAL TENDENCIES are preparing to record their new album, and they are asking fans for their help. "What we'd like is to get as many people involved as possible and have the cover represent the cycos behind the band," the group write on their web site. "Remember the 'Welcome to Venice' cover? And the FirST ...
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BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION/MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following message to the "Diary" section of CRÜE's official web site: "Monday two days before we (the BRIDES) leave for Europe on tour. I'm home with [wife] Donna and the kids. Life is grand and then some. I'm sitting here at 7 a.m. on our ...
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The latest addition to the FBI list of seven terrorist suspects being sought because of their ties to al-Qaida is Adam Yahiye Gadahn (photo), a U.S. citizen from Southern California who wrote in a web posting that he was obsessed for a time with "demonic heavy metal music" before moving to ...
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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT, the band featuring former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his fiancée Candice Night, have lined up the following dates during the coming months: Jun. 08 - Stockholm, SWE - Chinese Theater Jun. 10 - Helsinki, FIN - House of Culture Jun. 13 - St Petersburg, RUS - Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Jun. 17 ...
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According to a posting at KissFanShop.de, KISS appear to have abandoned plans to tour Europe in September. The trek, which was allegedly going to include a performance with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, was reportedly called off because the promoters "were simply not willing to pay what the band was asking for. ...
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LILLIAN AXE guitarist Steve Blaze recently spoke to AllThingsMetal.net about the group's early days and the recent departure of longtime singer Ron Taylor. Asked how they ended up working with RATT guitarist Robbin Crosby on their first CD, Blaze said, "Well, the way that we met Robbin Crosby and how that worked out ...
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Frontiers Records will be issuing LANA LANE's newest live release, "Return to Japan", a double CD release over two hours in length that chronicles the vocalist's last four Japanese tours from 1998 to 2002. Disc One contains full band performances from the concerts at Club Citta (2002) and Club Quattro (1999) and Disc Two contains ...
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Chris Hamilton of Albany, NY's Capital News 9 is reporting that a woman named Susan Balfour wants to stop the "Aggressive Music Festival" planned at the Glens Falls Civic Center in July. The concert, which is scheduled to take place July 17-18, will feature performances from such acts as SLAYER, SLIPKNOT, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, ...
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Florida's Local6.com is reporting that four guitars worth more than $150,000 were stolen from the Miami Beach home of one of the members of the rock band CREED. Miami Beach police are asking for the public's help in the search for the missing instruments, which were reportedly taken May 11 from the trunk ...
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This past Monday (May 10), DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott participated as a guest speaker in an online chat session on the web site of "Let's Talk Music", an online community for musicians and other people who work in the music industry. By request of Joe and the chat organizers, the chat was not announced ...
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Brendon "Dakk" McDonald, bassist for the Australian melodic power metal band DUNGEON, has quit the band due to "personal reasons." Dakk's official statement on the matter reads as follows: "The decision [to leave DUNGEON] has not been an easy one — yet at the same time I feel that due to many factors I have ...
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Progressive metal legends WATCHTOWER have posted two live videos from their May 1, 2004 appearance at the second annual Robb's Metal Works showcase in San Antonio, Texas. Check them out: Social Fears (11 MB – Windows Media) Control and Resistance (13 MB – Windows Media) Commented WATCHTOWER guitarist Ron Jarzombek: "WATCHTOWER ...
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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist Woody Weatherman has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "More than a few people have been asking and writing and yelling where the hell is CORROSION.... We're still alive and well. [Frontman Pepper] Keenan has been holed up down south in the studio producing a band in ...
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HAMMERFALL vocalist Joacim Cans will hold a release party for his solo project, CANS, on Saturday, May 8 at the Metallterrassen Club in Gothenburg, Sweden. Joacim will act as DJ, and the evening will also include a performance by the "all-star" band METAL MONARCHS, featuring HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak as well as a number of ...
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ICED EARTH have added more dates in June as part of their extremely successful North American headlining tour in support of their latest CD, "The Glorious Burden". It is not presently clear if CHILDREN OF BODOM and EVERGREY — the two support acts on the current leg of ICED EARTH's tour — will be part ...
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RockDetector.com, the world's biggest rock and metal database at over 23,700 artists, has launched the world's first rock and metal global gig guide. Traditionally the Internet has had to rely on cut-and-paste touring lists but the Rockdetector global gig guide is a fully integrated database, searchable by artist name, territory, individual country and ...
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Former ANTHRAX singer Joey Belladonna recently spoke to Metal-Exiles.com about his decision in early 2000 to bow out of the ANTHRAX tour that was to feature two frontmen: Belladonna and his replacement, John Bush. The tour, which went ahead without Belladonna's involvement, was to feature Joey on the band's older songs, while Bush ...
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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne announced during their live appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live" Friday night that their 19-year-old daughter Kelly has entered the Promises drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Malibu, California to treat an addiction to painkillers. According to Sharon, her publicist received a phone call from a British tabloid Friday morning asking ...
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MTV.com reports: "When a family in West Des Moines, Iowa, rented their house to SLIPKNOT last week to use for the 'Duality' video shoot, they knew there might be some damage, and since they were planning to gut the house anyway to renovate it, they were OK with that. But they had no idea how ...
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Courtney Love phoned in to "The Howard Stern Show" on Monday (March 22) before eventually coming into the studio where she made the shocking allegation that one of the first times she had oral sex was with Ted Nugent. She said she was young and she didn't want to say exactly how old she was, ...
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LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler has issued the following update regarding the band's recent sand upcoming activities: "What's new everyone? Lot's going on over here. We have been keeping our heads very low at home writing the new CD, but things are a whirlwind around us. We've almost completed the writing and it feels ...
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Long-defunct Puerto Rican thrashers CARDINAL SIN will be issuing a collection of demo recordings and rarities on March 26 through KhaosMaster Productions. Titled "Resurrection", the CD will be distributed in the U.S. via Century Media, Relapse and Red Stream mail-order, and in Canada through Great White North. The complete track listing for the CD is ...
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ANDREW W.K. was recently asked by a fan if having drummer Donald "D.T." Tardy of the legendary death metal band OBITUARY backing him up brings in fans who otherwise wouldn't be listening to the music he plays. "It's cool that you're asking that now because I've been thinking about OBITUARY a lot lately," Andrew responded ...
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THE DARKNESS have asked for a massive £1million fee (approx. $1.8 million) to play this year's Glastonbury Festival, according to NME.com. The figure is a far cry from the £75 (approx. $136) they were paid to play their Friday morning opening set last year. Today festival organizer Michael Eavis told the Daily Mirror: "It's incredible ...
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Classic Rock Revisited (www.classicrockrevisited.com) owner and operator Jeb Wright has started an online petition to get RUSH elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I know... I know this has been done before but please hear me out," Jeb writes. "Our goal is to get FIFTY THOUSAND signatures and we are ...
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Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon brought the their MTV reality show, "The Osbournes", to the Navy Tuesday (March 9), when they visited and toured (photo) the USS Missouri (BB 63) Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. "The concierge desk called this morning and asked if we could give a special tour," said Same ...
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In a brand-new interview with Glam-Metal.com, WARRANT guitarist Erik Turner was asked if there is any truth to the rumors that vocalist Jani Lane left the band because Erik and bassist Jerry Dixon were so persistent about getting original guitarist Joey Allen back into the group. "No, there's no truth to that," Erik replied. "What ...
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Veteran German thrashers SODOM recently became the first metal band to ever play Bulgaria twice, according to www.wallsoffire.de. The group's stage debut in this Eastern European country took place on September 15, 1991, at the Academic Stadium in front of 12,000 "sodomaniacs." 13 years later, the trio was to be seen at a ...
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