New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, Crimson Management and The Syndicate have announced the first-ever Metal Summit on April 25. The Metal Summit is an interactive and educational conference where fans and the metal music industry can engage, share ideas and help further the scene. The Metal Summit will give labels, managers, agents, endorsers, publishers, ...
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Long-running Seattle metallers METAL CHURCH have issued the following update: "After an overwhelming response to the album cover art [contest] for our new release, we have finally decided on a wining cover. The artist's name is Rainer Kalwitz from Germany who is amazingly talented. "Due to so many talented entries, we have decided ...
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Long-running Seattle-based metallers METAL CHURCH have issued the following update: "Ronny [Munroe, vocals] just flew into Seattle to finish the final vocal tracks for the new [METAL CHURCH] release. We are very pleased with the way it is turning out. Look forward to more updates along with some studio photos." METAL CHURCH's new album, tentatively ...
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Classic Rock's Jerry Ewing recently spoke to VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash for an article that will be published in the issue that goes on sale on April 30. A couple of excerpts from the story follow: Slash: I was talking with Robert Plant the other night and he was casually naming certain ZEPPELIN ...
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METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe has issued the following update: "Get your artwork in soon for the new METAL CHURCH release. We will be posting them on this site shortly. The email to send it to is [email protected] "As you all know we are accepting artwork from the fans for the cover of the new ...
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Hot on the heels of the release of their eighth studio release, "Melodrama" (Corporate Punishment / Koch) Los Angeles glam icons SPIDERS & SNAKES will embark on their tour since 2002's brief West Coast "London Daze" trek. With dates sprinkled along the West Coast, the band is also looking towards the Midwest to visit a ...
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METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe has issued the following update: "As you all know, we are busy working on the new release. METAL CHURCH is back with a vengeance and we know where you are. "In appreciation for our fans old and new over the past two plus decades, we have decided to accept artwork ...
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Veteran metallers METAL CHURCH have issued the following update: "Due to personal reasons, Jay Reynolds [also of MALICE] has left METAL CHURCH. We thank him for his contributions to the band, and wish him all the best in future endeavors. "Jay's replacement has not been decided upon yet, but it will be announced when a ...
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METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe has issued the following update: "As we start recording the new songs, I want to take a moment and answer a few questions that we get over and over. The first one is when people ask if METAL CHURCH is a Christian band. "The name started when Kurdt [Vanderhoof] lived ...
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METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "I was fooling around [a couple of nights ago] in Vegas at OddsOn Studios. I recorded a demo of a song of mine called 'Ride Me'. There will be two versions of this song and I will leave it up to ...
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Los Angeles glitter and glam rock heroes SPIDERS & SNAKES are celebrating the release of their new "Melodrama" album on Corporate Punishment Records (distributed by Koch Entertainment) by making a few waves to close out 2007 and kick the new year off in grand style. The band has three songs — "Friends Like You", "Shoot ...
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Utah-based progressive/power metallers KATAGORY V will perform as METAL CHURCH vocalist Ronny Munroe's backing band in Las Vegas, Nevada on New Year's Eve. Commented KATAGORY V bassist Dustin Mitchell: "When we got the call from our friend Jeff (promoter, Loud Productions) about possibly putting together a New Year's party in Las Vegas, we were totally ...
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According to The Pulse of Radio, GUNS N' ROSES is the subject of a new episode of the A&E series "Biography" airing Thursday night (November 29) at 9 p.m. ET on the cable channel. The one-hour documentary charts the band's history from its earliest days on the Los Angeles rock scene to its breakthrough debut ...
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BringBackGlam.com recently conducted an interview with JETBOY lead guitarist Billy Rowe. An excerpt from the chat follows: BringBackGlam.com: Do you know that JETBOY is mentioned several times in the new Slash autobiography? Billy: Yeah. That's a very interesting question. We played L.A. Friday and Las Vegas Saturday. A good friend of ours, he's ...
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The cover artwork for the new solo CD former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Izzy Stradlin, entitled "Fire, The Acoustic Album", can be found at this location. According to Izzy, the LP was recorded in California this past summer and contains "very basic recordings," featuring two guitars with one playing slide. Ex-REVEREND HORTON HEAT ...
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antiMUSIC reports: One of the big revelations in Slash's new autobiography is how the original GUNS N' ROSES split up and Axl Rose gained control of the group and name. Slash also delivers bad news for those that have been hoping that the original line-up would somehow regroup, it's not going to happen. ...
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Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Izzy Stradlin has just released a brand new all-acoustic album entitled "Fire, The Acoustic Album". According to Izzy, the LP was recorded in California this past summer and contains "very basic recordings," featuring two guitars with one playing slide. Ex-REVEREND HORTON HEAT drummer Taz Bentley and JU JU HOUND guitarist ...
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Professionally filmed video footage of METAL CHURCH performing the classic song "Gods of Wrath" at the Wacken Open Air 2005 festival in Wacken, Germany can be viewed below. METAL CHURCH's latest album, "A Light in the Dark", was released in June 2006 via SPV. The CD includes a new version of the classic "Watch the ...
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Mikkel Elbech of the Danish music magazine Gaffa recently conducted an interview with GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Gaffa: Can you describe the transition from being a solo musician to quite suddenly being a member of GN'R, playing venues for thousands upon thousands of people? ...
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Gino Alache of Rockumradio.com conducted an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler last night (Tuesday, September 18) prior to ADLER'S APPETITE's concert in Lima, Peru. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On how he's being treated by the American music press: "[The American press is] disrespectul. American people ...
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An audio interview with former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler conducted on Monday, September 10 by Gino Alache of Rockum Radio's "Breakin the Rock" (broadcasting out of Lima, Peru) is available for download at this location. With the big "Appetite For Destruction" 20th anniversary show behind him, Adler recently told Billboard.com that ...
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METAL CHURCH frontman Ronny Munroe has lined up the following dates with his solo project: Sep. 19 - Fat City - San Francisco, CA Sep. 20 - Club Vegas - Salt Lake City, UT Sep. 22 - Paladino's – Tarzana, CA Sep. 29 - Studio Seven – Seattle, WA (w/ LILLAIN AXE) Due to so ...
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Glam-Metal.com recently conducted an interview with VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Glam-Metal.com: A couple weeks ago I was at the 20-year anniversary show [of "Appetite for Destruction"] with ADLER'S APPETITE at the Key Club in Hollywood. Duff and Izzy came out and played and ...
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The new book "Reckless Road and the Making of Appetite for Destruction" by Marc Canter — an amateur photographer and owner of L.A.'s famed Canter's Deli — documents GUNS N' ROSES' early years via never-before-seen photos and lots of memorabilia. Canter witnessed the creation of GUNS N' ROSES and photographed every gig the band played ...
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Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash has spoken out about the recent GUNS N' ROSES near-reunion that took place at the Key Club in Hollywood, California and his reasons for not participating in it. Speaking to Mark the Shark of the TK101 radio station in Florida, Slash stated about the July ...
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METAL CHURCH frontman Ronny Munroe has posted three solo tracks from the "Internal Quest" demo on his MySpace page. Check out the songs "How Many Lives", "Always" and "Desperate Man" at this location. Munroe has finalized the lineup for his solo project. He has recruited his former ROTTWEILLER bandmates Rick Van Zandt on ...
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As part of Rolling Stone magazine's ongoing tribute to GUNS N' ROSES' legendary debut LP "Appetite for Destruction" (which was released 20 years ago last month), the RollingStone.com web site has been updated with footage of six early GUNS N' ROSES performances. Watch the video material at this location. The six featured clips ...
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WashingtonPost.com recently conducted an interview with VELVET REVOLVER/ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: WashingtonPost.com: It's interesting to hear you say that you're not afraid to throw your influences into an album, because STONE TEMPLE PILOTS were slagged for being a copycat grunge band — a ...
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Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports: With the big "Appetite For Destruction" 20th anniversary show behind him, original GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler is looking forward to taking his ADLER'S APPETITE band worldwide. But he's also holding out hope for a blowout reunion bash with his former bandmates. "I believe I made it ...
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