Bobby Ross Jr. of The Associated Press has issued the following report: Clad in concert T-shirts and puffing on cigarettes, fans of slain heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott faced tight security Tuesday night as they lined up to attend a public memorial service. Security guards screened grieving fans with metal detecting wands as they ...
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As of Tuesday morning, December 14, 2004, guuitarist Clint Lowery has left the current SEVENDUST tour due to "personal issues," according to an official statement. "SEVENDUST has made the decision to continue its present tour for its deserving fans and deliver a show one has come to expect from the SEVENDUST moniker," the statement continues. ...
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ContactMusic.com is reporting that AC/DCsinger Brian Johnson is thrilled to hear his group's rock music is helping U.S. and British troops terrorize enemies around the globe. The Australian heavy rock band's music is a favourite of soldiers stationed in Iraq and other trouble spots — and he's delighted to hear it's often used to punish ...
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SKINLAB frontman Steev Esquivel has issued the following update on the band's current activities: "We've have a bunch of exciting news for everyone interested. "First off, we'd like to thank all of the fans/friends that have been sending in letters/emails. I've said before and I will say it again: 'SKINLAB has some of the most ...
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MÖTLEY CRÜE's webmaster has posted the following message on the group's web site: "Today [Monday, Dec. 6] was huge, there's just no other way to describe what happened today! I knew things where going to get crazy, especially when the MÖTLEY server was shut down at 9AM due to all of the traffic we where ...
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Belgian gory death metallers ABORTED have posted the following message on their web site: "Yup, in order to make a very limited & special edition for the new album 'The Archaic Abattoir', ABORTED is looking for fans to make this one special for the band & themselves! A very limited quantity of the new ABORTED ...
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Tom Farmer and Dave Wedge of BostonHerald.com are reporting that a vicious beatdown in a Brockton, MA nightclub Friday night is being blamed on the notorious FSU gang which has produced DVDs showing patrons being pummeled in Boston-area clubs. According to friends of Jarrod Kenney, 22, of Raynham, Kenney and another man were ...
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Reunited '80s classic heavy metal legends HELSTAR, featuring vocalist James Rivera (DESTINY'S END, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SEVEN WITCHES, DISTANT THUNDER), will be playing in San Diego, California on Friday, January 14, 2005 at the Brick By Brick club. Also appearing on the bill will be special guests CAGE, BROKEN FOUNDATION (featuring ex-PSYCHOTIC WALTZ drummer Norm ...
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Canadian metallers ANVIL have set "This Is Thirteen" (or "TIT" for short) as the title of their upcoming thirteenth studio album. "They plan on having 13 songs on the CD and the cover will be a superstitious theme, as in a broken mirror, black cat and the anvil under a ladder," reads a posting on ...
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MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (MSG) bassist Rev Jones has spoken to Rockdetector.com about the physical altercation between him and MSG singer Chris Logan last month that resulted in Logan leaving the group's European tour following the show in Stockholm on November 14. An excerpt from the interview follows: Rockdetector.com: Chris Logan obviously got in ...
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An AMEN/Casey Chaos box set, entitled "Pisstory: A Catalogue of Accidents/A Lifetime of Mistakes", is available for pre-order at CDBaby.com. Having released three albums in the last few years on three separate major labels, as well as two limited-edition, self-released, self-funded, fan club-only CDs, this four-disc do-it-yourself box set comprises 90 tracks and ...
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A brand new LOST SOUL track, entitled "Mortal Cage", has been made available for download at Earache.com. "Mortal Cage" comes off the Polish death metallers' upcoming album, "Chaostream", due in early 2005 via the Earache Records subsidiary Wicked World. LOST SOUL have cut their teeth over the course of two demonically-inspired death metal ...
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British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have commented on the crowd-surfing incident at the group's Denver concert last week that resulted in a 28-year-old New Mexico woman being critically injured. As previously reported, Valarie Markle (photo), a waitress from Farmington, N.M., suffered a broken neck and was in intensive care at Denver Health ...
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According to a posting at The NIN Hotline, NINE INCH NAILS are rumored to be taking part in the upcoming Coachella Festival, set to take place April 30-May 1, 2005 in Indio, California. Other artists believed to be taking part in the two-day event include DAVID BOWIE, PJ HARVEY and R.E.M. View the ...
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Former HALLOWS EVE singer Steve Cannon (editor-in-chief of the world's oldest and longest running Internet-based music magazine Vibrations of Doom) has issued the following statement regarding his former band: "I have, as many of you know, become very disappointed at the sound and style HALLOWS EVE has been forging on with. This is not to ...
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Israeli death metallers SALEM have posted two video clips from their "Live Demise" DVD at their official web site. Check out the songs "A Moment of Silence" and "Creating Our Sins" at this location. "Live Demise" features a full-length concert filmed on July 9, 2003 at Barbie in Tel Aviv (presented in 5.1, ...
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WORMED, GRONIBARD, DESPISED ICON and AMOEBIC DYSENTERY are the latest bands confirmed for the Maryland Death Fest 2005, a two-day festival set to take place May 28-29 at the Thunderdome in Baltimore, MD. The complete list of acts scheduled to perform at the festival is as follows: IMMOLATION (New York) CRYPTOPSY (Canada) GENERAL SURGERY (Sweden) ...
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Former MARILYN MANSON/current A PERFECT CIRCLE bassist Jeordie White (a.k.a. Twiggy Ramirez) is strongly rumored to have joined NINE INCH NAILS' touring lineup. Two recent photos of White in the recording studio with NINE INCH NAILS during the making of their new album have popped up on NIN's official web site (Photo#1,
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Hamilton, Ohio-based "funeral doom metal" band TORTURE WHEEL have inked a deal with Firebox Records subsidiary Firedoom Music. The deal is for one EP and one full-length CD. The EP, entitled "Crushed Under...", is due in January 2005 is said to be a re-release of the tracks from the split CD with UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE along ...
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British extreme metal pioneers BOLT THROWER have announced the return of original vocalist Karl Willetts as a full-time member. Willetts rejoins the group as the replacement for Dave Ingram, who left the band in August due to long-standing "health and personal problems." Commented Karl: "It's fantastic to be a part of the mighty BOLT THROWER ...
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Guitar legend Michael Schenker spoke to a Swedish radio station on Tuesday (Nov. 16) about the incident in Stockholm last Sunday (Nov. 14), which led to singer Chris Logan's departure from MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP's current European tour. Asked what happened to Logan, Michael responded, "I really don't know. I was asleep when my tour manager ...
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Italian goth-metallers MY SIXTH SHADOW have inked a deal with Watch Me Fall Records. The group's new full-length album, "Lovefading Innocence", was recorded, mixed, enginereed by Victor Love at Subsound Studios in Rome and was mastered by Mila Jussila at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki. The 12-song effort has a running time of 58:10 and features ...
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Swedish singer Leif Sundin (GREAT KING RAT, JOHN NORUM) has replaced Chris Logan in MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP's touring lineup, according to the Spanish web site Rafabasa.com. Logan left the tour Sunday night (Nov. 14) following an altercation with a member of MSG that is said to have left the singer with several broken ...
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BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi recently spoke to Classic Rock Revisited about his recently released collaborative CD with singer Glenn Hughes (ex-DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH), entitled "The 1996 DEP Sessions", and the possibility of a new SABBATH studio album, among other topics. Several excerpts from the interview follow: Classic Rock Revisited: Now, I ...
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Former AMEN guitarist Rich Jones has posted a lengthy statement explaining his decision to leave the group and offering behind-the-scenes information about the band's decision to ask AMEN frontman Casey Chaos to sign a contract barring him from causing, or threatening to cause, any physical harm to the bandmembers, himself, crew and audience ...
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VH1.com is currently hosting an exclusive live video of VIXEN's "How Much Love", filmed during the taping of the group's "Bands Reunited" show, which premiered on the cable network (VH1) earlier this week. Check it out here. In other news, former VIXEN bassist Share Pedersen has posted a message on her blog regarding ...
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Swedish death/thrash metal band ARISE have set "The Beautiful New World" as the title of their third album, tentatively due in early 2005 via Spinefarm Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Kings Of The Cloned Generation" was recorded at StudioMega in Bollebygd, Sweden and will contain 11 tracks. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include ...
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PHANTOM-X, the new project featuring OMEN singer Kevin Goocher along with guitarist Russell D. Contreras (TYR), bassist Glenn Malicki (STRANGERS) and drummer Danny White (ASKA), will enter the studio later this month to begin recording their new CD with producer Sterling Winfield (KING DIAMOND, PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN). The new album is expected to include guest vocal ...
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According to a posting on his official web site, Swedish guitarist/vocalist Conny Bloom (SILVERGINGER 5, ex-ELECTRIC BOYS) "spent the night between Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 6-7) at Ystad hospital after falling off the nine-feet high stage at a THORSTEN FLINCK [Swedish rock 'n' roll singer/actor/director] gig. No broken bones, but like he said afterwards, 'I ...
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CRYPTOPSY, ABORTED and LENG TCH'E are the latest bands confirmed for the Maryland Death Fest 2005, a two-day festival set to take place May 28-29 at the Thunderdome in Baltimore, MD. The complete list of acts scheduled to perform at the festival is as follows: CRYPTOPSY (Canada) IMMOLATION (New York) ABORTED (Belgium) GENERAL SURGERY (Sweden) ...
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