RevolverMag.com has posted a short interview with Grace Perry, vocalist of Phoenix, Arizona's death metal/grind titans LANDMINE MARATHON, as she took a break from her cover shoot for Revolver magazine's "Hottest Chicks In Metal Of All Time" issue, which is out now. Perry talks about her experience on the shoot and working with ...
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Grace Perry, vocalist of Phoenix, Arizona's death metal/grind titans LANDMINE MARATHON, is featured on the cover of Revolver magazine's "Hottest Chicks In Metal" issue. She appears alongside of HALESTORM's Lzzy Hale. Grace is also a frequent contributor to Revolver's online blog. Grace commented, "I am extremely excited and flattered to be on the cover of ...
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The deluxe editions of SHINEDOWN's first two albums — "Leave a Whisper" (2003) and "Us and Them" (2005) — are now available on iTunes. Commented the band: "We noticed people talking passionately about favorite songs that either had never been released or were released in limited ways. We thought it would be cool to make ...
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The 23rd installment of the "Shockwaves Skull Sessions" podcast features two segments: first up is a conversation with Bill Hale (author of "Metallica: The Club Dayz 1982-1984") and Joel McIver (author of "To Live Is To Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton"). The second segment of this episode features a balls-out debate ...
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ECW Press has set an April 1 release date for "Metallica: The Club Dayz", a collection of photographs of the legendary rock band METALLICA that were shot by renowned metal photographer Bill Hale during the band's formative years in the San Francisco Bay Area club circuit between 1982 and 1984. This book contains rare and ...
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Equal Vision Records has announced the signing of KING. The band — which features CHIODOS' Jason Hale in a familiar role on guitar — is currently recording with Mark Michalik at Detroit's 37 Studios before its winter tour that kicks off December 13 in Toledo, Ohio. Regarding the trek, Hale promises "good music, good people, ...
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Diminished Fifth Records has announced the signing of UIGG. Hailing from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, UIGG has been leaving a path of sonic destruction behind it since 2006. Having released two independent EPs, the band is now preparing to unleash itsr debut full-length, "To Punish and Enslave", in November. "To Punish and Enslave" track ...
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Clint Hale of 210SA recently conducted an interview with VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Q: You've mentioned before that all good frontmen are a little bit out there. Does that hold even more true in your case, considering you've worked with Scott Weiland and ...
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Clint Hale of STLtoday.com recently conducted an interview with former MEGADETH/ALICE COOPER and current TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA guitarist Al Pitrelli. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Q: Playing with people like ALICE COOPER and MEGADETH, was there as much debauchery backstage as you expected? Pitrelli: There was. Alice had already gone through ...
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Rob Zombie's wife Sheri Moon Zombie, who has starred in all of her husband's movies, will be one of the honorees at the fifth "Eyegore" Awards "scaremony," honoring stars from the world of horror for imagining the unimaginable and for unleashing their creative sprits in the field of horror to bring our most indelible and ...
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Dunderheaded German metal with a clunky punk attack, like a more low-rent version of the first MAIDEN record, complete with endearingly off-key vocals, rudimentary twin leads and titles like "Bleed For My Strings" and "Witch of Death" to ensure maximum metal cliché goofiness. The end result is somewhere in between MOTORHEAD's dirty boogie, the earnest ...
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To paraphrase the great Doug Stanhope, being the biggest band on the Faroe Islands is kinda like being the prettiest waitress at a Denny's diner. With a population of less than 50,000 and an area about the size of a large city, this group of tiny isles in the Norwegian Sea is home to numerous ...
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The following are a few select recent heavy metal/hard rock concert attendance figures, as reported by Billboard magazine: Artist/Event: Global Gathering: NINE INCH NAILS, ROB ZOMBIE, AVENGED SEVENFOLD & others Venue: Bicentennial Park City/State: Miami, Fla. Date: March 18, 2006 Gross Sales: $1,135,200 Attendance: 18,920 Capacity: 25,000 Artist/Event: KORN, MUDVAYNE, 10 YEARS Venue: Allstate Arena ...
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After 37 packed dates across the United States and Canada last winter, followed by an equally successful international run which hit England, Scotland, Germany, Australia and Japan, the Taste of Chaos tour is back with another onslaught of winter shows in the United States and Canada, featuring a who's-who of young, loud, aggressive bands. Kevin ...
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BURNT BY THE SUN's original lineup, including recently departed vocalist Mike Olender and drummer Dave Witte, will be reuniting (along with new guitarist Nick Hale) to write a final album for Relapse Records in 2006. After over a year of patting back and forth on the prospects for a reunion, the band has decided to ...
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BURNT BY THE SUN have announced the addition of vocalist Nate Johnson (DEADWATER DROWNING, PREMONITIONS OF WAR), guitarist Nick Hale (PREMONITIONS OF WAR, SILO) to the group's ranks. The band, whose lineup is completed by guitarist John Adubato, bassist Teddy Patterson and drummer Brandon Thomas (RIPPING CORPSE, DIM MAK, THE DYING LIGHT), are currently writing ...
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Building on the success of the first "Headbanger's Ball" record released in October 2003, MTV2 and Roadrunner Records will release a second of its kind — "MTV2 Headbanger's Ball, Volume 2" — on September 28, 2004. Highlighting the best classic and current metal videos, interviews with hard rock artists, and showcasing a new breed of ...
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SUICIDAL TENDENCIES frontman Mike Muir has posted the following report from the band's appearance at last weekend's 105.1 WLRS' Fest Five event on the Great Lawn in Louisville, Kentucky: "Lori, the bands booking agent called Wednesday, saying she just got a call asking if we were available and willing to fly out a play a ...
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Misty Hale of The Courier News reports that rocker Ted Nugent used biting quotes and edgy humor to pound his message into the brains of about 500 Arkansas-area teenagers Monday afternoon (September 29). Excuses are for wimps, drugs are for puking hillbilly hippies, and hunting is the most blessed activity ever granted to mankind. The ...
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Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has confirmed via his official web site that the singer's previously-scheduled headlining shows at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey, which were due to take place on Friday, March 29th and Saturday, March 30th, have been postponed to Friday, May 10th and Saturday, May 11th. According to ...
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Los Angeles' MEDICATION, featuring former MACHINE HEAD / SOULFLY guitarist Logan Mader, ex-UGLY KID JOE / LIFE OF AGONY vocalist Whitfield Crane, ex-ADAYINTHELIFE guitarist Blunt and SOULFLY drummer Roy Mayorga, have refuted the recent reports of Mayorga leaving the band in order to rejoin SOULFLY on a full-time basis. According to an ...
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