VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) has rejected as false recent rumors that he has entered a rehab center in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington near his home to "get clean." The Metal Sludge web site quoted an anonymous source last week as saying that Duff "went to ...
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Canadian metallers SENATE have tapped MARTYR drummer Patrice Hamelin to play on their upcoming debut album, tentatively due later in the year. The CD will be recorded in June at Silo Studios in Hamilton, Ontario with producer Julius "Juice" Butty (ALEXISONFIRE, PROTEST THE HERO) and will contain the following nine tracks: 01. War Without End, ...
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Former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul recently spoke to MTV.com about the upcoming debut album from REBEL MEETS REBEL — a collection of a dozen tracks of countrified metal featuring controversial country singer David Allan Coe and the guitar prowess of Paul's late brother, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. "It's something that me and Dime really ...
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MTV.com is reporting that HATEBREED have been in continuing negotiations with Roadrunner Records and are close to signing a deal with the label. "We ended up doing two records with Universal, and our time at that label was killer," frontman Jamey Jasta explained to MTV.com when asked about the talks. "We sold over ...
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Former P.O.D. founder/guitarist Marcos Curiel's band THE ACCIDENT EXPERIMENT will finally release their long-anticipated debut album, "United We Fear", on May 9. The band will begin a coast-to-coast tour along with FIVE.BOLT.MAIN and ELEMENT EIGHTY on May 6 in Longview, TX. So far 25 dates have been announced with more on the way. After eleven ...
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TOOL have revealed the cover artwork for their new album, "10,000 Days", due on May 2 via Volcano. Check it out at Toolband.com. The 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, which is said to be "packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the band's trademark, eerie interludes" (according to Kerrang! magazine), ...
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UGLY, the Detroit-based band featuring former members of BRIDGE and OUTSPOKEN, have tapped legendary producer Rick Parashar (PEARL JAM, NICKELBACK, ALICE IN CHAINS, ROB ZOMBIE) to produce their debut album, tentatively due this fall via Rust Records. Pre-production will begin in Cleveland on March 20. Parashar and the UGLY boys will begin work on the ...
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ChipRitter.com recently conducted an interview with LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler. A few excerpts from the chat follow: ChipRitter.com: When you are off the road what is your rehearsal schedule like, and do you warm up before rehearsal? Chris Adler: "Right now we rehearse as a band 5 days a week for ...
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TOOL have announced the final track listing of their new album, "10,000 Days", due on May 2 via Volcano. The 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, which is said to be "packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the band's trademark, eerie interludes" (according to Kerrang! magazine), is the follow-up to 2001's "Lateralus", ...
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Tim Roth of the Regina, Saskatchewan-based progressive metallers INTO ETERNITY has issued the following update on the band's curent and upcoming activities: "The new album is still underway for us. Right now we are looking at 11 songs for the new album. Each song is a bit more compact compared to what we usually have ...
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According to Billboard.com, Volcano has set a May 2 North American release date for the new TOOL album, entitled "10,000 Days". The 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, which is said to be "packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the band's trademark, eerie interludes" (according to Kerrang! magazine), is the ...
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Britain's Uncut magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with KISS mainmen Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Simmons: "What was the first sign that we'd made it? Simply, the girls. As soon as we'd started KISS, girls were turning up backstage and wanting to get ...
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According to IGN.com, Spawn comic and movie creator Todd McFarlane revealed at the inaugural New York Comic-Con this past weekend that he has been tapped to direct the next video for DISTURBED. McFarlane, along with longtime Spawn artist Greg Capullo, recently collaborated on the band's "Ten Thousand Fists" album cover, and now the comics guru ...
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Former THE SWEET guitarist/vocalist Andy Scott has confirmed the departure of SHY frontman Tony Mills from Scott's current band, dubbed AS SWEET. Commented Andy: "It is with a certain degree of sadness that I can confirm that SWEET are still looking for a singer/bassist. We have just completed a tour of Denmark and it was ...
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COMES WITH THE FALL vocalist/guitarist and member of Jerry Cantrell's (ALICE IN CHAINS) touring band William DuVall has been tapped to sing lead vocals with the reunited ALICE IN CHAINS at the taping of an episode of VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live!", a tribute to HEART that will take place March 10 at the Trump ...
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VH1 has announced the premiere of "Heavy: The Story of Metal", a four-part documentary tracing the evolution of heavy metal music and culture, from its dark, grim beginnings in Birmingham, England to the worldwide force that it remains to this day. In a series of four themed hours premiering Monday-Thursday, May 1-4 at 9 p.m, ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: Although former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash told a Philadelphia radio station two weeks ago that he heard a March release date was on tap for the long-delayed new GUNS album, the band's management has told Launch that no release date has been set. Slash said that he had learned about ...
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Orange County-based quintet EYES OF FIRE will be teaming up with LOSA and PLATOON 13 for a U.S. tour beginning in early February. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Feb. 03 - Pheonix, AZ - Metal Devastation 2 Feb. 05 - Houston, TX - The Engine Room Feb. 06 - Oklahoma City, OK - ...
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The organizers of Poland's Metalmania 2006 festival are offering a chance to Polish and foreign bands to perform on the festival's side stage. To apply, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and [email protected] The deadline for all applications is January 11, 2006 at noon. Metalmania 2006 will take place on March 4, 2006 at Spodek ...
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GODLESS RISING, the Rhode Island-based death metal band featuring original VITAL REMAINS members Jeff Gruslin (vocals; 1987-1996, 1999-2000), Paul Flynn (guitar), and Ricky Corbit (drums), will play their first local show on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at KCS Tap/Cat Club in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Also appearing on the bill will be CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY. ...
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Greensburg, Pennsylvania's ZAO will be supporting Sweden's IN FLAMES on their upcoming U.S. tour beginning in late January. Also on the tour will be buzz-making heavy music bands TRIVIUM and DEVILDRIVER. Commenting on their addition to the tour, ZAO guitarist Scott Mellinger said, "I listen to IN FLAMES albums 'Clayman' and 'Reroute To Remain' all ...
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MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD's video for the new song "Shark Ethic" has been posted online at Trustkill.com. The clip was directed by Jesse Smith (DMX, REDMAN, LIL KIM) and shows the band taking over a commercial radio station, punishing fashion-core pop icons "THE SOUNDSCANS," and showing the live prowress that has earned the band ...
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Dr. Mality of Wormwood Chronicles recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX frontman Joey Belladonna. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Wormwood Chronicles: One of the last things John Bush did with ANTHRAX was an album where he sang some of the songs from your era of the band. Will you be ...
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Jeff Kerby of KNAC.COM recently conducted an interview with MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen. A few excerpts from the chat follows: KNAC.COM: I've been dying to ask you this since last November — what was running through your mind when you saw the electoral map and state after state kept coming up Bush red? ...
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Norway's THEATRE OF TRAGEDY have completed the recordings for their sixth, as-yet-untitled album for a March 24, 2006 release via AFM Records. The follow-up to 2002's "Assembly" was produced by Rico Darum (ZEROMANCER, GOTHMINISTER, APOPTYGMA BERZERK) and will be mixed by Greg Reely (PARADISE LOST, FEAR FACTORY, SKINNY PUPPY, DELERIUM) in November/December. THEATRE OF TRAGEDY's ...
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Travis Hay of Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently conducted an in-depth interview with AUDIOSLAVE/ex-SOUNDGARDEN frontman Chris Cornell. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Has living outside of the country [Cornell resides in Paris, France with his wife and daughter] helped with things coming full circle? Chris Cornell: "Living outside of the country ...
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SCUM OF THE EARTH, the band founded by former ROB ZOMBIE guitarist Riggs, have announced Jägermeister's "biggest, sickest, meanest tour." After landing themselves a Top 10 spot on the FMQB metal chart, and one of Top 5 most played music videos on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball", Riggs and his new project are heading back out on ...
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Canadian death metallers KATAKLYSM have tapped director Maurice Swinkels from LowlifeMedia (EXODUS, ABORTED, GOREFEST) to film the band's video for the track "Crippled & Broken", from their forthcoming album, "In the Arms of Devastation". The conceptual clip will be shot in Amsterdam, Netherlands in early March, shortly prior to the band's European co-headlining tour as ...
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The Associated Press is reporting that METALLICA's "Some Kind of Monster" documentary came in third place on Blender magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Movies of All Time." "This Is Spinal Tap", which Blender calls the "Rosetta Stone of all film satire," tops the list, which also includes "Saturday Night Fever" (No. ...
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Eagle Rock Entertainment, the leading independent source for high-quality music audio/visual programming, this fall will release "Deep Purple: Live in Concert 72/73". This historically significant collection of vintage live footage of the classic lineup of one of the greatest heavy metal bands in rock history is now available on DVD. The greater portion of "Live ...
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