The original METALLICA bassist, Ron McGovney, recently gave an interview to the METALLICA fan site AllMetallica.com about his time with the group and his current activities. What follows are several excerpts from that interview: AllMetallica.com: Could you explain for everyone exactly what your part was in the early days of METALLICA? Ron McGovney: ...
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FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell spoke to "The Metal Show" this past Sunday (May 9) on Cleveland's 92.3 FM Xtreme Radio. Asked how the band ended breaking up and getting back together without founding guitarist Dino Cazares, Bell said, "Well, a lot of things had happened previous to that, so the band had dissolved ...
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FEAR FACTORY vocalist Burton C. Bell has told Canada's Chart magazine that the group's new album, "Archetype", "basically wrote itself" once they worked through the emotional and financial turmoil that followed the departure of a founding member (Dino Cazares) and split with longtime record label (Roadrunner). "It was a therapeutic album for us, ...
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Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY), Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN CHAINS) and George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB) will be heading up a "Metal Clinic" the Crossroads Guitar Festival, set to take place Friday, June 4 through Sunday, June 6 at Fair Park and the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. In addition to spectacular concerts ...
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Bassist Rudy Sarzo has officially joined DIO as the group's new bassist. Rudy is known for his work in QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE and OZZY OSBOURNE, and most recently, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN. Rudy joins the band in time for DIO's European tour, which begins July 16 in Moscow. "Thanks to Jeff Pilson [ex-DOKKEN] for stepping in to ...
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FEAR FACTORY drummer Raymond Herrera recently spoke to 411Mania.com about the band's decision to sign with Liquid 8 following their split with longtime label home, Roadrunner Records. "We decided to go with Liquid 8, which was originally D3 Entertainment before they were bought out," Herrera said. "Everyone there at the label knew everything ...
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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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Austrian e-zine Earshot conducted a video interview with FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell on March 9 in Munich, Germany. Watch the 20-minute interview at this location (.avi format, 40 MB). As previously reported, FEAR FACTORY's new CD, "Archetype" is scheduled for release on April 20 through Liquid 8 Records (parent company of ...
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HeavyMetalSource.com interviewed Burton Bell of FEAR FACTORY on April 10 during the Jagermeister tour. Five video clips (10 minutes' worth) of Burton talking about the group's upcoming CD, "Archetype", have been posted online at this location. "Archetype" is scheduled for release on April 20 through Liquid 8 Records (parent company of D3 Entertainment). ...
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Members of the Swedish METALLICA forum Metallica.nu have joined forces in launching a project that they hope will result in a stone being erected in the memory of former bass player of METALLICA, Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident just outside Ljungby, Sweden in 1986. "Everyone that we have spoken to [is] positive ...
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METALLICA's unauthorized biography, "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica" (view cover here), will be published by Omnibus Press on April 10. The book, McIver's sixth, is the result of over five years of research and contains unpublished material from around 75 interviews which the author, Joel McIver, carried out in order to ...
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A brand-new FEAR FACTORY track, "Cyberwaste", has been posted online in MP3 format at this location. "Cyberwaste" comes off the group's upcoming CD, "Archetype", due on April 20 through Liquid 8 Records (parent company of D3 Entertainment). The follow-up to 2001's critically panned "Digimortal" was recorded at Rumbo Recorders in Los Angeles with ...
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THE WICKED, the Finnish band consisting of FINNTROLL and MOONSORROW members, are currently recording their second album at Jive Studio in Helsinki. The follow-up to 2002's "…For Theirs Is The Flesh" "takes the listeners to a journey through industrial as well as classical soundscapes, flavouring it with a disturbing horror movie feeling," according to an ...
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SINERGY frontwoman Kimberly Goss has recorded a guest appearance for the sophomore CD from THE WICKED, a Finnish band consisting of FINNTROLL and MOONSORROW members. "The session was a lot of fun, and I got to use my voice in ways I'm not typically used to doing," Goss said. "The music is pretty much what ...
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Italian melodic black metal band THEATRES DES VAMPIRES have completed work on their new album, "Nightbreed of Macabria", due in Europe in May through PlasticHead/Blackend Records. A U.S. release through Candlelight is expected in September. According to an official press release, "some songs [on] the album will be the soundtrack of the upcoming movie 'Edge ...
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Punk rock icon Henry Rollins has told Lawrence.com that he is currently in the process of putting together a new band, with tentative plans to launch it later in the year. "I have another project planned for this summer, and all the people are in place and everyone's on board," he said. "I've just got ...
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FEAR FACTORY have posted a "sneak peek" at their video for the track "Cyberwaste" at this location. The "Cyberwaste" video was shot Sunday (Feb. 8) "in a big derelict building that we found on the beach in Perth," Australia, according to singer Burton C. Bell. With regards to the lyrical content of "Cyberwaste", ...
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A former bandmate of late METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton has contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET to set the record straight about a rare video of Burton performing with his pre-METALLICA band TRAUMA that was recently made available online. The video, which captures a performance that was said to have been recorded the day before ...
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FEAR FACTORY singer Burton C. Bell has spoken to Australia's Undercover News about the filming of the group's new video, "Cyberwaste", which is scheduled to take place this weekend in Perth. "We are going to do it in a big derelict building that we found on the beach in Perth," he said. "We are going ...
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FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell has posted the following tour report on the band's official web site: "Aussie, aussie, aussie! OI, OI, OI!!! "The Big Day Out in Melbourne had the biggest turn-out on record. The grounds were teaming with people, like army ants en masse. It was really something to see. We went ...
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FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell has posted the following tour diary entry on the band's official web site: "This feels good! The 2 shows we just did for THE BIG DAY OUT in Sydney, went off! For not being onstage in 25 months, we were really fucking tight! The vibe onstage was righteous, and ...
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According to a posting from TANK guitarist Cliff Evans at the TANK "This Means War" web site, "[TANK bassist/vocalist] Algy Ward will be taken into hospital next month to remove a tumor from his head. He's been having problems with his hearing and getting headaches. The doctors only discovered the problem a couple ...
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FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell recently wrote the following letter to the Roadrunner Street Team giving them a little update on what's going on in the FEAR FACTORY camp: "The FF crew is heading out to Australia to prepare for some shows with KORN and to shoot a video for 'Cyberwaste'. We are going ...
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FEAR FACTORY's latest CD, "Archetype", was mastered on Tuesday (January 6) at Masterdisk in New York City with Howie Weinberg. An April 20 release through Liquid 8 Records (parent company of D3 Entertainment) is expected. "Archetype" was recorded at Rumbo Recorders in Los Angeles with engineer Ken Marshall (SKINNY PUPPY) and was mixed in Vancouver ...
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METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich was recently asked by Live Daily for his opinion abut the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) crackdown against Internet users it says are illegally sharing songs. "I was talking to my manager Cliff Bernstein about it yesterday on the phone," Ulrich said. "[There was] something in the New ...
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The career of the seventh-biggest recording act on the planet will be chronicled in April 2004 in "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica", a weighty 472-page hardback by writer Joel McIver. Published by the industry heavyweight Omnibus Press, the book, McIver's sixth, is the result of over five years of research and contains unpublished ...
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BLEEDING THROUGH have been forced to drop off the "Pure Hatred" tour with CHIMAIRA, SOILWORK and AS I LAY DYING after their van hit a patch of black ice near Salt Lake, Utah Saturday morning (December 13) and spun out of control, slamming into another truck which had been involved in an earlier accident. Says ...
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New York-based DRY KILL LOGIC have parted ways with bassist Dave Kowatch and are currently seeking a replacement. "After 10 years with the band Dave Kowatch has decided to leave [DRY KILL LOGIC], and we wish him the best with all his future plans," vocalist Cliff Rigano said in an official statement. "That being said, ...
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FEAR FACTORY guitarist Christian Olde Wolbers has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Got to Vancouver on Tuesday. I was supposed to arrive on Monday, but I discovered that my root canal in one of my front teeth was cracked and it was about to get infected. So the fucker had ...
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FEAR FACTORY guitarist Christian Olde Wolbers has made his way to Vancouver, British Columbia to begin mixing the group's new album, "Archetype" with Greg Reely (MACHINE HEAD, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DEVILDRIVER). Drummer Raymond Herrera and vocalist Burton C. Bell are expected to join him shortly. Check out a bunch of new pictures taken in the ...
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