Promoters of the Hard Rock Hell Festival set to take place in December have announced details of the Clive Aid Stage which is set to feature Beholder and Warrior Soul among other acts.
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Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has checked in with an update noting that despite his lack of updates he has been very busy working on getting the bands new album finished and preparing the Crue Fest tour.
He said "Sorry for no updates lately, but I'm sure you can imagine I've been
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 Thursday, 15 May 2008
Dave Navarro, the former Jane's Addiction and current Camp Freddy stallwart has commented on the recent appearance of McQueen duo Leah Duors and Hayley Cramer with the band at the Roxy in West Hollywood last Thursday (May 8th).
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 Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Nuclear Blast are offering fans of Testament the chance to win tickets to see the band perform at this years Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards Ceremony which is set to take place at the IndigO2 in London on June 16th.
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 Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Sun City Records have announced the signing of Swedish rock n rollers Roadd Ratt.
The story behind
Road Ratt is quite an extensive one, so I will try and make it as brief
as possible. Road Ratt formed in Gothenburg, Sweden as IcewingIcewing
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 Tuesday, 13 May 2008
This week's episode of ‘UVTV's Heavy Metal Podcast' continues the record label series specials with music videos and live performances from artists of ROADRUNNER RECORDS. Some of the bands featured on the show include music videos of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, 3 INHES OF BLOOD, ... |
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Leah Duors (vocals) and Hayley Cramer (drums) of the UK all-girl rock outfit MCQUEEN joined CAMP FREDDY's Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES), Dave Navarro (ex-JANE'S ADDICTION) and Billy Morrison as special guests alongside Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) and Duff McKagan (VE... |
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 Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Legendary Danish rockers D-A-D's recent appearance on the Rock and Roll Geek Show with Michael Butler is now available to listen to online, or download as a free podcast.
Butler talks with Jesper Binzer and Stig Pederson from the bands studio where they are currently working on their new albu... |
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 Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Nuclear Blast Records recently celebrated their 20 years of existence in extreme music in 2007. Branded as one of the metal juggernauts of the world, staying at the forefront of the metal/rock genre is definitely no easy feat. With every year that passes, fresh and innovative talent continues to e... |
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 Monday, 12 May 2008 Believers In The Power Of Metal recently caught up with Arch Enemy
vocalist Angela Gossow. The following is an excerpt from the interview:
Q: You've done large festivals, like Ozzfest and Gigantour. You're headlining a smaller tour now. Which do you prefer?
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 Monday, 12 May 2008 Pre-sale tickets for the Las Vegas, NV Crüe Fest show, due to take
place August 1st, will be available for pre-sale as of Wednesday, May
14th at 10:00am local time.
The band has issued the following details:
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 Monday, 12 May 2008
Iced Earth drummer Brent Smedley has checked in with the following update:
"As most of you are aware, some big changes have been made since the
last report in 2007. We have welcomed back singer Matt Barlow into the
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Monday, 12 May 2008
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Mick Burgess at Metal Express Radio recently spoke to Great White's
Jack Russell and Michael Lardie. The following is an excerpt from the
interview:
Q: Great White has its origins way back in 1...
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Monday, 12 May 2008
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Extreme will make their much-anticipated return to the stage this
summer in support of Saudades de Rock (pronounced "sow-dodge"), their
first studio album in 13 years. The multi-platinum, Boston-bre...
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Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Currently in the midst of headlining NME's sold out New Noise tour in support of their acclaimed debut album, Crystal Castles, the genre blurring boy-girl duo from Toronto, Canada will be playing an...
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Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Black N Blue will no longer be appearing at the upcoming Z Rock Fest promoters have revealed, in a move that appears to be a cost cutting exercise to confirm the viability of the two day event.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008
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German riffers Callejon have announced that they have signed a worldwide record deal with Nuclear Blast Records and are working on releasing a full album later this year.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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"Jeff has commissioned Canadian jeweller Leonora Tortorici, to make
these exclusive items of jewellery. Many of you would have seen Jeff
wearing his on the US and European Journey tour. Made from si...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Benedictum singer Veronica Freeman, Diamond Head and Exit will be guests on The Rock Show On Sunshine Radio
this Sunday, May 11th. The program can also be heard on 106.2 FM across
Hereford-shire...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Rolling Stone's Rock And Roll Daily reports:
Despite getting the thumbs up from outgoing singer Scott Weiland, Sebastian Bach will likely not take over the lead-singing vacancy in Velvet Revolver, ...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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British power metallers Dragonforce's webmaster has issued the following update:
"The mighty DragonForce are set for a UK and Ireland tour this
September. The tour will follow the release of th...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Undercover reports:
Leon Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix' younger brother, has issued a
statement claiming that the recently revealed sex tape of the guitar
hero was a fake.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Glenn Hughes' (ex-Deep Purple, Black Sabbath) exclusive
plugged-in performance on the US nationally syndicated radio show
Rockline with host Bob Coburn, originally scheduled for Wednesday,
August 1...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Sweden's All Ends check in with the following update:
"Tonight's the night you can start enjoying more than just the
screenshots for the new All Ends video for 'Pretty Words'. You can
watch it...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Casino City Times reports:
This Friday and Saturday night, award-winning songwriter and
keyboardist for the legendary rock band Journey will perform live at
The Lounge at Agua Caliente Casino ...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Heavy-Metal.it report that
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil has scheduled a solo date for October 23rd at Estragon in Bologna, Italy
Mötley Crüe's new studio album, Saints Of Los Angeles, wi...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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antiMusic has issued the following report:
We caught up with Donnie Vie last week to get the latest on the new
Enuff Z'Nuff album and ended up learning a lot more. Not only is the
new Z'nuff ...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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The new Def Leppard album, Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, racked up
sales of 55,000 copies in it's first week of release in the US, landing
the title at #5 on The Billboard 200 album chart
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Buckshot of Woozyfly's show Buckshots Bonanza recently conducted an
interview with Megadeth bassist James Lomenzo. James discussed
Megadeth's schedule and stories about the first couple of weeks of ...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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On June 15th, Continuum Books is releasing a new paperback by John
Darnielle called Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality. A description reads
as follows:
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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A new trailer for Meshuggah's video 'Bleed' is available at this location.
The video was produced by Mike Pecci and Ian McFarland. The track is
pulled from the band's latest album, ObZen, which was ...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Falcon, the raw heavy rock power trio featuring guitarist/vocalist Perry Grayson (ex-Destiny's End, Artisan,Isen Torr and Metal Maniacs scribe), bassist/keyboardist Greg Lindstrom (Cirith Ungol) and...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Vocalist Luke Kenny of the Australian grind deviants The Berzerker has issued the following update:
"I'm very excited to tell you that we will be launching our brand
new record label Berzerker I...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the new President of Russia,
inaugurated today (May 7). He has a rounded range of much-publicized
hobbies including being a devoted fan of hard rock, listing Deep
Pu...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Sweden's technical black metal act Soreption have signed with Cube 1
Records. They will issue a four track EP featuring a five track bonus
live DVD entitled Illuminate The Excessive on June 23rd. Mo...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Swiss metallers Samael see their website updated with the following news:
"Above is a new project involving Samael's members.
For the story, Above was formed on the sixth of June 2006
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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UK rockers The Wildhearts are set to release Stop Us If You've Heard
This One Before Vol 1 digitally on May 19th. The 12-track album is a
collection of covers from some of The Wildhearts favourite b...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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The End Records reports:
Sigh's upcoming six-song tribute to legendary black metal band Venom, titled Sigh's Tribute To Venom,
will feature the bass work of Dan Lilker (Brutal Truth, Nuclea...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Tennessean.com
are reporting that a partnership registered to Doc McGhee, former
manager of the rock bands Kiss, Mötley Crüe and Bon Jovi, bought a
Music Row office building sold for $2 milli...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Tom Gabriel Fischer, who announced his departure from Celtic Frost on April 9th, has issued the following update:
"For the fourth time this year, I will return to Norway tomorrow
to contribute...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Spanish power metallers Dark Moor's official website shows the following update:
"Dark Moor are working on new songs for the next album which is
planned to be recorded this summer in the New Si...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Former Tigertailz singer Steevi Jaimz MySpace page has been updated with the following:
"Steevi Jaimz has just signed a new management deal with Rock-it management, who also handle Norwegian gla...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Danish metallers Raunchy have posted their video for the track
'Phantoms', online. Check out the footage, shot back in December in
Copenhagen, Denmark, below...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Swedish progressive metallers Cipher System have announced the addition
of guitarist Andreas Allenmark (Anata) to the group's ranks.
Commented the band: "What we wanted was to have a guy that h...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Italian extreme epic metal act Stormlord have issued the following update:
"Another new song from Mare Nostrum is online and ready to be listened!
Now it's time for 'Neon Karma' song, a ki...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Borknagar / Vintersorg frontman Andreas Hedlund has launched a new
project under the name Gravisphere. An unmixed track entitled
'Teleporting The Universe' is available on the official MySpace page....
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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On May 17th a new download shop will be available on the official
U.D.O. website. It will feature officially released material and
rarities, auch as live cuts from the band's Mastercutor tour throug...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Abort Magazine recently caught up with As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis. Click here to check out the interview.
As previously reported, As I Lay Dying recently performed their
songs 'Nothi...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Stryper have issued the following announcement:
"How would you like to be part of a Stryper book that will surely
become a highly sought-after collectible? A limited-edition authorized
Stryper ...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Metal Express Radio's Mick Burgess recently spoke to former Deep Purple
keyboardist Jon Lord. The following is an excerpt from the interview.
Q: When David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes came in to ...
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Monday, 05 May 2008
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Carl Forgues at host of the Quebec's metal radio show Metal7080
recently spoke to Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich. The interview
covers the band's new album, Good To Be Bad, and Aldrich's time i...
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Friday, 02 May 2008
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Starpulse reports that Marilyn Manson's brand of absinthe is so potent his own girlfriend avoids drinking it at all costs. Actress Evan Rachel Wood celebrated her 20th birthday with the shock rocker...
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