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RUSH Guitarist: 'R30' Is 'Best-Sounding Live Performance Of Us I've Ever Heard'

Mike Mettler of Sound And Vision Magazine recently conducted an interview with RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson. An excerpt from the chat follows: Sound And Vision Magazine: "R30" (Anthem/Zoe) celebrates RUSH's 30th anniversary as a touring and recording unit. But your first gig was actually in Toronto i...

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KINGDOM COME To Re-Record 'Get It On' For New CD

KINGDOM COME's webmaster Marko (brother of KINGDOM COME mainman Lenny Wolf) has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "After several breaks, due to a tendinitis in Lenny's arm, he is back rocking the studio, but the end is in sight. As I mentioned before, especially after he...

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Time Machine

Everyone outside the U.S. is probably thinking we're smoking some high-grade Yankee crack over here at HQ right about now — after all, "Time Machine" was released in Europe in early 2004, and AXXIS has a new album coming out this month. What gives with the late review? Well, Locomotive Music is rele...

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New DVD Teaches Heavy Metal Stars The Art Of Roaring

James Parker of The Boston Globe has issued the following report: The origin of the "tortured throat scream" or "angry hell voice" is as hotly contested as anything else in the history of heavy metal. Does it derive from the "death grunt" — the subhuman ultra-low-frequency belch developed by Florida...

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DEZPERADOZ Sign With AFM RECORDS

Germany's DEZPERADOZ (formerly DESPERADOS) have inked a deal with AFM Records. The group, whose 2000 debut album, "The Dawn of Dying", featured guest lead vocals from SODOM mainman Tom Angelripper, will release their long-awaited follow-up effort, "The Legend and the Truth", on March 31, 2006. The C...

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ADAGIO To Open For ROBERT PLANT At Tunisian Festival

French progressive metallers ADAGIO will open for former LED ZEPPELIN frontman Robert Plant on March 24, 2006 in Tunis, Tunisia as part of the "International Mediterranean Guitar Festival". The concert will mark the first show of ADAGIO's "Dominate Tour", which will follow later in 2006. As previous...

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PINK CREAM 69 Frontman Working On Solo Album: Video Report Available

PINK CREAM 69 frontman David Readman is currently working on a solo album, tentatively due next year. "Yes, busy, busy," Readman writes on his web site. "It's now December and I have nearly finished all the vocals. It's going really well. I also uploaded a small studio report [Windows Media], and it...

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Hands Without Shadows

A solo album from the guy from NITRO — you know, the one with the goofy four-necked guitar and hair up to here? Diehard shred guitar enthusiasts know that Batio is a lot more than that, and has been dazzling with his over-the-top fretboard skills in instructional videos aimed at the Guitar Institute...

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Promoter: WATCHTOWER Have Not Been Invited To Play PROGPOWER USA Festival

Contrary to a statement made by WATCHTOWER guitarist Ron Jarzombek during a recent interview with San Antonio Rocks, legendary progressive metal band WATCHTOWER "have not been extended an invitation" to perform at ProgPower USA in 2006, the festival's promoter Glenn Harveston told BLABBERMOUTH.NET....

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ADAGIO Guitarist Lands Two Magazine Columns

Guitarist Stephan Forté of the French progressive metallers ADAGIO has two new columns in the French magazine Guitarist. In the first column, dubbed "The Electric Legacy", each month, he will adapt on guitar a short part from a piece of a classical composer (from contemporary to baroque). The first...

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BLACK SABBATH Drummer's Tenth Audio Diary Entry Available

BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward's official web site has been updated with the tenth entry in his audio diary series. This new edition, totaling 20:22 in length, covers several topics, some of which are: * Details about the special Christmas episode of his "Rock 50" radio show * A few thoughts on the...

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ADAGIO: New Album Details Revealed

French progressive metallers ADAGIO have set "Dominate" as the title of their new album, due in Japan on December 16 via Avalon/Marquee. The CD was produced by Stephan Forté and Kevin Codfert, and was mixed at House of Audio Studios in Germany by Dennis Ward. "Dominate" track listing: 01. Fire Forev...

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AN*L C*NT Frontman SETH PUTNAM Discusses Overdose That Nearly Killed Him

In October, 2004, ANAL CUNT's Seth Putnam slipped into a coma after an overdose of Ambien sleeping pills. In an exlusive interview with the Boston Phoenix — his first and only interview since coming out of his coma — extreme metal's most notorious fuckup talks about what happened the night of his ov...

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OZZY OSBOURNE: 'Under Cover' Artwork Posted Online

OZZY OSBOURNE fan site Ozzyhead.com has uploaded the cover artwork for the upcoming OZZY collection, "Under Cover", due November 1 as a DualDisc via Epic. Check it out at this location. As previously reported, the set will include newly completed covers of JOHN LENNON's "Woman", JOE WALSH's "Rocky M...

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JUDAS PRIEST Considering Putting Together Metal Package To Tour North America Next Summer

In a recent interview with Lynn Saxberg of The Ottawa Citizen, JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing revealed that they're considering putting together a multi-act metal package to tour North America next summer, but they also want to make another album. "It's pretty hectic," Downing said, noting that...