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Students To Go Behind The Scenes With CHICKENFOOT At Grammy SoundChecks

Grammy SoundChecks is offering 50 students — including South El Monte High School students and Grammy USM members from universities across the Los Angeles area — a unique opportunity to experience a special rehearsal with CHICKENFOOT, followed by an interactive and candid question-and-answer discuss...

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MEGADETH's MUSTAINE Says ELLEFSON Was 'Like A Vulture' During Songwriting Process

Germany's Bonedo web site recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. The entire chat can be viewed at this location. It is also available below. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how MEGADETH's sound has evolved over the ye...

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CLIFF BURTON Biographer Announces U.K., Italian Signings

U.K.-based author Joel McIver will be reading from his recent book, "To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton" (pictured below) at two Milan and London locations. The first event takes place in Milan this coming Saturday (September 27),the 23rd anniversary of Burton's death...

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A STORM OF LIGHT: 'Tempest' Video Released

"Tempest", the new video from Brooklyn, New York's doom/post rock experimentalists A STORM OF LIGHT, can be viewed at BrooklynVegan.com (scroll down). The song comes off the band's second full-length album, "Forgive Us Our Trespasses", which is being released today (Tuesday, September 22) via Neurot...

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DAVE MUSTAINE On 'Big Four' Tour Rumors: 'A Couple Of Things Would Have To Be Ironed Out' First

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine was interviewed on this past Friday's (September 11) edition of Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his recent creative roll: "I've had a really goo...

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A STORM OF LIGHT To Release 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses' Via NEUROT RECORDINGS

Brooklyn, New York's own A STORM OF LIGHT will unleash their new full-length, "Forgive Us Our Trespasses", on September 22 via Neurot Recordings. The follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed debut, "And We Wept The Black Ocean Within", finds its power through a dense bringing together of melodie...

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Former MEGADETH Guitarist's OHMPHREY Confirmed For JAM CRUISE 8

OHMPHREY, the new band featuring Chris Poland (OHM:, MEGADETH) and Robertino Pagliari (OHM:) alongside jam-band masters Jake Cinnger, Joel Cummins, and Kris Myer of UMPHREY'S MCGEE, has been confirmed for Jam Cruise 8, which will set sail January 3-8, 2010 on the beautiful Italian ship: MSC Poesia....

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DAVE MUSTAINE Says He Is 'No Longer Struggling' With His METALLICA Demons

Dave Ling of Classic Rock magazine recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Classic Rock: How did it feel to bury some past grievances with SLAYER by touring together? Mustaine: [Smiling faintly]: I didn't even talk to Kerr...

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CORPUS MORTALE Continues Work On New Material

Danish extreme metallers CORPUS MORTALE have issued the following update: "The plans for the months up to the [upcoming European] tour [with NILE, GRAVE, KRISIUN and ULCERATE in November/December] is to finish as many new tunes as possible. We have about half of the songs for the next album ready an...

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'All Pens Blazing': A Heavy Metal Writer's Handbook Now Available

Ever wondered what it takes to be a heavy metal journalist? In "All Pens Blazing", Neil Daniels has interviewed a staggering 65 of the world's most successful writers of heavy metal and hard rock. Many of these writers are successful biographers, editors and long-standing freelancers who have interv...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Guitarist Interviewed By GET IN MAGAZINE

Get In Magazine conducted an interview with guitarist Joel Stroetzel of Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE on August 11, 2009 at the Tampa, Florida stop of this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Watch the chat below. The new, self-titled album from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE sold 58,000 co...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Guitarist Interviewed In Burgettstown

Gigz Giger of Rock Circus conducted an interview with guitarist Joel Stroetzel of Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE at the Burgettstown, Pennsylvania stop of this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival on August 1, 2009. The chat can now be viewed below. The new, self-titled album from...

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METALLICA Officially Confirmed For ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME's 25th Anniversary

METALLICA is among music's biggest stars who will come together on October 29 and October 30 at Madison Square Garden for two unique concerts celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The shows, presented by American Express, will be packed with guest stars and unique colla...

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LAETHORA: New Album Track Listing Revealed

LAETHORA, the Swedish death/grind band featuring DARK TRANQUILLITY guitarist Niklas Sundin, recently finished mixing its second album, "The Light In Which We All Burn", for a late 2009 release. The group states, "This is one release you really shouldn't miss out on. The album is incredibly strong an...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Interviewed By ACTV; Video Available

ACtv conducted an interview guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz of Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE on July 11, 2009 at the second show of this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Watch the chat below. The new, self-...