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CLIFF BURTON Signature Bass Guitar To Be Officially Launched At NAMM

Aria Guitars of Japan is proud to introduce the Aria Pro II Cliff Burton Signature Bass. This guitar has been a year in the making and is being made with the authorization of the Cliff Burton family and METALLICA. Cliff Burton was the bassist for METALLICA for their first three albums, "Kill 'Em All...

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SHINEDOWN Singer Opens Up About Struggles With Weight, Drugs

According to The Pulse Of Radio, SHINEDOWN singer Brent Smith has opened up in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times about his four-year struggle with substance abuse that ended with him quitting cocaine, painkillers and alcohol and losing 70 pounds in the process. Smith said that the final str...

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AXEL RUDI PELL To Release 'Live On Fire' In March

Despite having planned his career meticulously over the past 25 years or so, even in the camp of German hard rock master Axel Rudi Pell surprises cannot be ruled out: Before playing in front of a sold-out Cologne crowd on the second leg of his wildly successful "Circle Of The Oath" tour, the opportu...

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FREE FALL: New Single Available For Streaming

"World Domination", the new single from FREE FALL, the Swedish rock band featuring guitarist Mattias Bärjed (SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES) and drummer Ludwig Dahlberg (THE [INTERNATIONAL] NOISE CONSPIRACY),can be streamed below. The song comes off FREE FALL's debut album, "Power & Volume", which wil...

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Former METALLICA Producer FLEMMING RASMUSSEN Talks About His Work On Classic Metal Albums

On December 10, 2012, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with Danish producer Flemming Rasmussen (METALLICA, RAINBOW, BLIND GUARDIAN, MORBID ANGEL, EVILE). You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. In a 2011 interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com, Rasmu...

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Quebec Magnetic

Robert Trujillo saved this band. That's a fact. Many metal fans are ready to disown METALLICA once again after their left-of-center (to put it nicely) collaboration with Lou Reed, "Lulu". Yet, the Metalli-dudes are as savvy as Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in working this market to their best advant...

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MICHAEL SCHENKER Interviewed On 'Rich Davenport's Rock Show' (Audio)

Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker was interviewed on the latest edition of "Rich Davenport's Rock Show". The program can be streamed using the Mixcloud player below. Michael Schenker's "Temple Of Rock: Live In Europe" was released on CD, DVD, Blu-ray and as a limited deluxe edition containing all...

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UNISONIC To Release 'Powerful And Melodic Metal Album' In 2014

UNISONIC, the band featuring former HELLOWEEN vocalist Michael Kiske and Hansen alongside guitarist Mandy Meyer (ASIA, GOTTHARD and KROKUS),bassist Dennis Ward and drummer Kosta Zafiriou (both of Germany's PINK CREAM 69),has issued the following end-of-year update: "2012 was an event — and success...

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METALLICA Receives More Platinum, Gold Certifications From RIAA

According to VVN Music, METALLICA upped their platinum album totals in December on two of their classics, with the band's self-titled LP (a.k.a. the Black Album) getting its 16th platinum certificate from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association Of America),signifying 16,000,000 copies sold, while...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Allegedly Duped By Christmas-Card Contest Winner

MEGADETH and the band's official web site, Megadeth.com, hold an annual Christmas card contest where the top ten winners all win a prize, and the first-place winner receives a phone call on Christmas Day from MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine, along with other prizes. This year, the winner allegedly su...

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'METALLICA Couple' Announce Birth Of Son ORION

The couple that became an Internet sensation after a video surfaced of them performing a cover version of METALLICA's "Master Of Puppets" at their wedding reception, have announced the birth of their new baby boy, Dax Orion Diaz. A maternity video featuring Annette Ortiz-Diaz (a former drummer for F...

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METALLICA: 'Quebec Magnetic' DVD First-Week Sales Revealed

METALLICA's new live DVD, "Quebec Magnetic", sold 14,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 2 on Billboard's Top Music Videos chart. Issued through the band's newly launched Blackened Recordings labe, the double DVD and single disc Blu-ray is available...

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GHOST: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed

Mysterious Swedish buzz band GHOST will release its sophomore album, "Infestissumam", in the spring via Loma Vista Recordings, the new record label founded by Tom Whalley in partnership with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group. Frontman Papa Emeritus and his Nameless Ghouls summone...

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METALLICA's 'Orion Music + More' Festival To Take Place In Detroit Next Year

METALLICA's Orion Music + More festival, a two-day event featuring more than 20 bands which took place in June in Atlantic City, New Jersey, will be back in 2013 and it will be moving to a new location: Detroit, Michigan. More details regarding tickets and lineup for the event — which is scheduled t...

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From the Vaults Vol. 1

One of the genuine greats of the metal underground is Georgian sludge hounds, KYLESA. In league with fellow mud-prog maestros MASTODON, BLACK TUSK and BARONESS, KYLESA often becomes the forgotten noisy brats of their sweltering scene. Frankly, that reeks since they're one of the most inventive, bomb...