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SPINAL TAP Reunites To Save World From Global Warming

Jake Coyle of News.com.au reports: SPINAL TAP is back, to help save the world from global warming. If only they were clear on exactly what that was. The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary "This is Spinal Tap" will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as pa...

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ANNIHILATOR Guitarist Checks In From European Tour

Canadian thrashers ANNIHILATOR are currently on the road in Europe with TRIVIUM, GOJIRA and SANCTITY. The group's guitarist Jeff Waters has checked in with the following update: "Great crowds and a lot of metal. The TRIVIUM guys have been extremely cool to us and the other bands... Nice guys and the...

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Officer Involved In RUSH Guitarist's Countersuit Fired For Sexually Harassing Women

Ryan Mills of Naples Daily News reports that Cpl. Christopher Knott — one of the officers involved in RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson's countersuit (stemming from the incident on New Year's Eve 2004 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Naples, Florida) — has been fired for sexually harassing women. According to...

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COSMOSQUAD Getting Ready To Drop 'Acid Test'

Los Angeles, CA-based metallic fusioneers COSMOSQUAD have finished recording and mixing their latest album, titled "Acid Test". Co-produced by drummer Shane Gaalaas (B'Z, DIESEL MACHINE, GLENN HUGHES) and guitarist Jeff Kollman (GLENN HUGHES, MOGG/WAY, $IGN OF 4) at Crumb West Studios in Simi Valley...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Frontman Joins Cast Of 'Bled' Horror Movie

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH vocalist Ivan Moody (ex-MOTOGRATER) has joined the cast of a new horror movie "Bled", which is set to begin shooting in May. Ivan will play the creepy "Incubus" that's invoked by a substance known as 'strigios, a rare and ancient sap that bleeds from a long forgotten tree. Sa...

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ANNIHILATOR: Live Videos From Dublin Posted Online

Fan-filmed video clips of Canadian thrashers ANNIHILATOR performing in Dublin, Ireland on their current European tour with TRIVIUM have been posted on YouTube. Check out the footage: "The Fun Palace" (filmed on April 8): Video "Alice in Hell" (filmed on April 9): Video ANNIHILATOR's current touring...

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FIREWIND Guitarist Talks About 'Allegiance' Album, Upcoming U.S. Tour

Metal Asylum recently conducted an interview with FIREWIND mainman and guitarist Gus G. A couple of excerpts follow: Metal Asylum: "Allegiance" is the fourth FIREWIND record and the lineup is on its third singer. Is changing vocalists something you would like to do? Gus: Well, we don't do it because...

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LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE Singer Quits

Singer Christopher Schmid has left the German gothic rockers LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE due to personal reasons. "I don't feel that I can combine the permanent stress (brought about by touring, concerts and general uncertainties of the music business) with my 'normal' life and my future," Schmid said in a...

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ANNIHILATOR: European Setlist Revealed

Canadian thrashers ANNIHILATOR kicked off their European tour yesterday (Sunday, April 8) as the support act for TRIVIUM in Dublin, Ireland. According to a posting a the band's official web site, the group's setlist was as follows: 01. Operation Annihilation 02. Clown Parade 03. King Of The Kill 04....

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THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU Completes Work On New Album

Forward-thinking, progressive metal sextet THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU has completed work on its highly anticipated new album, entitled "Mongrel". "Mongrel" is set to drop on June 19, 2007 via New Jersey's Eyeball Records. THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU, whose name is taken from a particularl...

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ARCH ENEMY Drummer Checks In From Recording Studio

Several days after announcing the return of original guitarist Christopher Amott, Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have commenced the recordings of the much anticipated follow-up to the band's most successful album to date, "Doomsday Machine" (2005). The as-yet-untitled CD is being record...

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BILL STEER Says He Is 'Open' To The Possibility Of CARCASS Reunion

After years of consistently shooting down any possibility of a CARCASS reunion, guitarist Bill Steer appears to be finally changing his tune. In a brand new interview conducted last week in London by Patrizia Mazzuoccolo of the Norwegian metal radio show "Tinitus", Steer had the following to say whe...

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ALICE COOPER A Judge On 'Inmate Idle'

Launch Radio Networks reports: Six prisoners at Arizona's Maricopa County Jail competed on March 23 in "Inmate Idle", a locked-up version of "American Idol". Singer Alice Cooper and Sheriff Joe Arpaio judged the half-dozen inmates that were voted through to the afternoon's live performance contest f...

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ARCH ENEMY Frontwoman Coments On CHRISTOPHER AMOTT's Return To Band

ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has commented on guitarist Christopher Amott's decision to return to the band almost two years after he left the group at the end of the "Doomsday Machine" recording sessions in 2005. "Yessssss, I can finally blurt it out: HE IS BACK!" she writes on her MySpace pa...

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ARCH ENEMY: Guitarist CHRISTOPHER AMOTT Rejoins The Fold

Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have announced that original guitarist Christopher Amott is rejoining the band with immediate effect. The group, having finished an intense 18-month touring cycle all over the world promoting the "Doomsday Machine" album and "Live Apocalypse" DVD, is curre...