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TESLA Returns To U.K.; Photos, Review Available

TESLA made its long-awaited return to the U.K. last night (Thursday, June 28) with a show at the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Promoting its new covers album "Real to Reel" the band's setlist was as follows: 01. Cumin' Atcha Live 02. Into The Now 03. Walk Away (JAMES GANG cover) 04. Modern Day Cowboy 05....

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GAVIN ROSSDALE Discusses New Film, New Album; Audio Available

Former BUSH/INSTITUTE frontman Gavin Rossdale chatted with Ryan Seacrest of KIIS FM in Los Angeles on Monday (June 25) about Gavin's new movie "How to Rob a Bank". Rossdale was in Hawaii finishing his solo album with Bob Rock. "It's really kind of atmospheric and good," he said of the CD. "And I'm r...

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DIAMOND HEAD To Support TESLA In London

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends DIAMOND HEAD will support TESLA on June 28 at Shepherds Bush Empire in London, England. Two 60-second samples from DIAMOND HEAD's upcoming "What's In Your Head?" CD — "This Planet and Me" and "Skin on Skin" — have been posted online on the group's off...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS To Perform On 'The Late Show With David Letterman'

SMASHING PUMPKINS will make their first televised performance since 2000 when they bookend the week of July 9 on "The Late Show with David Letterman" by performing Monday, July 9 and Friday, July 13. These appearances coincide with the July 10 release of "Zeitgeist", the band's much-anticipated sixt...

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DROWNING POOL To Testify To Congress In September

DROWNING POOL will reportedly to testify to Congress the second week of September about the plight of U.S. soldiers who have returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan to less-than-adequate medical and psychological treatment. The Texas-based band recently came back from a series of USO performances wi...

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Canadian AC/DC Tribute Band Takes A Comedic Approach

Canada's Comox Valley Record reports: There are tribute bands — and there's BC/DC. They were born of bush party ashes in the summer of 1999. Some 400 unexpected gigs later, Canada's BC/DC have systematically redefined the concept of a tribute band, garnering iconic status among their diehard fans an...

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MASTER Frontman: 'Drugs Are Great'

Germany's Metal1.info webzine recently conducted an interview with MASTER mastermind Paul Speckmann. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metal1.info: MASTER has very socio- and particularly America-critical lyrics which distinguish you from most of the other death metal bands, who have satani...

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ANTHRAX Drummer Designs Poster For HORRORHOUND WEEKEND

ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante has designed a poster for HorrorHound Weekend, a new horror convention launched by HorrorHound, a nationally-distributed U.S. film fan magazine specializing in the genres of horror, slasher, fantasy, sci-fi, splatter and exploitation films. To purchase a signed copy o...

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COREY TAYLOR: New Video Interview Available

A video interview with SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor, conducted late last month at the Pinkpop festival in Holland, has been posted online at Toazted.com. As previously reported, Taylor told Germany's Rock Hard magazine that he has been working with veteran thrash metal act ANTHRAX on ma...

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Ex-ANTHRAX Singer JOHN BUSH Feels No Bitterness Towards His Former Bandmates

ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX singer John Bush was asked by Rock Hard magazine at last month's Rock Hard Festival (which was held May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) if he harbored any bitterness towards his former ANTHRAX bandmates over the way he was dismissed from the group in 2005 in order to make r...

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Ex-RIOT Singer TONY MOORE Talks About New Band FAITH AND FIRE; Audio Available

Tony Moore, the legendary voice of RIOT, checked in with Hardrock Haven to talk about his stellar new band, FAITH AND FIRE; he also talked about his dislike of current president George W. Bush; what it's like listening to his vocals on the legendary "Bloodstreets"; how the label Metal Heaven will pu...

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ANTHRAX Members To Jam With WHITFIELD CRANE In New York City

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Frank Bello will perform with Whitfield Crane (ANOTHER ANIMAL, ex-UGLY KID JOE, LIFE OF AGONY, MEDICATION) at Retox, the New York City club co-owned by Ian, on Thursday, June 14. Retox (511 West 28th Street) was opened by Ian and club owner Mike Diamond, who s...

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California Death-Metal-Fan-Turned-al-Qaida-Spokesperson Issues New Video Threat

The Associated Press reports that American al-Qaida spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn (also known as "Azzam the American") — a U.S. citizen from Southern California who wrote in a web posting that he was obsessed for a time with "demonic heavy metal music" before moving to Orange County and discovering t...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS Schedules One-Off Headlining Show In London

The SMASHING PUMPKINS have announced a one-off concert at London, England's Shepherds Bush Empire on June 19. This will be the group's only U.K. show prior to their appearance at The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals in August. Tickets will go on sale Friday, June 1 at 9:30 a.m. A four-mi...

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Former SOILWORK Guitarist To Set Up Recording Studio In Nashville

Former SOILWORK guitarist Peter Wichers, who has most recently worked as a songwriter/producer in California, has just delivered the masters to Nuclear Blast Records for a project that he has been working on for over a year. The CD, which will most likely be released under the "Nuclear Blast All-Sta...