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DOKKEN Guitarist JON LEVIN Undergoes 'Pretty Serious' Surgery On His Arm

DOKKEN frontman and namesake Don Dokken was interviewed on the latest edition of "Rich Davenport's Rock Show". The program can be streamed using the Mixcloud player below. (Note: The Don Dokken interview begins around the nine-minute mark.) Speaking about DOKKEN's plans for the immediate future, Don...

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FIREHOUSE Drummer To Fill In For WARRANT's STEVEN SWEET

Michael Foster (FIREHOUSE) will fill in for WARRANT drummer Steven Sweet for the band's shows until February while Sweet is "on the mend" following last month's neck surgery. Foster, 46, has been playing drums since he was 5 years old. In 1984, he auditioned for a band called WHITE HEAT where guitar...

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RUDY SARZO: Why I Decided To Join GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE

Legendary bassist Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO) says that he decided to join Geoff Tate's newly assembled version of QUEENSRŸCHE because the the opportunity to work with a "world-class vocalist" like Tate was too good to pass up. "My motivation for joining the band is, you...

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STRYPER Frontman Says 'It Should Be A Blast' Singing Classic DOKKEN Songs With T&N

STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet has confirmed that he will hit the road next year with T&N (formerly TOOTH AND NAIL),the new project featuring current and former members of DOKKEN (George Lynch, Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown),in support of that band's recently released debut album, "Slave To The E...

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SOMETHING UNTO NOTHING: 'I'm The One' Video Released

"I'm The One", the new video from SOMETHING UNTO NOTHING (S.U.N.) — the band featuring the whiskey-soaked voice of Sass Jordan, a Canadian icon and Juno Award winner, alongside music partner, renowned drummer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Tichy, known for his tours of duty with BILLY I...

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JEFF PILSON Discusses T&N Debut In New Audio Interview

On November 6, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Jeff Pilson of T&N (formerly TOOTH AND NAIL),the new project featuring current and former members of DOKKEN. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. "Slave To The Empire"...

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WHITESNAKE Frontman's 'Christmas Crackers' (Video)

The latest episode of Whitesnake TV, in which WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale answers video questions from his fans about his life, music and career, and performs a few numbers with the band's guitarist, Doug Aldrich, can be seen below. In a recent interview with Albania's Top Channel web site,...

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KORN, SLAYER, ANTHRAX, SCORPIONS Drummers To Take Part In 'Bonzo Bash NAMM Jamm 2013'

Bonzo Bash founder and S.U.N. guitarist Brian Thomas Tichy (also of WHITESNAKE) recently said, "As I sit here in a dimly lit room with my headphones from 1977 cranked, staring at the LP cover of 'Physical Graffiti', spinning a drum stick, hypnotized by the flanged snare drum in 'Kashmir', I smile t...

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PORTNOY, KOTZEN, SHEEHAN Project Completes Work On Debut Album

The new project featuring Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB),Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG) and Richie Kotzen (MR. BIG, POISON) has completed work on its debut album for a 2013 release. Sheehan says: "I'm really pleased with it. Richie sang his ass off and played amazingly uni...

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ASTAROTH: 'Nero's Fire' Video Released

"Nero's Fire", the new video from legendary Italian heavy metal pioneers ASTAROTH, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's first-ever full-length album, "The End Of Silence", which will be released on December 21 via She Wolf Records. Produced by the band's bassist Saverio "Shining" Princip...

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RUDY SARZO, ZAKK WYLDE Attend 'Randy Rhoads: The Quiet Riot Years' Screening In Los Angeles

Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO),Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) and Tim Mahoney (311) spoke to Artisan News at the premiere screening this past Wednesday, December 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California of "Randy Rhoads: The Quiet Riot...

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CANDLEMASS/Ex-THERION Frontman MATS LEVÉN Sings DIO, WHITESNAKE, GARY MOORE Classics (Video)

Fan-filmed video footage of CLUB COVERDOSE, the cover band featuring acclaimed Swedish hard rock vocalist Mats Levén (CANDLEMASS, THERION, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TREAT, KRUX),perfoming on November 24 at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland can be seen below. Levén's first official CANDLEMASS recording sinc...

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QUEENSRŸCHE's LA TORRE Says 'People Are Shocked To Hear' 'Queen Of The Reich' Performed Well

The Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE has finished recording the drums for its new album at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Washington with producer James "Jimbo" Barton — the man who engineered and mixed the band's classic 1988 LP, "Operation: Mindcrime", and its 1990 follow-up, "Empir...

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Guitarist KERI KELLI Rumored To Be Joining GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE

According to Metal Sludge, Keri Kelli (SLASH'S SNAKEPIT, ALICE COOPER, RATT) is rumored to be joining vocalist Geoff Tate's newly assembled version of QUEENSRŸCHE as the replacement for the recently departed Glen Drover (MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND). Tate's QUEENSRŸCHE also includes bassist Rudy Sarzo (O...

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DON DOKKEN Interviewed On 'Maximum Threshold' (Audio)

DOKKEN mainman Don Dokken was interviewed on this past week's edition of the "Maximum Threshold" radio show. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. DOKKEN's eleventh studio album, "Broken Bones", sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at...