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OSBOURNE, HETFIELD, SIMMONS Featured In VH1 Classic's 'Seven Ages Of Rock' Series

"Seven Ages of Rock", a co-production with the BBC, will make its U.S. debut on VH1 Classic Monday, December 17. MTV veteran Mark Goodman narrates this seven-part series, which showcases the various genres of rock music that impacted and shaped pop culture. From the birth of rock to metal to alterna...

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MORTEM Confirmed For GATHERING OF THE BESTIAL LEGION III Festival

Peruvian black/death/thrash metal band MORTEM has been confirmed for the Gathering of the Bestial Legion III festival, set to take place August 19, 2007 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California. More than 30 death/black metal acts will perform on three stages. Bands confirmed so far are as f...

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GENE SIMMONS Talks Trash

KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons recently shared his top 10 Simmons-isms with Spinner.com. The top five nuggets follow: 5. On how Americans don't know how good they have it: "When people come as an immigrant — [as I did] myself — we're shocked at how pampered and spoiled everybody is, which is rea...

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DAVE MUSTAINE's Anti-UNITED NATIONS Lyrics Dissected, Challenged

Mark Leon Goldberg of the UN Dispatch has issued the following report: Last summer, UN Dispatch learned that the heavy metal band MEGADETH was recording an album titled "United Abominations", which featured cover art depicting a 9-11 style attack on the UN building in New York. Naturally, we thought...

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DØDHEIMSGARD Confirmed For Czech republic's BRUTAL ASSAULT Festival

DØDHEIMSGARD (DHG) has been confirmed for the Brutal Assault festival, seet to take place August 9-11 in Jaromer, Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: ABORTED ADOR DORATH ALL THAT REMAINS BELPHEGOR BY NIGHT CARNAL FORGE CARNIVAL IN COAL CATARACT CEPHALIC CARNAGE DAGOBA DEIC...

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CNK Featuring Ex-ANOREXIA NERVOSA Frontman To Release Second Album

After their bombastic and acclaimed 2002 debut album "Ultraviolence über alles", the CNK — featuring Hreidmarr of the French black metal act ANOREXIA NERVOSA, along with Heinrich Von Band, Sylvicious (TAMTRUM) on drums, and Parisian designer Valnoir (SECT) on bass, are back with their long-awaited s...

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STUCK MOJO Debuts Video For 'I'm American'

Following up on the success of their controversial, anti-jihadist music video for the song "Open Season", STUCK MOJO released today the video for "I'm American" from their new album "Southern Born Killers". In addition, they also unveiled a redesigned web site and the new "Mojo Mindset" podcast seri...

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HELLYEAH Frontman Talks About Bassist's Sacking, Band's Musical/Lyrical Approach

Australia's X-Press Online recently conducted an interview with HELLYEAH/MUDVAYNE frontman Chad Gray. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On HELLYEAH's musical direction: "We wanted to bring the personality of the members out in the music. There are so many bands out there right now where eve...

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French 'Black Metal' Youths Confess To Attacks On Christian Sites

Three youths between the ages of 21 and 22 have confessed to series of attacks on Christian sites in Brittany in northwest France, according to Yahoo! France. The suspects, who belong to a shadowy anti-religious group with links to heavy metal music, denied having commited the acts as part of a sata...

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IRON MAIDEN Singer's ALEISTER CROWLEY Film To Go Into Production

According to U.K.-based music journalist Dave Ling, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson's film about occult legend Aleister Crowley (infamous as "the wickedest man in the world") will shortly go into production, with Simon Callow (IMDb) — of "Amadeus", "Shakespeare in Love" and, appropriately, "The P...

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Seven People Taken Into Custody In Connection With French 'Black Metal' Chapel Burning

Seven people were taken into police custody Thursday (June 21) in connection with a series of attacks on Christian sites in Brittany in northwest France, according to French media reports. The detained individuals range in age from 20 to 30 years, but no further details regarding their identities ha...

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What's He Building...

A name taken from the super cool TOM WAITS' tune, "Waterloo", Ontario's WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE? (WHBIT) offers one of those albums that combines strong musicianship with unconventional song structures that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. In keeping with an anti-formula made very popular...

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BEHEMOTH: Too Dangerous For Poland?

Chris Harris and Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com report: This week, a Polish anti-sect organization dubbed "The All-Polish Committee for Defense Against Sects" released a list of artists it claims "promote Satanism" or "encourage murder and animal sacrifice" with their music. The group plans to distribute...

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New Photos Released Of Chapel Destroyed By Heavy Metal 'Satanists'

New photos (slideshow) have been released of the fire-ravaged 16th-century Chapel of the Cross at Loqueffret near the remote tip of Brittany (France),which was destroyed in a blaze this past weekend. The doors of the chapel were forced open, and several original polychrome statues were destroyed. A...

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LIFEND Hard At Work On New Material

Italian death/experimental metallers LIFEND are currently writing and arranging songs that will appear on their next full-length album, tentatively due in early 2008. The follow-up to 2004's "Innerscars" will be recorded in September at Westlink Studios (GF93, DECREW, PROZAC+, BAUSTELLE) with produc...