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Metalmania 2005

In yet another example of Europe's festival organizing acumen, Poland's annual Metalmania festival continues to attract quality acts from a range of genres to the always-rabid Polish audience. The festival's main stage highlights have once again been captured on DVD, this time the 2005 extravaganza....

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Memorial

Kudos to Portugal's MOONSPELL for creating goth with death metal propulsion that should have cross-genre appeal. You heard it on much of "The Antidote", but "Memorial" is a 59-minute gem of an album that manages to be very heavy without dispensing with that Vampire-esque gothic appeal. While I would...

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POISON Frontman To Star In Film Based On His Life

Syndicated newspaper columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith are reporting that POISON lead singer Bret Michaels — who's gearing up to head out on the group's "20 Years of Rock Tour" next month — will go before the cameras by year's end in a film based on his own life if all goes as ...

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GORGOROTH Fan Gets Hit By A Train — And Lives To Tell About It

The Edmonton Sun has issued the following report: The metal gods were smiling on Jesse Maggrah. The 20-year-old man was walking beside railway tracks on Sunday, the Norwegian heavy metal band GORGOROTH cranked on his portable CD player, when he was hit by a freight train. Maggrah said he did hear th...

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ALICE IN CHAINS Touring Singer DUVALL To Release New COMES WITH THE FALL EP In July

COMES WITH THE FALL vocalist/guitarist William DuVall — who will be touring with the reunited ALICE IN CHAINS this summer as the band's lead singer — has posted the following message on the CWTF web site: "A lot of people have been asking about when CWTF's fourth album, 'Beyond The Last Light', will...

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TRISTANIA Part Ways With Male Singer

Norwegian symphonic metal band TRISTANIA have parted ways with vocalist Kjetil Ingebrethsen. Commented Kjetil: "After four amazing years, I have decided to leave TRISTANIA. There is no bad blood between us at all, and we are still good friends. This is a choice I had to make, just for my own part, a...

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ULI JON ROTH Says 'Virgin Killer' Album Cover Makes Him Cringe

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth (ex-SCOPRIONS). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: You are basically introducing your Sky Academy to the United States. Uli: "At the end of May we are doing a se...

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JASON NEWSTED Talks About New VOIVOD Album, PIGGY's Passing

"Metal Machine Video" (web site),the self-described "only heavy metal/hard rock daily video show on the net," recently conducted an interview with former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted. A few excerpts from the chat follow; Metal Machine: What went into making the [new VOIVOD] al...

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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist Rules Out Possibility Of New Studio Album

TWISTED SISTER's official web site has been updated with a brand-new interview with the group's guitarist, Jay Jay French. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the possibility of releasing a new TWISTED SISTER studio album: Jay Jay: "That'll never happen because Dee [Snider, vocals] doesn't write...

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GENE SIMMONS Named Grand Marshal Of Honda Grand Prix Of St. Petersburg

Waving the checkered flag at this year's Honda Grand Prix at St. Petersburg will be none other than venerable entrepreneur and rock legend, Gene Simmons, it was announced on Monday (March 20) by event officials. Watch on Sunday, April 2 (live on ESPN at 3:45 p.m. EST) as Simmons kicks off the second...

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MEGADETH Mainman On Dubai Trip: 'What A Blast! What A Surprise!'

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "I just returned from [playing the Desert Rock festival in] Dubai and am in between stints of sleep amidst serious jet lag. But I can't wait to tell you how it was, so cut me some...

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CELTIC FROST: Special Report From 'Monotheist' Listening Session In Berlin

Timo Isoaho has filed the following report: There's a sign outside the old church in Berlin saying "Today: CELTIC FROST listening session." I would call that dark humor, no question about that. Inside the God's temple, there's whole bunch of European metal journalists waiting to hear the long-awaite...

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Wicked Wisdom

I went into this review as skeptical as anyone and expected little from this debut album from the band fronted by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith. I came out of it with a healthy appreciation for the heavy rock/modern metal of WICKED WISDOM. Cutting to the chase, if your music of choice doesn't involve b...

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In the Arms of Devastation

It is about time I got around to reviewing a disc by Canada's northern hyper blasters, KATAKLYSM. After enjoying what I heard of the last several albums and suffering through the disappointment of two live performances, thanks to horrid sound mixes, I have now been able to spend a little quality tim...

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DISTURBED Frontman Just Wants To Be Respected: We Are 'The Rodney Dangerfield Of Metal'

DISTURBED singer David Draiman recently told Revolver magazine (web site) that his band have not only been scorned by critics — with particular bile reserved for their frontman — but they were even turned away by Hurricane Katrina benefit organizers. "We're either too heavy or not heavy enough. It's...