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DISTURBED Frontman Reveals His Favorite OZZFEST Moment

Kevin C. Johnson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently spoke to DISTURBED frontman David Draiman about his band's participation in this year's Ozzfest. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On DISTURBED's first-ever Ozzfest gig, back in 2000, at 10 a.m. on the second stage: "There were maybe 15 peo...

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OZZFEST 2006: MTV Video Report Available Online

A two-minute video report on this year's Ozzfest traveling heavy metal festival — featuring short interviews with Ozzy Osbourne, DISTURBED and AVENGED SEVENFOLD — has been posted online at MTV Overdrive. As previously reported, Ozzy Osbourne will now be playing the smaller stage on nine of this summ...

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Review: OZZY 'Acted Like An Enthusiastic Young Rocker' At OZZFEST's San Antonio Stop

Ramiro Burr of the San Antonio Express-News reviewed this year's Ozzfest when it hit the the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in San Antonio, Texas on Tuesday (July 11). An excerpt from his review follows: With thundering metal guitars and some old BLACK SABBATH favorites, Ozzy Osbourne worked the heav...

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OZZFEST 2006: Photos From Phoenix Show Posted Online

30 high-quality photos of HATEBREED, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DISTURBED and SYSTEM OF A DOWN, taken at the Phoenix stop of this year's Ozzfest tour, on July 7 at Cricket Pavilion, have been posted online at this location. As previously reported, Ozzy Osbourne will now be playing the smaller stage on nine...

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ZAKK WYLDE Says New OZZY Album Will Contain Mix Of Rockers, Ballads

Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) recently spoke to Gary Graff of Billboard.com about the progress of the songwriting sessions for Ozzy's upcoming 15th solo album, tentatively due in early 2007. "There's a bunch of kick-ass stuff on there," Wylde said. "It is just ass-kicking, heavy st...

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OZZY OSBOURNE: Second-Stage OZZFEST Video Footage Posted Online

Video footage of OZZY OSBOURNE performing on the second stage at the July 1 Ozzfest stop at the Shoreline Amphitheater in San Francisco, CA has been posted on YouTube.com. Check it out: "Mr. Crowley" (video) "Mama I'm Coming Home" (video) "Crazy Train" (video) According to SoHood.com, OZZY ...

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OZZY OSBOURNE: More OZZFEST Second-Stage Appearances Announced

According to SoHood.com, OZZY OSBOURNE has just announced that he'll now perform on Ozzfest's second stage instead of the main stage at two more shows this summer: Chicago (Sunday, July 16, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre) and Bristow, VA (Sunday, August 6, Nissan Pavillion). Driven by a desire to k...

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The New Black

Forget for a minute that you've heard anything about STRAPPING YOUNG LAD cranking out this album under deadline in order to appear on Ozzfest. Forget also the hand-wringing angst about statements from mainman Devin Townsend that this could be the final SYL opus. Concentrate, for a moment, on the act...

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Power Outage At OZZFEST Interrupts AVENGED SEVENFOLD's Set

The Press-Enterprise is reporting that a brief power failure interrupted AVENGED SEVENFOLD's Ozzfest 2006 performance at the Hyundai Pavilion in Devore, California Saturday (July 8) at about 7:20 p.m. and led some frustrated fans to start two small fires on the back lawn of the pavilion. No one was...

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DIMEBAG 'Six String Masterpieces' Art Tribute Coming To RIDE FOR DIME Event

According to a posting on RideForDime.com, Ride For Dime 2006 — a one-day event (to be held Sunday, August 20) which consists of a 52-mile motorcycle run in the morning followed by a live concert in Arlington, Texas — will be hosting the "Six String Masterpieces" "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott art tribute...

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BLEEDING THROUGH Play Impromptu Show After Meeting Fans At Taco Bell

When a fan recognized the members of BLEEDING THROUGH having lunch near the freeway, he could not have imagined the chain of events that would follow. BLEEDING THROUGH was passing through Medford, Oregon on a day off from this summer's Ozzfest and had pulled into a Taco Bell parking lot to eat. Afte...

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DISTURBED: 'Land Of Confusion' Video Available Online

The video for DISTURBED's cover of the GENESIS hit "Land Of Confusion", directed by renowned comic artist Todd McFarlane, has been posted online at Music.AOL.com. The memorable GENESIS clip used eerie puppets to poke fun at figures such as Ronald Reagan, and DISTURBED singer David Draiman told Launc...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD: 'The New Black' Live Video Posted Online

A video clip of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's performance of the title track of their upcoming album, "The New Black" — recorded in early June at the Download Festival in England — has been posted online at this location (Windows Media). As previously reported, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD have posted their video fo...

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OZZY OSBOURNE: Unreleased Concert-Opening-Movie Spoofs Posted Online

OZZY OSBOURNE fan site Ozzyhead.com has posted links to several unreleased movie spoofs that a user by the name of "cgraff" posted over on YouTube.com. The clips include the following: 1. Ozzy takes on George C. Scott's role as Patton. This was to be the Ozzfest opener but they changed their mind so...

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HATEBREED Frontman Comments On Upcoming Headlining Tour

HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta has commented on the band's upcoming headlining U.S. tour, which is set to commence in September and run through October. The bill will feature support from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER throughout, plus NAPALM DEATH, EXODUS, FIRST BLOOD and DESPISED ICON (as reported by BLA...