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NUCLEAR ASSAULT's DAN LILKER Slams BLABBERMOUTH.NET 'Sh*t-Talkers'

Cameron Edney of Australia's Inside_Out666 recently conducted an interview with bassist Dan Lilker (NUCLEAR ASSAULT, BRUTAL TRUTH, CRUCIFIST, ANTHRAX, S.O.D.). A few excerpts from the chat follow: Inside_Out666: Were you happy with the outcome of NUCLEAR ASSAULT's latest album, "Third World Genocide...

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Malaysian Government Official Comments On Black Metal Concert Bust

A Malaysian government official has commented on a recent incident in which over 100 youths were rounded up by police in Seremban for participating in a black metal concert. According to Malaysia's The Star Online, Pahang Mentri Besar (chief minister) Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob said such culture was no...

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Fear in a Handful of Dust

One moment while I Q-Tip the blood out of my ears. There we go. So why does it take a label in Austria to sign a fearsome thrash-beast from Chicago when said band has been in our midst since 2000? For shame U.S. labels, you've missed a golden opportunity to sign a band called HURTLOCKER, ...

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Former EVANESCENCE Manager: AMY LEE Is Creating Version Of Reality That Has No Basis In Fact

Attorney Bert Deixler, who represents Dennis Rider and Rider Management — the former personal manager of EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee — has issued the following response to Lee's lawsuit against his client for breach of fiduciary duty, professional negligence, conversion, sexual assault and battery, a...

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RUSH: 'Piano Tribute' Album To Arrive In January

"The Piano Tribute To Rush", created by Todd Mark Rubenstein, is set for release on January 10, 2006 via Vitamin Records. This is the third RUSH tribute album by Rubenstein, who previously released "Exit Stage Right" and "The String Quartet Tribute To 2112". Like most of the previously released trib...

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Hellectric

Dark yet catchy gothic metal is not what I would have expected from a band consisting of SAVATAGE/SEVEN WITCHES guitarist Jack Frost, OVERKILL's DD Verni and Tim Mallare, and the MISFITS' Myke Hideous. The band's third album, and first for Regain and Candlelight, suffers from a few pockmarks in the...

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GENERAL SURGERY Prepare To Record 'Left Hand Pathology'

Legendary Swedish grindcore merchants GENERAL SURGERY have posted the following message on their official web site: "Just to let you know, the time is drawing near. That's right, we're entering the studio to record our first full-length album which we cleverly enough have entitled 'Left Hand Patholo...

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Former PANTERA Manager: PHILIP ANSELMO 'Was Beyond Anybody's Control'

In the February 2006 issue of Revolver magazine (web site),several of PANTERA's former business associates recount the band's amazing rise to the status of the biggest extreme metal act in the world and the circumstances that led to their eventual break-up. Though it would be unfair to blame PANTER...

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Give Me the Fear

Produced by the same guy who brought you THE DARKNESS, and already hyped to the rafters by the ever-fickle U.K. press, London denimboys TOKYO DRAGONS are yet another band pulling the mirrored shades, leather vests, and moustaches so ironic they hurt, all in the name of "real rock and roll". The thin...

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Salt Lake City's Heavy Metal Shop Struggles To Survive In Internet Age

Jamie Gadette of the Salt Lake City Weekly has issued the following report: Eleven years ago, the Heavy Metal Shop's Kevin Kirk ordered 1,000 copies of SLAYER's "Divine Intervention" and sold every last album in a matter of weeks. Now, he's lucky if customers will buy even 20 copies of the thrash le...

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Upstairs

You just don't hear a lot about bands from Trinidad and Tobago. These guys are out to change that, and they've got friends in their corner as diverse as KANSAS frontman Phil Ehart and BLACK SABBATH producer Jeff Glixman. They're also touring the U.S. right now with YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, an odd but inter...

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CANDLEMASS Bassist Checks In From The Road

CANDLEMASS mainman/bassist Leif Edling has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "We still live and breathe after a week on the road [with German thrashers DESTRUCTION]. It's been good and a bit bad too. "The bad things first: Had to cancel two shows: Oslo (Norway) and Oulu (...

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STAIND Frontman Gives Props To KORN's JONATHAN DAVIS

liveDaily recently conducted an interview with STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis. An excerpt from the chat follows: liveDaily: Where does your songwriting inspiration come from? Aaron Lewis: "What I talk about in the songs, I have a really hard time expressing that otherwise. I tend to stuff things down a...

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Judge Allows Lawsuit Against KISS Bassist GENE SIMMONS To Proceed

Samuel Maull of Newsday.com has issued the following report: A woman who claims to be a former girlfriend of KISS rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with a defamation lawsuit in which she says he made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac" during a VH1 television show, a judge has ruled. State Su...

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Holy Hell

Thanks to labels like SPV and Candlelight, albums like "Holy Hell" that would have once been consigned to import purgatory are seeing the light of day in the USA (albeit months after their release elsewhere). And thank the metal gods for it! Former IMPELLITTERI and AXEL RUDI PELL vocal powerhouse Ro...