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Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist AL PITRELLI: DAVE MUSTAINE 'Is A Pretty Brilliant Guy'

Clint Hale of STLtoday.com recently conducted an interview with former MEGADETH/ALICE COOPER and current TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA guitarist Al Pitrelli. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Q: Playing with people like ALICE COOPER and MEGADETH, was there as much debauchery backstage as you exp...

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WHITESNAKE Announces New Drummer

WHITESNAKE has issued the following update: "The new WHITESNAKE album, 'Good To Be Bad', scheduled for release in the spring of 2008 will be their 10th studio record and will feature the exceptional percussive talents of Chris Frazier, the latest member to grace the ranks of the band alongside Doug...

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Original JUDAS PRIEST Singer Says He Will Tour U.S. East Coast With SAXON

HOLY RAGE/ex-JUDAS PRIEST singer Al Atkins has issued the following update: "We [the members of HOLY RAGE] have all been busy towards the end of 2007 in one way or another. "Wwe had a great gig a few weeks ago playing alongside SKID ROW to a capacity crowd at our favourite haunt JB's nightclub [in ....

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FEAR FACTORY Guitarist Wants To Produce Your Band

FEAR FACTORY guitarist and aspiring producer Christian Olde Wolbers has issued the following update: "I have been providing my services to help out young starting bands on production, direction and guidience with their music. I just got back from a two-week pre-production trip to Tampa, Florida to h...

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MINISTRY Mainman's Christmas Poem

MINISTRY mainman Al "Alien" Jourgensen has penned a special Christmas poem entitled "T'was The Night Before Impeachment". It goes like this: T'was 2007 and all through the year Not a creature was buying this climate of fear The stockings were hung in a foreclosure scare In hopes that the Banks would...

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SLASH Discusses His 'Greener' Lifestyle

Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of LiveDaily recently conducted an interview with guitarist Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: LiveDaily: I've seen a few stories about your book signings, and all of them seem to focus on you living a greener lifestyle. S...

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JUDAS PRIEST Book Author: 'I'd Still Love To Write ROB HALFORD's Autobiography'

Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with Neil Daniels, the UK-based author of the unauthorized JUDAS PRIEST biography "Defenders of the Faith: The True Story of Judas Priest". A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metalshrine: First of all, introduce yourself! Where are you fro...

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EXTREME Guitarist Says LED ZEPPELIN Should Be Allowed To Rock At Any Age

EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has penned a lengthy response to music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz's recent review of LED ZEPPELIN's reunion concert at the O2 arena in London in which Bob wrote, in part, "LED ZEPPELIN is dead. And one of the reasons it's so revered is that the band didn't ca...

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DOWN: More U.S. Dates Announced

DOWN has lined up the following dates in January/February: Jan. 18 - Mobile, AL - Soul Kitchen Jan. 19 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theatre Jan. 20 - Lafayette, LA - Grant St. Dance Hall Jan. 22 - Little Rock, AR - The Village Jan. 23 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom Jan. 25 ...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD/ZIMMERS HOLE's JED SIMON Talks Guitars

Guitar Morgue recently conducted an interview with guitarist Jed Simon (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, ZIMMERS HOLE, TENET). Check out the chat at this location. ZIMMERS HOLE, the Vancouver-based project featuring guitarist Simon and bassist Byron Stroud of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD alongside legendary drummer Gene...

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BURST Cancels EUROSONIC Appearance

Sweden's BURST has issued the following update: "We have had to cancel the Eurosonic appearance [in Groningen, Netherlands in early January], as well as the Tilburg show, for grave personal issues, despite flights booked and paid for, et al. "It totally sucks. The amount of gravel we have dug throug...

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'Heavy Metal In Baghdad' May Get More Footage

Bryan Pearson of Variety reports: "Heavy Metal in Baghdad", the docu about the Iraqi band ACRASSICAUDA which was screened at last fall's Toronto Film Festival, may be extended to include the rockers during the time they were in Turkey before the pic is released commercially in the New Year. "We're l...

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MAGNUM: 'Wings Of Heaven Live' Double Live CD Due In February

SPV will release a new double live CD from MAGNUM, entitled "Wings Of Heaven Live" on the following dates: Germany: February 22, 2008 Rest of Europe: February 25, 2008 USA: April 8, 2008 It has been almost 20 years since the British melodic rock act MAGNUM brought out one of the best and most succes...

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ZIMMERS HOLE: Canadian Dates Announced

ZIMMERS HOLE, the Vancouver-based project featuring guitarist Jed Simon and bassist Byron Stroud of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD alongside legendary drummer Gene Hoglan (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, TESTAMENT, DEATH, DARK ANGEL),has scheduled the following dates: Mar. 07 - Vancouver, BC @ Plaza Club Mar. 11 - Victo...

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FEAR FACTORY Singer's ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS: Debut Album Details Revealed

ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS, the band featuring FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell and John Bechdel (MINISTRY, KILLING JOKE, FALSE ICONS),will release its full-length debut, "Numinosum", on February 19, 2008 via MINISTRY frontman Al Jourgensen's 13th Planet Records Commented Bell: "I am very excite...