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AC/DC's Back Catalog Outsells SLIPKNOT's 'Hope' In Australia

According to Undercover News, AC/DC has six albums in the Australian Top 50 this week (including one in the top 20) with collective sales that have outstripped the country's No. 1 album, SLIPKNOT's "All Hope Is Gone". The following AC/DC LPs have made it to this week's chart: 20. TNT (1975) ...

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IRON MAIDEN Drummer Performs With 'Flashback' In Florida; Video, Photos Available

IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain made a surprise appearance last Sunday night (August 31) with the "Flashback – the Classic Rock Experience", a national arena tour which "delivers anew the hit music of the all-time greatest artists — JANIS JOPLIN, JIMI HENDRIX, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN, PINK FLOYD a...

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Report: AC/DC Plans Big Comeback

AC/DC's last two albums, 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip" and 1995's "Ballbreaker", leaned toward the bluesier side of the band, but producer Brendan O'Brien was determined to focus on another aspect of their sound on the band's new CD, "Black Ice". "I was hoping the songs would lend themselves to more of a...

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THE RED CHORD Frontman On Music For Next Album

MetalSucks conducted an interview with THE RED CHORD frontman Guy Kozowyk at the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival stop at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York. Excerpts from the chat follow. MetalSucks: What's on the horizon for you guys when you wrap the tour up? Kozowyk: We finish the tour up o...

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OZZY OSBOURNE's Son JACK: 'The Osbournes' Discredited Who My Father Is

RollingStone.com reports that Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack is executive-producing an Ozzy documentary. According to Jack, his father — a severe dyslexic — "refuses to do a book, so this is more like a talking book, a really thorough autobiography." Filming began in January, and features interviews with...

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AC/DC's Catalog Riding High On Australian Chart

According to Undercover, the news of the release of AC/DC's first album in eight years has sent a lot of the band's new fans in Australia out for an educational catch-up and some old ones for a refresher course. On this week's official Australian ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) chart,...

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BOLT THROWER Issues Update

UK extreme metal pioneers BOLT THROWER have issued the following update: "We'd like to thank everyone who came to Atak, Party.San and Hof te Lo. Although it was only three shows it felt like a whole tour, as we covered a whole range of venues & crowds in that short time, and had our fair ...

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GWAR Manager SLEAZY P. MARTINI Comes Out Of Retirement For 'Electile Dysfunction '08' Tour

GWAR upcoming tour, dubbed Electile Dysfunction, will feature the return of the group's manager, Sleazy P. Martini. Sleazy's announcement on the matter reads as follows: "Greeting losers, it is I, the world's shrewdest man, Sleazy P. Martini, manager of GWAR, announcing an entertainment merger betwe...

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LECHEROUS NOCTURNE Films 'Just War Theory' Video

South Carolina-based extreme metal band LECHEROUS NOCTURNE will release its second album, "The Age of Miracles Has Passed", on September 23 via Unique Leader Records. Once again recorded at SoundLab Studio in Columbia, South Carolina, "The Age of Miracles Has Passed" is said to be "a refined yet div...

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JOURNEY Profiled On CNN Headline News; Video Available

A profile on the classic American rockers JOURNEY is being aired on CNN Headline News this weekend (as part of the "News to Me" feature). Watch the six-minute report below. JOURNEY's new two-disc CD, "Revelation", entered the national Top 100 charts in six countries in its debut week of release in E...

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APOCALYPTICA Performs 'Unplugged' At 100.3 THE EDGE Studios In Little Rock; Video Available

Finnish cello quartet APOCALYPTICA stopped by the studios of KDJE 100.3 The Edge (web site) in Little Rock, Arkansas earlier this week and took part in a three-song "unplugged" performance for radio station winners. Watch video footage of the performance below. (Note: Updated version of Windows Medi...

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JOURNEY Profile To Air On CNN Headline News

A profile on the classic American rockers JOURNEY will air on CNN Headline News this weekend. More information, including the exact air times, is available at this location. JOURNEY's new two-disc CD, "Revelation", entered the national Top 100 charts in six countries in its debut week of release in...

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PROTEST THE HERO To Film 'Palms Read' Video

Whitby, Ontario, Canada-based pop math metal upstarts PROTEST THE HERO will film a video for the song "Palms Read" in September in Toronto with director Sean Turrell (BILLY TALENT, TEGAN AND SARA). As previously reported, PROTEST THE HERO has set an August 5 release date for a new, three-track EP th...

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METALLICA Gives Turkish Economy A Boost With Istanbul Concert

Demet Cengiz of the Turkish Daily News reports that METALLICA created a giant economy while mesmerizing over 40,000 people at its third Turkey concert in Istanbul's Ali Sami Yen Stadium last Sunday (July 27). The sale of concert tickets, together with the flight and accommodation expenses of visitor...

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Beneath the Scars of Glory and Progression

You've got to hand it to GOD FORBID. They have scratched and clawed their way from a little-known Jersey act to one of the better modern metal bands out there today, and they did it without a revolving door of members and by touring their asses off. It's hard to believe that the act's fourth ...