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NEUROTICA Become Kings Of The Ring

Florida's NEUROTICA, featuring former ATHEIST frontman Kelly Shaefer, will have their track "Ride Of Your Life" featured as the theme for this month's pay-per-view special King Of The Ring on all of WWE's programming, including Raw, Smackdown, and Sunday Night Heat on MTV. NEUROTICA will issue their...

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GRAVITY KILLS Cancel All Upcoming Touring Activities Due To Keyboardist's Injury

GRAVITY KILLS have cancelled all upcoming touring activities due to the injury sustained by keyboard player Doug Firley during a live performance in Allentown, Pennsylvania in early May. The injury occurred when Firley dropped the custom-made, springloaded keyboard on his hand during the band's sing...

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Former WHIPLASH Bassist Dies After Suffering Apparent Heart Attack

Former WHIPLASH/INTO ANOTHER bassist Tony Bono passed away on Friday night/Saturday morning after suffering an apparent heart attack at the age of 38, ex-WHIPLASH/SLAYER drummer Tony Scaglione has confirmed to BLABBERMOUTH.NET. A viewing will reportedly be held on Tuesday, May 28th at a funeral home...

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GRAVITY KILLS Keyboardist Injures Hand, Group Cancels Dates

GRAVITY KILLS suffered a minor setback last weekend as keyboard player Doug Firley sustained serious injury to his hand in Allentown, Pennsylvania while performing in front of a sold-out crowd. The injury occurred when Firley dropped the custom-made, springloaded keyboard on his hand during the band...

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Killing The Dragon

In all honesty, it has been many years since I last felt excited about a DIO album, fact rooted more in mainman and namesake's inability to maintain the standard achieved on his first two solo albums than a general disinterest in the singer's sound. Ronnie's latest offering is no different in that r...

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WATCHTOWER To Issue CD Of Unreleased Recordings, Continue Work On New Album

A WATCHTOWER CD entitled Demonstrations in Chaos, containing unreleased rehearsals and recordings from the Control & Resistance era, plus previously-unavailable live tracks, and the infamous Boss Studio demos from 1983 and 1984, will finally be issued through Monster Records in May. For more inf...

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NEUROTICA To Issue Third CD On June 25th

Florida's NEUROTICA, featuring former ATHEIST frontman Kelly Shaefer, will issue their self-titled third full-length album through Koch/Smackdown Records on June 25th. The record was produced by Doug Kaye and mixed by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley (i.e. BLACK CROWES, AEROSMITH, SOIL) and features 11 track...

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THE BEYOND 2002 Festival Registers Huge Losses Despite Presence Of Heavyweight Acts

The Beyond 2002 Super Festival, which was held on April 13-14 at the Bicentennial Park in Miami. Florida, reportedly drew 5,000 people on the first day and some 2,000 attendees on the second day—a number that fell far short of the 20,000+ that the event's organizers, Todd Ross, 24, and Justin Moss,...

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ENCHANT Part With Drummer, Complete Work On New CD

San Francisco Bay Area prog-rockers ENCHANT have amicably parted ways with drummer Paul Craddick and have replaced him with ex-CHAOS THEORY sticksman Sean Flanegan. According to guitarist Doug Ott, “Sean is an old friend from a band named CHAOS THEORY, DALI'S DILEMMA now, who left the band before th...

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DIO Finalize Track Listing For "Killing The Dragon"

DIO are tentatively due to issue their latest studio effort, entitled Killing The Dragon, in May through Spitfire Records. The group's first release with new guitarist Doug Aldrich (ex-HURRICANE/LION),Killing The Dragon will include the following track listing: 01. Killing The Dragon 02. Along Came...

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ANATHEMA Cancel Single Plans, To Issue Live DVD In April

Britain's ANATHEMA have cancelled plans to issue the track Pressure as the first single off their critically-acclaimed album A Fine Day to Exit after MTV and various radio stations refused to rally their support behind the release. According to an official statement by Music For Nations Records pres...

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PINNICK/AMENT Collaboration Begins To Take Shape

KING'S X frontman Doug Pinnick and PEARL JAM bassist Jeff Ament have recorded 18 or so tracks for their as-yet-unnamed project prior to Pinnick taking off for the current KING'S X US tour. At the moment, only about eight of the cuts have lyrics written for them, while the rest are only musically com...

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MANMADEGOD Enter Mixing Phase On Debut CD

San Francisco Bay Area's MANMADEGOD, featuring former FORBIDDEN guitarist Craig Locicero and drummer Steve Jacobs, have completed the recording process for their debut CD for American Recordings at Los Angeles' Ocean Studios and are currently mixing the effort at West Hollywood's Larrabee Studio Eas...

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ANDY "Undie" SNEAP Shoots From The Hip!

It's been quite some time since we last got an official update from former SABBAT guitarist and acclaimed producer Andy Undie Sneap, so in the interest of making up for lost time, we will let this English fool fill us in what he's been up to. And while at it, we'll even let him have ...

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DIO Confirm Guitarist Switch, Announce CD Release Date

DIO have officially confirmed the departure of guitarist Craig Goldy and addition of Doug Aldrich as his replacement. The current line-up of the group—Aldrich, frontman Ronnie James Dio, drummer Simon Wright, and bassist Jimmy Bain—are working on their brand new CD, rumored to be titled Kill The Dra...