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TESLA To Release Covers Album; Box Set On the Way

Debby Rao of KNAC.COM recently conducted an interview with TESLA frontman Jeff Keith. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: KNAC.COM: TESLA has a huge following in New England. The band has given so much to their fans. I can remember how supportive TESLA was, when the Station fire tragedy occur...

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Former STRATOVARIUS Bassist's MESS Project Working On Debut EP

MESS, the Finnish heavy metal band featuring bassist Jari Kainulainen (ex-STRATOVARIUS),drummer Atte Sarkima (AJATTARA, VERENPISARA),vocalist Tommi "Tuple" Salmela (TAROT, CARDIANT) and guitarist Elias Viljainen (E.VIL),is currently working on its first EP, tentatively due before the end of the y...

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GUNS N' ROSES' 'Sweet Child' Confirmed For GUITAR HERO II

Virgin.net reports that GUNS N' ROSES' classic rock anthem "Sweet Child O' Mine" is the latest song to be confirmed for the "Guitar Hero" sequel. Gamers will be able to play along with Slash's famous guitar line using a customized guitar-shaped controller when the game is released for the PlayStatio...

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ZOMBI To Tour With SUPERSYSTEM

Fresh on the heels of a wildly successful European tour with ISIS and acclaimed performance at the respected Supersonic Festival, Pittsburgh's sci-fi instrumental rock duo ZOMBI has announced North American fall tour plans with SUPERSYSTEM. ZOMBI will pair up with Touch and Go's SUPERSYSTEM (formerl...

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IMMORTAL Frontman's I Project: Audio Sample Available

According to I.Battlegrim.net, a radio-broadcast, reduced-quality recording of the song "The Storm I Ride" by I — the new band featuring former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name: Olve Eikemo),original IMMORTAL drummer Armagedda, ENSLAVED guitarist Arve Isdal and GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell — h...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Guitarist To Focus On Solo Project TENET

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD has emerged from this year's Ozzfest as one of the festival's most-talked-about acts primarily due to the sheer abrasiveness and intensity of their live performances. The group will now take a short break as frontman Devin Townsend (vocals, guitars) welcomes his first child into...

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IMMORTAL Frontman's I Project: World Premiere Scheduled For Tonight

Norwegian rock/metal show "Pyro" will present an exclusive world premiere of a track from I, the new band featuring former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name: Olve Eikemo),original IMMORTAL drummer Armagedda, ENSLAVED guitarist Arve Isdal and GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell. The song "The Storm I R...

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DEAD TROOPER: New Song Available Online

Norwegian thrashers DEAD TROOPER have posted a new song, entitled "Reaping of Your Cries", on their MySpace page. The track will be premiered live during the band's appearance at the Hole In The Sky festival on August 23 in Bergen, Norway. DEAD TROOPER recently announced the addition of drummer Mari...

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GRIMFIST Announces New Members

Norway's GRIMFIST has issued the following update: "As many of you know, Frediablo sent out a statement a couple of weeks ago, about how fed up he is with being in a metal band, the genre and all that goes with it. Since we were already booked to do the Hole In The Sky festival ...

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FREDIABLO Officially Quits GRIMFIST

GRIMFIST vocalist Frediablo (GORELORD, ex-NECROPHAGIA) has released the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "So it has come to this. I have officially quit GRIMFIST. The motivation and drive I once possessed is dead... for now. I am stepping down allowing a hungrier man to fill my shoes, and ho...

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THE HAUNTED, AKERCOCKE To Headline U.K.'s DAMNATION FESTIVAL

Extreme legends THE HAUNTED and death metal overlords AKERCOCKE will headline this year's Damnation Festival, set to take place October 15 at Jilly's Rockworld and Music Box in Manchester, England. Ragga-punks SKINDRED and the debauched MISTRESS will join them to complete two stages of uncompromisin...

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IMMORTAL Frontman's I Project To Release 'Between Two Worlds' In The Fall

I, the new band featuring former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name: Olve Eikemo),original IMMORTAL drummer Armagedda, ENSLAVED guitarist Arve Isdal and GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell, has completed work on its debut album, "Between Two Worlds", due this fall through Nuclear Blast Records. The CD...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE, ANTHRAX, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Tracks Added To GUITAR HERO II Music Game

According to IGN, covers of MÖTLEY CRÜE's "Shout at the Devil", ANTHRAX's "Madhouse" and STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" are the newly added tracks to RedOctane's forthcoming Guitar Hero II, the sequel to one of the best, most popular and certainly most rocking music games...

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Born In Hell

From THE DARKNESS to ANDREW W.K. to MANITOBA'S WILD KINGDOM and all the way back to SPINAL TAP, the question has been raised — how deliberately flat-out corny and ironic can a band be and still rock? Swaggering U.K. cock-rockers VIKING SKULL (yeah, I know, I thought it was gonna be power metal too)...

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ATHEIST Storms Through The U.K. And Brings Down The Stage In Italy... Literally!

Seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST kicked off their summer European tour run July 14 at England's Bloodstock FEstival and July 16 at Italy's Evolution Festival. The band's first live appearances in over 13 years were greeted with rabid enthusiasm as the group blazed through classics like "Unqu...