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Y&T To Take Part In Online Chat

Y&T members Dave Meniketti (guitar, vocals),Phil Kennemore (bass),John Nymann (guitar) and Mike Vanderhule (drums) will take part in an online chat on Friday, September 21 at 8:00 p.m. PST. For more information, click here. Locomotive Records released the two-DVD/CD set "Live: One Hot Night" b...

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An Ocean Between Us

Admittedly, I was nonplussed with 2005's "Shadows are Security" from metalcore heavyweights AS I LAY DYING. It is not that it is a sub par album, and it is better than many similar albums in what has become a morass of mediocrity, but seemed to lack the vibrancy and sharp edges of its predecessor, "...

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ALL SHALL PERISH, MUNICIPAL WASTE, HORSE THE BAND Confirmed For SAINTS & SINNERS FESTIVAL

ALL SHALL PERISH, FROM FIRST TO LAST, SHAI HULUD, MUNICIPAL WASTE and HORSE THE BAND are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's Saints & Sinners Festival, set to take place November 3-4 at Asbury Park, New Jersey's Convention Hall. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS To Co-Headline Miami's BANG! MUSIC FESTIVAL

SMASHING PUMPKINS have been confirmed as the headliners of the second day of the two-day Bang! Music Festival, set to take place November 10-11 at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida. Confirmed for Saturday, November 10 is KANYE WEST along with RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS and AUTOMATIC LOVELETTE...

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Ex-MAYHEM Frontman MANIAC To Guest On 'Hell On Heels' Radio Show

Former MAYHEM vocalist Maniac, whose new band SKITLIV is attracting considerable interest from all quarters, will make a guest appearance on the Oslo-based Radio Tango show "Hell on Heels" on Friday, August 31 between 17:00 and 18:00 CET. The program will feature tracks from the forthcoming SKITLIV...

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GOD FORBID: CD Containing Two Classic Titles To Be Released

Koch Records has announced the release of "Sickness and Misery", a new CD featuring two classic albums by the forerunners of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, GOD FORBID, on November 6, 2007. "Sickness and Misery" will contain both the band's first EP, the out-of-print "Out of Misery", and the b...

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Swiss Hard Rock Band SHAKRA Unleashes Sixth Album

Swiss hard rockers SHAKRA will release their sixth album, "Infected", on September 11 via Locomotive Records. Ever since its promising 1998 self-titled debut, SHAKRA has stayed true to its classic hard rock approach. The 1999 "Moving Force" follow-up saw the band tour with GREAT WHITE and URIAH HEEP...

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Former MR. BIG Singer Preparing For Upcoming Tour

Former MR. BIG singer Eric Martin has posted a lengthy update on his official blog. An excerpt follows: "I have been doing a lot of projects over the last year: benefits around the country, writing the never-ending solo album (I've always needed a good kick in the ass to get going),SCRAP METAL gigs...

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EXCITER Begins Recording New Album

Canadian thrash metal pioneers EXCITER have commenced the recording sessions for their new album, "Thrash Speed Burn", due on November 9 via Germany's Massacre Records. "The [first-day] session [on Sunday, August 26] went very smoothly, and we managed to get set up and record the drums, bass and fir...

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Terra Necrosis

Sweden's NOMINON have been bouncing around the underground since 1993, releasing material all along the way, including several demos and a couple of full-length albums. Considering the towering giants of vintage Swedish death metal (ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, GRAVE, UNLEASHED, etc.) around the scene durin...

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ADRIFT: New Album 'Sounds Huge'

ADRIFT, the Tampa-based heavy rock band featuring Jack Owen of DEICIDE/CANNIBAL CORPSE fame, is currently mixing its new full-length album, "Absolution", at AudioHammer Studios (CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER, BURY YOUR DEAD, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) in Sanford, Florida with Mark Lewis. The CD was tracked at...

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WEDNESDAY 13 To Begin Recording New Album This Week

Wednesday 13 (ex-MURDERDOLLS) will begin recording the follow-up to 2006's "Fang Bang" this week. Wednesday has written and plans to record 20 songs for the latest outing, titled "Skeletons". Tentative songtitles include "From Here To the Hearse", "Dead Carolina", "All American Massacre" and "Not An...

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NEW YORK DOLLS Members Confirmed For 'Marc Bolan & T.Rex 30th Anniversary Celebration'

On Saturday, September 29, Joe's Pub In The Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park will present "20th Century Boy: Marc Bolan & T.Rex 30th Anniversary Celebration". Marking the sixtieth anniversary of Marc Bolan's birth and the thirtieth of his passing, this one-night-only event will show...

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KING'S X Frontman Completes Work On New Solo Album

KING'S X frontman Doug Pinnick's personal manager Todd Diamond has issued the following update: "dUg's [a.k.a. Doug] solo stuff is pretty much done, the process has been long but the good news is that it is a rocking disc. It should hit the label in the next 2 to 3 weeks. "On other notes, dUg ...

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CASBAH: Classic 1987 'Infinite Pain' Demo Available For Download

The 1987 "Infinite Pain" demo cassette by Japanese thrashers CASBAH has been made available for download at the Bang! Bang! metal demo blog. According to the blog post, "The catalytic title track to this tape sounds exactly like NAPALM DEATH's first forays into structured metal a couple years later....