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RONNIE JAMES DIO's Widow Recounts His Final Days

Kory Grow of Revolver magazine recently conducted an interview with Wendy Dio, the widow and manager of legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL, DIO, RAINBOW, ELF). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Revolver: We were really honored to have [Ronn...

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DREAM THEATER Hits The Studio

Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER have officially entered the studio to begin work on their first album without drummer and founding member Mike Portnoy. The band's guitarist, John Petrucci, writes on his Twitter profile, "First day in studio [and] the dawn of a new era for DREAM THEATER. Can't...

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COREY TAYLOR Performs Solo In Tampa For New Year's Eve (Video)

SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor played a solo concert last night (December 31, 2010) at Carol Morsani Hall at The Straz Center in Tampa, Florida as the support act for STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis. Fan-filmed video footage of Taylor's performance can be viewed below. Taylor's satirical holida...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE Members Remember PETER STEELE In New Issue Of REVOLVER Magazine

Jon Wiederhorn of Revolver magazine recently sat down with TYPE O NEGATIVE members Josh Silver (keyboards),Johnny Kelly (drums) and Kenny Hickey (guitar) to remember the band's lost leader, Peter Steele, who died in April. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Revolver: A couple of years ago, Pet...

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Wife: PAUL GRAY 'Wasn't Just A Drug Addict'

Brenna Gray, the widow of SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray, has paid tribute to her late husband in the new issue of Revolver magazine, which remembers many of hard rock and metal's most dearly departed. Paul Gray's body was found on May 24 in a hotel room in a Des Moines, Iowa suburb. A coroner ruled ...

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AC/DC, GODSMACK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DISTURBED Had Top-Selling Hard Rock Albums Of 2010

AC/DC, GODSMACK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and DISTURBED have released some of the top-selling hard rock/heavy metal albums of 2010, according to Billboard.com. The following CDs have made Billboard.com's Top 200 list of the year-end top-selling albums across all genres, ranked by sales data as compiled by...

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STONE SOUR Drummer Interviewed By Sweden's CrankItUp.se (Video)

CrankItUp.se conducted an interview with STONE SOUR drummer Roy Mayorga on November 18, 2010 at Arenan in Stockholm, Sweden. You can now watch the chat below. STONE SOUR's new video, "Hesitate", was filmed on September 20 in Los Angeles with director Paul Brown (JACK WHITE/ALICIA KEYS, AVENGED SEVEN...

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Drummer MARCO MINNEMANN Rumored To Have Joined DREAM THEATER

40-year-old international drumming sensation Marco Minnemann (KREATOR, NECROPHAGIST) is strongly rumored to have joined DREAM THEATER as the replacement for the recently departed Mike Portnoy. In a posting on his official web site, DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci stated about the group's drumm...

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Tuesday Marks Anniversary Of AVENGED SEVENFOLD Drummer's Death

Tuesday (December 28) marks the one-year anniversary of the death of AVENGED SEVENFOLD drummer James "The Rev" Sullivan, who was found dead in his Huntington Beach, California home at the age of 28. AVENGED frontman M. Shadows urged fans to celebrate The Rev's life and not his death. "It's a daily s...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: METALLICA Are 'THE ROLLING STONES Of Metal'

Steven Rosen of Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with Philip Anselmo (DOWN, PANTERA, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ARSON ANTHEM). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Ultimate-Guitar.com: The new DOWN record is done? Anselmo: Not even touched. We did a show in Switzerland [this p...

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HELLYEAH Interviewed On AUX's 'Hard' (Video)

HELLYEAH drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott and guitarist Greg Tribbett were interviewed for an episode of "Hard" on the AUX music channel out of Canada. The segment can now be viewed below. HELLYEAH recently headlined the Jägermeister Second Stage at the first annual Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival....

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SHADOWSIDE Taps Producer FREDRIK NORDSTRÖM For New Album

After touring all over Europe supporting W.A.S.P. on the second leg of "The Return to Babylon 2010 Tour", Brazilian female-fronted metallers SHADOWSIDE will enter Fredman Studio in Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2011 to begin recording their new album with producer Fredrik Nordström (AT THE GATES, IN...

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STONE SOUR: 'Hesitate' Video Officially Released

"Hesitate", the new video from STONE SOUR — the band featuring SLIPKNOT members Corey Taylor (vocals) and Jim Root (guitar) — can be viewed below (courtesy of AOL's Noisecreep). The clip was filmed on September 20 in Los Angeles with director Paul Brown (JACK WHITE/ALICIA KEYS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, JO...

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ESCAPE THE FATE: 'We're Re-Writing Rock Music As You Know It'

Revolver TV recently conducted an interview with the Las Vegas, Nevada-based post-hardcore band ESCAPE THE FATE. You can now watch the chat below. ESCAPE THE FATE has scheduled a massive amount of North American headlining tour dates that begin on January 20 in Tucson, Arizona and extend all the way...

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STONE SOUR Guitarist Interviewed By Italy's SpazioRock.it (Video)

Italian web site SpazioRock.it conducted an interview with STONE SOUR guitarist Josh Rand on November 12, 2010 in Milan, Italy. You can now watch the chat below. "Hesitate", the new video from STONE SOUR, will be officially released in January. The clip was filmed on September 20 in Los Angeles with...