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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Drummer Launches TORPEDO COMICS; More Details Available

With multi-platinum rock band SYSTEM OF A DOWN currently on hiatus and his SCARS ON BROADWAY project with SOAD's Daron Malakian in the early stages, drummer John Dolmayan will fulfill his other passion of comic books and collectibles by launching Torpedo Comics, an exclusively Internet-based retail...

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ROB HALFORD Announces FIGHT 'War Of Words - The Film' Theatrical Premieres

Compelling, stark and aggressive "War Of Words - The Film", starring Rob Halford and his first solo band FIGHT, unleashes upon legions of metal maniacs November 20 in North America, November 30 in the United Kingdom and Europe, December 3 in Australia and New Zealand and December 19 in Japan. After...

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GORGOROTH Recruits Drummer NICK BARKER For European Tour

Nick Barker (ex-DIMMU BORGIR, CRADLE OF FILTH, TESTAMENT) will play drums on GORGOROTH's upcoming tour across Europe beginning November 2007. In addition to Nick, guitarist Teloch (NIDINGR, UMORAL, 1349) will again return to GORGOROTH's live assault, while guitarist Sykelig completes the group's 200...

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ONSLAUGHT To Tour Europe With EKTOMORF

Guitarist Nige Rockett of of the reactivated British thrashers ONSLAUGHT has issued the following update: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, we sadly announce that the 'X-mass Festival Tour' scheduled for December has been postponed. However, the tour will now go ahead in January 2008 under t...

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RAGE Completes Work On 'Carved In Stone'

RAGE guitarist Victor Smolski has issued the following update: "The studio job for the new RAGE album 'Carved in Stone' is completed now, and finally I can listen to all tracks of the new CD by my HiFi rack with a quiet conscience, and I can say it has exactly become what we figured out ...

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MAYHEM Drummer HELLHAMMER Joins GAAHL-Fronted Version Of GORGOROTH

GORGOROTH frontman Gaahl and bassist King ov Hell — who are involved in a legal dispute with guitarist Infernus over the rights to the group's name — have released the following update: "Continuing on with the new agenda now forged for GORGOROTH, Gaahl and King have enlisted none other than Hellhamm...

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GORGOROTH Guitarist INFERNUS: 'My Intention Is To Continue For Another 15 Years!'

GORGOROTH guitarist Infernus — who is involved in a legal dispute with his estranged bandmates over the rights to the group's name (Story#1, Story#2, Story#3, Story#4) — has released the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "Today I have been denied access to the official MySpace profile of GORG...

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MONSTER MAGNET Mainman To Guest On Tonight's 'Tinitus'

MONSTER MAGNET's Dave Wyndorf was interviewed for this week's "Tinitus" radio show, airing tonight (Wednesday, October 24) between 20.00 CET (8:00 p.m.) and 22.00 CET (10:00 p.m.) on Norway's P3. "Tinitus" is Norway's most popular metal show with an average of over 60,000 listeners per week (1.5 per...

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Elect the Dead

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian is the first to break the band's self-imposed hiatus with his debut solo album, "Elect the Dead", and the most immediate and welcome thing is that the record, of course, is free of the overbearing, whiny vocals of SYSTEM guitarist Daron Malakian, whose apparent...

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LIZZY BORDEN Frontman: 'The New Show We've Put Together Is Absolutely Going To Be Fun'

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with LIZZY BORDEN's namesake/frontman. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: What was the main motivation behind the seven year gap between the release of "Deal With The Devil" and "Appointment With Death"? Lizzy: "Well, when we did 'D...

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GORGOROTH Vocalist, Bassist Vow To Carry On Following Split With Guitarist

GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell and vocalist Gaahl have issued the following statement regarding the group's current status: "Gaahl, King and Infernus have decided to part ways. "GORGOROTH have existed as a three-piece for the past several years but have ceased from this moment on in this incarnation...

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GORGOROTH To Split Up?

Guitarist Infernus of the Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH has posted the following message on the band's MySpace page: "I am writing to inform you about the fact that there has been taken a decision to split up the band, Infernus on one side, Gaahl [vocals] and King [bass] on the other. We canno...

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PAUL BOOTH: How SEPULTURA Drummer Introduced Me To Violent Joys Of Brazilian Futbol

Tattoo master Paul Booth inked a deal with the MTV's Headbanger's Blog to write a weekly column about his numerous experiences on tour, and interactions over the years with various rockers. An excerpt from his latest column, dubbed "Thrashin' Ink", follows: "About six years ago, SEPULTURA drummer Ig...

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THE END Parts Ways With Guitarist

Canadian metallers THE END have issued the following update: "Unfortunately we have some sad news for you. Andrew Hercules [guitar] has decided to leave the band. We all wish him the best in his future endeavors. Due to this development we will need to immediately cancel the rest of the dates with B...

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GORGOROTH Begins Work On Live Album

Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH have just entered Grieghallen Studios in Norway with producer Pytten (ENSLAVED, TRELLDOM) to begin work on their new live album, "Live in Grieghallen 2007". A 2008 release via Regain Records is expected. As previously reported, GORGOROTH vocalist Gaahl (also of TR...