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Former CELTIC FROST Guitarist Begins Writing Material For New SUBSONIC Release

Former CELTIC FROST/current SUBSONIC guitarist Ron Marks has issued the following update: "Industry legend Rick Wells of Minarik Guitars has kindly invited me to winter NAMM in Anaheim, CA. I'd met Rick last summer and he's a devoted proponent of SUBSONIC. Both Dan Laudo [SUBSONIC/ex-PRONG drummer]...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Drummer Checks In From Glasgow

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "What's up there? We are pulling into Glasgow as I write this. The flight over to the U.K. was a piece o' cake, and we got to see the huge oil refinery fire that happened just outside London, .....

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VENOM Frontman On New Album: I Wanted To Re-Create What Original Band Was All About

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com recently conducted an interview with VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the subject of the detractors, fans who believe the only "real" VENOM includes Mantas and Abaddon: Cronos: "Look, VENOM has over the years had so m...

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Police: Shooting At DONNYBROOK Concert Likely Self-Defense

Mark Poepsel of KOLD News-13 has issued the following report: "I saw the fight break out inside and I tried to break it up, and I got punched a couple of times. A couple minutes later, speakers were being thrown and a kid got beat with a mic stand." Rawley Burriss is a ...

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Unraveled

Wholly outside of any trend in metal, yet influential to many more famous musicians, CONFESSOR make good on their recent reformation with this weighty slab of downtrodden, progressive, cathartic doom bleakness. Serpentine rhythms, hair-raising vocals full of dissonant melody and soul-sobbing misery,...

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H.I.M. Frontman Talks About Songwriting Process For 'Dark Light', Breaking U.S. Market

Sauli Vuoti of Imhotep recently conducted an interview with H.I.M. frontman Ville Valo. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On the songwriting process for "Dark Light": Ville Valo: "We really had fun doing the album — for the first time in ten years. We have always had all these contrasts in...

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Ex-BLACK SABBATH Singer TONY MARTIN Talks In Detail About Latest Project

Former BLACK SABBATH frontman Tony Martin has issued a lengthy statement describing his thoughts on his new solo album, "Scream", out now through MTM Music: "As a singer, [I have] worked on many projects, the most famous being BLACK SABBATH. Now, I have ventured out on my own once again to become a...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Frontman Ties The Knot; Band Continue Work On New Album

CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth has offered the following studio update via the band's official web site: "Dear loyal readership, friends and would-be English metal journalists, The time has come once again to update your good selves on the activities and nocturnal emissions of the band as we ap...

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TWISTED SISTER Manager Offers Help To Troubled Former WARRANT Singer

In the wake of Metal Sludge's continuing coverage (Report#1, Report#2) of former WARRANT frontman Jani Lane's apparent difficulties performing at full capacity on the ongoing VH1 Classic's "Metal Mania: Stripped Across America Tour 2005", TWISTED SISTER manager Daniel Stanton of Coallier Entertainme...

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ANTHRAX Guitarist: 'We Can't Base Our Decisions On What Our Audience Is Gonna Think'

David Priest of On Track Magazine recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On Track Magazine: When "The Greater of Two Evils" came out, I thought for sure that John [Bush] was on board 'till the bitter end. Then before anyone had a...

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MNEMIC: Live And Uncensored From The U.S.

MNEMIC guitarist Mircea Gabriel Eftemie has posted the following tour report on the group's official web site: "So we're back! I dont know how to put this, but the MESHUGGAH tour is unfortunately over. "The last week or so has been nothing but fragments of memories merging into one big pile of image...

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GOD DETHRONED's HENRI SATTLER: 'Religion Causes All Wars On This Planet'

Karma E. Omowale of the FourteenG e-zine recently conducted an interview with GOD DETHRONED guitarist/vocalist Henri Sattler. An excerpt from the chat follows: FourteenG: With a name like GOD DETHRONED and with songs like "Sigma Enigma" and "Rusty Nails", you are not raising the banner for Christian...

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AKERCOCKE's MENDONCA: MORTICIAN Tour Continuing Despite WILL RAHMER's Absence

AKERCOCKE vocalist/guitarist Jason Mendonca has issued a statement confirming that the group's European tour with MORTICIAN and BLOOD RED THRONE is continuing despite MORTICIAN vocalist/bassist Will Rahmer's recent arrest in Poland on a charge of robbery with a dangerous weapon. His statement reads...

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JOE LYNN TURNER Teams Up With Japanese Guitarist For 'Fire Without Flame' CD

According to MelodicRock.com, legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) has teamed up with Japanese guitarist Akira Kajiyama for a brand new "commercial hard rock" release, due out exclusively in Japan. Due out on December 7 via Pony Canyon, the album enti...

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DOKKEN/TED NUGENT Bassist BARRY SPARKS: Have Guitar, Will Play

Bassist Barry Sparks (DOKKEN, TED NUGENT) has posted the following message on his official web site: "My band and I had an interesting little adventure out in California. First off, we left Tucson around 8 in the morning in my brothers truck complete with a Uhaul trailer full of gear. Everything ran...