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DEF LEPPARD Bassist Comments On Upcoming Tour

With their new album "Yeah!" still hot off the presses, DEF LEPPARD is ready to celebrate with a summer-long tour. The band will kick off its 54-date tour in fitting fashion Saturday night (June 3),when it shares the stage with some of metal's giants at the Gods of Metal festival in Milan, Italy. T...

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CEPHALIC CARNAGE Announce European Tour with DARKEST HOUR, DEAD TO FALL

CEPHALIC CARNAGE will team up with DARKEST HOUR and DEAD TO FALL for an extensive European tour that also includes a number of festival appearances. The tour will kick off on June 8 in Karlsruhe, Germany and is scheduled to conclude on July 2 in Tilburg, Netherlands. During the course of the tour, C...

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LAMB OF GOD Give Special 'Sacrament' To Fans On This Summer's UNHOLY ALLIANCE TOUR

LAMB OF GOD and Revolver magazine have announced a series of special backstage fan-only listening events of LOG's highly anticipated album "Sacrament", due out August 22 on Epic. When this summer's Unholy Alliance Tour with SLAYER kicks off on June 15 at The Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ, a limited n...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE To Guest On 'Headbanger's Ball' This Weekend

Paul Mazurkiewicz, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, and Rob Barrett of legendary death metal act CANNIBAL CORPSE will be guests on this weekend's (Saturday, June 3) episode of "Headbanger's Ball". They will discuss Barrett's recent return to the band, their new album "Kill" and their spot on this summ...

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WHITESNAKE Frontman Explains London Date Change

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has commented on the postponement of the band's May 30 concert at the London Hammersmith Apollo after he came down with a sudden illness. Said Coverdale: "I am sooo sorry that this has happened. Obviously, I can't help it. Some bloody, unsavoury viral thingy decid...

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FALL OF SERENITY Explain Tour Cancellation

German death metallers FALL OF SERENITY have issued the following statement explaining their decision to drop off the European tour with HATE ETERNAL, SPAWN OF POSSESSION and SHADOWSLAND: "So we are not on tour with the cool people of HATE ETERNAL, SPAWN OF POSSESSION and SHADOWSLAND anymore. We wer...

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PEARL JAM: New Audio Interview With Guitarist MIKE MCCREADY Posted Online

A five-minute audio interview with PEARL JAM guitarist Mike McCready, conducted earlier this month by Steve Black of Detroit's WRIF 101.1 FM, has been posted online at this location (Windows Media). As previously reported, PEARL JAM have created a video for "Life Wasted", the second single from the...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE To Launch U.S. Headlining Tour, Film New Video

Following their appearance on this year's Sounds of the Underground trek, CANNIBAL CORPSE plan to launch a U.S. headlining run — the kickoff will most likely take place in early November. The band's bassist, Alex Webster, told MTV.com next month the band will film a clip for "Death Walking Terror"....

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PEGAZUS: First-Ever DVD Due Late June

Guitarist Johnny Stoj of the Australian metallers PEGAZUS has posted the following update on the band's official web site: "Finally, the first-ever PEGAZUS DVD is just about to be scheduled for an official release worldwide. The title is 'Pegazus – Mythology Chapter II (2000-2006)'. All that we are...

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CHRIS CAFFERY: 'Half Way' Done Mixing New Solo Album

Guitarist Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, DOCTOR BUTCHER) is currently in the studio mixing his new solo album, entitled "Pins and Needles". Caffery has posted the following update on his official web site: "OK... Four days in and we are about half way through with the mixing. 'Pi...

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KATATONIA Explain METALLIANCE Festival Cancellation

Sweden's KATATONIA have issued a statement explaining their reasons for cancelling their appearance at the Metalliance festival in Beauvais, France this past weekend. The statement reads as follows: "First of all we'd like to apologize for not [issuing this statement] sooner, but as you can imagine,...

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The Funeral March

A funeral march? More like a poor group of mourners being made to do the Devil's war dance as the members of Sweden's GADGET fire automatic weapons at their feet. "The Funeral March" is a mostly solid piece of Swedish-style grindcore that (surprise, surprise) owes a debt to masters NASUM, even thoug...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Raise Awareness Of Sudanese Genocide

SYSTEM OF A DOWN is committed to raising awareness of all human rights issues, including the current genocide crisis going on the Darfur region of Western Sudan. mtvU has launched a online campaign at www.darfurisdying.com to help spread information about the genocide. Through a partnership with the...

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Metalmania 2005

In yet another example of Europe's festival organizing acumen, Poland's annual Metalmania festival continues to attract quality acts from a range of genres to the always-rabid Polish audience. The festival's main stage highlights have once again been captured on DVD, this time the 2005 extravaganza....

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Memorial

Kudos to Portugal's MOONSPELL for creating goth with death metal propulsion that should have cross-genre appeal. You heard it on much of "The Antidote", but "Memorial" is a 59-minute gem of an album that manages to be very heavy without dispensing with that Vampire-esque gothic appeal. While I would...