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KILL RITUAL Signs With GOLDEN CORE RECORDS / ZYX MUSIC

San Francisco Bay Area metallers KILL RITUAL have inked a worldwide deal with Golden Core Records / ZYX Music. The band's second album, "The Eyes Of Medusa", will be released in the spring. The CD was recorded at Fossil Sound in San Jose, California and Fang Studio in San Mateo, California. Producti...

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The Scenic Album

As long as new artists keep flocking to the works of Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine and Frank Zappa for inspiration, we're going to keep finding more technique-oriented instrumental albums knocking on our door for attention. The latest of these comes from Venezuelan guitarist Felix Martin and his idyllic...

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Skeletons

Referred to by their fans as S&S or SandS, Rochester. New York's SIRENS & SAILORS are amassing a solid following for their semiautomatic-echoing style of metalcore. A lot of the band's success rides on feverish blast beats and crashing thrash parts administered by Doug Court. The rest of wha...

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Live Fast Die Loud

For a contemporary heavy music market where intricacy is valued more than ever, once in a while, straightforward and simple wins the day. Chuck Garric, veteran bassist for Alice Cooper and affiliate of a Who's Who list in hard rock and metal ranging from Ronnie James Dio to Steven Tyler to CHEAP TRI...

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Funeral Circle

Canadian doom sect FUNERAL CIRCLE are a well-read bunch who weave creeping, elegiac dirges featuring dark fantasy and arcane muses. The Necronomicon, Paganism, Lovecraft's sinister realm of Cthulhu and Conan the Barbarian's duke-outs against the snake cult of Set all figure into FUNERAL CIRCLE's bra...

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DREAM THEATER's JORDAN RUDESS Releases 'All That Is Now' Piano Album

Jordan Rudess, best known as the keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire for the Grammy-nominated prog rock band DREAM THEATER, has released his latest solo piano recording, "All That Is Now". The album contains 13 pieces, composed and performed by Jordan on his favorite instrument, a 9-foo...

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BUMBLEFOOT Didn't Want To 'Betray' AXL ROSE By Jamming With SLASH

GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal spoke to Argentina's Vorterix prior to his November 24 appearance at The Roxy Palermo in Buenos Aires. A few excerpts from the chat follow below (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On recurrecting his solo career: Bumblefoot: "Before GUNS, I was touring a...

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Ex-GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist GILBY CLARKE Speaks To Brazil's 'Lokaos Rock Show' (Video)

On November 15, Dani Buarque of the "Lokaos Rock Show" conducted an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke at the Carioca Club in São Paulo, Brazil. You can now watch the chat below. Clarke joined GUNS N' ROSES in November 1991, replacing Izzy Stradlin, who quit the group in the...

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ROB ZOMBIE Bassist PIGGY D.'s 'Crazy Tour Story' (Video)

Digital Tour Bus, which gives fans "an all-access pass" to the tour buses that their favorite bands travel in, has posted its latest "Crazy Tour Stories" episode, focusing on Matt Montgomery (a.k.a. Piggy D.),who is best known as the bassist in ROB ZOMBIE and former guitarist for WEDNESDAY 13. The...

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KORN, ANTHRAX, TWISTED SISTER, POISON Drummers Confirmed For Next 'Bonzo Bash'

The next "Bonzo Bash" will take place on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California. "Bonzo Bash" is the "celebration show" that John Bonham freak/worshipper/drum lifer Brian Thomas Tichy (WHITESNAKE, FOREIGNER, OZZY OSBOURNE, BILLY IDOL) put together to pay tribute to th...

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COBAIN, HENDRIX Among Dead Rock Legends 'Brought To Life' With Age Progression Technology

According to The Pulse Of Radio, rock's long dead heroes have been revived by modern age progression technology to show what they would look like in 2013. The portraits show middle-aged and elderly images of John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Keith Moon, Elvis Presley...

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STEVEN TYLER Wants Producer RICK RUBIN For Solo Album

Steven Tyler tells RollingStone.com that he is hopeful producer Rick Rubin will be involved in the making of the AEROSMITH vocalist's upcoming solo album, which is tentatively due next year. "I'm working on it," he said about his solo disc. "I just got back from Russia. Tour was over last week, so I...

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ANGELICA: 'Breaking My Heart' Video Released

"Breaking My Heart", the new video from Swedish singer ANGELICA, can be seen below. The song comes off her debut album, "Thrive", which will be released on November 29 in Europe and December 3 in North America via Frontiers Records. Best known for being the singer in THE MURDER OF MY SWEET, Angelica...

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CRYSTAL BALL: 'Anyone Can Be A Hero' Video Released

"Anyone Can Be A Hero", the new video from Swiss hard rockers CRYSTAL BALL, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Dawnbreaker", which will be released on November 29 via Massacre Records. The CD was produced, mixed and mastered by Stefan Kaufmann (former ACCEPT drummer and U.D...

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ROB ZOMBIE Guitarist JOHN 5 Interviewed By MetalTitans.com (Video)

Char Tupper of MetalTitans.com recently conducted an interview with former MARILYN MANSON and current ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 (real name: John William Lowery). You can now watch the chat below. ROB ZOMBIE and KORN are co-headlining the "Night Of The Living Dreads" tour this fall. The 17-date run...