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MACHINE HEAD Frontman Whacking Off In Dubai

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn has issued the following update: "Been hanging out in Dubai for the last 24 hours; man, what a crazy, modern, cool, surprisingly Americanized city. Something like one-fifth of the world's high-rise cranes are currently in Dubai building high rises. I'm tellin' ya, in...

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Former FATES WARNING, SAGA Members Join Forces In PSYCHIC FOR RADIO

PSYCHIC FOR RADIO, the new progressive rock project featuring ex-SAGA vocalist Michael Sadler, ex-FATES WARNING/current SLAVIOR drummer Mark Zonder, keyboardist/guitarist Shawn Gordon, bassist/guitarist Kurt Barabas and guitarist Sean Entrikin, has issued the following update: "Well, almost all the...

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Oblivion Beckons

It already sucks that West Virginia prog-thrash wizards BYZANTINE had to break up, but to do it just as their new album, "Oblivion Beckons", was being released? I mean, that's taking your album title to literal extremes, for one thing. For another, so much for the CD release party — or much chance o...

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Dissension

Austin, Texas' ETHEREAL ARCHITECT may very well be a band you're going to hear a lot more about in the coming years. "Dissension" may be a self-released album, but the quality is such that it could easily find a home on any number of melodic/progressive metal labels. It is one of those diamonds in t...

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Producer TOM WERMAN Fires Back At NIKKI SIXX

Former MÖTLEY CRÜE producer Tom Werman has fired back at the group's bassist Nikki Sixx after Sixx responded to Werman's letter to the New York Times calling Sixx's memoir, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star", "totally deluded" and "stunningly inaccurate." Werman took i...

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EVERGREY: New Album Title Revealed

EVERGREY singer/guitarist Tom S. Englund has issued the following update: "After a couple of turbulent weeks we have now finally mastered our [new] album. When we listened to the finished product for the first time we all agreed that we were beyond satisfied with the result and can’t wait for you to...

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W.A.S.P. Mainman On Illegal Downloading: Stealing Artist's Work Will Never Be Labeled 'Support'

Torgeir P. Krokfjord of Norway's Metal Express Radio recently conducted an interview with W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless. The second part of the interview is now online. An excerpt from the chat follows: On what motivates him: "There's two things that motivate me nowadays, and that's the will to...

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Former MEGADETH Guitarist Releases New Solo Track

Former MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young has issued the following update: "I've posted another new albeit still rough mix of one of the lucky 13 tracks from my pending debut solo album — several years in the un-making. Track 2 on this profile, entitled 'Infin8', is a songwriting collaboration between my...

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Fury & Flames

If you were like me, wondering where HATE ETERNAL would go after its musically diverse album in "I, Monarch" (the last for Earache) and basically assumed that the fourth effort, "Fury & Flames" (the first for Metal Blade) would continue in that direction, then you'd be dead wrong. The path follo...

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Embodiment

The End strikes again! Always on the cutting edge of heavy music and producing classic albums like last year's "Prominence and Demise" by WINDS and this years "Shadows" by ENEMY OF THE SUN, the second monster release from the label in 2008 is SCULPTURED's "Embodiment". As it turns out, WINDS' Andy W...

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Let the Empires Fall

One of the first monstrous Moribund releases of 2008 (along with SATAN'S HOST's "Great American Scapegoat 666"),"Let the Empires Fall" by Canada's GRIMBANE is jammed with strong riffs, fundamentally catchy (though maybe not "melodic") tunes, and crisp production. The membership pedigree is strong w...

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RAVAGE Covers JUDAS PRIEST's 'Nightcrawler'; Video Available

Boston, Massachusetts-area power metallers RAVAGE have posted the video for their cover version of JUDAS PRIEST's "Nightcrawler". The clip, which was directed by the enigmatic cinematographer John "Johnny Brasscomb" Koziol, who is also currently at work on the feature film "Lawson: White Heat", can...

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Guitarist Has Second Solo Album In The Can

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE recently returned home from headlining the Big Day Out festival in Australia and New Zealand, where guitarist Tom Morello also did double duty on some shows as his political folk alter ego, the NIGHTWATCHMAN. Although RAGE still has no plans to record, Morello told The Pulse...

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PHILIP ANSELMO Says He Doesn't Understand Where VINNIE PAUL's Hatred Is Coming From

UK's Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an interview with DOWN/ex-PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Hammer: It's been a tough time for you lately. Anselmo: A tough couple of years. Life brings adversity, and with coming through adversity comes wi...

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TRIVIUM Frontman On Upcoming CD: 'It's Our Strongest Material To Date'

Orlando metallers TRIVIUM are currently in pre-production for their new album, tentatively due before the end of the year via Roadrunner Records. The as-yet-untitled CD will be produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, RUSH, VELVET REVOLVER, SHADOWS FALL, STONE SOUR...