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DEFTONES Drummer Talks About Collaboration With SYSTEM OF A DOWN's TANKIAN

DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham recently spoke to AOL Music about the guest appearances on the band's upcoming album "Saturday Night Wrist" by SYSTEM OF A DOWN's Serj Tankian and GIANT DRAG's Annie Hardy. Tankian, a longtime DEFTONES associate, appears on the track "Mein", which offers a different k...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman Says BLABBERMOUTH.NET Sh*t-Talkers 'Have No Lives'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "Fuck... "I love the internet. Here's a funny thing — and I have to admit this is getting fucking amusing... I wrote a blog on the negatives of capitalism and honestly I don't understand why, but it seems a shit...

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Blood Mountain

MASTODON fully lives up to its name and cements its status as one of the best newer American metal bands out there with, of all things, its major label debut. The band's third studio offering is an immense slab of brutally heavy rock that veers wildly between all-out thrash on cuts like opener "The...

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PAUL GILBERT Talks About MR. BIG And His Early Influences

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with former RACER X/ex-MR. BIG guitarist Paul Gilbert. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: Is there any chance of RACER X releasing any new material? Paul: "With RACER X, whenever we have time, we try to put a record together. And th...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: 'AXL ROSE Throws Parties That Would Make Sodom And Gomorrah Blush'

Australia's The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On filling in for Axl Rose for two songs at the final show of GUNS N' ROSES' European tour: "That was the most surreal experience of my life. 'Cause Axl just...

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BLOODSIMPLE Guitarist: 'Frustration And Discontent Make For Good Music'

BLOODSIMPLE guitarist Mike Kennedy (ex-VISION OF DISORDER) has issued the following update: "Well, another September 11th here and gone. The city was ominous yesterday amidst all the memorials and two giant light beams shooting up from where the World Trade Center used to be. "The world is facing ch...

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SIGH Finishes Recording 'Hangman's Hymn'; Guest Appearances Revealed

Groundbreaking Japanese act SIGH has finished the recording of its seventh studio album, titled "Hangman's Hymn", at Studio Moopies with engineer Takamichi Osada. The CD, still in the mixing stages, is due out in 2007 on The End Records. Commented SIGH frontman/leader Mirai Kawashima: "SIGH have fin...

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LUDICHRIST And SCATTERBRAIN To Reunite For New York City Show

LUDICHRIST and SCATTERBRAIN will reunite for a one-off performance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City on February 23, 2007. Tickets go on sale September 15 at 12:00 p.m. EST. "Besides ripping through their original material, on any given night one might see a medley of MOZART, MONK...

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EARACHE RECORDS Founder Remembers JESSE PINTADO

Earache Records head honcho/founder Digy Pearson has issued the following statement regarding the passing of TERRORIZER/ex-NAPALM DEATH guitarist Jesse Pintado: "Regarding Jesse's passing, it was a total shock to myself and everyone, it seems, that he died so young. We hear it was liver failure, and...

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MASTODON Kicks Off Headlining Tour; Setlist Revealed

MASTODON launched a headlining tour in support of its new CD, "Blood Mountain", Wednesday night (September 6) at Ramshead Live in Baltimore, Maryland. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. Ole Nessie 02. Circle Of Cysquatch 03. Iron Tusk 04. March Of The Fire Ants 05. Where Strides The Behemoth 06...

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10 YEARS Guitarist Talks Life On FAMILY VALUES

Launch Radio Networks reports: 10 YEARS has spent just over a month on the Family Values festival tour with KORN, DEFTONES, STONE SOUR, Japanese act DIR EN GREY and others. Guitarist Matt Wantland told Launch that he's pretty much got his daily routine down once his group finishes its second stage s...

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A Matter of Life and Death

Seven out of the ten very long, largely interminable tunes on IRON MAIDEN's 14th studio offering start out with either a gentle, low bass line or a softly strummed guitar. There's nothing wrong with either type of intro, but hearing it over and over again starts to make the listener feel like he's h...

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CELTIC FROST: Concert Footage To Air On British, German TV

CELTIC FROST's sold-out concert at the Mean Fiddler in London on August 19, 2006, was filmed for broadcast by Redemption TV. This show marked CELTIC FROST's return to England after 16 long years, and the audience had come to celebrate the occasion in uproarious style at the packed and blisteringly h...

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RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER Parts Ways With Vocalist

Philadelphia, PA thrashers RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER have parted ways with vocalist Eli Shaika. "Shawn [Riley, bass] and Matt [Moore, guitar] are doing vocals, and we're not playing shows for a couple months to write new material," the band writes in a statement. "Simple enough. But what to expect whe...

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Metridium Fields

Artsy doom rock, avante-garde indie doom, experimental melancholic doom metal…you get the picture. Austin, Texas' GIANT SQUID will be an acquired taste for many, a diamond in the rough for the dedicated, and a confounding exercise in the esoteric for the traditionalists. "Metridium Fields" is anothe...