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RHAPSODY OF FIRE Guitarist Working On New Solo Album

RHAPSODY OF FIRE guitarist Luca Turilli has issued the following update: "I just came back from Wolfsburg where I ended the first part of the production for the second DREAMQUEST album (please check www.dreamquest.eu for more details). During that time I had also the possibility to plan the producti...

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Saturday Night Wrist

No one could ever accuse DEFTONES of not being a truly weird bunch of guys: just listen to "Pink Cellphone", from the band's fifth album, "Saturday Night Wrist", to hear the group at their absolute strangest. In fact, the band fades into the background on this track: it's an ambient collage of loops...

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RAMONES To Rock The Big Screen

Rory Rosegarten's Rosegarten Films has secured the rights to "I Slept with Joey Ramone", the only authorized biography of the late Joey Ramone, the lead singer of the seminal rock band the RAMONES, for a film on the legendary rocker's life. The book, written by Joey's brother Mickey Leigh along with...

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HER CANDANE To Release Full-Length Debut Next Month

Salt Lake City, Utah's HER CANDANE has inked a deal with Tribunal Records. The group's full-length debut, "No Battle!", was produced by Kris Crummet (FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES, CLARITY PROCESS, KADDISFLY) and is described by AbsolutePunk.net as "a relentless and irreverent ass-kicking for thos...

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The Reckoning

Traditionally, Christian rock has been maligned as a diet-soda take on the real thing, a somewhat (ahem) soulless Xerox designed to give the religious market an almost-as-good alternative to what the secular kids are listening to. There have been obvious exceptions — BELIEVER and TOURNIQUET immediat...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'Idiots Make Me Wish I Was Gay'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "Idiots make me wish I was gay... "Because if I was gay all the people who hate me would have a fucking hemmorage of the brain to have accept there being this 6 foot 3 gay mutherfucker with a big mouth. ...

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Review: AXL ROSE's Delayed Return At INLAND INVASION Falls Flat

Ben Wener of The Orange County Register reports: The harder-edged sixth staging of KROQ's Inland Invasion festival was supposed to be remembered for the highly anticipated but somewhat dubious return of headliner GUNS N' ROSES, marking oft-ridiculed, long-missing Axl Rose's first major performance n...

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MASTODON Drummer Talks About Touring With SLAYER, Band's Songwriting Process

David Pehling of KTVU.com recently conducted an interview with MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: KTVU.com: MASTODON has played with SLAYER in the past. Does playing with them still force you to elevate your game onstage? Brann Dailor: The first SLAYER tour we...

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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...