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MEGADETH Mainman Comments On Former Co-Manager's Passing

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has commented on the passing of the band's former co-manager Bud Prager (pictured below). The president of E.S.P. Management, Inc., Prager co-managed MEGADETH from 1995 to 2001, helping the group to its first major commercial radio success and co-writing a number of so...

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Former MEGADETH Co-Manager Dies Of Esophageal Cancer

Bud Prager, president of E.S.P. Management, Inc. — who co-managed MEGADETH from 1995 to 2001, helping them to their first major commercial radio success and co-writing a number of songs — lost his year-plus long battle with esophageal cancer at his home in Montauk, N.Y. on December 22. Born in New Y...

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WHITE WITCH CANYON Completes Work On Debut Album

WHITE WITCH CANYON, the new Northern California band featuring GREENHOUSE EFFECT guitarist/vocalist Eric "Lando" Hagen, ex-SYSTEMATIC frontman Tim "Krete" Narducci on drums and vocals, and ECHO OF SOULS creator Aaron Leigh on bass, was at S.I.R. sudios in Hollywood December 9-11 showcasing for sever...

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SPV To Celebrate 25th Anniversary

SPV will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2009. The label from Hanover, Germany was launched 25 years ago — on January 1, 1984 to be precise. What started with the sampler "Soundtrack zum Untergang" and bands such as TOXOPLASMA, SLIME, SODOM and DESTRUCTION soon threatened to burst the seams of the...

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JIMMY PAGE, JIMI HENDRIX, EDDIE VAN HALEN, STEVE VAI Among 'Chop Shop''s Top Guitarists

Envision Radio Networks' "Chop Shop" guitar show has announced "The Chop Shop's Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time", a newly published list of the all-time greatest guitar players. Program host Steve Black (WRIF-FM) assembled a panel of music industry experts to help choose the list fe...

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Former THE GATHERING Singer Hits The Road With MOONSPELL; Video Available

Former THE GATHERING singer Anneke van Giersbergen joined Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL to perform the song "Scorpion Flower" at three consecutive shows on the band's tour with CRADLE OF FILTH: December 1 in London, December 2 in Paris and December 3 in Tilburg. Fan-filmed video footage of all thre...

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BLIND GUARDIAN, DESTRUCTION, VADER Confirmed For Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival

BLIND GUARDIAN, DESTRUCTION and VADER are among the first confirmed bands for next year's Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 2-8, 2009 at Julisch Alps National Park in Tolmin (between the Turquoise mountain rivers Socca and Tolminka),Slovenia. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:...

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AEROSMITH Frontman Performs With TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA In New York, New Jersey

AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler was the special surprise guest for the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA concerts at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on December 12 and the Izod Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey on December 13. According to Kevin Alba of MetalAsylum.net, "halfw...

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AXL ROSE Breaks Silence On 'Chinese Democracy', Original GN'R Reunion, DR PEPPER And BRIAN MAY

Reclusive GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose broke his silence last night (Thursday, December 11) by answering fan questions on the message boards of two of the most popular GUNS N' ROSES fan sites on the Web — MyGNR.com and Here Today… Gone To Hell! BLABBERMOUTH.NET has collected some of the ...

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SLASH, CHESTER BENNINGTON, BILLY DUFFY Jam With CAMP FREDDY In Hollywood

Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES),Chester Bennington (LINKIN PARK) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT) are among the guest musicians who joined all-star cover band CAMP FREDDY last night (December 9) for its performance at the Roxy in West Hollywood, California. This was the second of the four-night Ro...

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JEFF SCOTT SOTO: 'Beautiful Mess' To Receive European Release In February

"Beautiful Mess", the new album from the legendary vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN),will receive its European release on February 20, 2009 via Frontiers Records. The track listing for the European version of the CD is as follows: 01. 21st Century 02. Cry Me A River 03....

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HEAVEN AND HELL's BUTLER Completes Tracks For New Album

The unofficial BLACK SABBATH web site Black-Sabbath.com reports that bassist Geezer Butler has finished laying down his tracks for the new album from HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Ronnie James Dio (vocals),Tony Iommi (guitar),Butler and Vinny Appice (drums). The group'...

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WEIRD OWL Signs With TEE PEE RECORDS

Brooklyn's WEIRD OWL has inked deal with Tee Pee Records. The band's debut LP, "Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed", will be released on February 17. WEIRD OWL is a Brooklyn band that resides in the heaviness inherent in the convergence of imagination, poetry and sound. First formed in 2004 and through...

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Ex-KORN Guitarist: 'It's Easy For People To Be Brave Behind A Computer Screen And Nit-Pick You'

James Wright of Blistering.com recently conduced an interview with former KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Blistering.com: Do you think that the way KORN blew up into mainstream success changed people and their attitudes? Head: The most fun I had in...

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UNSOUL To Release Debut This Month

German progressive/experimental death metallers UNSOUL will release their debut album, "Magnetic Moutain", on December 19 via Setalight Records. Picking up where the band's acclaimed demo "Welcome To Annexia" (2005) left off, "Magnetic Mountain" delivers "a vital mixture of pounding death metal, hig...