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ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET: In Mixing Mode

ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET, the new Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN vocalist Johan Lindstrand, entered Deadline studios on October 18 with engineer Valle Adzic to begin recording its new album, "Error in Evolution". The follow-up to the band's debut, "21st Century Killing Machine",...

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Feeding the Abscess

Where would we be without ATHEIST? What about CYNIC? From whom would bands like Canada's tech deathsters MARTYR take their cues were it not for the technical wizardry and jazzed up death metal of said legends. I suppose one could hail fellow Canadians CRYPTOPSY and GORGUTS, especially one when consi...

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Drummer BRIAN TICHY Comments On EDDIE VAN HALEN Jam

Drummer Brian Tichy (BILLY IDOL, SLASH'S SNAKEPIT, GILBY CLARKE, PRIDE & GLORY) performed with Eddie Van Halen in late September for the launch of a porn movie called "Sacred Sin", for which Eddie recorded two songs. Dubbed "The Gathering", the private, invitation-only bash took place on Septemb...

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TRIVIUM Drummer Discusses His Technique

TRIVIUM drummer Travis Smith is featured in the January 2007 issue of Modern Drummer magazine (web site). An excerpt from the interview follows: Modern Drummer: On the subject of your double kick technique, how did you get your start, and how did it progress through the years? Travis: I got my first...

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Burden of Truth

Zachary Stevens has truly made something special with CIRCLE II CIRCLE. After two beautifully melodic and passionate albums in "Watching in Silence" and "The Middle of Nowhere", the gifted vocalist and songwriter has created his masterwork with "Burden of Truth". Stevens' concept album is inspired b...

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THE CLASSIC STRUGGLE Announces New Guitarist

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina-based metal/thrash/hardcore act THE CLASSIC STRUGGLE — whose drummer Tyler Solnosky was involved in an accident while on tour in March, requiring hospitalization — has issued the following update: "Our new guitar player is Chris Grant. He has played in some kick-ass band...

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STRATOVARIUS Bassist Checks In

STRATOVARIUS bassist Lauri Porra has posted an update on his current activities via his official MySpace page. A few excerpts from the posting follow: "Returned home safely from STRATOVARIUS North-Central-South American tour [in late October]. 16 flights, 40,000 kilometers bunch on gigs and some bee...

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RUSH Drummer Discusses 'Roadshow: Landscape With Drums' Book

Stephen Clare of ChartAttack.com reports: Neil Peart has been busy. Since returning to full form in 2002, the 54-year-old drummer for Canadian mega-rock trio RUSH has been preoccupied with a series of personal and professional projects: two studio albums, subsequent concert tours, DVDs, a website, a...

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TIAMAT Frontman Turns Movie Critic

TIAMAT frontman Johan Edlund has posted the following message on his official MySpace page "Boy, never thought I'd use the word boy... but... boy (s and girls)... the new 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning' is AWESOME!!! I got to see it on a BIG screen (full colour, mostly dark red!!!)!!! I wat...

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PAUL STANLEY Glad To Have 'Rock Star' House Band On Tour

Launch Radio Networks reports: KISS singer-guitarist Paul Stanley's got a hot band with him on his solo tour behind his album "Live To Win", and it's one that a lot of people know. Stanley is on the road with the house band from the "Rock Star" reality TV show, who worked with INXS on the ...

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Sirens

It's all a matter of preference and what some deem to be "totally rad" (or some shit like that) may be a steaming pile of dog poop to others. Fighting through mental block concerning bark 'n' croon metalcore and scraping the last remnants of objectivity from the barrel's bottom results in a relative...

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THERION: One Soprano Short

Sweden's THERION has issued the following update: "THERION had planned to use the same singers from the latest album also live, but unexpectedly, we are one soprano short. We're reight now checking our contacts for a replacement, but thought we might surprise a bit and actually do like NIGHTWISH did...

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WOLFMOTHER Dominates Australia's ARIA AWARDS

WOLFMOTHER was a big winner at the Australian Recording Industry Awards (ARIA) gala in Sydney, capturing the "Best Rock Album" and "Best Group" awards. The band, which also scored the best breakthrough album award, marked the occasion with a performance at Sunday night's event that culminated with a...

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UNLEASHED Frontman: 'We Have Always Been A Death Metal Band'

Holland's Lords of Metal e-zine recently conducted an interview with UNLEASHED frontman Johnny Hedlund. A couple of excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow: Lords of Metal: "Midvinterblot" [is] a great album. When did you start working on it and was it a difficult album to create? Johnn...

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Lupara

I remember being unimpressed with LUPARA's performance at Minneapolis Mayhem II, which makes my generally favorable impression of the band's debut album even more surprising. Featuring guitarist Jeremy Wagner, formerly of BROKEN HOPE, LUPARA's debut album is a hate-filled, slab of solid American ext...