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HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES Feat. ALICE COOPER, JOHNNY DEPP, JOE PERRY: First Shows Announced

According to RollingStone.com, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES, the supergroup featuring Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, will play its first live shows in September. Rounding out the band's lineup will be former GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum. The first HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES conc...

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PAUL DI'ANNO 'Didn't Know How To Sing' When He Was In IRON MAIDEN

Rock Bottom conducted an interview with former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno earlier this month in Argentina. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how he is doing with his health: "I'm waiting for [knee] operations. But instead of sitt...

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KORN's MUNKY: 'We Still Get To Create And Reinvent Ourselves On Each Album'

Jason Rockman, SLAVES ON DOPE singer and on-air announcer on the Montreal, Quebec, Canada radio station CHOM 97 7, conducted an interview with KORN guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer at this past weekend's Heavy Montreal festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking a...

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VAN HALEN's DAVID LEE ROTH Pays Tribute To NFL Legend FRANK GIFFORD (Video)

According to the Asbury Park Press, VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth dedicated the song "Ice Cream Man" to Frank Gifford during the band's August 9 concert at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. Gifford, the legendary football player and broadcaster, died Sunday at the age of 84. "One of...

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Investigators Hope Heavy Metal Community Can Help Identify VENOM Fan Found Dead 20 Years Ago

According to GazetteXtra.com, investigators in Wisconsin are trying to identify the body of a man found along Turtle Creek 20 years ago by distributing a poster at heavy-metal venues such as concert halls, bars and music stores. The young man still unidentified and known only as John Clinton Doe was...

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KORN's BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH On Next Album: We're Gonna Come Out Heavier Than Anyone's Heard Us In A Long Time

Jack Antonio conducted an interview with KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch on the July 18 episode of "Do You Know Jack?" radio show. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud player below. Speaking about the progress of the songwriting sessions for KORN's follow-up to 2013's "The Paradigm Sh...

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KISS Frontman PAUL STANLEY Announces First-Ever SOUL STATION Concert

KISS frontman Paul Stanley has announced the first-ever SOUL STATION concert at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California on September 11. SOUL STATION is a ten-piece coalition of some of today's leading musicians paying tribute to an era of great soul music. "We're living in a time of being fed canned...

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MILEY CYRUS Joins STEEL PANTHER On Stage For DEF LEPPARD Cover (Video)

Los Angeles glam-metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER were joined by country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his pop-superstar daughter Miley Cyrus on stage last night (Monday, August 3) at at the historic House Of Blues in West Hollywood, California to perform a cover version of DEF LEPPARD's "Pour Some Sugar...

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SLASH And ACE FREHLEY Record THIN LIZZY Classic For Upcoming Covers Album

Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash has recorded a guest appearance on a cover version of a THIN LIZZY classic for original KISS axeman Ace Frehley's forthcoming covers album, due later in the year via SPV/Steamhammer. A photo of Slash in the studio with Ace's drummer Matt Starr and their engineer...

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RIOT V Joined By LOUDNESS Members At Barcelona Concert (Video)

Fan-filmed video footage of RIOT V, the new band featuring the remaining members of legendary metal pioneers RIOT, performing their song "Warrior" with Akira Takasaki and Masayoshi Yamashita of LOUDNESS on June 25 at this year's edition of the Rock Fest Barcelona festival in Barcelona, Spain can be...

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'Decline Of Western Civilization' Director Was 'Horrified' By CHRIS HOLMES Pool Scene

Documentary filmmaker Penelope Spheeris spoke to Goldmine magazine about the the infamous scene in her "The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years" movie in which then-W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes can be seen guzzling vodka in his pool. "When I shot Chris Holmes, you know, I tho...

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'Alice in Chains: The Untold Story': Entire First Chapter Posted Online

Journalist David de Sola will release "Alice in Chains: The Untold Story" on August 4. The book's entire first chapter can be read on the Macmillan web site. According to The Pulse Of Radio, Billboard magazine named "Alice in Chains: The Untold Story" in its summer "Must Reads" list, writing: "The e...

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STEEL PANTHER To Headline Last Concert Ever At House Of Blues On Sunset Strip

Los Angeles glam metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER will be the last band ever to perform at the historic House Of Blues in West Hollywood, California before it's demolished. The band will play itts greatest hits — including "Community Property", "Glory Hole" and "Asian Hooker" — and will be joined on st...

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GREAT WHITE Drummer AUDIE DESBROW To Marry Longtime Girlfriend Tomorrow

GREAT WHITE drummer Audie Desbrow will marry Dr. Darlene Conforti in a private ceremony on Tuesday, July 28. The longtime couple will continue to call Los Angeles home. "We wanted to share our wonderful news with the fans," Desbrow said. "It's been an amazing summer touring and this is just the pinn...

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ALICE IN CHAINS Biography To Drop In August

According to The Pulse Of Radio, journalist David de Sola will release "Alice in Chains: The Untold Story" on August 4. Billboard magazine named the book in its summer "Must Reads" list, writing: "The early-'90s Seattle grunge band, long overshadowed by its hometown peers, gets its due in this debut...