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ZAO Announces Lineup Changes, Plans To Cut Down On Touring

ZAO's official MySpace page has been updated with a brand new interview conducted by the group's manager and longtime friend Downey. It follows here in its entirety: Q: What's going on with ZAO? Scott Mellinger (guitar): ZAO has definitely made a lot of big changes. The most immediate thing to menti...

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MEKONG DELTA To Release 1991 Live Performance On DVD

Legendary German progressive thrash outfit MEKONG DELTA will release a live DVD containing the band's December 21, 1991 concert in Frankfurt, Germany. An exact release date will be announced soon. As previously reported, MEKONG DELTA has recruited Leo Szpigiel (ANGEL DUST, CROWS, SCANNER, DUKE) to s...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Scholarship Winner

In September last year, U.K.'s Total Guitar magazine teamed up with Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and the Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM) to offer one lucky reader the chance of a lifetime… the opportunity to have his/her fees paid by the band for a year's study at the U.K.'s lea...

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MEKONG DELTA: New Singer Announced

Legendary German progressive thrash outfit MEKONG DELTA has recruited Leo Szpigiel (ANGEL DUST, CROWS, SCANNER, DUKE) to sing on its upcoming "comeback" album. MEKONG DELTA guitarist Peter Sjöberg (also known as Peter Lake from THEORY IN PRACTICE) recently finished recording the guitar parts for the...

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FU MANCHU Unveils New Album Cover Art

Southern California rock quartet FU MANCHU has posted the cover art for its new album, "We Must Obey", on the band's MySpace page. The artwork was designed by John McGill, who first collaborated with FU MANCHU on their 2004 release, "Start The Machine". More recently, McGill designed the cover art f...

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VIXEN: 'Live & Learn' To Receive U.S. Release This Month

Demolition Records will release VIXEN's new studio album, "Live & Learn", in the U.S. on January 30. "Live & Learn" is VIXEN's first studio recording to feature founding VIXEN member and guitarist Jan Kuehnemund since 1990's "Rev It Up". Kuehnemund reformed VIXEN in 2001 for the Voices of Me...

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Former WARRANT Singer, JAMES BROWN's Longtime Companion Jam With KOTTAK In Hollywood

Sunday night (January 14) at the Cat Club in Hollywood, California, KOTTAK — the band featuring James Kottak (SCORPIONS),Rev Jones (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP) and Athena (Tommy Lee's siter) — invited several friends up on stage to jam while celebrating Rev's birthday. First up was former WARRANT singe...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: JOHN 'J.D.' DESERVIO Audio Interview Posted Online

TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 121 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. In part two of their BLACK LABEL SOCIETY special coverage, hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy are joined by BLACK LABEL SOCIETY bassist John "J.D." DeServio. Interview topics include Zakk Wylde, Richie Kotzen, Derek Sherinia...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Bassist: Lesson Dates Announced

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY bassist John "J.D." DeServio is now accepting music students in the New Jersey area for January 15-17 from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. DeServio will then fly to Los Angeles for the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) and will return on January 22, at which point he w...

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MSG Bassist: MICHAEL SCHENKER 'Cares About No One, Not Even Himself'

Pivotal Rage recently conducted an interview with MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP/KOTTAK bassist Rev Jones. An excerpt from the chat follows: Pivotal Rage: You guys [MSG] had scheduled a North America tour for the fall of 2006. I was very disappointed that the tour didn't happen. What really went down? I kno...

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Gruesome Splendour

I've come across a fair number of black metal albums the past couple of months that are of the solid-but-not-sensational variety, HANDFUL OF HATE's "Gruesome Splendour" being yet another such album. All that really means if this Italian bunch is one of several black metal acts taking cues from the l...

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KAMELOT Keyboardist Offering Private Lessons

KAMELOT keyboardist Oliver Palotai is currently offering private lessons in the Aachen, Germany area for electric and acoustic guitar, piano and synthesizer, music theory and composition. In addition, he is making himself available to bands and recording artists who need "arrangers, producers and co...

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SCORPIONS Drummer, TOMMY LEE's Sister Schedule KOTTAK Dates

KOTTAK (formerly KRUNK),the band featuring singer/songwriter/guitarist Jimmy Ratchitt, (a.k.a. former KINGDOM COME and current SCORPIONS drummer James Kottak),his wife Athena (sister of MÖTLEY CRÜE's Tommy Lee) on drums, and Rev Jones (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP) on bass, has lined up the following da...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: 'Blood Is Thicker Than Water' Video Available For Viewing

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's video for the band's new single, "Blood Is Thicker than Water", has been posted online at this location (directed by Eric Zimmerman and Nik Jamgocyan of Master Cylinder). The song comes off the group's latest album, "Shot to Hell", which has sold 93,000 copies in the United Sta...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Bassist Accepting Music Students

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY bassist John "J.D." DeServio is now accepting music students in the New Jersey area. DeServio, who specializes in music theory for all instruments, can be contacted via his MySpace page. As previously reported, DeServio and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY guitarist Nick Catanese will attend...