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METALLICA To Host Premier Edition Of Resurrected 'Headbanger's Ball'

METALLICA will be hosting the premiere edition of the resurrected "Headbanger's Ball" on Saturday, May 10 at 10:00 p.m. on MTV2. In other news, RockOnTV.com has listed appearances by AEROSMITH, KORN, AVRIL LAVIGNE, LIMP BIZKIT, LINKIN PARK, LISA MARIE PRESLEY, STAIND, and SUM 41 as part of the upcom...

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METALLICA To Play Four Free Shows In San Francisco

METALLICA will be playing four free shows at the world-famous Fillmore Theater in San Francisco on May 18, 19, 21, and 22. The only way you can be there is to win tickets through the MetClub (the official METALLICA fan club),or by listening to your local radio station. (Note: Not all stations will...

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GODSMACK's ERNA Says They Might Have Joined METALLICA Tour If Tickets Had Been Cheaper

GODSMACK's Sully Erna recently told MTV.com that his band might have joined the upcoming Summer Sanitarium 2003 tour if the tickets to the event had been priced lower than $55 for the super-cheap seats "[It's] a big issue for us [when] a kid has to go to his mother at 16 years old and ask ...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Confirmed For Britain's READING, LEEDS Festivals

SYSTEM OF A DOWN will play their only shows anywhere in the world this summer at this year's Reading and Leeds festivals in the U.K. in late August. METALLICA and LINKIN PARK have been confirmed to headline the festivals, which will include two special appearances by SYSTEM OF A DOWN — at Leeds on F...

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KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, SUM 41, AVRIL LAVIGNE Confirmed For METALLICA 'mtvICON'

KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, SUM 41, and AVRIL LAVIGNE have signed on to take part in MTV's METALLICA "mtvICON" special, according to Billboard. As previously reported, the event, to be broadcast May 6 by the music network, will find artists performing METALLICA's songs and saluting the group's influential ca...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE's STEELE Calls New Album 'A Sonic Legacy Of Past Mistakes'

TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele claims that the group's upcoming album, "Life Is Killing Me", does not represent an attempt to replicate the group's past works. "That style of songwriting is still in me and I like the songs from those albums, whereas I am less fond of [1999's] 'World Coming Do...

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ABIGOR: 'On Ice'!

Austrian black metal outfit ABIGOR have been put "on ice" indefinitely in the wake of the group's apparent disagreements with their record label, Napalm Records. "Because of some serious problems with Napalm Records concerning the studio, and the budget of the upcoming album, I decided to lay ABIGOR...

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SUM 41, WEEZER, SEVENDUST Among Rumored Performers For 'mtvICON: METALLICA'

SUM 41, WEEZER, JA RULE with SEVENDUST, KORN and KID ROCK are rumored to be among the performers on MTV's "mtvICON: Metallica", the music tribute to the San Francisco metal pioneers, which is set to premiere Tuesday, May 6 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The show will be taped before a live audience in Los An...

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SUM 41: We Turned Down The METALLICA Tour

SUM 41 guitarist/vocalist Deryk Whibley recently told Launch that his band were offered a slot on the Summer Sanitarium 2003 Tour with METALLICA, LINKIN PARK, LIMP BIZKIT, MUDVAYNE, and the DEFTONES, but that they decided to turn it down because they thought that they might not gel with the rest of...

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MACHINE HEAD's FLYNN: 'I'm Disappointed In SLAYER's KERRY KING'

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn has once again lashed out at SLAYER guitarist Kerry King over the latter's incessant public criticisms of MACHINE HEAD's recent recorded output and attacks on the group's integrity. In an interview posted at MACHINE HEAD's official web site (www.machinehead1.com),...

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ANTHRAX's BENANTE: Surprises Planned For Upcoming Tour Set List

The following is a re-posting of the latest installment of ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante's regular online column as it appears on the group's official web site at www.anthrax.com: "Hi dilly dodilly, A quick little bit of info - We started rehearsing for the Euro tour the other day and this is what...

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CRAZY TOWN, GUANO APES Head To Switzerland

CRAZY TOWN, SUM 41 and GUANO APES are among the artists set to perform at MTV Winterjam 2003 on March 14 in Davos, Switzerland. The show will be hosted by Johnny Knoxville and the stars of "Jackass: The Movie". ...

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AEROSMITH, KORN, TOOL, OZZFEST 2002 Among Top-Grossing Tours Of 2002

AEROSMITH, KORN, TOOL, OZZFEST 2002 and GUNS N' ROSES are among the tours that have made concert trade publication Pollstar's list of the 100 top-grossing tours of 2002. The following are the top-ranked hard rock/metal tours of the year (overall ranking based on total box office gross data as provid...

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Former VIRGIN STEELE Guitarist Returns To Action With 'Under A Savage Sky'

JACK STARR AND THE GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME, the new band formed by ex-VIRGIN STEELE guitarist Jack Starr, will release their new album, "Under A Savage Sky", on Feb. 1 through European label Cult Metal Records. The line-up involved in the project is as follows: Jack Starr (ex-VIRGIN STEELE): lead, rh...

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SUM 41 Offered IRON MAIDEN World Tour

Pop punkers SUM 41 have been offered the opening slot on the upcoming IRON MAIDEN world tour. "IRON MAIDEN have contacted us and they want us on their world tour next year," SUM 41 bassist Cone "Jay" McCaslin told Sweden's Close-Up magazine. "It turns out that they're big SUM 41 fans." "We fell off...