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DISTURBED, SLAYER, SOULFLY, TRIVIUM Members Remember DIMEBAG; Video Available

Austria's Mulatschag.TV has posted an eight-minute documentary on late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott featuring interview clips with members of DISTURBED, SLAYER, TRIVIUM and SOULFLY. Watch the footage below. "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was shot to death along with three others d...

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Music Is Medicine For AC/DC Frontman

SunNewspapers.net reports that AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson was welcomed by Sarasota Memorial Hospital president and CEO Gwen MacKenzie, Healthcare Foundation president and CEO Alex Quarles and Jennifer Mayer, medical director of All Children's at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, as they opened the new B...

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REDEMPTION: DVD Title, Release Dates Announced

REDEMPTION — the Los Angeles-based progressive metal band led by guitarist/songwriter Nicolas van Dyk and featuring vocal legend Ray Alder of FATES WARNING — has set "Frozen in the Moment: Live in Atlanta" as the title of its new concert DVD, which will be released on the following dates: Germany, A...

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Finland's VANGUARD To Release New Album In January

"Hydralchemy", the follow-up to 2005's "Succumbra" by the Finnish gothic dark metallers VANGUARD, will be released in Finland on January 14, 2009 via Shadow World Records (with distribution through Supersounds Music). The limited digipak edition includes ten fresh VANGUARD tracks, and an alluring co...

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AC/DC Frontman Signs Book Deal To Release Collection Of Thoughts And Anecdotes

Gerry Galipault of HeraldTribune.com recently conducted an interview with AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. On "Black Ice", AC/DC's first album in eight years, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in its debut week and has since topped 1.6 million in the United Sta...

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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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ENSLAVEMENT OF BEAUTY: 'Lush' Video Available

"Lush", the first official music video in the 14-year career of the Norwegian melodic black metal duo ENSLAVEMENT OF BEAUTY, can be viewed below. The clip was shot in Bergen, Norway on March 29-30 with director Sten Brian Tunheim. "Lush" comes off the band's recently completed EP, "The Perdition", w...

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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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TURMOIL Has A New Singer

Philadelphia hardcore/metal band TURMOIL has tapped Nate Johnson (THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, PREMONITIONS OF WAR) to replace longtime frontman Jon Gula, who left the group in September. Tracking for TURMOIL's first LP since 1999's "The Process Of" started earlier in the year at Skylight Studios i...

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AC/DC Singer Gives Pediatric Patients the Rock Star Treatment

The new Brian Johnson Music Therapy Room in the pediatrics department at Sarasota Memorial Hospital is being dedicated on Monday, December 22, 2008. The musical equipment, memorabilia and room enhancements were donated to Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, Inc. by the John Entwistle Foundation...

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METALLICA, MASTODON, PEARL JAM Featured On 'Live From Bonnaroo 2008' DVD

METALLICA, MASTODON and PEARL JAM are among the artists that are featured on the "Live from Bonnaroo 2008" DVD, due in January on DVD from Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment. According to Billboard.com, the DVD was originally offered only to 2008 festival ticket-buyers, but is now being made a...

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DISTURBED Unveils Complete Winter Tour

The Pulse of Radio reports that DISTURBED has unveiled a more complete itinerary for its upcoming winter headlining tour, which will begin on January 16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and extend to the end of February. Aside from a brief Northwest swing that the group is currently finishing, this will be D...

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DIMEBAG Tribute Page On DEAN GUITARS Web Site

To commemorate the fourth anniversary of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN),Dean Guitars has launched a tribute page featuring video footage of the Dimebag tribute from this year's Ozzfest and other Dimebag-related video material. "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was shot to death along with...

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AC/DC's 'Black Ice' Tour Rolls Into Oakland; Photos, Video Footage Available

AC/DC's "Black Ice" world tour rolled into Oakland, California Tuesday night (December 2) and had a repeat performance Thursday evening (December 4). Check out photos by Christopher Victorio at SFWeekly.com. Fan-filmed video footage of the December 2, 2008 concert can be viewed below (clips uploaded...

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EXCITER Interviewed In Athens; Video Available

Elena Mihailidou and Labro Tenne of Metalzone.gr conducted an interview with Canadian thrash metal pioneers EXCITER on November 21, 2008 when the band made its live debut in Athens, Greece. Watch the 24-minute chat below. As previously reported, EXCITER bassist Rob "Clammy" Cohen will be interviewed...