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HEAVEN AND HELL: Free DVD Screening At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Rhino Records will present a screening of HEAVEN AND HELL's "Live From Radio City Music Hall" DVD at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame & Museum in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, August 29 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Admission is free. The DVD will be shown in its entirety in the Rock Hall's ...

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The Last Kind Words

Trim the fat, tighten the screws until the metal squeals, and make every note as intense as the scream of a swandiving suicider — DEVILDRIVER have finally delivered their masterwork, forever shutting the door on frontman Dez Fafara's questionable nu-metal roots and hammering home an uncompromising,...

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Full Circle

It is difficult not to feel for a band that lost a member in Dave Williams so tragically, especially after such a rapid ascendancy to the top of the modern hard rock world with "Sinner". Replacing a singer with Williams' all-around presence is a near impossibility and though I've not heard sophomore...

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AFTER FOREVER: Photos From Hollywood Listening Session Posted Online

Photos of AFTER FOREVER's August 3, 2007 listening party for the band's new self-titled album at The Key Club's Plush Lounge in West Hollywood, California have been posted at DirtJunior.com. The event included an acoustic performance of the song "Equally Destructive" by AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor...

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Report: Heavy Metal Mecca Reborn On Staten Island

Amy Zimmer of Metro New York reports: For heavy metal fans [in New York], Mecca wasn't at CBGB. It was out in Bay Ridge at a place called L'Amour. The club ruled the scene in the mid-'80s before closing down in 1995 after a teenager was killed diving into a mosh pit. This ...

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ALICE COOPER To Play Golf At Fuzzy Zoeller's Wolf Challenge

Jody Demling of The Courier-Journal reports that Alice Cooper will join Fuzzy Zoeller, along with John Daly, Lee Trevino and Indiana University men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson in Monday's portion of the Wolf Challenge at Covered Bridge Golf Club in Sellersburg, Indiana. Cooper, whose illustrio...

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AFTER FOREVER Guitarist Reports On L.A. Promo Trip

AFTER FOREVER guitarist Sander Gommans has issued the following update: "Today I arrived with more than one jetlag in the Netherlands from the promo trip in L.A. I did together with Floor [Jansen, vocals] concerning the new AFTER FOREVER record. "The album will be released in the USA in September th...

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OCEANS OF SADNESS, KAMELOT, SILENT FORCE Members Join Forces In SEASONS OF MAN

Vocalist Tijs Vanneste of Belgian progressive metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS has joined forces with German/Hungarian guitarist Oliver Palotai (KAMELOT, DORO, BLAZE),Italian guitarist Luca Princiotta (DORO, JORN),German drummer Daniel Schild and bassist Jürgen Steinmetz (SILENT FORCE) in a brand new p...

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WHITESNAKE Frontman DAVID COVERDALE Describes Another Bear Encounter

WHITESNAKE/ex-DEEP PURPLE frontman David Coverdale, who has lived on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada for 22 years, recently described an encounter with "a huge black bear," who came close to entering the Coverdale residence in search of food. A second incident where a bear actually entered Cov...

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SHARON OSBOURNE's Father Buried In His Birthplace

Britain's This is Lancashire reports that more than 100 mourners converged on Agecroft Jewish Cemetery last week for the funeral of well-known former music mogul Don Arden. Absent from the ceremony, however, was the 81-year-old's daughter, Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon, who was reportedly "too traumat...

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DAATH Explains OZZFEST No-Shows

Atlanta's DAATH has issued the following update: "I'm sitting in a hotel room in Denver right now. I should be in Oklahoma City tonight, and Kansas City tomorrow, but I'm not. I'm in Denver and I'm fucking pissed about it. I'm not the only one that's pissed about it. "We've been getting lots of mail...

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AFTER FOREVER Members Invite Fans To Their Shopping Spree

Dutch guitarist and composer Sander Gommans is very familiar with the old American saying, "The boy with the most toys WINS." Combine that philosophy with a personal quest to collect every possible piece of He-Man (Masters of the Universe) merchandise and the result can be a lethal blow to any savin...

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MANDY LION: 'DON ARDEN Represented Everything This Industry Should Be About But Rarely Ever Is'

WWIII frontman Mandy Lion has issued the following statement regarding the passing of music mogul Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father),who died on July 21 at the age of 81: "I am sad to let everyone know that one of the greatest men I ever knew died on Saturday... "Don Arden was more than just ...

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SHARON OSBOURNE 'Too Traumatized' To Attend Father's Funeral

According to ContactMusic.com, Ozzy Osbourne's wife/manager Sharon failed to attend her father Don Arden's funeral — because she was too upset to go. Arden passed away on Saturday (July 21) in a Los Angeles nursing home from undisclosed causes, although he was known to have Alzheimer's Disease. He w...

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King of the Grey Islands

How do you judge the second post-comeback album of a band as revered as CANDLEMASS, especially when they've lost their beloved and iconic vocalist (again, and probably for the last time)? It's obviously a record made under duress, with a lot of pressure, given the success of the band's return. Is "p...