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ROADRUNNER RECORDS President 'Steps Down'

After more than 20 years at Roadrunner Records, including 12 as president, Jonas Nachsin is stepping down from that post. In Nachsin's exit letter to his staff, which Billboard.biz has obtained, he wrote, "Twenty-plus years ago I was hired as U.S. director of sales and marketing at an upstart Europe...

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Former FAITH NO MORE Guitarist JIM MARTIN Answers Fan-Submitted Questions

After a silence of over a decade, former FAITH NO MORE guitarist Jim Martin agreed to a question-and-answer session with fans via a U.K.-based fan site. A set of 15 questions were selected by administrators of the fan site from over 500 submissions by fans eager to hear from Jim. Said Martin: "Some...

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DEF LEPPARD To Play Entire 'Hysteria' Album During Las Vegas Residency

According to USA Today, DEF LEPPARD will play its 1987 album "Hysteria" in its entirety as part of a nine-show residency at the 2,950-capacity The Joint at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, starting at the end of March. "We're very happy to be part of what I call the first wave ...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE: 'I Love Our Country And I Love Our People'

Earlier this week, Darren Pope of Examiner.com conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On politics and this week's U.S. presidential elections: Mustaine: "It's disappointing that people get so uptight about it, so there's not reall...

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MEGADETH Bassist Talks About His Limited-Edition BEAMZ Player Product (Video)

Beamz Interactive, Inc., an interactive music product and technology company, has announced the availability of its Limited Edition David Ellefson Beamz Player interactive music product. This new limited edition product features the signature of the legendary thrash metal MEGADETH bassist David Elle...

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HENRY ROLLINS On President Obama's Re-Election: 'Democracy Trumps Money Sometimes'

Punk rock icon Henry Rollins has commented on President Barack Obama's defeat over Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to win re-election to another four-year term as the 44th president of the United States, saying that "I have never been so happy to see an American politic...

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GWAR Frontman On OBAMA's Re-Election Victory: 'White People Everywhere Are Very Scared'

GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus has commented on the election of President Barack Obama to a second term Tuesday, saying that "it's about time that a different color took over." Speaking to Rock Hard Live before the band's concert last night (November 6) at Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, California, Oder...

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TED NUGENT Says OBAMA Supporters Voted For 'Economic And Spiritual Suicide'

Legendary rocker Ted Nugent has commented on the election of President Barack Obama to a second term Tuesday, calling voters who re-elected Obama "soulless fools" who voted for "economic and spiritual suicide." In a series of tweets, he also blamed "pimps whores & welfare brats" and "subhuman va...

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HELL OR HIGHWATER: Debut Album To Be Re-Released With 'Bonus Content'

HELL OR HIGHWATER (formerly known as THE BLACK CLOUD COLLECTIVE),the new band led by ATREYU drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller, has inked a deal with Pavement Entertainment. The group's debut album, "Begin Again", which was originally released independently in August 2011, will be reissued with "bonus...

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Teenage 'Hard Rock/Punk' Band BLOODY MARY Signs With DARK STAR RECORDS

Dark Star Records has announced the signing of the Chicago-based teenage hard rock/punk band BLOODY MARY. The 17-year-old high school girls will release their new album, "Coming Of Age", early next year. "I think this band has what it takes to go all the way, and we want to take [them] to the top,"...

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Video: AEROSMITH Performs On Streets Of Boston

1325 Commmonwealth Avenue is the building in Boston where it all began some 40 years ago for AEROSMITH, in an apartment where Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer lived and wrote songs together in the early '70s. It was where they planted the seed that would catapult...

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LEMMY Says MITT ROMNEY Is A 'Monster'

In a brand new interview with RollingStone.com, MOTÖRHEAD mainman Lemmy Kilmister spoke about Barack Obama's performance as the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American to win the office. "I would have said America wasn't ready for [a black president]," Lemmy said. "And I don'...

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KREATOR Unveils 'Huge 3D Show' In Europe; Video Available

German thrash metal veterans KREATOR unveiled a "huge 3D show" during their current European headlining tour with MORBID ANGEL, NILE and FUELED BY FIRE, which kicked off on November 1 in Antwerp, Belgium. Fan-filmed video footage of the fourth show of the trek — which took place last night (Sunday,...

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MUSTAINE: I Don't Know Why Now's The Time For People To Take Exception With What I'm Saying

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine believes that he "probably should've said things differently" when he suggested onstage at a concert that President Obama was behind the mass shootings in Aurora and at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. While performing with MEGADETH on August 7 in Singapore, Mustaine told t...

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TRIVIUM Frontman On U.S. Presidential Election: 'Never Before Has The Country Been This Divided

Dennis Rowehl of Entertaim.net magazine conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy of Florida metallers TRIVIUM prior to the band's October 28 concert in Cologne, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. Asked about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Heafy said, "The trick wit...