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METAL CHURCH Singer RONNY MUNROE: More Solo Tracks Posted Online

METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe has posted five songs from his recently released "The Fire Within" solo album — "Ride Me", "Evil Genius", "Ivory Towers", "Rebuild The Ruins" and "Demon Opera" — on his MySpace page. "The Fire Within" was released last month via Rat Pak Records. The singer previously...

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TROUBLE Schedules Illinois Date

Legendary Chicago doomsters TROUBLE will play a warm-up show for their Wacken Open Air appearance on July 24 at Chicago City Limits in Schaumburg, Illinois. TROUBLE is hard at work on material for the band's long-awaited new album, "The Dark Riff", tentatively due later in the year. The group states...

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TONY IOMMI Goes 'Face To Face' With RICK WAKEMAN

In one of the most revealing and candid musician-to-musician interviews ever recorded, "Face To Face" host Rick Wakeman holds court with his longtime friend, the guitar icon Tony Iommi, who is best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH. Although it was over 30 yea...

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Resurrected MASSACRE: New Version Of 'Clangor Of War' Posted Online

Resurrected Florida-based death metallers MASSACRE are working on a new EP, "Legends Of Death", featuring reworked versions of four classic tunes, "re-recorded and brought up to date." According to vocalist Kam Lee, the EP will be released "totally for the honor of the old-school fans! No TRENDS her...

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ADLER'S APPETITE: Footage From SOUTH TEXAS ROCK FEST Available

Fan-filmed video footage of ADLER'S APPETITE — the band led by original GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler — performing at the South Texas Rock Fest in San Antonio, Texas on May 22, 2009 can be viewed below (courtesy of "JohnEbrownTX"). ADLER'S APPETITE played its first show with vocalist Rick Stitc...

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'Get Thrashed' Director Interviewed By 'The Overkill Ultimate Fan Podcast'; Audio Available

The second part of a brand new interview with Rick Ernst — director of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the critically acclaimed documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene — is featured in the latest edition (May 2009) of The Overki...

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BRET MICHAELS: Fort Campbell Concert Cancellation Explained

POISON singer Bret Michaels' web site has been updated with the following message: "Unfortunately, due to severe thunderstorms and inclement weather, the commanding officer/event coordinator Lynette Foster and promoter Rick Johnson mutually agreed, to cancel [Sunday night's, May 24] performance at t...

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Whiskey, Blood & Napalm

All the generic, mediocre, and sub-par bands that get signed to labels based on MySpace hits and here's a band with an album that is one of the best hard rock releases of 2009 and lo and behold it's a self-release. Then again, maybe Columbus, Ohio's ROBOT LORDS OF TOKYO prefer to do things on ...

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RIGOR MORTIS/WARBEAST Frontman Interviewed; Video Available

Rasputin's Beard blog recently conducted an interview with WARBEAST/RIGOR MORTIS vocalist Bruce Corbitt. Watch the chat below. WARBEAST (formerly TEXAS METAL ALLIANCE),the band featuring Corbitt, GAMMACIDE guitarists Rick Perry and Scott Shelby, GAMMACIDE/DEVILFIST bassist Alan Bovee and DEMONSEED...

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BLACK SABBATH Tribute Band Featuring Ex-SABBATH/GREAT WHITE Bassist Schedules Gig

WAR PIGS, the Florida-based BLACK SABBATH tribute band featuring bassist Dave "The Beast" Spitz (BLACK SABBATH, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, LITA FORD, WHITE LION, GREAT WHITE),will perform at Bourbon Street in New Port Richey, Florida this Saturday, May 23. Spitz, the brother of former ANTHRAX guitarist Dan S...

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METAL CHURCH Singer To Guest On KNAC.COM

METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe will be interviewed on KNAC.COM on Saturday, May 23 at 10:45 a.m. PST. For more information, visit www.knac.com. Ronny Munroe recently posted a new solo track, "What You Choose To Call Hell (I Call Home)", on his MySpace page. According to the singer, "It features Mi...

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TROUBLE Issues New Album Update

Legendary Chicago doomsters TROUBLE are hard at work on material for the band's long-awaited new album, "The Dark Riff", tentatively due later in the year. The group states, "Everything is moving along nicely in the writing stage. Bruce [Franklin; guitar] and Rick [Wartell; guitar] have brought some...

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EXODUS Guitarist: 'Everything We're Doing Now Is A Natural Progression For Us'

Christopher Porter of Washington Post Express recently conducted an interview with guitarist Gary Holt of San Francisco thrash metal legends EXODUS. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below Washington Post Express: Do think EXODUS' longevity is due to the fact the style of music you helped cr...

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KISS, METALLICA, CHEAP TRICK Memorabilia Featured In 'Rock Stars' Cars & Guitars 2' Exhibit

According to MetroTimes.com, a number of guitars that (design-wise) belong to KISS and CHEAP TRICK's Rick Nielsen are featured in the "Rock Stars' Cars & Guitars 2" exhibit, which is coming later this month to Dearborn, Michigan's Henry Ford Museum. Gene Simmons' star bass and Paul Stanley's axe...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE: 'Bloody Kisses' 2-CD 'Top Shelf' Reissue Out Now

On May 5, Roadrunner Records re-released TYPE O NEGATIVE's classic 1993 "Bloody Kisses" album as part of its "Top Shelf" reissue series. Disc 1 is the original version of the album, while the eight-song second disc offers various remixes, cover songs, and the great "Suspended In Dusk", which was fea...