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THE PB ARMY To Support TROUBLE, ABDULLAH In November

Toledo, Ohio-based "stoner-pop-metal" band THE PB ARMY, featuring Infernal Combustion webzine founder Keith Bergman on vocals/drums, have announced a string of dates in November, supporting the likes of TROUBLE, REBREATHER, ABDULLAH, and RED GIANT. The dates are as follows: Nov 17 – Little Brothers,...

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ANNIHILATOR: 'Ten Years In Hell' DVD Due Early Next Year

ANNIHILATOR guitarist Jeff Waters has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "So far, asides from the mountain of old footage me and the Campbell Bros. are going through, I can tell ya one cool section that will be on the 'Annihilator: Ten Years In Hell' DVD (due for release ....

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RANDY RHOADS Limited-Edition Sculpture: Photos Posted Online

Photos of the Randy Rhoads limited-edition resin sculpture have been posted online at GuitarHero.net. The figure is sculpted and hand-painted in exquisite detail, standing approximately 8.5 inches high. Limited to 3000 pieces, it retails for $99. The Randy Rhoads figure is in the final stages of pro...

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LAMB OF GOD's 'Ashes' Slams Suits Who Play Risk With American Lives

LAMB OF GOD guitarist and lyricist Mark Morton recently spoke to MTV.com about being flipping on the TV last May and watching a news report that turned his blood to ice. A 26-year-old Philadelphia telecommunications contractor named Nicholas Berg had just been beheaded by Islamic militants in the la...

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Unreleased QUIET RIOT Song With RANDY RHOADS Posted Online

QUIET RIOT vocalist Kevin DuBrow has launched his fully functional web site at www.kevindubrow.com. To kick off the site, he has made available for download a never-before released QUIET RIOT song featuring guitarist Randy Rhoads, entitled "Come And Gone" (click on "Randy Rhoads Years"). The song wa...

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Former QUIET RIOT Drummer Comments On Upcoming DVD Release

MelodicRock.com is reporting that former QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has commented on the upcoming release of a concert DVD from the late '80s version of QUIET RIOT via Music Video Distributors and 2RS Studios. Due on November 16, "Quiet Riot: '89 Live In Japan" hails from the days when origin...

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CLIFF BURTON, RANDY RHOADS Among MAXIM Magazine's Top Rock Star Deaths

The Associated Press is reporting that Cliff Burton (METALLICA),Randy Rhoads (OZZY OSBOURNE),John Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN) and Kurt Cobain (NIRVANA) are among the musicians that made Maxim magazine's list of rock stars that have been the most "rock-starrish" even in death. Cobain's suicide just makes...

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BLACK SABBATH Once Again Snubbed By The ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

BLACK SABBATH have once again been snubbed by the voting members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Ozzy Osbourne-fronted band were a glaring omission from the list of the nominees for induction in 2005 in the "artist" category, which were announced earlier today (Sept. 13). VAN HALEN, who becam...

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TOMMY LEE Says Sex With Two Girls Is Not What It's Cracked Up To Be

The New York Post's "Page Six" column reports: Former MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee says being an oversexed rock star isn't so fantastic. The randy rocker, who's bedded Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, Jenna Jameson and countless other beauties, is a bit jaded about all the threesomes he's had. "I h...

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BLACK SABBATH: 'The Complete Recording History' Book Due Next Year

Rockdetector.com executive editor Garry Sharpe-Young has been working on a leviathan account of BLACK SABBATH's complete recording history, from the earliest demos through to the "Reunion" album and, possibly, beyond. Already having two highly praised SABBATH-related titles under his belt, "The Stor...

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LAMB OF GOD Singer: 'People Are Ready For Angrier Music'

LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe spoke to Canada's Chart Attack last week about their new album "Ashes of the Wake" (Epic),the quick follow-up to 2003's critically acclaimed record "As the Palaces Burn" (Prosthetic). "People are ready for angrier music," he said. "Nu-metal sucks, so that's why that'...

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Ashes Of The Wake

LAMB OF GOD leads the pack in what some are already calling "the New Wave of American Heavy Metal." While we're not quick to start categorizing things again — after all, look what happened to the so-called "nu metal" movement — it seems clear that there's some sort of underground uprising that's bee...

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LAMB OF GOD Singer Says GEORGE W. BUSH Will 'Kill Us All' If He Stays In Office

LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe spoke with Now Toronto about the band's latest effort "Ashes of the Wake", which he admits is thematically "pretty much about the demise of our civilization as we are all watching it unfold before us." Blythe explained, "The record at times is pretty heavily politic...

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Bassist RANDY COVEN To Join RIOT For NYC Performance

Bassist Randy Coven (ARK, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) will be performing with the legendary heavy metal band RIOT at Don Hill's in New York City on Friday, August 27. Also appearing on the bill will be HAVOCHATE (featuring ex-TESTAMENT bassist Greg Christian),SUPERVILLAIN, DIRTY BROWN EYE, OPERATIKA and P...

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VELVET REVOLVER Drummer Loses His 'Best Friend And Soulmate'

VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) has posted the following message in the "Diary" section of the group's web site: "Hello all of you loyal VELVET REVOLVER fans. It's Matt here making my second entry into my diary. Have been on tour in Europe around three weeks now. The shows have...