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LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY Announces Keyboardist For Upcoming Tour

Italian "cinematic" metallers LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY have recruited Mikko Härkin (SONATA ARCTICA, SYMFONIA) to play keyboards on the band's upcoming "Ascending To Infinity Cinematic World Tour 2012". Commented LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY guitarist/mainman Luca Turilli: "It is surely a great honor to ha...

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WITCHCRAFT: 'Legend' Preview Available

Swedish doom metal kings WITCHCRAFT will release their fourth album, "Legend", on September 21 via the band's new label home, Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2007's "The Alchemist" was recorded with renowned producer Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (KREATOR, OPETH, AMON AMARTH, PAR...

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Original KISS Drummer PETER CRISS's Autobiography: Excerpt From First Chapter Available

Original KISS drummer Peter Criss will publish his memoir, "Makeup To Breakup: My Life In And Out Of Kiss", on October 23 via the Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner. A press release promises, "From sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to multiple brushes with death, 'Makeup To Breakup' will be Peter Cris...

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LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY Announces Support Acts For European Tour

Italian "cinematic" metallers LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY have announced the special guests of the European leg of their "Ascending To Infinity Cinematic World Tour 2012": FREEDOM CALL and ORDEN OGAN from Germany and VEXILLUM from Italy. "We worked with the tour agency Rock The Nation to offer to the pe...

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THE CHARIOT's 'One Wing' Cracks U.S. Top 100

"One Wing", the fifth album from Georgia's THE CHARIOT, sold 4,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 85 on The Billboard 200 chart. "One Wing", was released in the U.S. on August 28 via eOne Music / Good Fight Music. In a recent interview, THE ...

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WHITESNAKE Frontman At 'Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards'; Video Footage Available

The second episode of Whitesnake TV, featuring footage from the third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012, which was held on August 26 at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, can be seen below. Vegas Rocks! Magazine celebrated its eighth anniversary in a big way as the rock 'n' rol...

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VINNY APPICE On His Earliest Musical Memories (Video)

The official YouTube channel of "Sound City", the new feature-length documentary directed and produced by FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl, has been updated with a short clip of legendary drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL, KILL DEVIL HILL) talking about his earliest musical...

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LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY Completes New Choir Recordings For 'Cinematic World Tour'

After a summer devoted to work, work and more work, Italian "cinematic" metallers LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY have announced that all is proceeding perfectly with the production of their "Ascending To Infinity Cinematic World Tour". The band's guitarist/mainman Luca Turilli and singer Alessandro Conti j...

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'Led Zeppelin: The Oral History Of The World's Greatest Rock Band' Book Due In November

John Wiley & Sons has set a November 6 release date for "Led Zeppelin: The Oral History Of The World's Greatest Rock Band", a new book by Barney Hoskyns, a contributing editor at British Vogue who is the author of the bestselling book "Hotel California" and the co-founder of online music-journal...

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SLASH: 'An Intimate Portrait' Book Due In October

Coming this October is "Slash: An Intimate Portrait", a new 144-page hardcover book by Richard Bienstock, with photography by Robert Knight. GUNS N' ROSES' 1987 debut, "Appetite For Destruction", is eighteen times platinum, has sold over twenty-eight million copies, and launched the career of modern...

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SAMMY HAGAR, DAVID COVERDALE, GEOFF TATE Honored At 'Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards'

The third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012 rocked the Joint on Sunday, August 26 at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Vegas Rocks! Magazine celebrated its eighth anniversary in a big way as the rock 'n' roll royal red carpet was rolled out for some of the biggest stars in the...

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SLASH Talks About His Mother's Relationship with DAVID BOWIE (Audio)

While Slash was in Australia playing shows across the country, he dropped by the studios of Australia's long-running radio station Triple M to share a few stories, including one that involved one of the great frontmen in rock. The GUNS N' ROSES legend told the station about a time when he was a kid...

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RATTENFÄNGER Signs With DARK ESSENCE RECORDS

Norway's Dark Essence Records has announced the signing of the Ukrainian band RATTENFÄNGER. The group's debut album, "Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum", will be released in late October/early November. Although RATTENFÄNGER is a new band, its lineup of Thurios on guitars, Krechet on bass, Vlad on drums...

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH On His Earliest Musical Memories (Video)

The official YouTube channel of "Sound City", the new feature-length documentary directed and produced by FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl, has been updated with a short clip of METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich talking about his earliest musical memories. Check it out below. "In about '73, when I was n...

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THE CHARIOT: 'One Wing' Teaser Released

Georgia's THE CHARIOT recently inked a European deal with Season Of Mist. The band's fifth album, "One Wing", will be released in Europe on September 21 and in the U.S. on August 28 via eOne Music / Good Fight Music. A two-minute teaser for "One Wing" can be seen below. Regarding THE CHARIOT's new E...