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RONNIE JAMES DIO On BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW Reunion Rumors, Upcoming DIO CD

Legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) was the featured guest on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" on August 16. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the status of the new DIO album: "I think because we've had to tour so much in the last three...

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JOE LYNN TURNER, CARLOS CAVAZO, VINNY APPICE, PHIL SOUSSAN Join Forces In BIG NOIZE

Legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) has been working on helping to put together the "supergroup" BIG NOIZE for several months. With the line-up now shored up, BIG NOIZE will travel to Nashville late August/early September to film a DVD. The band incl...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: More Australian Tour Dates Announced

Legendary Swedish guitarist YNGWIE MALMSTEEN has lined up the following Australian tour dates in November: Nov. 14 - The Arena Ent. Complex – Brisbane, AUS Nov. 15 - Enmore Theatre - Sydney, AUS Nov. 16 - The Palace - Melbourne, AUS Nov. 17 - Thebarton Theatre - Adelaide, AUS Nov. 19 - Metro City -...

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RITCHIE BLACKMORE: First-Ever Unauthorized Biography Due In September

"Black Knight", the first-ever unauthorized Ritchie Blackmore biography, will be published in the U.K. on September 4 by Omnibus Press. "Black Knight" was written and researched by Jerry Bloom, who first met Ritchie more than twenty years ago; has followed his career since the Seventies, and since 1...

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EVERY TIME I DIE Parts Ways With Bassist

On Saturday, August 19 at Michigan's Dirtfest, EVERY TIME I DIE's bassist Chris Byrnes played his last show with the band. According to one concert attendee, "Right after they finished the first song of their set, they announced that Chris was leaving the band and that it would be his last show. The...

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: Authorized Book Coming Soon

According to a posting on BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's official web site, Ritchie Blackmore (DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW) and his fiancée Candice have decided to share with their fans some real band experiences — past and present. The next stage will be out soon and is the only authorized book containing stories th...

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RAINBOW: Entire Catalog To Be Reissued In Japan

According to a posting on The Rainbow Fanclan Legacy, RAINBOW's entire catalog will be re-released in two different versions in Japan in August and September. First there is the re-release of the regular CDs on August 30 featuring: "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" (1975),"Rainbow Rising" (1976),"On S...

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CARMINE APPICE Says SHARON OSBOURNE Is 'Ruthless'

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with legendary drummer Carmine Appice (VANILLA FUDGE, CACTUS, BECK, BOGERT & APPICE, ROD STEWART, KING KOBRA, OZZY OSBOURNE). Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: Any truth to the rumors that you auditioned to replace Peter Criss...

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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist Denies He Was Ever In Pre-KISS Band With PAUL STANLEY, GENE SIMMONS

Vassil Varbanov of the "Varbanov Supermarket" program on the Bulgarian rock station Tangra Mega Rock recently conducted an interview with TWISTED SISTER guitarist J.J. French. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Varbanov Supermarket: We heard about this amazing concert that you had something...

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Former DIO, QUIET RIOT, BONHAM Members Join Forces In 3 LEGGED DOGG

3 LEGGED DOGG, the new band featuring guitarist Carlos Cavazo (QUIET RIOT),bassist Jimmy Bain (DIO, RAINBOW),vocalist Chas West (BONHAM, LYNCH MOB),guitarist Brian Young (DAVID LEE ROTH),and drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH),has inked a deal with Perris Records. The band's self-titled a...

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KISS: Complete 'Love 'Em And Leave 'Em' Live Performance Posted Online

According to KissKollector.com, KISS performed "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" (from the 1976 album "Rock And Roll Over") live in concert last month for the first time since November of 1976. The song was played at the Rainbow Hall in Nagoya during the band's Japanese tour, which also marked the first ever...

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JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD: 'I'm Not One Of These Gay Guys With A Cause'

The metal community tosses around the word "gay" more freely than anyone outside of the town of "South Park". So what's it like to actually be a homosexual and be into metal? Decibel (DecibelMagazine.com) recently talked with openly gay metal musicians and fans to get the not-so-straight story for t...

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Former GUNS N' ROSES, IRON MAIDEN, MÖTLEY CRÜE Members Pay Tribute To VAN HALEN

Deadline/Cleopatra Records has just released "'80s Metal Tribute To Van Halen", a collection of VAN HALEN covers performed by some of the biggest hard rock stars of the '80s metal scene. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Paul Di'Anno (IRON MAIDEN) – "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Lo...

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VED BUENS ENDE: New Song Posted Online

VED BUENS ENDE (Norwegian for "At the End of the Rainbow"),the Norwegian avant-garde metal band who split up in 1997 after after releasing only one full-length album (1995's "Written in Waters") through Misanthropy Records, has been resurrected and has posted a rehearsal recording of a new song, en...

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Come What(ever) May

Before we got all mixed up with eighteen million different subgenres of metal, there was just one single genre: heavy metal (or hard rock),a musical space marked by a significantly harder edge than the mothership of rock and roll but also a field wide open to many different sounds and styles. Thus...