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DESERT ROCK Festival Organizers Turn To TBWA-RAAD For Image Revamp

Center Stage Management (CSM),which organizes the annual Dubai Desert Rock festival, turned to the most creatively recognized agency, TBWA-RAAD, to contribute their expertise to the festival image revamp for its sixth and heaviest edition, held on Friday, March 6, 2009 at Dubai Festival City, Unite...

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THE PROJECT HATE Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

THE PROJECT HATE, the Swedish band featuring vocalist Jörgen Sandström (ex-ENTOMBED, GRAVE),guitarist Lord K. Philipson (GOD AMONG INSECTS, ex-LEUKEMIA),bassist Michael Håkansson (ENGEL, ex-EVERGREY),singer Jo Enckell (IGNORANCE BLISS) and guitarist Anders Bertilsson (RUIN, COLDWORKER) has parted...

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Former/Current Members Of GUNS N' ROSES, MEGADETH, TESTAMENT Featured On Instrumental CD

Magna Carta Records has set a February 10 release date for "Guitars That Ate My Brain", a collection of a dozen mind-altering instrumentals from today's most accomplished metal axe grinders. According to a press release, the CD is "a twelve-headed hydra of monster guitar riffage that slashes, shreds...

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HORSE THE BAND To Enter Studio In March

HORSE THE BAND — the experimental metalcore act from Los Angeles — has issued the following update: "We're about to sign to a new label! I think it is a good home for us. It has other bands that we like and a super-legit history of other bands that we LOOOVE. Can you guess it? ...

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KIP WINGER Says LARS ULRICH Is 'Not Really That Talented'

WINGER frontman Kip Winger was recently interviewed by rock and roll comic C.C. Banana. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. C.C. Banana: In 2005 you were a featured artist on the VH1 Metal Mania Stripped Across America Tour, along with DON DOKKEN, STEPHEN PEARCY and FIREHOUSE. Jani Lane was a...

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DETRIMENTUM Announces New Drummer

UK death metallers DETRIMENTUM have announced the addition of drummer Steve Powell (ANAAL NATHRAKH, THEOKTONY) to the group's ranks. According to the band, "Steve is the perfect replacement for Jonathan Rushforth as he is extremely skilled, fast and very dynamic. DETRIMENTUM's music can only improve...

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LORDI's OX And AWA Interviewed; Video Available

Ox (bass) and Awa (keyboards) of Finnish heavy metal monsters LORDI, dressed in their monster attire, talked with Kiwibox.com senior editor Steven about how the band's mainman, Mr. Lordi, spends over three hours a day putting on his costume, what everyone back home in Finland thinks about Barack Oba...

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The Making Of DORO PESCH's Heavy Metal Monster

Jörg Steegmüller, who has sculpted and produced "Star Wars" props for a number of years and is a well-known stop-motion moviemaker and collector in his home country of Germany, was recently hired to build an eight-meter high and five-hundred-kilogram heavy monster figure for Doro Pesch's 25-year ann...

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AC/DC Frontman Signs Book Deal To Release Collection Of Thoughts And Anecdotes

Gerry Galipault of HeraldTribune.com recently conducted an interview with AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. On "Black Ice", AC/DC's first album in eight years, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in its debut week and has since topped 1.6 million in the United Sta...

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AEROSMITH Guitarist's Video Message For MONSTER CABLE's Founder

AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry recently sent a video message to Noel Lee, founder of Monster Cable, Brisbane, the world's leading manufacturer of audio, video and stereo speaker cabling products, for his 60th birthday and to also celebrate Monster Cable's 30th anniversary. Check out the clip at AeroF...

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LAMB OF GOD Drummer Checks In From The Road

Drummer Chris Adler of Richmond, Virginia metallers LAMB OF GOD has issued the following update: "Here's a small year-end update from the road. "The shows [with METALLICA] are amazing and we are playing a little bit of new material every night. Things are going very well. We are all pretty happy to...

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Former EVANESCENCE Guitarist To Release Solo Album

Former EVANESCENCE guitarist/songwriter Ben Moody will release a solo album on March 3, 2009. The CD will feature a guest appearance by young Montana alternative rock/acoustic solo artist Hana Pestle, who is signed to Moody's label, FNR Records. Pestle's sound carries a unique blend of influences as...

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EDDIE VAN HALEN Launches All-New EVH Wolfgang Guitar

Eddie Van Halen launches the all-new EVH Wolfgang electric guitar, available worldwide beginning January 2009. The EVH Wolfgang guitar represents Eddie's 35 years of experimenting with guitars, over two years of intense research and development, and a full year of brutal road testing during the top-...

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DEE SNIDER, BRUCE KULICK, JOHN CORABI, RUDY SARZO: 'Monster Circus' Video Footage Available

Dee Snider (TWISTED SISTER),Bruce Kulick (KISS),Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO) and Dave Kushner (VELVET REVOLVER) are among the musicians who took part in the first Monster Circus performance in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Hilton on December 9. The band played a set of some o...

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TWISTED SISTER: More 'Christmas On Broadway' Photos, Video Footage Available

Photos of TWISTED SISTER's "Twisted Sister, A Twisted Christmas On Broadway" holiday extravaganza, which was held on December 5, 2008 at the Nokia Theatre in New York City, can be found on the BrooklynVegan web site. The show featured the band performing songs its now-classic rockin' holiday CD and...