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Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist To Appear On Japan's 'Kouhaku Uta Gassen' New Year's Eve Music Show

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman will appear on "Kouhaku Uta Gassen", more commonly known as simply "Kouhaku", an annual music show on the New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on both television and radio, nationally and internationally by NHK's networks a...

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LOUDNESS Members Honor Late Drummer MUNETAKA HIGUCHI; Video Available

A "Last Memorial Birthday" in honor of late LOUDNESS drummer Munetaka Higuchi was held yesterday (Wednesday, December 24) at Aoyama Sougisho in Tokyo, Japan. The surviving members of LOUDNESS attended the event, which coincided with what would have been Munetaka's 50th birthday. Footage of yesterday...

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HEXEN Releases 'Dark Crucible'

New Jersey-based traditional/power metal band HEXEN (not to be confused with Los Angeles' HEXEN) has released its full-length debut, "Dark Crucible", via Eternal War Records (the group's own label). The album was produced by lead vocalist/guitarist Kenneth "The Warlord" Burdge and contains 12 tracks...

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PAIN CONFESSOR Announces New Guitarist

Finnish metallers PAIN CONFESSOR have announced the addition of guitarist Tommi Kurki to the group's ranks. According to the band, Kurki "has been around since the first gigs of PAIN CONFESSOR. In fact, he has been our mainstay sound engineer for pretty much all these years. This made the transition...

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LOUDNESS: 'Last Memorial Birthday' To Honor Late Drummer MUNETAKA HIGUCHI

A "Last Memorial Birthday" in honor of late LOUDNESS drummer Munetaka Higuchi will be held on December 24 at Aoyama Sougisho in Tokyo, Japan. The surviving members of LOUDNESS will attend the event, which will coincide with what would have been Munetaka's 50th birthday. For more information (in Japa...

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THERAPY? To Release New Album In March

Irish rockers THERAPY? will release their new studio album, "Crooked Timber", on March 23 via Global Music. For the past two years, THERAPY? fans have eagerly awaited the band's return. Now they're back with a hard-edged recording that will really get under your skin and into your mind. According to...

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TWISTED SISTER Frontman: 'I Never Expected To Be Media Darlings Or Be A Hit On Television'

TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider recently spoke to LehighValleyLive.com about the band's newly released DVD and CD, "Live at The Astoria". "I've seen a lot of (the DVD),but I kind of lived it, you know?" Snider said. "It is different to see it in the house. I was particularly intrigued that I ...

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Overlords of Chaos

A more appropriate name for this Portuguese band does not exist. The music of IRONSWORD heard on new album "Overlords of Chaos" (from traditional heavy metal label Shadow Kingdom) conjures images not of just Marshall stacks and denim 'n leather throngs, but of burly, hirsute dudes wielding axes and...

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Shogun

Far be it from me to defend the likes of a band who has achieved such a high level of success by doing little more than filtering the highlights of METALLICA's career into a watered-down glass of Kool-Aid for the metalcore kids to slurp down like they were rockin' it in Jonestown. On top of ...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: New Video Interview Available

Metal Sanaz of SyncLive.com conducted an interview with the Los Angeles-based metal band FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH in late November. Watch the nine-minute chat below. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's debut album, "The Way of the Fist", has sold 251,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundS...

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COBALT Completes Work On New Album

Colorado-based avant-garde extreme metal outfit COBALT has completed work on its new album, "Gin", for a March 17, 2009 release via Profound Lore Records. The follow-up to 2007's "Eater of Birds" sees COBALT "forge a markedly darker and rougher edged path, carving out a surreal outburst of intense s...

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KYLESA To Tour Japan For First Time

Savannah, Georgia's KYLESA, which recently finished recording its fourth studio album, will tour Japan for the first time early next year. The seven-show trek will coincide with the official Japanese release of the band's acclaimed 2006 album, "Time Will Fuse Its Worth", on Red Cobalt Industries. Ad...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN To Jam With ANDREW W.K. On Japanese TV

Andrew W.K. will join former Marty Friedman on the ex-MEGADETH guitarist's weekly "Transporter" show, which airs in Japan Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. on Space Shower TV. According to a posting on Friedman's web site, Marty and Andrew "have an intense jam session, blaze through four songs and share an in...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Headline Dates, Irish Support Shows Confirmed

Modern-metal heavy-hitters FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will be coming to the UK for the first time as part of Metal Hammer's "Defenders of the Faith II" package in February 2009. This tour boasts an incredible lineup of metal heavyweights, with DIMMU BORGIR, LAMB OF GOD and UNEARTH completing the bill....

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WEDNESDAY 13 To Support HANOI ROCKS In Japan

WEDNESDAY 13 (ex-MURDERDOLLS) will support legendary Finnish rockers HANOI ROCKS on their farewell tour of Japan. The dates are as follows: Mar. 08 - Tokyo, Japan - Studio Coast Mar. 10 - Fukuoka, Japan - Logos Mar. 11 - Osaka, Japan - Hatch Mar. 12 - Nagoya, Japan - Diamond Hall Mar. 13 - Kawasaki,...