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Russian Rockers PUSHKING Preparing To Release All-Star Album

Russian rockers PUSHKING are putting the finishing touches on the on their new all-star album entitled "The World As We Love It" (formerly known as "Pushking - Duets"). The CD was produced by Fabrizio Grossi and is being mastered at Precision Mastering in Los Angeles by Tom Baker, who has previously...

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STRATOVARIUS Singer, Ex-SONATA ARCTICA Guitarist Perform Acoustic Versions Of Rock Classics

Video footage of Finnish heavy metal singer Timo Kotipelto (STRATOVARIUS, CAIN'S OFFERING, KOTIPELTO) and guitarist Jani Liimatainen (CAIN'S OFFERING, ex-SONATA ARCTICA) performing acoustic versions of several hard rock classics last night (Thursday, December 31, 2009) in Raahe, Finland can be viewe...

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Celebrate New Year's Eve With PAUL RODGERS

Paul Rodgers, along with TourTV and LiveStream, has announced a very special New Year's Eve Internet broadcast. Beginning at 8:00 p.m. PST on December 31, 2009 through midnight PST January 1, 2010, TourTV will air, in its entirety, "Paul Rodgers New Year's Eve Live '07" recorded live at the El Dorad...

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Reunited GUANTANAMO BAY CITY ROLLERS Perform In Adelaide

Reunited Australian "grindy thrash" band GUANTANAMO BAY CITY ROLLERS returned to Adelaide's Enigma Bar on December 19, 2009 for the first time since supporting INSECT WARFARE there on February 22, 2008. The group's lineup was the same as it was for the 2008 concert: Chappy (vocals) Cheese (guitar) J...

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The Spider Queen

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. "The Spider Queen" from Austin's IGNITOR is to my ears the most disappointing release of 2009. I was one of many that heaped massive amounts of praise on 2007's "Road of Bones", a very well-written, catchy, and rip-roaring heavy metal album that ended up as one of my...

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CARMINE APPICE Interviewed By ROCK MY MONKEY; Audio Available

Rock My Monkey recently conducted an interview with legendary drummer Carmine Appice (SLAMM, VANILLA FUDGE, ROD STEWART, OZZY OSBOURNE, TED NUGENT). The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. Fuel Records released Carmine Appice's latest GUITAR ZEUS album, "Conquering Hero...

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MOONSPELL Working On 'Melodic, Dark And Powerful' New Album

Vocalist Fernando Ribeiro of Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL has issued the following update: "We have finished greatly in Skopje, Macedonia in front of hundreds of fans in na indoor festival and have close the year of 2009 era vulgaris, in what it comes to MOONSPELL live shows. It was a great run, i...

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WARMEN To Play Special 10-Year Anniversary Show; New Compilation CD In The Works

WARMEN, the brainchild of CHILDREN OF BODOM keyboardist Janne Wirman, will celebrate its 10-year anniversary with a concert during the Helsinki Metal Meeting weekend on February 18, 2010 at Dante's Highlight in Helsinki Finland. As if WARMEN's third live performance ever wouldn't be enough to make t...

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NICK OLIVERI: East Coast 'Death Acoustic' Tour Announced

Nick Oliveri (KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, MONDO GENERATOR) has taken his "Death Acoustic" tour to Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Now he is heading home with a run of solo shows across the United States East Coast during January/February and West Coast dates set to follow shortly after. The d...

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DORO: New Munich Footage Posted Online

Video footage of DORO's December 15, 2009 performance at Backstage Werk in Munich, Germany can be viewed below (courtesy of "eblinternational"). "Fear No Evil", the new album from Pesch, was made available in North America on June 2 via AFM/Dismanic/Ryko Distribution. Released in Europe on January 3...

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DEE SNIDER, LITA FORD, WARRANT Perform At ALICE COOPER's 'Christmas Pudding'; Review Available

TWISTED SISTER's Dee Snider, '80s hard rock queen Lita Ford and WARRANT performed at the original shock rocker Alice Cooper's ninth annual Christmas Pudding concert this past Friday (December 18) at Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. Also on the bill were Cooper himself, along with ROGER CLYNE &...

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GUNS N' ROSES Plays Longest Concert Ever In Tokyo

According to a Twitter message by GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, tonight's (Saturday, December 19) GN'R concert in Tokyo, Japan was the band's longest performance ever at three hours and 37 minutes. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. Chinese Democracy 02. Welcome to the Jungle...

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CONQUEST OF STEEL Drummer Recovering From Surgery

Chris "The Destroyer" Mills, drummer with U.K. heavy metal warriors CONQUEST OF STEEL, is currently in hospital recovering from surgery to remove an infected appendix. The band states, "The surgery was successful but he recently had to return to hospital with a severe infection in the wound. The Des...

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PAUL RODGERS Celebrates 60th Birthday

This Thursday (December 17),Paul Rodgers will celebrate his 60th birthday. Scores of family, friends and musicians sat down with Kyle McCurry at WNGZ radio over the last several weeks to talk about the inspiration and legacy of Rodgers' music. Fans can listen to the entire sessions filled with stor...

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ILL VISION: New Song Posted Online

Australian thrash metallers ILL VISION have posted a new song, "Two Faced", on their MySpace page. The cut is part of a new three-track demo of material that will be included on the band's forthcoming third album. The demo was recorded with Aidan Barton, who has previously worked with I KILLED THE P...