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LAMB OF GOD To Fans: Disregard The Rumors

Richmond, Virginia metal act LAMB OF GOD has issued an official press release further refuting reports that it has committed to this summer's The Family Values Tour. The official Virgin Records e-card for KORN's upcoming "MTV Unplugged" album listed the purported lineup for this year's The Family Va...

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BEHEMOTH Putting Finishing Touches On 'The Apostasy'

Polish extreme metal titans BEHEMOTH are currently wrapping up the tenuous recording process for "The Apostasy", their most ambitious and epic offering yet. The new effort is being recorded in the band's hometown of Gdansk with Nergal (vocals, guitars) and longtime sound engineer Malta in the produc...

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VAN HALEN's 'Best Of' Collection Indefinitely Postponed

Rhino Records has indefinitely postponed the release of VAN HALEN's "Best Of (1978-1984)", the first single-disc compilation exclusively spotlighting 1978-1984, the group's original David Lee Roth era. The album, which was originally set to coincide with VAN HALEN's March 2007 induction into the Roc...

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ENEMY REMAINS Featuring Original FATES WARNING Drummer: First Shows Announced

ENEMY REMAINS, the Newington, Connecticut-based band featuring original FATES WARNING drummer Steve Zimmerman, has announced its first two shows. The quintet will be playing the Webster Theater in Hartford, CT on March 7 with PSYCHOSTICK, and will also be playing at The Riverside in Danielson, CT on...

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Ex-JUDAS PRIEST Singer RIPPER Records Cover Of 'Exciter' For Tribute CD

Former JUDAS PRIEST and current ICED EARTH/BEYOND FEAR singer Tim "Ripper" Owens laid down his vocals on a cover version of PRIEST's "Exciter" at Diamond Recording and Productions in Houston, Texas for an upcoming PRIEST tribute CD. Owens was accompanied by Bobby Blotzer (RATT, co-owner of the Diamo...

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ROBERT PLANT Says That He And JIMMY PAGE Are Out Of Touch

According to Launch Radio Networks, Robert Plant says that, although there's no bad blood between him and LED ZEPPELIN co-founder Jimmy Page, the two have fallen out of touch. Plant spoke to Britain's Mojo magazine, who asked him if he and Page, who co-wrote most of the band's most popular material,...

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WILL HAVEN: The New Era Of The Band Will Be The Best Chapter Yet

Sacramento's WILL HAVEN has released the following "open letter" to its fans: "I first want to start of this letter by saying thank you to all of our amazing fans, and people who have supported WILL HAVEN over the years. When people come up and say they love WILL HAVEN they always have such passion...

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RUSH Engineer Comments On New Album

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, producer/engineer Rich Chycki has commented on the new RUSH album, "Snakes & Arrows", which he recorded and alongside Nick Raskulinecz. "Recording was completed at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York during November/December 2006," Chyck...

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Ex-VINNIE VINCENT INVASION Singer: 'VINNIE Has Never Done Any Dope'

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisted recently conducted an interview with former JOURNEY/VINNIE VINCENT INVASION singer Robert Fleischman. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisted: I remember hearing you on the VINNIE VINCENT INVASION album. I thought you could not do metal bu...

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Slaughtered & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture

It has been awhile since the term goregrind was an apt description of Belgium's ABORTED (well, except for the gore part),as the band has honed a particularly chunky, and marginally more melodic, death metal style these last few years. Some grindy characteristics are still present, but you get the g...

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A Symphony of Suffering

It was the fertile swamplands of southern Florida that spawned, among scads of other bands, the groundbreaking NOCTURNUS in the late 1980s. Their use of a full-time keyboardist was controversial at the time, when the instrument was considered a crutch of the sappiest of the hair-farmer acts. Now, of...

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SHADOWS FALL Drummer's BURNING HUMAN: Debut CD To Be Produced By JAMES MURPHY

BURNING HUMAN, the resurrected death metal band featuring SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner, has entered the studio to begin recording its debut album. The CD, which is not expected before late summer at the earliest, will be produced by legendary guitarist James Murhpy (OBITUARY, DEATH, TESTAMENT,...

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Guitarist VITO BRATTA: I Would Love For WHITE LION Reunion To Happen Today

WHITE LION guitarist Vito Bratta was the in-studio guest on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM last night (Friday, February 16). In what was being billed as his first interview in over 15 years, Bratta discussed what he has been doing since the band's breakup and s...

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VICIOUS RUMORS Signs U.S. Distribution Deal With THE END RECORDS

San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have just confirmed a USA distribution deal with The End Records out of New York. American VR fans and friends can now get teh band's new CD "Warball" through traditional retail outlets, online and via ViciousRumors.com. VICIOUS RUMORS has just announc...

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FOZZY Frontman Chats About Heavy Metal, THE POLICE Reunion; Video Available

Zach Selwyn of "Attack of the Show" recently chatted and sang with wrestler/FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho about heavy metal, THE POLICE reunion, his upcoming memoirs, and the rumors about his return to wrestling. Watch the interview at G4's The Feed. As previously reported, FOZZY's cover of the JUDAS...