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ROB HALFORD Says Reactions To His Digital Entertainment Packages Are 'Off The Charts'

For more than a decade, value-added CD and DVD packaging have spurred sales and achieved very impressive appearances and functions. Finally, the brethren to physical packaging in the digital arena has arrived, and it too offers distributors unlimited premium services for their targeted consumers. As...

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JUDAS PRIEST On New CD: 'Everything Is Coming Together And Sounding Really Fantastic'

JUDAS PRIEST is currently recording a concept album about the 16th Century French prophet Nostradamus. The band's management representative, Jayne Andrews, has issued the following update: "The band are well under way in the studio. Everything is coming together and sounding really fantastic!! Glenn...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE To Film 'The Arms Of Sorrow' Video Next Month

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will film a video for its new single, "The Arms of Sorrow", in March. The song comes off the group's new album, "As Daylight Dies", which has sold 203,000 copies in the United States since its November 21 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD is the follow up to 2004's Gr...

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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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Ex-DAMAGEPLAN Singer To Play Guitar For KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

Reliable sources have informed BLABBERMOUTH.NET that former HALFORD/DIESEL MACHINE guitarist and ex-DAMAGEPLAN vocalist Patrick Lachman will fill in for KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz on the band's upcoming North American tour with DRAGONFORCE, CHIMAIRA and HE IS LEGEND. Standing in for...

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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman Says 'Nostradamus' May Turn Into Double Album

JUDAS PRIEST is currently recording a concept album about the 16th Century French prophet Nostradamus. In a recent interview with Rockdetector's Garry Sharpe-Young, Rob Halford admitted the band's often perceived secrecy was sometimes intentional. "Look, I love the Internet as a tool for knowledge g...

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JUDAS PRIEST: Upcoming Book Is 'Not True Story' Of Band

JUDAS PRIEST management representative Jayne Andrews has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "We would like to make it clear to everyone that a book which is due out soon, entitled 'Defenders Of The Faith - The True Story Of Judas Priest' by Neil Daniels, is not an officia...

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CAGE Signs With DESTROY ALL RECORDS ENTERTAINMENT

San Diego, California-based heavy metal band CAGE has signed an exclusive deal with new up-and-coming label Destroy All Records Entertainment for the North American release of its fourth CD, entitled "Hell Destroyer". "Hell Destroyer" was recorded, engineered, produced and mixed at Richard Carr Stud...

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ROB HALFORD: Rare 1987 Video Interview Posted Online

A 10-minute video interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford and former SURGICAL STEEL guitarist Jim Keeler, which originally aired in 1987 on the local Arizona TV program "Backstage Pass", has been posted online at YouTube.com. Topics include SURGICAL STEEL and Keeler and Halford's decision t...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: New Studio Video Update Available

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has issued a video report from the studio in Hollywood, California where he is currently mixing his new solo album, entitled "Angel Down" with producer Roy Z (BRUCE DICKINSON, HALFORD, JUDAS PRIEST). Check it out at this location. Due later in the year via an...

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'Metal: The Definitive Guide' Book Due In April

Garry Sharpe-Young's next book, a 608-page, 600,000-word treatise simply titled "Metal: The Definitive Guide", will be published in the U.S. on April 28 by Backbeat Books. Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST provided the foreword. He wrote, in part, "From its beginnings out of Birmingham, England in the lat...

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SLAYER Guitarist On Possible ROCK HALL Induction: If It Happens, It'll Be After It's Important

D.X. Ferris of Cleveland Scene recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's seemingly youthful endurance: "I try to take all my experiences from growing up as a fan and apply them to SLAYER. I think that's why our fans are so .....

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ROB HALFORD On New JUDAS PRIEST CD: 'We're A Long Way From The Finishing Line'

Sweden's Metalshrine conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford on January 30, 2007. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Metalshrine: I was watching the video for [the new HALFORD song] "Forgotten Generation" on YouTube and there's a lot of disturbing images with police violence...

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VIOLENT STORM Confirmed For Finland's SAUNA OPEN AIR Festival

VIOLENT STORM, the new band formed by ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/BLACKMORE'S NIGHT bassist Mick Cervino, has been confirmed for the Sauna Open Air festival, set to take place June 9 in Tampere, Finland. Headlining the event will be HEAVEN AND HELL, with SONATA ARCTICA, LEVERAGE, ENTWINE, THUNDERSTONE and K...

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Reunited SACRED REICH Announces Two Exclusive Dates In Arizona

The original lineup of the long-defunct Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH — Phil Rind (bass, vocals),Wiley Arnett (lead guitar),Jason Rainey (rhythm guitar) and Greg Hall (drums) — will reunite for several shows in Europe this summer, including an appearance at the Wacken Open Air festival on August...