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GREAT WHITE: Names Of 100 Fire Victims Read At Sentencing For Club Owners

The Associated Press reports: A hearing to sentence the two brothers who owned a nightclub where a fire started by rock band GREAT WHITE's pyrotechnics, killing 100 concertgoers, on Friday took on a memorial feel. It began with the lights being dimmed and a slideshow flashing pictures of each of the...

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GREAT WHITE: Families Look To Lawsuit For Accountability In Nightclub Fire

The Associated Press reports: Now that the criminal case stemming from The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island is ending, the families of some of the 100 people killed in the blaze are looking to a massive civil case for accountability. The federal lawsuit, filed by nearly 300 people who were inj...

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ALL SHALL PERISH Seeks Touring Rhythm Guitarist

Guitarist Ben Orum of the Oakland, California-based melodic hardcore death metal band ALL SHALL PERISH has issued the following update: "2007 is looking to be a big year for ALL SHALL PERISH, and as much as I wish I could dedicated my entire life to the band 24/7, I have a new family and a ...

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AVA INFERI: New Songtitles Revealed

Portugese metallers AVA INFERI are currently working on the material for their second full-length album, "The Silhouette", tentatively due next year via Season of Mist. "We are very proud to say that all the fundamentals for [the new album] are close to completion," the band writes. "Finally! It's b...

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OZZY To Go Bounty Hunting?

Syndicated columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith have issued the following report via NationalLedger.com: If anybody could get criminals to listen, it would be Ozzy Osbourne, claims Duane "Dog" Chapman. With the fourth season of his reality show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter", already in productio...

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Review: AXL ROSE's Delayed Return At INLAND INVASION Falls Flat

Ben Wener of The Orange County Register reports: The harder-edged sixth staging of KROQ's Inland Invasion festival was supposed to be remembered for the highly anticipated but somewhat dubious return of headliner GUNS N' ROSES, marking oft-ridiculed, long-missing Axl Rose's first major performance n...

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Uncompromised

"If you want ultimate heaviness, go buy a HOSTILITY CD!" It is the quote from famed producer Colin Richardson on the promotional copy of HOSTILITY's debut, "Uncompromised", an album to which he lends his incredible mixing skills. Who out there really believes that of all the bands purporting to be t...

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REKUIEM Plans New Album, Live DVD

REKUIEM (formerly REQUIEM),the cult NWOBHM band that was at the very start of the British metal movement alongside such names as DIAMOND HEAD and WITCHFINDER GENERAL, has posted the following message on its official web site: "Work will very soon start on a brand new REKUIEM album, as yet untitled....

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FIREBALL MINISTRY, ARTIMUS PYLEDRIVER and VAINS OF JENNA To Team Up For TRIPLE THREAT TOUR

While beer snobs around the world will soon flock to Germany for the country's annual Octoberfest, the more budget-conscious boozers among us will have an even more intoxicating entertainment option this fall right around the corner at the local rock bar. On Oct. 13, The Triple Threat Tour — featuri...

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HAMMERFALL, LIZZY BORDEN, ANDROMEDA Members To Guest On MOUNTAIN OF POWER CD

Swedish guitarist Janne Stark (OVERDRIVE, LOCOMOTIVE BREATH) has released more information about his MOUNTAIN OF POWER project, featuring guest appearances by current and/or former members of HAMMERFALL, LIZZY BORDEN, ANDROMEDA and TREAT, among many others. Says Janne: "The project is basically me w...

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BIOMECHANICAL To Record 'Painkiller' Cover With Original PRIEST Producer

U.K. progressive epic thrash metallers BIOMECHANICAL will record a cover version of "Painkiller" by JUDAS PRIEST in October. The track will be produced by Chris Tsangarides, who worked on the 1990 original with PRIEST. The recording will happen over three days at Tsangarides' own studio, the Ecology...

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EUROPE: More Scandinavian Tour Dates Announced

Reunited Swedish hard rockers EUROPE have added Danish and Finnish dates to their upcoming Scandinavian tour. The schedule is now shaping up as follows: Oct. 26 - Lund, SWE - Olympen Oct. 27 - Kalmar, SWE - Palace Oct. 28 - Skövde, SWE - Valhall Oct. 30 - Copenhagen, DEN - Vega Nov. 01 - ...

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'Chaos' DJ FULL METAL JACKIE Lands VJ Slot On HOLLYWOOD MUSIC's Metal Program

Radio personality Full Metal Jackie, best known for her two-hour Wednesday night metal program known as "Chaos" on the Los Angeles alternative radio station Indie 103.1, has signed on to the Internet-only music video channel Hollywood Music Television as the new VJ for its heavy metal specialty chan...

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FOREFATHER Featured On New FOLKEARTH CD

The new FOLKEARTH CD, "By the Sword of My Father", featuring the FOREFATHER-penned track "The Lady's Gift" and contributions to two other tracks, is now available. The first album, "A Nordic Poem", has also been re-released. According to a posting on the FOREFATHER web site, "There are some mistakes...

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EUROPE: New Album Audio Samples Available

Audio samples of the new EUROPE tracks "Let the Children Play" and "Always the Pretenders" have been posted online at the band's official web site. Both songs come off the reunited Swedish hard rockers' new album, "Secret Society", which is scheduled for release in Europe on October 27 (November 18...