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JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Madrid Video Footage, Photos Available

MetalSymphony.com has uploaded photos of Jeff Scott Soto's (TALISMAN, JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) April 18, 2009 concert at Sala Heineken in Madrid, Spain. Fan-filmed video footage of the show can be viewed below. Jeff Scott Soto's setlist was as follows: 01. Intro 02. 21st Century 03. Colour My XTC...

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SLIPKNOT's CLOWN Leaves Canadian Tour To Be With His Family

SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan has been forced to leave the band's Canadian tour due to what singer Corey Taylor has described as "a very terrible, terrible predicament going on in [Crahan's] family". Fan-filmed video footage of Taylor addressing Clown absence during the band's May 1, 2...

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ISIS: Entire New Album Available For Streaming

"Wavering Radiant", the fifth full-length album from ISIS, the innovative Los Angeles-by-way-of-Boston-based band, is available for streaming in its entirety on the group's MySpace page. "Wavering Radiant" is scheduled for release on May 5 via Ipecac Recordings. The CD, produced by Joe Baressi (TOOL...

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Evolution Through Revolution

Hard to believe it's been twelve years since BRUTAL TRUTH released the breakthrough "Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom". In retrospect though, it seems that absence can make the heart grind harder as "Evolution Through Revolution" is as chaotically creative as anything extreme metal has to offer. Never o...

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THIS ENDING: Behind-The-Scenes Footage From 'Dead Harvest' Video Shoot Posted Online

THIS ENDING, the Swedish death metal band featuring AMON AMARTH drummer Fredrik Andersson, has posted behind-the-scenes footage (see below) from the making of the group's "Dead Harvest" video. The song is the title cut of THIS ENDING's second album, which was released on January 30, 2009 in Germany,...

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Kingston Mayor And Chief Of Police Enlist In The KISS Army

Kingston, Ontario, Canada's The Whig Standard reports: If Gene Simmons comes to Kingston, Mayor Harvey Rosen said he knows just what he'll do. "I'll make for him my incomparable salmon souffle, which is light as a cloud, melts in your mouth, tastes like heaven," Rosen said. Rosen said he's not a mem...

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IKUINEN KAAMOS Signs With MADDENING MEDIA

Finnish "dark progressive" metal band IKUINEN KAAMOS has inked a deal with Maddening Media. The group will enter the studio on May 17 to begin recording its new album, "Fall Of Icons", for a fall release. In the meantime, IKUINEN KAAMOS' latest EP, "Closure", is being made available for streaming as...

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Ex-DROWNING POOL Singer Interviewed On 'All Knowing Force'; Audio Available

Former DROWNING POOL and current AM CONSPIRACY vocalist Jason "Gong" Jones was the featured guest on the April 7, 2009 edition of the "All Knowing Force" web-based interview show. The 35-minute chat is available for download as an MP3 audio file at this location. "All Knowing Force" is streamable at...

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AM CONSPIRACY: Photos From The Studio Posted Online

AM CONSPIRACY, the band featuring former DROWNING POOL vocalist Jason "Gong" Jones, recently entered Belle City Sound studio in Racine, Wisconsin with Chris Djuricic (NOVEMBERS DOOM bassist) to begin recording its full-length debut. A late 2009 release via Burnhill Union Records — a newly launched i...

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MASTODON's BRENT HINDS: 'You Made Me So Mad I Wanna Punch You In The Face'

MASTODON singer/guitarist Brent Hinds recently spoke to Revolver magazine about how he was jumped following the band's performance at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards and suffered a blow that nearly ended his life. He had just attended an MTV Music Video Awards after-party, where he hung out and dran...

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DAVID COVERDALE On JOE LYNN TURNER: 'Next He'll Be Accusing Me Of Wearing A Wig On Stage'

David Coverdale has released a new statement exclusively to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding Joe Lynn Turner's (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) allegations that the WHITESNAKE frontman lip-synchs to pre-recorded tapes of vocals in concert. Coverdale said, "I am shocked, very disappointed and surpr...

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CHICKENFOOT: First North American Dates Announced

CHICKENFOOT, the new rock supergroup comprised of drummer Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS),bassist Michael Anthony (ex-VAN HALEN),guitarist Joe Satriani and vocalist Sammy Hagar (ex-VAN HALEN),will take the stage for a limited number of North American live shows, featuring music from their self...

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Depths

If there was ever a band to add credibility to the widely despised and often trendy subgenre of deathcore, that band is OCEANO. To be completely fair, the Chicago-based quartet is closer to an evolved and diverse take on modern death metal than they are to the throngs of faceless "breakdown-grind-gr...

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Corpus in Extremis: Analysing...

The band that has sated so many in the absence of CARCASS for all those years, Sweden's GENERAL SURGERY get tagged as the ultimate tribute act and it's usually intended as a high compliment. The song titles, the album title (hello? "Analysing Necroticism"),the medical atrocity lyrics, you name it,...

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BILLY CORGAN On The Future Of SMASHING PUMPKINS

SMASHING PUMPKINS mainman Billy Corgan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Hello from sunny California, where I'm currently working with some of my friends on new SMASHING PUMPKINS songs. The mood here is relaxed, serene, and studious as my pals are helping me with som...