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MONGO NINJA Releases Sophomore Album

MONGO NINJA, the punk/metal band featuring drummer Bård G. Eithun (a.k.a. Faust; BLOOD TSUNAMI, SCUM, ABORYM, EMPEROR),released its sophomore album, "No Cunt For Old Men", on May 31 via Indie Recordings. The CD was recorded and mixed in a 48-hour period by Ruben Willem (Haust) at Caliban Studios in...

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IRON MAIDEN Drummer Performs 'War Pigs' As Tribute To RONNIE JAMES DIO; Video Available

Video footage of MCBRAIN DAMAGE — the Florida-based band featuring Nicko McBrain (drums; IRON MAIDEN),Dave "The Beast" Spitz (bass; BLACK SABBATH, GREAT WHITE),Rick "Moby" Baum (guitar),and Tim "Irish" Brown (vocals) — performing cover versions of IRON MAIDEN's "The Number Of The Beast" and BLACK...

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MORBID ANGEL Begins Recording New Album

Florida-based death metal veterans MORBID ANGEL entered Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida on June 22 with engineer Erik Rutan (former MORBID ANGEL guitarist and producer for such bands as CANNIBAL CORPSE, MISERY INDEX and GOATWHORE) to begin recording their ninth full-length album. D...

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PROJECT: FAILING FLESH: Three New Songs Posted Online

PROJECT: FAILING FLESH, the group featuring former VOIVOD/current E-FORCE bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest, Kevin 131 (GARDEN OF SHADOWS, TWISTED TOWER DIRE, BRAVE, WHILE HEAVEN WEPT) and Tim Gutierrez (instruments),has posted three new songs — "Count Back From Ten", "White Light Response" and "Patien...

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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist To Appear On 'Whole Lotta Love' Tribute Album

TWISTED SISTER guitarist Eddie Ojeda has been added to the list of guest musicians who will be featured on the upcoming tribute album "Whole Lotta Love: An All-Star Salute To Fat Chicks". Eddie appears in conjunction with his solo project EDDIE OJEDA'S BAND OF STEEL, featuring vocalist Andre Vanchot...

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The Powerless Rise

Before the word metalcore became a verbal stigmata that critics and bloggers used to pigeonhole any and every band that dared to straddle the proverbial fence and before the scene itself became an oversaturated mockery of itself, the initial marriage of melodic death and hardcore spawned some pretty...

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British Steel: 30th Anniversary Edition

People throw out the term "classic" so often that it tends to lose its true meaning, but when talking about JUDAS PRIEST's 1980 grand slam "British Steel" the meaning of the word cannot be overstated. It is a classic much like AC/DC's "Back in Black", IRON MAIDEN's "The Number of the Beast", BLACK S...

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Draw Down the Moon

While I've never outright "disliked" ICARUS WITCH, I've never found their albums to be especially impacting nor have I gotten in line with what seemed to be a parade of praise from critical circles. Solid albums, yes; ones with long-lasting appeal, no. Some of that had to do with Matthew Bizilia's s...

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JAKE E. LEE Performs With 3 DAY CRUSH; Attends Black Door Bar & Grill Opening In Las Vegas

Former OZZY OSBOURNE/BADLANDS guitarist Jake E. Lee made a rare appearance on May 22 at the grand opening of Dave Navarro's (JANE'S ADDICTION) Black Door Bar & Grill in Las Vegas, Nevada. A Stripped Down TV report on the event, featuring an appearance by Jake around the 30-second mark, can be vi...

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WENDY DIO Discloses Details Of 'Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund'

Ronnie James Dio's widow, Wendy Dio, who also served in the role of Dio's longtime manager, has released the following two statements to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "Statement 1: "Regarding Rock [THE RODS frontman/ex-ELF guitarist David Feinstein] and [MANOWAR bassist] Joey DeMaio's relationships with Ronnie:...

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TAPROOT Bassist Interviewed By ROAD CREW MAGAZINE

Road Crew Magazine recently conducted an interview with bassist Phil Lipscomb of the Ann Arbor, Michigan hard rock band TAPROOT. The chat is now available for streaming below. TAPROOT's new album, "Plead The Fifth", sold around 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut...

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TOOL Frontman's 'Blood Into Wine' Documentary: DVD Bonus Features Revealed

"Blood Into Wine", the award-winning documentary that Filmcritic.com dubbed a "rock 'n' roll version of 'Sideways'" and the Village Voice said was one of the "most intriguing documentaries we've seen in a while," will be loaded with bonus features when it arrives in stores on Sept. 7. The DVD extras...

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TAPROOT Frontman Interviewed On WRIF 101.1 FM

Meltdown of Detroit, Michigan's WRIF 101.1 FM radio station conducted an interview with TAPROOT vocalist/guitarist Stephen Richards at the fourth annual Rock On The Range festival, which was held May 22-23 in Columbus, Ohio. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. TAPROOT's new...

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FORBIDDEN Bassist To Guest On 'Heavy Metal Mayhem'

Bassist Matt Camacho of reactivated San Francisco Bay Area metallers FORBIDDEN will guest on the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" radio show with Mike "The Big Cheese". The interview will take place during the Sunday, June 20 broadcast from 6 to 8 p.m. EST. For information, go to this location. FORBIDDEN is con...

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SINGLE BULLET THEORY Signs With ECLIPSE RECORDS

Philadelphia-based metal band SINGLE BULLET THEORY has inked a four-album deal with Eclipse Records. The group's new CD, "IV" (previously reported to be titled "Divine Ways of Chaos") contains 10 fresh tracks featuring new members John Ruszin III (guitar),Jeff Kalber (bass) and Acacio Carvalho (dru...