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AC/DC's 'Iron Man 2' Soundtrack Tops U.K. Chart

According to BBC News, veteran rock band AC/DC's latest release has beaten Paul Weller's "Wake Up the Nation" in a closely fought battle to the top of the U.K. album charts. The mid-week official chart update on Wednesday had shown Weller was just in the lead by 3,000 copies. But in the end ...

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Ex-DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist JON LORD Featured In BBC2's 'Rock N' Roll Band'

According to JonLord.org, former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord will be featured in a brand-new, five-part music documentary series on BBC2 investigating what makes the perfect rock and roll band. The documentary series, "Rock N' Roll Band", narrated by Mark Radcliffe, examines each bandmember's r...

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EXODUS Films Two New Videos; Photos Available

San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS filmed two videos on April 1 in Los Angeles with director Jon Schnepp ("Metalocalypse", the animated program about DETHKLOK, the world's most popular death metal band, on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim) on the old set of the television sitcom "Night Court". Behi...

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THOR Requests Help From ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Jon Mikl Thor has sought help from his old friend and fellow bodybuilder, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jon has asked Arnold to see if it was possible to board a military plane bound for Germany at the Beale Air Force Base in Northern California, 45 miles from Sacramento, to attempt to...

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INSIDIOUS DISEASE Signs With CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

INSIDIOUS DISEASE (formerly INSIDIOUS),the international metal project featuring members of DIMMU BORGIR, NAPALM DEATH, OLD MAN'S CHILD and MORGOTH, has inked a worldwide deal with Century Media Records. The band's debut album, "Shadowcast", which was mixed with Russ Russell (NAPALM DEATH, DIMMU BO...

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MIKE PATTON: 'Part Of What FAITH NO MORE Shows Are Is Chaos And Unpredictability'

Erin Broadley of the LA Weekly recently spoke FAITH NO MORE singer Mike Patton about audience interaction and the band's reunion. "With FAITH NO MORE, even though we're a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience," Patton said. "I didn't e...

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JON OLIVA: New Audio Interview Posted Online

Spain's Goetia Metal web site recently conducted an interview with Jon Oliva (mastermind of SAVATAGE and JON OLIVA'S PAIN, co-creator/songwriter of the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA). The chat is now available for streaming in the YouTube clip below. As previously reported, Oliva will take part in a spec...

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AC/DC: 'Iron Man 2' Projected To Sell 80K-100K First Week

According to Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, "AC/DC: Iron Man 2" is on track to sell between 80,000 and 100,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. "AC/DC: Iron Man 2" features 15 classic AC/DC songs selected from ten of the band's st...

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ICED EARTH Announces Select Dates In North America

ICED EARTH has confirmed four North American tour dates for the fall. Meant as an "escape from the studio," these exclusive shows will also get fans the chance to see ICED EARTH guitarist/mainman Jon Schaffer's new project SONS OF LIBERTY on stage for their first-ever live performances. Sep. 10 - Wa...

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JON OLIVA: New Audio Interview Available

Vicky Bradley (a.k.a. Vix the Angel Of Metal) recently conducted an interview with Jon Oliva (mastermind of SAVATAGE and JON OLIVA'S PAIN, co-creator/songwriter of the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA). The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below.

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AC/DC: 'Highway To Hell' Video For 'Iron Man 2' Available

The video premiere of "Highway To Hell" from the AC/DC "Iron Man 2" album can be viewed below. Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC's music will be featured in Marvel Studios' "Iron Man 2", the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster film. In addition, Columbia Re...

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EDGUY Frontman Discusses New AVANTASIA Album; Audio Available

Italian web site LineaRock recently conducted an interview with EDGUY/AVANTASIA frontman Tobias Sammet. The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. AVANTASIA released its new epic masterpiece on April 3 as regular CDs ("The Wicked Symphony" and "Angel Of Babylon"),two sepa...

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JOB FOR A COWBOY Interviewed In Helsinki

Finland's HardcoreSounds.Net conducted an video interview with vocalist Johnny Davy and drummer Jon Rice of Arizona extreme metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY before the band's March 8, 2010 performance in Helsinki with LAMB OF GOD. You can watch the chat below. JOB FOR A COWBOY will embark on a spring Nort...

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SHADOW GALLERY, JON OLIVA'S PAIN Confirmed For PROGPOWER EUROPE Festival

SHADOW GALLERY will headline the ProgPower Europe 2010 festival on Saturday, October 2 at JC Sjiwa in Baarlo, The Netherlands. SHADOW GALLERY, known purely as a studio band until this point, has released six albums while the members juggled other music-related jobs and careers with their recordings....

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PETER STEELE Of TYPE O NEGATIVE: A Remembrance

Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com has posted a personal essay about the passing of TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele. An excerpt follows below. "I can't pretend I really knew TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele, who died Wednesday, reportedly of heart failure, although I'd met and interviewed him seve...