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SUICIDAL ANGELS Parts Ways With Bassist

Greek old-school thrashers SUICIDAL ANGELS have issued the following update: "We regretfully announce that our bass player, Sotiris, decided to leave the band due to personal reasons. "It was a tough decision and he struggled for months before making it, but in the end he just believed it to be the...

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DORO Celebrates 25th Anniversary With SCORPIONS, OVERKILL, Ex-NIGHTWISH Members

Doro Pesch celebrated her 25-year career as the reigning queen of German heavy metal by performing a three-hour set last night (Saturday, December 13) at the 20,000-capacity ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany. HOLY MOSES, LEAVES EYES' and ARCH ENEMY opened the show and were followed by full set by DORO...

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JORN Hard At Work On New Album

Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande — who performs under the name JORN — entered the studio in November to begin recording his new solo album, tentatively due in June 2009 via Frontiers Records. The follow-up to this year's "Lonely Are The Brave" CD — which entered the national chart in Norway...

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DEICIDE, VITAL REMAINS: First U.S. Dates Revealed

Florida-based death metal veterans DEICIDE and VITAL REMAINS will team up for a package tour in early 2009. The two bands will bring their infamous live performances to major markets across the United States in February. Support on all dates will come from ORDER OF ENNEAD — the Florida extreme metal...

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RUSH: 'Retrospective 3' Pushed Back To February

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, the release date of RUSH's forthcoming "Retrospective 3" CD/DVD has once again been pushed back — this time to February 24, 2009. "Retrospective 3" will reportedly fulfill the band's obligation to Atlantic Records. Although denied by a spoke...

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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Members Are 'Angels For Animals'

The brainchild of Benjamin Weinman, the creative force behind the critically acclaimed music group THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, Garmutt pet clothing is as credible as it gets. An influential rocker, Weinman has taken some of the imagery associated with the genre his band inhabits and made some amazing...

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WEIRD OWL Signs With TEE PEE RECORDS

Brooklyn's WEIRD OWL has inked deal with Tee Pee Records. The band's debut LP, "Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed", will be released on February 17. WEIRD OWL is a Brooklyn band that resides in the heaviness inherent in the convergence of imagination, poetry and sound. First formed in 2004 and through...

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METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD: 'People Always Complain About Something'

Fish Griwkowsky of the Sun Media recently conducted an interview with METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Sun Media: How do you react to the fact fans are saying this is the best album in years, maybe decades? You're not taking it as an insul...

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RUSH: 'Snakes & Arrows Live' DVD First-Week Sales Revealed

"Snakes & Arrows Live", the new DVD from the legendary rock trio RUSH, sold 20,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 1 on the Top Music Videos chart. Released on November 25 via Zoë Vision/Anthem Entertainment, this three-disc DVD set, also availab...

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ACE FREHLEY's Official Web Site To Launch December 15

Original KISS guitarist's official web site, AceFrehley.com, will launch on December 15, 2008 at noon EST. You can currently visit the site — which will contain music, videos and news, as well as art and graphics from Ace himself — to sign up for a mailing list which will give you access to ...

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WHITE ZOMBIE: 'Let Sleeping Corpses Lie' First-Week Sales Revealed

WHITE ZOMBIE's 4-CD/1-DVD box set, "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" (Geffen/UMe),sold 2,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. A trailer for "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" can be viewed below. Released on November 25, the CDs bring together for the first...

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JORN: 'Live In America' DVD Due In January

Frontiers Records will release of the long-awaited JORN DVD, "Live In America", in Europe on January 23, 2009. "Live in America" is a documentation JORN's first-ever concert in the USA, at the ProgPower USA VII festival in Atlanta, where he performed as a headliner on September 16, 2006. The incredi...

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Founding BUDGIE Member RAY PHILLIPS Working On Solo Debut

Musician Ray Phillips, probably best known for his role as a founding member of legendary Welsh rockers BUDGIE, is set to complete his very first solo album early next year. For Ray, a veteran to the music scene, it all began back in late 1967 in Cardiff, South Wales, when he and bassist vocalist Bu...

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SUICIDAL ANGELS: Back Home From Vienna

Greek old-school thrashers SUICIDAL ANGELS played a show in Vienna, Austria on November 8, 2008. Commented the band: "We're back from our show in Vienna, which was a total fuckin' killer concert! We sincerely thank all the people that attended and reacted so damn well to our music. They thrashed and...

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METALLICA's TRUJILLO Holding His Own With Rock Royalty

Alan Sculley of The Vancouver Province reports: Prior to joining METALLICA, bassist Robert Trujillo played with one of the most colorful figures in all of rock history, Ozzy Osbourne, serving as his bassist for seven years. "I've learned how to cater to personalities, I think, pretty well, even when...