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DEF LEPPARD Bassist: '70s Covers Album Due In September

DEF LEPPARD bassist Rick Savage has revealed to Hoover's Online that the group's latest project is a covers album of hits from the Seventies, tentatively due in September. "We are playing songs from all the great rock bands, including DAVID BOWIE and ROXY MUSIC," Savage said. "It originally was a bi...

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DISTANT THUNDER: Debut Album Delayed

DISTANT THUNDER, the new band featuring former HELSTAR/DESTINY'S END and current SEVEN WITCHES frontman James Rivera, have had the release date of their debut album, "Welcome the End", pushed back to June 7 through Germany's Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at Spyder Studio in Houston, Texas an...

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DISTANT THUNDER Confirmed For Germany's KEEP IT TRUE III Festival

DISTANT THUNDER, the new band featuring former HELSTAR/DESTINY'S END and current SEVEN WITCHES frontman James Rivera, have been confirmed for Germany's Keep It True III festival, set to be held November 6 in Lauda-Königshofen. In addition to performing several brand-new DISTANT THUNDER originals, th...

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LEASH LAW Set U.S. Release Date For Debut Album

LEASH LAW, the new Florida-based group featuring vocalist Wade Black (ex-CRIMSON GLORY, SEVEN WITCHES),guitarist Rick Renstrom (ROB ROCK),drummer Richard Christy (ICED EARTH, ex-DEATH),bassist Stephen Elder (ROB ROCK),and guitarist Emo Mowery (TIWANAKU, ex-NOCTURNUS),have set a May 25 U.S. rele...

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DISTANT THUNDER: Live Video Posted Online

DISTANT THUNDER, the new band featuring former HELSTAR/DESTINY'S END and current SEVEN WITCHES frontman James Rivera, filmed their May 15 appearance at Houston's F.B.I. Club for an upcoming DVD. In addition, the footage will be shown on Germany's Viva music channel at a later date. A video clip of t...

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AMERICAN HEARTBREAK: New Album To Feature Guest Appearance By Ex-KIX Guitarist

AMERICAN HEARTBREAK, the San Francisco Bay Area band featuring former members of JETBOY, EXODUS and SAMIAM, are completing work on the follow-up to last year's "You Will Not Be Getting Paid" (Perris Records) for a late 2004 release through an as-yet-undetermined label. The band, who are currently un...

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DREAM THEATER's RUDESS, YES' WAKEMAN To Perform Together

DREAM THEATER's Jordan Rudess and YES legend Rick Wakeman will be performing together tonight, May 18h at the Moog Fest. The event will be held at B.B. King's in New York City. As previously reported, Jordan Rudess and Richard Lainhart, synthesist extraordinaire, will be performing live online on Su...

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TROUBLE: New Studio Album To Surface In Early 2005

Rick Wartell, guitarist for the reunited Chicago doom legends TROUBLE, has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Hey, how the hell ya doin'? Just wanted to give you an update on where we are at this point. [Singer] Eric [Wagner] is in [San Francisco] with [producer] Vinny [...

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Former MEGADETH Guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN Comments On FOZZY Guest Appearance

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman recently spent time at Heartbeat Studios in Tokyo, Japan laying down guitars on a special track to be mixed in 5.1 surround sound by legendary QUEEN producer Mack ("Another One Bites The Dust", "Dragon Attack", etc.) The tune will be available as a bonus trac...

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STEVE VAI, TWISTED SISTER's J.J. FRENCH To Judge Guitar Face-Off

The New York Post's Page Six reports: "A gang of guitar gods has agreed to judge a photo search of America's greatest 'guitar face' — the musical mugging that some overexuberant ax-men do during a solo. The photos are being evaluated by Steve Vai, Hank Williams Jr., BILLY IDOL sideman Steve Stevens,...

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WATCHTOWER: Brand-New Live Videos Posted Online

Progressive metal legends WATCHTOWER have posted two live videos from their May 1, 2004 appearance at the second annual Robb's Metal Works showcase in San Antonio, Texas. Check them out: Social Fears (11 MB – Windows Media) Control and Resistance (13 MB – Windows Media) Commented WATCHTOWER guitaris...

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VH1 Counts Down '100 Most Metal Moments' In Five-Night Special

MOTÖRHEAD, W.A.S.P.'s Blackie Lawless, POISON's Bret Michaels, former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach, ANTHRAX, L.A. GUNS, KISS, ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil, Ronnie James Dio and FASTER PUSSYCAT are among the artists featured in "100 Most Metal Moments", a VH1 special focusing on the "entertai...

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SLIPKNOT: CHRIS FEHN, PAUL GRAY Interviews Posted Online

Several audio clips of SLIPKNOT members Chris Fehn (percussion) and Paul Gray (bass) talking about the group's much-anticipated third full-length album, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)", have been posted online at the Toazted.com web site. Check them out here. "Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)", whic...

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SLIPKNOT Drummer: 'We've Grown Up A Lot'

MTV.com has posted a lengthy interview with producer Rick Rubin and SLIPKNOT members Corey Taylor (vocals) and Joey Jordison (drums) about the making of SLIPKNOT's much-anticipated third full-length album, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)", due on May 25 through Roadrunner Records. What follows are...

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FOZZY Singer: New Album Will Blow People Away

FOZZY frontman/WWE superstar Chris Jericho recently spoke to WWE.com about the recording process for the group's third album, "All That Remains", tentatively due this summer through an as-yet-undisclosed label (the group's last two offerings came out through Megaforce Records). According to Jericho,...