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KING'S X Frontman To Guest On HYDROGYN Album

Just over two decades have passed since the release of 1988's "So Far, So Good... So What!", MEGADETH's third opus. This was axeman Jeff Young's sole outing with the thrash collective and although the man kept busy by such endeavors as teaming with Brazilian phenom Badi Assad and a solo album (2010'...

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METALLICA In Tel Aviv: Tuning-Room Jam, Performance Footage Available

Official Metallica.com footage of METALLICA's May 22, 2010 concert at Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel — including clips of the pre-show tuning-room jam as well as the actual performance — can be viewed below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Creeping Death 02. For Whom The Bell Tolls 03....

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Premieres New Claymation Video

The claymation video for "Save Me", a song off KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's latest, self-titled album, can be viewed below. The clip, which finds the band in an alien encounter, was directed by Jim Starace and is guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz's "favorite video shoot EVER!" Adam tells CraveOnline.com, "It took li...

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Turner Network Television Teams Up With AC/DC For 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

Turner Network Television (TNT) announced today that it has joined forces with Hall of Fame rockers AC/DC to feature the band's single "T.N.T." as the network's theme song for its 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series coverage. The song will serve as the primary musical bed for all six of TNT's races, which...

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KISS: New U.S. Tour Dates Announced

According to AOL's Noisecreep, KISS has announced the next leg of its U.S. tour in support of the band's latest studio album, "Sonic Boom", featuring stops in both amphitheaters and arenas. Instead of selecting an established band as support, KISS has teamed up with Guitar Center to discover a talen...

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DROWNING POOL: New Video Interview Posted Online

Shawn Jones of ILMOEntertainment.com conducted an interview with Texas heavy rockers DROWNING POOL on May 19, 2010 in Peoria, Illinois. Watch the chat below. DROWNING POOL recently announced its partnership with the G.I. Film Festival, a non-profit organization and the only film festival in the nati...

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RHINO BUCKET: Video Interview Available

Argentinean rock journalist Lucas H. Gordon, who currently resides in Hollywood, California, recently conducted an interview with Georg Dolivo (guitar, vocals) and Reeve Downes (bass) of RHINO BUCKET — the Bon Scott-era AC/DC sound-alike band that recorded two albums for Warner Bros./ EMI back in '9...

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TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK Remembers RONNIE JAMES DIO

TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick has posted the following message onhis official blog: "This past weekend, we lost Ronnie James Dio, not only one of the best singers in hard rock and heavy metal, but someone who was polite, well spoken and gentlemanly, something of an anomaly in a genre where 'bad-...

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TAPROOT Song Selected For TNA's 'Slammiversary' Event

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling continues its partnership with Victory Records, announcing the selection of TAPROOT's single "Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)" as the theme song for the TNA blockbuster pay-per-view summer event "Slammiversary". Live from Universal Studios in Orlando, Flor...

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Former AC/DC Drummer CHRIS SLADE To Appear On AC/DC Tribute Album

Versailles Records' forthcoming "Rock & Roll Train: A Millennium Tribute to AC/DC" will feature former AC/DC drummer Chris Slade alongside LIZZY BORDEN guitarist Ira Black on the Bon Scott-era classic "Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll)". Black co-produced the track, along with a...

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PANTERA's 'The Great Southern Trendkill' Album Coming To 'Rock Band' Next Week

Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that PANTERA's metal masterpiece "The Great Southern Trendkill" will be available next week in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer entertainment system and...

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JASON NEWSTED On Leaving METALLICA: 'It Took 10 Years For Me To Decompress'

Tony Hicks of the Contra Costa Times recently conducted an interview with bassist Jason Newsted's (VOIVOD, METALLICA, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM) about Jason's first exhibition of original art, which is being held until June 27, 2010 at Micaëla Gallery (49 Geary Street, No. 234) in San Francisco, California...

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BRUTAL GODZ Parts Ways With Ex-METAL CHURCH Singer, Announces Replacement

BRUTAL GODZ, the new Germany-based project featuring former/current members of BLIND GUARDIAN, RHAPSODY OF FIRE and REBELLION, has parted ways with former METAL CHURCH singer Ronny Munroe and has replaced him with Ian Breeg, a young Russian musician from Moscow. Commented bassist Oliver Holzwarth (w...

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METALLICA Frontman Interviewed On Mexico's 'Soundcheck'; Video Available

Claudio Rodríguez of the Mexican cable/satellite television network Telehit recently conducted an interview with METALLICA frontman James Hetfield for the "Soundcheck" program. The chat, which originally aired this week, can be viewed in two parts below. METALLICA sold out its 13-show Australian/New...

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AC/DC's 'Iron Man' Continues European Chart Reign

According to Billboard.com, AC/DC's "Iron Man 2" (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment) release, which consists of catalog material from the mid-1970s onwards, sees its fourth week at No. 1 of the European Albums chart. "Iron Man 2" continues to hold sway in Austria and the Belgian region of Flanders,...