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POWER QUEST Parts Ways With Guitarist BILL HUDSON

Multi-national melodic power metal band POWER QUEST has issued the following update: "We are sorry to announce that after 10 months, Bill Hudson and POWER QUEST have parted ways. The split was extremely amicable and was down to the fact that both parties were struggling with the logistics of Bill be...

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BRIDE Signs With RETROACTIVE RECORDS

Retroactive Records has announced the signing of Christian metallers BRIDE. The band's new album, "Tsar Bomba", is scheduled for release in August. Back in 1985 when BRIDE first was formed, Louisville, Kentucky brothers Dale (vocals) and Troy Thompson (guitar) never imagined that the band would stil...

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War Metal Battle Master

Let's be honest here, the real reason you want to watch this DVD is because of the naked, blood-spattered Keres. The fact that Chicago's LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR is bashing out the title track from its third righteous album of barbarian metal is probably secondary. Maybe that's an exaggeration, as surel...

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Voice of Saturn

If an apocalyptically slow sludge band gets psychedelic on us, is it tuning in, turning on, or selling out? Something tells me Atlanta crunge merchants ZOROASTER won't be swimming in endorsement deals for adding piano and droney chant to "Seeing the Dark", but it does widen their sonic palette in a...

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WHIPLASH: 'Unborn Again' German Listening Party Announced

Reunited New Jersey thrashers WHIPLASH will hold a listening party for their new album, "Unborn Again", on April 17 and April 18 at the Brutz & Brakel Pub at Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany. For more information, visit the Brutz & Brakel MySpace page. WHIPLASH recently completed tracking "Un...

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ANGER AS ART: New Album To Be Produced By CHRIS TRENT

Los Angeles thrashers ANGER AS ART will enter the studio in May to begin recording their new album, "Disfigure", tentatively due this summer via via Old School Metal Records. Commented vocalist/guitarist Steve Gaines: "It can now be stated that the next album, 'Disfigure', will be done with Chris Tr...

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JASON NEWSTED Talks About METALLICA's ROCK HALL Induction; Video Available

Ken of MetalFanzine.net conducted an interview with former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted on Sunday, April 5 after Jason was inducted, along with the current members of METALLICA and the band's late bassist Cliff Burton, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Watch the five-minute...

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American Youth Symphony Presses Ahead With KITTIE Lawsuit

Morgan and Mercedes Lander of KITTIE were greeted at their first 2009 appearance in the U.S. Friday night (April 3) by a process server at the New York New York club in Chesterfield, Michigan. A Canadian judge ordered American Youth Symphony (AYS),which last year filed a lawsuit against the pair, t...

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Updated: METALLICA Performs With Two Bassists At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME; Video Available

METALLICA played "Master Of Puppets" and "Enter Sandman" at tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, with the band's former bassist Jason Newsted and his replacement, Robert Trujillo, both taking part in the performance (the group played as a five-piece). They also led a "surprise ja...

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METALLICA's Private Party In Cleveland; Photos, Video Footage Available

Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPELIN),Flea (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS),Joe Perry (AEROSMITH),Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) and Scott Ian (ANTHRAX) are among the musicians who attended METALLICA private party last night (Friday, April 3) at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio ahead of the band's induction into the...

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'Runnin' Wild...From Ted Nugent' Details Revealed

CMT, Bischoff Hervey Entertainment and Insomnia Media have teamed up to present "Runnin' Wild...From Ted Nugent", an eight-episode competition series in which iconic rocker, hunter and modern-day Davy Crockett, Ted Nugent, teaches ordinary people how to survive in the wild, and then evade the master...

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TOMMY LEE's Impromptu Call-And-Response Session

Video footage of MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee engaging in some call-and-response interaction with the audience at the conclusion of the band's recent concert in New Orleans, Louisiana can be viewed below. Tommy Lee told Billboard.com in January that he has started work on his second METHODS OF MAYH...

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SAXON Frontman Performs With METALLICA In Paris; Video Available

Vocalist Biff Byford of British heavy metal legends SAXON joined METALLICA on stage earlier tonight (Thursday, April 2) at Palais Omnisport de Bercy in Paris, France to perform the SAXON classic "Motorcycle Man". Watch fan-filmed video footage of the performance below. METALLICA's second-ever gig wa...

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TRAIL OF TEARS: New Song Posted Online

Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS has posted a new song, "The Feverish Alliance", on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's sixth album, "Bloodstained Endurance", which will be released this spring via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded and mixed over a six-week period at Sound Suite Studio...

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BLACK SABBATH Drummer BILL WARD Talks To KERRANG! Magazine; Video Available

BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward recently joined the Kerrang! podcast team to discuss the re-releases of the band's first three albums — "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid" and "Masters Of Reality" — the highs and lows of his career, and "those" red tights as seen on the cover of "Sabotage". Watch the 12-min...