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RUFFIANS To Reunite For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD Festival
RUFFIANS, the band that featured in its ranks late VICIOUS RUMORS frontman Carl Albert, will be reuniting for the first time in 15 years for Germany's Bang Your Head Festival on June 25-26. Other bands set to appear at the festival include ALICE COOPER, QUEENSRŸCHE, UFO, ANTHRAX, TESTAMENT and DEATH...May 18, 2004
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MICHAEL SCHENKER's Manager Blames Impostor For Spreading Rumors About Guitarist's Health
Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker's personal manager, Nancy Lewis, has released the following statement via a Japanese Michael Schenker fan site: "Michael received a strange untraceable email 2 weeks ago He is not dying, not sick or anything else, well, he had a cold. Some person has circulated e...May 13, 2004
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CATARACT Sign With METAL BLADE RECORDS
Swiss metalcore band CATARACT have inked a deal with Metal Blade Records. The band have just completed work on their new album, "With Triumph Comes Loss", at Antfarm Studio in Aarhus, Denmark with producer Tue Madsen for a September 6 release. A vinyl version of the album will be released through De...May 11, 2004
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The End Of Heartache
When KILLSWITCH ENGAGE burst onto the scene in 2002, they lived up to the promise of New England scene legends OVERCAST (from which they had descended) with a sound that defied the nu-metal trends of the moment and went for something a little more traditional, yet still modern enough to sound fresh....May 10, 2004
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MESHUGGAH Name New EP
Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have set "I" as the title of their new EP, due "around June/July" through Fractured Transmitter Records (the label formed by MUSHROOMHEAD vocalist Jason Mann),according to posting on the band's web site. The group finished mixing the EP on May 4 and...May 7, 2004
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VICIOUS RUMORS Confirm Italian Tour Cancellation
As first reported here on April 30, long-running San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have now officially confirmed the cancellation of their previously announced Italian tour. The group's statement on the matter is as follows: "Dear Fans, with much regret, VICIOUS RUMORS has had to cance...May 7, 2004
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FRED DURST: LIMP BIZKIT Did Not Get Dropped
LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Hey there, peeps, it's me, Fred. I am writing to say hello and to fill you in on a couple things. So first off, hello hello hello hello!! I hope you're making the most of your time on earth!! ...May 2, 2004
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QUEENSRŸCHE: 'The Art Of Live' CD Due In June
QUEENSRŸCHE's recently released DVD, "The Art of Live", will be issued on CD format on June 8 through Sanctuary Records. Although the track listing is still being worked out, rumors are that "Comfortably Numb" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" are being replaced by "Anybody Listening", according to a pos...May 1, 2004
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HARDCORE SUPERSTAR Cancel All Activities, Take A Break
Sweden's HARDCORE SUPERSTAR have decided to take a break and "cancel all events for an unknown time," according to a posting on their web site. "The band have been on the road for the last four years and due to this some bandmembers have got some serious health problems." In an interview with ...May 1, 2004
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VICIOUS RUMORS Cancel Italian Tour
VICIOUS RUMORS' previously announced Italian tour has reportedly been cancelled due to guitarist Geoff Thorpe's "health problems". No further information is currently available. As previously reported, VICIOUS RUMORS recently signed a multi-album recording contract with Holland's Mascot Records. The...April 30, 2004
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Drummer JÖRG MICHAEL: STRATOVARIUS Is In Deep Crisis
STRATOVARIUS on-again, off-again drummer Jörg Michael has posted the following message on his official web site: "Here is some news from me. [STRATOVARIUS keyboardist] Jens [Johansson] said he posted something in the STRATOVARIUS forum so I would like to give my view on the past few weeks also. I di...April 29, 2004
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VENGEANCE To Reunite After 14-Year Hiatus
VENGEANCE (a.k.a. VENGEANCE RISING),the pioneering Christian extreme metal band, are reuniting after a 14-year hiatus. The group — Larry Farkas (lead guitar),Glen Mancaruso (drums),Roger Dale Martin (bass),Doug Thieme (guitar) — sans Roger Martinez (vocals, who has since become "a Satanist/athei...April 28, 2004
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URANIUM Launches MP3 Web Site To Support The Metal Underground
Fuse TV's "Uranium" has launched a new part of their recently revamped web site, where underground and even unsigned bands can send in MP3s of their music and have it heard by thousands of people per day. "This is big step forward in helping the metal underground come to the forefront of the Interne...April 23, 2004
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HIMSA And ALL THAT REMAINS Music Featured On MTV's 'Viva La Bam'
This Sunday's (April 25) edition of MTV's "Viva La Bam" will feature the HIMSA track "Dominion", taken from the band's current "Courting Tragedy and Disaster" disc. Fresh off the BLEEDING THROUGH/DEATH BY STEREO tour, the band will shoot a video for "A Girl In Glass" in late May and hit the road wit...April 23, 2004
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SLIPKNOT Record New CD At 'The Haunted House'
SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor recently told The Grand Rapids Press that the band had a series of "unusual" experiences while living at the Harry Houdini Mansion in Laurel Canyon, Calif., with producer Rick Rubin to lay down tracks for the upcoming "Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)". "Oh, it's haunted...April 20, 2004
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