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VOIVOD Waits For Injured JASON NEWSTED

World Entertainment News Network reports that Canadian metal legends VOIVOD have shelved plans to begin work on a new album to allow bassist Jason Newsted to recover after hurting his arm in a freak accident. Newsted reportedly tore his bicep and rotator cuff trying to catch a bass head that had fal...

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Buried Alive

So this is it, the final farewell to a band that called it quits voluntarily after evolving from barren death metal artisans and English manglers ("Rot to Dead"! "Desperationed Future"!) in the late 1980s to a sleek, melancholy hit-making machine (in their native Finland, anyway). While some would p...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE's STEELE, HELMET's HAMILTON To Guest On Tonight's 'Chaos'

Peter Steele of TYPE OF NEGATIVE and Page Hamilton of HELMET will be the featured interviews on Indie 103.1's "Chaos" metal show tonight (Sunday, January 28). You can listen to the program live on the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and midnight PST (between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. EST) at this location...

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ROB ZOMBIE's 'Halloween' To Officially Begin Filming Tomorrow

According to a posting on the Sheri Moon Zombie (Rob Zombie's wife and star of Rob's movies) fan site Sheri Moon Zombie Net, Rob Zombie will officially start filming his upcoming remake of the 1978 horror classic "Halloween" tomorrow (Monday, January 29) at sunrise. "Rob has been rehearsing with the...

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ROB ZOMBIE's 'Halloween' Remake Protested

Despite previous reports of delays, shooting on Rob Zombie's upcoming remake of the 1978 horror classic "Halloween" has quietly begun — as the outcry over the writer/director's vision of Michael Myers' saga grows more heated. According to Ryan Rotten of Fangoria.com, Zombie began on Wednesday (Janua...

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CRUMBSUCKERS, THE ACCUSED: European Tour Cancelled

Legendary New York hardcore/metal act CRUMBSUCKERS has issued the following statement: "The February 2007 European tour with CRUMBSUCKERS, THE ACCUSED and LYZANXIA has unfortunately been canceled. The decision to cancel the tour was not made by any of the bands or venues, but by the agency that book...

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EDDIE VAN HALEN On Reunion With DAVID LEE ROTH: 'Everything Is Up In The Air'

Brian Hiatt of RollingStone.com reports: The reunion that VAN HALEN fans have been awaiting for twenty-two years began in December, when David Lee Roth walked into Eddie Van Halen's Hollywood home studio. There he rejoined the band for a rehearsal, singing fourteen VAN HALEN classics. "They totally...

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TWISTED SISTER Drummer Says AXL ROSE 'Really Needs To Get His Head Checked'

As an epilogue to his 2006 Bananiversary Celebration, rock 'n' roll comic C.C. Banana has interviewed all five members of TWISTED SISTER. In the second of these five holiday-themed interviews, C.C. Banana speaks with TWISTED SISTER drummer A.J. Pero about their current album "A Twisted Christmas" an...

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'Rock Star' Guitarist JIM MCGORMAN Talks About Touring With PAUL STANLEY

Premier Guitar, a monthly print and web guitar enthusiast publication, has published an article by Jim McGorman, guitarist for Paul Stanley's solo backing group and the house band from the CBS-TV show "Rock Star", about the experience of sharing the stage with the KISS frontman. A couple of excerpts...

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MEGADETH: 'United Abominations' To Be Released In May

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "It was great seeing some of the guitarists that were at [the] Dean [booth at NAMM in Anaheim, California] that I respect as players (most of them from when I was developing my ow...

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REQUIEM: New Song Posted Online

A brand new REQUIEM track, entitled "No Means Nothing", has been posted online at the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the Swiss death metal band's new album, "Premier Killing League", due on March 23 via Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at Stage One studios in Borgentreich, Germany with...

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RUSH Begins Mixing New Album

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson spoke with Canada's Rock Station (95.1 & 100.7 The Rock) earlier in the week about the group's new album, which is believed to have a working title of either "Snakes and Arrows" or "Snakes and Ladders". Alex r...

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TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY: Preserving The True Spirit Of Metal

Hard-hitting veterans Peter Scheithauer (guitar),Todd Barnes (vocals),Dave Ellefson (bass),and Stet Howland (drums) have united to create the bone-jarring, uncompromising metal band TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY, whose debut album, "Lethal Agenda", is set for February 27 release on Demolition Records. Guit...

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ROB ZOMBIE's 'Halloween' Pushed Back?

Launch Radio Networks reports: Rumors spread across the web this week that Rob Zombie was going to rewrite the script for his remake of "Halloween" after a negative review of a leaked draft of the screenplay surfaced on movie news site Ain't It Cool News. Just days after that review appeared, the we...

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TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY: Debut Album To Receive U.S. Release In February

TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY, the new band featuring former MEGADETH/current F5 bassist David Ellefson, ex-W.A.S.P. drummer Stet Howland, guitarist Peter Scheithauer (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHINE) and vocalist Todd Barnes (13-A),will release its full-length debut, "Lethal Agenda", in the U.S. on February 20...