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Bronze Memorializes 'DIMEBAG' DARRELL

John Austin of the Fort Worth Star Telegram has issued the following report: Guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott now lies beneath the same sort of bronze tablet that marks the graves of Elvis Presley and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Dalworthington Gardens resident, who helped found the heavy metal group P...
December 9, 2005
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DREAM THEATER Members Featured On New NEAL MORSE Album

DREAM THEATER's Mike Portnoy (drums) and Jordan Rudess (keyboards) are among the guest musicians on former SPOCK'S BEARD/TRANSATLANTIC frontman Neal Morse's new progressive rock masterpiece, "?" (The Question Mark Album). The album will be released in the U.S. on November 1 through Metal Blade Recor...
October 6, 2005
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Message From Fans To DIMEBAG: 'Riff In Peace'

John Austin of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has issued the following report: "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott didn't live to see his 39th birthday. Now, the BIC flame of fandom is kept burning at the metal-guitar hero's hometown resting place. Abbott, who attended Arlington High School and lived in Dalworth...
August 20, 2005
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Pitchfork and Lost Needles

With everyone appropriately ga-ga over the last couple CLUTCH albums, it's easy to forget that the shaggy, tinfoil-hat-wearing stoner rock artisans used to be a pretty abrasive, heavy, and goddamn mean sounding band. There's a vocal minority out there who think the band peaked right out of the start...
August 15, 2005
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New SYSTEM OF A DOWN, THE HAUNTED, CLUTCH Videos To Premiere On MTV2's 'Headbanger's Ball'

MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" will be premiering the following six videos this weekend: SYSTEM OF A DOWN – "Question!" THE HAUNTED – "No Compromise" AVENGED SEVENFOLD – "Bat Country" CLUTCH – "Burning Beard" NEVERMORE – "Final Product" COLD – "Happens All the Time" In addition, Mark Morton from LAMB OF...
August 6, 2005
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CLUTCH: 'Burning Beard' Video Posted Online

CLUTCH's video for the song "Burning Beard", off their latest release, "Robot Hive/Exodus", has been posted online at this location (Quicktime required). "Robot Hive / Exodus" has sold 25,000 copies in the United States since its late June release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "Robot Hive / Exodu...
July 26, 2005
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Robot Hive/Exodus

It's a testament to the organic strengths of CLUTCH that when they set up, start dicking around, and hit "record," the results still outstrip almost every overcalculated bunch of try-too-hard scenesters currently stinking up the record racks. The follow-up to last year's "Blast Tyrant" is definitely...
July 2, 2005
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Artist Killed During CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Concert In Tampa

Valerie Kalfrin of Tampa Bay Online has issued the following report: The Masquerade in Ybor City has beckoned Thomas "Tommy" Laskas to hang out and hear a band since he was a teenager. Years ago, when he was about 15, he borrowed a friend's car to drive to the club at 15th Street ...
June 25, 2005
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CLUTCH To Perform At Virgin Megastore In New York City

CLUTCH and Bam Margera are joining forces to throw a record-release event at Virgin Megastore Union Square in New York City on Thursday, June 23. CLUTCH will be performing and signing copies of their new album, "Robot Hive / Exodus", as well as Bam Margera's new compilation, "Viva La Bands" (which i...
June 16, 2005
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YELLOW MATTER CUSTARD: DREAM THEATER Drummer's BEATLES Cover Band Releases Live DVD

YELLOW MATTER CUSTARD, the BEATLES cover band consisting of Paul Gilbert (RACER X, ex-MR. BIG) on guitar, Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER) on drums, Neal Morse (ex-SPOCK'S BEARD) on guitar and keyboards, and Matt Bissonette (DAVID LEE ROTH) on bass, have issued their long-awaited live DVD, entitled "One...
May 20, 2005
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CLUTCH: New Album Samples Posted Online

A new CLUTCH e-card, containing samples of the new tracks "Burning Beard", "Mice & Gods" and "10,0011,10101", can be accessed at this location. The songs come off CLUTCH's upcoming studio album, "Robot Hive / Exodus", due June 21 via DRT Entertainment. "Robot Hive / Exodus" was produced by J. Ro...
May 18, 2005
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DREAM THEATER Drummer's BEATLES 'Cover Band' Comes To DVD

Neal Morse's (ex-SPOCK'S BEARD) web site has been updated with the following message: "YELLOW MATTER CUSTARD (Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Paul Gilbert and Matt Bissonette) has been captured on DVD. Very cool. It's been Mike Portnoy's dream all his life to be in a BEATLES cover band. (Who would've ever...
April 8, 2005
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Mafia

Legend has it that JAMES BROWN used to make his new records on tour, pretty much as he came up with the hook for each song. He'd pull the bus over in whatever town the band was driving through, hustle everyone into the nearest studio, hum and point and snap his fingers 'till everyone got ...
March 12, 2005
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METALLICA's Fan Worship Documented On 'Metallimania' DVD

Killing Time Productions are releasing an unofficial 95-minute documentary on DVD, titled "Metallimania" and filmed between 1994 to 1996, that humorously captured METALLICA and the outer limits of fan worship in a pre-Napster world. Like "Some Kind of Monster", "Metallimania" was also financed with...
February 28, 2005
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Drummer MARK ZONDER Talks About His Current Status With FATES WARNING

FATES WARNING drummer Mark Zonder recently gave an interview to the group's official web site about his current status with the band, his drumming technique and his other projects, among other topics. Several excerpts from the interview follow: Q: The Official statement regarding your involvement wi...
February 14, 2005