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MUNICIPAL WASTE Frontman Performing On Crutches

Crossover thrash merchants MUNICIPAL WASTE have just finished their mammouth country wide USA tour with GWAR. For a band who are so energetic and crazy — using bodyboards, blowups and wizards — the tour hasn't been without its misshaps. Tony Foresta, singer of MUNICIPAL WASTE, said this about an inc...

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SAMMY HAGAR On Possible VAN HALEN / ROTH Reunion: 'I Don't See It In A Million Years'

John Soeder of Cleveland's The Plain Dealer reports: VAN HALEN scored a landslide victory in The Plain Dealer's seventh annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poll. The newspaper asked readers and visitors to www.cleveland.com to tell it which nominees on the latest official Rock Hall ballot are most wor...

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SLIPKNOT Percussionist CLOWN: 'I'm A Magician, Man'

Morley Seaver of BellaOnline.com recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn Crahan. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On how SLIPKNOT's new two-DVD set, entitled "Voliminal: Inside The Nine", came to be: "I've had a lot of revelations in probably the last five years of m...

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Former SOILWORK, HIMSA Members To Help Promote CAPARISON GUITARS At NAMM Show

Peter Wichers (ex-SOILWORK),Peter Joseph (THE ABSENCE),Steve Stell (ENFORSAKEN),Matthew Wicklund (ex-HIMSA, OPHIDIAN) are among the Caparison Guitars artists that are expected to make appearances at January's NAMM show in Anaheim, California at the Anaheim Convention Center. Japanese guitar manuf...

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DEAD MENS DREAMS: Pre-Production Demo Posted Online

DEAD MENS DREAMS, the Orlando/West Palm Beach Florida-based hard rock band featuring 5 BILLION DEAD singer Strain, RESPONSE NEGATIVE drummer Jim McCourt, STILLKEPT guitarist Claudzilla, and LO bassist Perry Stern, has uploaded a pre-production version of its song "Machines Will Take Our Souls" on it...

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IRON MAIDEN To Play U.K.'s Donington Park In June?

According to Last.fm, IRON MAIDEN has booked the U.K.'s Donington Park for June 6, 2007 — two days before the Download festival kicks off. This would, of course, fit with the rumors lately about MAIDEN going on a festival tour next summer, and the fact that MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson has been a...

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Photos From SLIPPED DISC In-Store Archives Posted Online

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a gallery of Slipped Disc Records "in-store" archives, featuring photos of such artists as MEGADETH, SLAYER,...

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ISIS Announces Headlining Tour

ISIS has announced the details of its first headlining tour in support of "In the Absence of Truth". Tickets go on sale on December 16. The openers on the trek are as follows: JESU (all dates except March 15-16) TORCHE (February 26 - March 16) ZOZOBRA (March 17 - April 8) Confirmed dates are as ...

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DERRICK GREEN Says MAX CAVALERA's SEPULTURA 'Reunion' Talk Is 'Kind Of Bizarre'

Washington D.C.'s Express recently conducted an interview with SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Express: How's the [U.S.] tour going? Green: Crazy. It's been crazy good [Laughs]. It's been very different to be back in the U.S. — to be here finally. It's taken a...

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JON OLIVA On SAVATAGE: 'It's Over But It's Not Over'

Rock My Monkey recently conducted an interview with SAVATAGE/JON OLIVA'S PAIN mastermind Jon Oliva. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Rock My Monkey: You made it clear that SAVATAGE is over, but when I talked to Zach Stevens a week ago... Jon Oliva: Well, it's over but it's not over, you know ...

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NAPALM DEATH: Long Island Concert Cancellation Explained

British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH have posted the following message on their official web site: "Many, many apologies to all our fans that turned up to [Friday night's, Nov. 24] show [at Club Ritual in Levittown, New York]. The club did not have a working PA/sound system. We tried to resolve t...

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MY RUIN Frontwoman: New Album 'Has Become My Recovery'

MY RUIN lead vocalist Tairrie B., who was seriously injured in a car accident in late September, has issued the following message via the group's MySpace page: "Dear friends, although I do not believe in Thanksgiving (in the Biblical sense of the day) ~that's a joke~ *cough* (actually, when you thin...

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MOUNTAIN Legend LESLIE WEST Teams Up With DEAN GUITARS

Rock legend Leslie West, from the band MOUNTAIN, has teamed up with Dean Guitars to create a Leslie West Signature Model — a custom, single cutaway, co-designed by West and company founder Dean B. Zelinsky. West's legend became synonymous with tone when he dialed a ton of it out of his Jr. for the c...

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MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP To Return To Japan In February

Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker's official web site has been updated with the following message: "After a six-year absence, Japan again was 'ready to rock!' All shows were sold out and the venues were packed. The air was filled with rock 'n' roll and the crowd roared like the devil himself. Whe...

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: New Drummer Needed

Justin Donnelly of The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER guitarist Brian Eschbach. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On how well the current incarnation of the band is holding up on the road: "It's pretty gruelling on the road sometimes, and since the...