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STEVEN ADLER Hopes To Be Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME With His New Band
Rock Rebel Magazine recently conducted an interview with ADLER members Steven Adler (drums) and Lonny Paul (guitars). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Rock Rebel Magazine: Your first gig was in Cape Coral. How was the audience as you played new material? Steven: Yes, that was our fir...December 29, 2012
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RUDY SARZO Interviewed At '95.5 KLOS Christmas Show' (Video)
Legendary bassist Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO) was interviewed backstage at the 95.5 KLOS Christmas Show, which took place on December 13 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. You can now watch the chat below. In a recent interview with Artisan News, Sarzo said...December 29, 2012
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MADONNA's Guitarist MONTE PITTMAN To Record 'Heavy' Album With Former METALLICA Producer
Monte Pittman — who has recorded and toured with PRONG in addition to playing guitar for Madonna and "American Idol" finalist Adam Lambert — has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help cover the cost of recording his next "heavy" album, "M.P.3: The Power Of Three, Pt. 2". Says Pittman: "As some say...December 27, 2012
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RUDY SARZO: Why I Decided To Join GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE
Legendary bassist Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO) says that he decided to join Geoff Tate's newly assembled version of QUEENSRŸCHE because the the opportunity to work with a "world-class vocalist" like Tate was too good to pass up. "My motivation for joining the band is, you...December 27, 2012
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DEFTONES Singer Says CHI CHENG Would 'Absolutely' Appreciate Band's New Album
Ronan McGreevy of The Irish Times recently conducted an interview with DEFTONES lead singer Chino Moreno. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Irish Times: Your new album is called "Koi No Yokan". Can you explain the title? Chino: It is a Japanese term which roughly translates as lov...December 20, 2012
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JASON NEWSTED Slams Bands Who Charge Money For Meet-And-Greets: 'I Think It's Bullsh*t'
On December 18, Brandon Marshall of Sonic Excess conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Sonic Excess: Welcome back! The metal word has missed Jason Newsted. Every...December 19, 2012
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Former MERCYFUL FATE/KING DIAMOND Guitarist Launches DENNERS TRICKBAG
Legendary Danish heavy metal guitarist Michael Denner (MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND) has launched a brand new band called DENNERS TRICKBAG. "It's a project Denner started about six months ago," the guitarist's webmaster tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "First, he wanted to make some good music, with some of h...December 19, 2012
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Silverthorn
A few years back, I was stranded outside a venue as guest of a band opening for symphonic metallers KAMELOT. My hosts had been detained at customs on the same day as the gig, hence their late arrival. Fortunately for me, I'd interviewed former KAMELOT vocalist Roy Khan a week prior and the band spie...December 17, 2012
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Concerto For Group And Orchestra
It may come off pass? to say the late Jon Lord was fond of classical music. As we've come to learn over the years through Yngwie Malmsteen and Eddie Van Halen's Mozart, Bach and Beethoven translations into heavy metal form, the two styles have exhibited a propensity for marriage of the finest capaci...December 17, 2012
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Temporal
It's hard for me not to interject a personal note whenever discussing ISIS, so humor me a minute, if you will. To me, this was never a "post metal" band, a stupid, supercilious term I've always objected to in the first place. ISIS was an empirical, cinematic symposium of darkness and light, a sterli...December 17, 2012
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Be 3
No, this isn't the black metal band, KRUK, albeit, if you hang out long enough with this one, you'll hear an out-of-place death whoop crash into "Master Blaster" on their latest album, "Be 3". This incarnation of KRUK hails from Poland and while they do boast an album in their catalog titled "Before...December 17, 2012
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QUEENSRŸCHE's LA TORRE Says 'People Are Shocked To Hear' 'Queen Of The Reich' Performed Well
The Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE has finished recording the drums for its new album at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Washington with producer James "Jimbo" Barton — the man who engineered and mixed the band's classic 1988 LP, "Operation: Mindcrime", and its 1990 follow-up, "Empir...December 13, 2012
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PAUL DI'ANNO, BLAZE BAYLEY Join Forces For IRON MAIDEN Classic (Video)
Former IRON MAIDEN singers Blaze Bayley and Paul Di'Anno joined forces for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, which concluded this past Saturday, December 8 in Auckland. Fan-filmed video footage of Di'Anno and Bayley performing MAIDEN's theme song, "Iron Maiden", in Auckland can be seen below. Bay...December 11, 2012
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OBITUARY: Audio Interview With DONALD TARDY
Omar Cordy of Metal Army America recently conducted an interview with drummer Donald Tardy of Florida death metal veterans OBITUARY. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. In an interview with Denmark's Metal Revolution, vocalist John Tardy was asked about OBITUARY's switch from R...December 10, 2012
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YES To Perform Three Classic Albums In Their Entirety In One Evening
Call it a true classic rock triple header — and the quintessential live concert experience. In a career first, iconic and Grammy-winning rock band YES will perform three of their classic albums in their entirety, all in one concert, on a special tour in 2013: 1971's "The Yes Album", 1972's "Close To...December 10, 2012
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