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KISS Play Final Japanese Show; Setlist, Photos Available

KISS' official web site, KissOnline.com, has been updated with the following report: "KISS just finished rockin' the Fuji Speedway! Tonight's [July 23] crowd was easily the most intense of the tour and KISS responded to the crowd in a big way, delivering an energenic, powerful set that ended their s...

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KISS Offers Three Additional Songs In Fukuoka, Japan Setlist, Photos Available

KISS' official web site, KissOnline.com, has been updated with the following message: "Tonight [July 20] KISS rocked Fukuoka [Japan] with a powerful attack that included three additional songs as well as a great medley of KISS classics! Feeding off another energetic crowd, KISS put it in high gear f...

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KISS Rocks Nagoya: Setlist Revealed; Photos Available

KISS' official web site, KissOnline.com, has been updated with the following report: KISS just rocked Nagoya's Rainbow Hall, tearing through a set list which included the first ever Japanese performance of "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" and several other classics not played on their 2004 visit to Japan, i...

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CORNERSTONE Completes Work On 'Two Tales and One Tomorrow'

CORNERSTONE, the Danish/British melodic metal band featuring YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/ex-RAINBOW frontman Doogie White and ex-ROYAL HUNT bassist Steen Mogensen, has posted the following message on its official web site: "[The new CORNERSTONE album] 'Two Tales and One Tomorrow' is now mixed and mastered. Ste...

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PRETTY MAIDS Sign With FRONTIERS RECORDS

Frontiers Records has announced the signing of Danish metal legends PRETTY MAIDS to a multi-album deal. The group's long awaited follow-up to 2002's "Planet Panic", entitled "Wake Up to the Real World", will be released in November. Commented singer Ronnie Atkins: "The new record has all the tradema...

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Struck-By-Lightning METALLICA Fan Talks To Denver TV Station: Video Available

The Colorado teenager who was listening to METALLICA on his iPod when he was struck by lightning last Sunday (July 2) spoke to Denver's 9News.com about the experience. Watch the two-minute video report at this location (Windows Media). 17-year-old Jason Bunch of Castle Rock thought he would have tim...

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DEEP PURPLE's 'Concerto For Group And Orchestra' To Be Performed By Italian Jazz Musicians

Jon Lord's (ex-DEEP PURPLE) "Concert for Group and Orchestra" will be performed live in Italy by an Italian jazz trio and the "Arturo Toscanini Foundation" orchestra. The jazz band is composed by Vito Di Modugno (organ),Mimmo Campanale (drums) and Massimo Sutera (bass). Special guests will be guita...

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SILENT FORCE Frontman Begins Laying Down Vocals For New CD

SILENT FORCE frontman D.C. Cooper (ex-ROYAL HUNT) has finally producer Dennis Ward's new studio in Bruchsal, Germany to begin laying down the vocals for the group's fourth album, "Walk the Earth", tentatively due in October via AFM Records. The guitars, bass and keyboards for the new CD were laid do...

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ANGELA GOSSOW's Pre-ARCH ENEMY Recordings Available Online

ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has uploaded samples of her early demo recordings with the pre-ARCH ENEMY outfits ASMODINA and MISTRESS on her official MySpace profile. "The quality is not the best — we basically recorded it all in one take live in the rehearsal room with my smashed SM 57 mic an...

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RUSH Drummer Checks In With Songwriting Update

RUSH drummer Neil Peart has posted a lengthy update at his official web site. An excerpt from message follows: "My bandmates and I had decided to spend May working together in a Toronto studio, to refine some of the songs we had worked on long-distance over the winter, and hopefully to write some ne...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION Explain Abbreviated HURRICANE FESTIVAL Performance

WITHIN TEMPTATION's official web site has been updated with the following message: 'Unfortunately, our show at the Hurricane Festival last night had to be cancelled after 30 minutes, because of the bad weather coming in. We'd like to thank all of you who were there in the pouring rain, and we know t...

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AXEL RUDI PELL Explains Bulgarian Concert Cancellation

German guitarist AXEL RUDI PELL has posted the following statement regarding the cancellation of his Bulgarian show last Friday (June 23) as the support act for the SCORPIONS: "We're very sorry for the fans in Bulgaria that the show on June 23rd got cancelled at the last minute. We'd been at the sta...

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On Borrowed Time

Throwback, '70s-drenched rock sure seems to be all the rage these days, and labels like Liquor and Poker just keep churning out mostly quality releases in this vein. Just wait for the next LEADFOOT release. I still go back to DIRTY AMERICANS' "Strange Generation" as being one of the best examples of...

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New 1977 Pro-Shot KISS Concert Video Surfaces

While KISS sit on their archives, yet another professionally filmed show from the 1970s surfaced this weekend, Detroit Cobo Hall, Jan. 29, 1977. With the original 3/4" master from this incomplete recording recently having been sold on eBay for $5,000, the material has materialized in a variety of fo...

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OZZY OSBOURNE Talks About This Year's OZZFEST

Patrick MacDonald of the Seattle Times conducted an interview with Ozzy Osbourne several days prior to the launch of this year's Ozzfest, which kicks off next Thursday (June 29) at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Seattle Times: If it rains [at...