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PAUL STANLEY: 'Rock And Roll Is In A Pathetic State'

KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley has told Australia's Daily Telegraph that modern bands "useless and pathetic" and is promising value for money during their Australian mini-tour. "Good economy or no economy, we have no intentions of stopping," said Stanley. "We gave up doing this for money a lon...

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MUMAKIL, OBTUSE, THIRD DEGREE Team Up For Three-Way Split CD

Italy's The Spew Records has just released "The Sick, The Dead, The Rotten Part II", a three-way split CD featuring 19 tracks offered by some of the "sickest" bands around: MUMAKIL (Switzerland),OBTUSE (Netherlands) and THIRD DEGREE (Poland). The graphic design was handled by Spina Studios (ABORTED...

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GOREROTTED Begins Recording New Album

Vocalist Ben Goreskin of the UK extreme metal act act GOREROTTED has issued the following update: "The boys have literally just entered Parlour Sounds Studios with producers Russ Russell and James Dunkley to begin production on 'Get Dead Or Die Trying', and I'll be joining them in a few weeks to lay...

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DARKEST HOUR Comments On AT THE GATES Tour

Washington D.C.-based metallers DARKEST HOUR have issued the following update: "It feels unreal even writing these words but DARKEST HOUR is beyond stoked to announce we will be taking part in the Suicidal Final Tour 2008 alongside the almighty AT THE GATES. As artists, we cannot be more thankful to...

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IMAGIKA: New Song Available For Streaming; 'Feast For The Hated' Artwork Revealed

San Francisco power/thrash metallers IMAGIKA will release their new album, "Feast for the Hated", in the U.S. on May 20 via Locomotive Records. The CD will arrive in Europe on April 25. "Feast for the Hated" was mixed at Sweden's Sonic Train Studio with Andy La Rocque (KING DIAMOND guitarist). The a...

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BLOODBATH, FARSOT, IRATE ARCHITECT Confirmed For Germany's PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival

BLOODBATH, FARSOT and IRATE ARCHITECT have been confirmed for this year's Party.San Open Air festival will take place August 7-9, 2008 in Bad Berka, Germany. BLOODBATH will perform on August 8. According to the band, "this show will be exclusive for Germany and currently the only show booked so far....

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FLYLEAF Too Busy To Reflect On Success

The Pulse of Radio reports that FLYLEAF landed a platinum album award last week for sales of one million copies of the band's self-titled 2005 debut album. The award caps more than two years of touring and promotion that included stints with KORN and the Family Values Tour, as well as two rock radio...

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THE HAUNTED Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish thrashers THE HAUNTED have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. Wacken Open Air festival billing is shaping up as follows: 3 INCHES OF BLOOD ALESTORM AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXEL RUDI PELL...

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MONSTER MAGNET Confirmed For Holland's FIELDS OF ROCK Festival

MONSTER MAGNET has been confirmed for the Fields of Rock festival, set to take place June 20-22 at on the Evenemententerrein of Walibi World in Biddinghuizen, the Netherlands. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AIRBOURNE APOCALYPTICA ARCH ENEMY BRING ME THE HORIZON BULLET FOR MY VALENTIN...

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Pick up this Sick Child

The music of VICIOUS ART's "Pick up this Sick Child" sounds like the album cover looks: blood spattered, diseased, and just plain nasty. And yes, one could not have come up with a more fitting name for the act. Formed in 2003 and previously releasing the "Fire Falls and the Waiting Waters" debut ful...

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ABORTED: Studio Update

Belgian death/grind outfit ABORTED has issued the following update: "OK, first of all, we would like to thank everyone that sent in submissions for the songtitle, they were all appreciated and all of you guys rule! We had good fun going through all these and picking a winner. With over a few hundred...

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F5 Completes Work On Sophomore Album

F5 — the Phoenix-based band featuring former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, ex-SICK SPEED vocalist Dale Steele, guitarists Steve Conley and John Davis, and ex-MEGADETH drummer Jimmy DeGrasso — has issued the following update: "We have just completed the new F5 album and delivered it to the record...

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Former POSSESSED Guitarist MIKE TORRAO Joins San Francisco's INACAGE

Former POSSESSED guitarist Mike Torrao has joined the San Francisco-based metal band INACAGE. According to a posting on the INACAGE's MySpace page, Mike "wrote some of the sickest guitar riffs ever to come out in the metal scene as well as being the main songwriter for the band that led to their suc...

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SOILENT GREEN Filming 'Antioxidant' Video Today

Southern sludge grind-metallers SOILENT GREEN will shoot a video for the song "Antioxidant" today with prolific director David Brodsky (GOATWHORE, THE RED CHORD, HATE ETERNAL). The track comes off the group's new album, "Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction", due on April 15 via Metal B...

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GENE SIMMONS: 'I Want The Air You Breathe To Be KISS Air'

New Zealand's The Dominion Post recently conducted an interview with KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On whether he cares whom he offends: "Hell, no. I'm too rich to care. People give me a hard time for being a ruthless businessman but these are the kinds of p...