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TURISAS Guitarist In Critical Condition Following Traffic Accident
Finnish "pagan battle metal" act TURISAS have posted the following message on their official web site: "To prevent any more rumours spreading, we need to make the following statement. "Early Friday morning Georg [Laakso, guitar] was injured severely in a motor accident outside Hämeenlinna. Due to th...October 31, 2005
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STARWOOD Bassist Checks In From Japan
Los Angeles-based rock outfit STARWOOD, featuring members of the Eighties heavy metal band LIZZY BORDEN, have scheduled several shows in Japan, including a November 1 party in Tokyo for the hair product Manic Panic. The group's bassist, Marten Andersson, has posted the following update on his offici...October 30, 2005
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Profanity, Not Volume, Unplugs Heavy Metal Concerts In Pinellas Park
Anne Lindberg of Florida's St. Petersburg Times has issued the following report: Five e-mails, five phone calls and a sick cat have put a stop to heavy metal concerts in Pinellas Park. That's what city officials decided after their very first one, on Oct. 1, when an estimated 3,500 people crowded in...October 12, 2005
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LED ZEPPELIN Guitarist Made Honorary Citizen Of Rio De Janeiro
Bloomberg.com is reporting that LED ZEPPELIN legend Jimmy Page was awarded honorary citizenship in the state of Rio de Janeiro for his work with Brazil's poor and abandoned children. Page, whose song "Stairway to Heaven" is still heard on U.S. radio more than thirty years after it was written, was h...September 21, 2005
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Fusing Death Metal And Hip-Hop Makes Perfect Sense For Denver Mash-Ups Aficionado
Chad Boltz, a mash-ups aficionado who lives in Denver, recently spoke to MTV.com about fusing together the music of such death-metal and grindcore mavens as CARCASS, ENTOMBED and TERRORIZER and the hip-hop/pop flava of MISSY ELLIOTT, OUTKAST, SHAKIRA and 50 CENT. Boltz said it dawned on him one afte...August 30, 2005
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HELLFEST Organizer Suspected Of 'Terrorizing' Arena Parking Lot Following Cancellation
Scott Frost of The Trentonian has issued the following report: A coup of screaming Hellfest supporters terrorized the parking lot of the Sovereign Bank Arena [Friday, August 19], turning the spot of the canceled three-day event into their own personal demolition derby. Witnesses said the Hellfest bu...August 21, 2005
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OZZFEST Has Turned Into A Swedish Invasion
This year's Ozzfest lineup includes an unprecedented four Swedish acts: IN FLAMES, THE HAUNTED, ARCH ENEMY and SOILWORK. Previously, only three Scandinavian bands had graced the Ozzfest stage in America over the past decade: Norway's DIMMU BORGIR in 2004 and Swedish metallers MESHUGGAH in 2002 and D...July 22, 2005
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IRON MAIDEN Singer Involved In Flight Row Over City Air Space
Stephen Breen of Ireland's Sunday Life has issued the following report: Angry residents [Saturday] night [June 11] hit out at Belfast City Airport bosses for introducing more flights over the summer. The east Belfast airport is set to offer its first-ever flights to Malaga with the Teleticket travel...June 14, 2005
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ACCEPT: Tour Diary, Photos Posted Online
ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and the group's manager, Gaby Hoffmann (Wolf's wife),have posted several updates from their current European tour on Joe Schlared's Accept Home Page with U.D.O.. Gaby's latest entry (dated May 1, 2005) reads as follows: "It has been very, very hectic and we had so man...May 1, 2005
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HANOI ROCKS' Promo Stunt Creates Traffic Chaos: Photos Available
HANOI ROCKS were all over Finnish press and in the headline news this past weekend after 14,000 people came to see the band celebrate the release of their new album, "Another Hostile Takeover", by playing a free showcase last Friday (April 15) outside the Stockmann department store in Helsinki. The...April 19, 2005
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Producer Discusses 'KISS Cover to Cover' Tribute Album
With just one week left before the release of "KISS Cover to Cover", TributeAlbums.com sat down with its producer, R.E. Asbury, to talk about the details of the project. An excerpt from the interview follows: TributeAlbums.com (TA.com): Where did the concept for "KISS Cover to Cover" come from? R.E....March 29, 2005
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BLACK SABBATH Drummer Remembers TRAFFIC's JIM CAPALDI
TRAFFIC's drummer Jim Capaldi is remembered and highlighted on the next "Rock 50" show, which is scheduled to air March 12 on WPMD (a college radio station at Cerritos College in California). Bill Ward, BLACK SABBATH drummer and host of the program, will play a special segment of Jim's work with TRA...March 9, 2005
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GUNS N' ROSES' 'Chinese Democracy' Is The Most Expensive Recording Never Released
The New York Times has published an article entitled "Success, excess and a music industry phantom" about GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited "Chinese Democracy" album, which is dubbed by the paper "probably the most expensive recording never released." A couple of excerpts from the article follow: When Ros...March 5, 2005
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MOURNING BELOVETH: Live Appearances Announced
Irish doom metal act MOURNING BELOVETH have posted the following message on their official web site: "Grau [Records] will release the new album ['A Murderous Circus'] on March 29th. Pre orders are being taken for the limited-edition double digipack which contains the two extra songs, 'Disintegrate'...March 2, 2005
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Folk Singer Covers OZZY's 'Mama, I'm Coming Home': Audio Available
21-year-old Massachusetts singer/songwriter LILY HOLBROOK has recorded a cover of OZZY OSBOURNE's "Mama, I'm Coming Home" for her second CD, "Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt", out now on Back Porch Records. Check out an audio sample of Lily's version of the track: Windows Media, Real Media...March 1, 2005
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