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AEROSMITH Frontman Endorses BROADVOICE

Voxilla.com is reporting that Lowell, MA-based VoIP provider BroadVoice might just have landed its own celebrity rock star. According to BroadVoice President David Epstein, Steven Tyler, lead singer of the AEROSMITH (and father of actress Liv Tyler),tried out the company's VoIP service at the Panas...

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ANDREW W.K.: New Album Update

The following update has been posted on ANDREW W.K.'s official web site: "The recording sessions for the third album are going well. With the completion of track after track of new music, it's become more than clear that the album is already exceeding itself. At the time of this update, it's unclear...

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SEBASTIAN BACH To Release Two Studio Albums In 2005

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has posted the following message on his web site: "I am the lead vocalist for the upcoming 'FRAMESHIFT 2' CD, entitled 'An Absence of Empathy'. FRAMESHIFT is the brainchild of virtuoso musician Henning Pauly and we are coming up with some incredible stuff!! "T...

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Alrosa Villa Owner: DIMEBAG's Murderer Was 'On A Mission'

The Associated Press is reporting that the nightclub where a gunman killed four people, including former PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, last month will reopen, the owner says. Rick Cautela told The Columbus Dispatch in Friday's editions that the Alrosa Villa would have stayed closed for...

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MORTAL SIN To Be Inducted Into Australian Metal 'Hall Of Fame'

Australia's Kerrang! magazine is holding its first ever Australian Heavy Metal Awards on February 4 in conjunction with the country's premier metal festival, Metal from the Brain. The ceremony, which is expected to become an annual fixture in the Australian metal calendar, celebrating the best the l...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: Remembering DIMEBAG DARRELL

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has issued the following statement in memory of DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott: "My relationship to this sick series of events goes way back, some 18 years. I joined a band from Detroit called MADAM X back in 1986 and the very first p...

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TED NUGENT Says USO Tour Convinced Him That 'America Is Indeed The Last Best Place'

Rocker Ted Nugent has told the Jackson Citizen Patriot that his USO tour with country singer Toby Keith last June was such an "awesome and awe-inspiring" experience that he intends to repeat it in April. He said they played in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Falluja and Tikrit, Iraq, where they saw "the...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: 'Bach To Europe' Tour Diary

Daniel Stanton of Anger Management/Coallier Entertainment has submitted the following tour diary documenting Sebastian Bach's (ex-SKID ROW) most recent "Bach To Europe" European trek: "With many tours under my belt, nothing will come close to the psychotic world of working with the hyper madman name...

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DIMEBAG Murderer's Mother Speaks Again: My Son's Killer Is A Hero

Chad Williamson of Marysville Journal-Tribune has issued the following report: On the wall of Mary Clark's apartment in Marysville is a wooden picture frame containing odd-shaped pictures of her three boys' typical pictures of smiling children that a mother would cherish. Carved above the pictures i...

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OPUS DRACONIS: New Album Due In January

Portuguese black/death metallers OPUS DRACONIS will release their new album, "Satanic Truth About False Union", on January 31, 2005 via Nemesis Musica. A track off the CD, entitled "The Throne Of Absence (Version II)", can currently be previewed at this location. OPUS DRACONIS is: Lord Dusk - Vocals...

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NOVEMBERS DOOM Set Release Date For New Album; Cover Artwork Posted Online

Chicago doomsters NOVEMBERS DOOM have revealed the cover artwork and final track listing for their new album, "The Pale Haunt Departure", due on March 8, 2005 via The End Records. The follow-up to 2002's "To Welcome The Fade", "The Pale Haunt Departure" was mixed by Swedish producer/musician Dan Swa...

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DIMEBAG DARRELL: Last-Ever Photo Posted Online?

Jennifer Wray of Columbus, Ohio's Suburban News Publications reports: Guitarist Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott told Kevin McMeans that a photograph of the two of them taken last Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 8) "would be a classic." McMeans said Abbott, who normally dressed casually, was referring to his outf...

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EPICA Singer Recovers, Resumes Touring

EPICA frontwoman Simone Simons is back singing for the group on their current tour of Mexico following an emergency appendectomy which nerly sidelined the vocalist late last week. Marivi, lead singer of the opening band THE LEGION OF HETHERIA, had stepped in to complete the dates with EPICA in Simon...

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EDDIE VAN HALEN, ZAKK WYLDE Deliver Tributes To DIMEBAG At Public Memorial

The Associated Press is reporting that guitarists Eddie Van Halen and Zakk Wylde delivered profanity-laced tributes at a public memorial service Tuesday night for slain heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. "I'm here for the same reason as everyone else, to give some love back...," Van Hal...

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DAVE MUSTAINE Apologizes To METALLICA, Promises To Be More Like DIMEBAG

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the group's official message board: "Droogies! "Tonight I had the honor and priveledge to host a special [MTV2 'Headbanger's Ball'] tribute to the life of Darrel 'Dimebag' Abbott. "I went out to NYC Thursday at 9:30 PM on a redeye to...