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Australian Rock Band THE SCREAMING JETS Schedules First U.S. Performance In 10 Years

THE SCREAMING JETS, Australia's legendary, multi-platinum rock band, will play its first live show in the U.S. in over a decade on Tuesday, February 3 at Key Club in Hollywood, California. This private, red-carpet event will be an epic evening not to be missed. The night will also include many surpr...

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LACUNA COIL, CHIMAIRA Added To DISTURBED's 'Music As A Weapon IV' Tour

LACUNA COIL and CHIMAIRA have been confirmed for DISTURBED's Music As A Weapon IV tour, which is expected to kick off sometime in March. The billing for the trek is as follows: DISTURBED KILLSWITCH ENGAGE LACUNA COIL CHIMAIRA A poster for the tour can be found below. In addition to the main-stage ac...

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AURA NOIR, SIGH Confirmed For MARYLAND DEATHFEST

AURA NOIR and SIGH have been confirmed for the 2009 edition of the Maryland Deathfest, set to take place from May 22-24 at the Sonar in Baltimore. The festival billing is as follows: ABSCESS (California) ABSU (Texas) AGENDA OF SWINE (California) ANTIGAMA (Poland) ASPHYX (Netherlands) ATHEIST (Florid...

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AC/DC In Talks To Play Serbia This Spring

According to B92, Anglo-Australian rockers AC/DC are in talks to perform in Belgrade, Serbia in late May or early June The group's official site still does not mention a date for Belgrade, but a visible gap exists between May 24 and June 12. According to the Komuna production house, a final agreemen...

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DIO/Ex-AC/DC Drummer SIMON WRIGHT To Appear At NAMM

Veteran drummer Simon Wright (DIO, AC/DC, RHINO BUCKET, UFO) wil attend this year's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which is being held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. He will be "hanging out [and] signing pictures" at the Vic Firth booth a...

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NIKKI SIXX-Approved Rockers CHARM CITY DEVILS Set To Release Debut

CHARM CITY DEVILS (formerly known as FORTY ACRES and CHOSEN SON),the Baltimore, Maryland-based rock band fronted by John Allen, is set to release its debut album, "Let's Rock 'n' Roll", later this year via Eleven Seven Music, helmed by label president Nikki Sixx (MÖTLEY CRÜE co-founder/bassist). "W...

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AC/DC Earns $82 Million, METALLICA Makes $56.4 Million From Ticket, Album Sales

AC/DC is the only hard rock band to make the Los Angeles Times' 2008 "Ultimate Top 10," the newspaper's annual survey combining sales of concert tickets, albums and digital downloads to measure which acts were most popular with the broadest swath of music lovers. METALLICA came in at No. 14, an impr...

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MASTODON: Free 'Crack The Skye' T-Shirt Offer

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON are hooking up their hardcore fans with a *free* "Crack The Skye" t-shirt ahead of their new album's release. The limited t-shirt is available only from www.mastodontshirtoffer.com using a special code. The first 50 BLABBERMOUTH.NET users who enter the code "bl...

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TWISTED SISTER: New Songtitle Revealed

Metal Asylum recently conducted an interview with TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Asylum: Were there any other TWISTED SISTER shows professionally recorded that you wanted to release instead of the one at the Astoria, or was the Astoria...

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THE ANSWER To Play Only U.S. Club Show In New York City

THE ANSWER, four lads hailing from Downpatrick in Northern Ireland, have been busy fulfilling their duties as the opening act for the North American leg of AC/DC's Black Ice world tour. The band finishes the American Leg of Black Ice in Nashville, Tennessee on January 31 and heads to New York to pla...

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Into the Labyrinth

Maybe it's just that those that were around during the NWOBHM explosion just like to bitch about "kids these days" or maybe it is in fact a crime that SAXON still doesn't get the accolades it deserves. Then again, we're talking primarily about stateside fickle fans that too often overlook the merits...

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DARKEST HOUR: New Shows Announced

Washington, D.C.'s DARKEST HOUR will take a short break from writing and recording pre-production demos for its next album to play the following dates: Jan. 20 - Washington, DC - The Black Cat ("Demand In DC") Jan. 30 - Harrisonburg, VA - Rockingham County Fairgrounds (w/ AS I LAY DYING) Jan. 31 - R...

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AC/DC Fans Rally In Bid To Bring Band To Peoria; Video Available

Stephanie Gomes of the Journal Star reports that more than a hundred Peoria, Illinois residents rallied Saturday (January 10) afternoon outside the Civic Center theater to get AC/DC to play in their hometown. Peoria radio station WIXO-FM organized the rally in hopes of catching the attention of the...

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WARGASM Member Announces Charity Single

WARGASM frontman Bob Mayo's ROBOT MONSTER ARMY project has released the first single from its forthcoming debut album, "Robot Monster Army". All proceeds generated from the single, entitled "She's the Future", will benefit Rawkstars, a non-profit organization that provides musical instruments and in...

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ANVIL CHORUS: Still 'In Mixing Mode'

After three successful San Francisco reunion shows, influential '80s progressive NWOSFHM (New Wave of San Francisco Heavy Metal) band ANVIL CHORUS is mixing 12 songs for a tentative early 2009 release. The tracks are all re-recorded, new versions of the popular cassette demo songs that have been wid...