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BILLY SHEEHAN: Free Bass Clinics Announced

Bassist Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, NIACIN, TALAS, DAVID LEE ROTH) has scheduled the following free clinics: July 20 - Boston/Springfield MA - Falcetti Music 413-543-1002 July 21 - Weymouth, MA - South Shore Music 718-331-3333 July 23 - Freehold, NJ - Freehold Music 732-462-6860 July 24 - O'Fallon, MO -...

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Burn

By golly, the thrash resurgence ain't over yet! Candlelight found yet another throwback thrash band with big-time talent in Denver's HAVOK and ended up with an album in "Burn" that is far removed from what is quickly becoming a watered down trend. Then again, I write that and realize the both LAZARU...

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BLACK COBRA: New Album Details Revealed

BLACK COBRA, the heaviest two-piece band in the universe, has completed work on its new album, "Chronomega", for a September 29 release via Southern Lord Records. According to a press release the CD's "nine tracks rage with BLACK COBRA's patented megacrushing, groove-heavy style of fuzztone doom-met...

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DUSTED ANGEL's End-Time Doom Rock Unleashed

Santa Cruz, California has given birth to an ungodly musical beast known as DUSTED ANGEL. Formed in 2008, the band features Clifford Dinsmore on vocals, Bill Torgerson on drums, Eric Feiber and Scott Stevens on guitar and Eliot Young on bass. DUSTED ANGEL's members are longtime friends from the days...

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SUSPERIA: December 2008 Video Interview Posted Online

Imhotep's Roy Kristensen conducted an interview with Athera, Cyrus and Memnock of Norwegian metallers SUSPERIA in December 2008. The chat has now been posted online and can be viewed in two parts below. Athera (real name: Pål Mathiesen),vocalist with Norwegian SUSPERIA, rejoined his band on stage a...

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MR. BIG's 'Budokan - Reunion Tour 2009' Due In September

The reunited original lineup of MR. BIG will release "Budokan - Reunion Tour 2009" in Japan on CD/DVD and Blu-ray on September 9. The set features footage of the band's June 20, 2009 performance at Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit CDJapan. MR. BIG released a new "best-of" album t...

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SUSPERIA Frontman Returns To The Stage; Video Available

Athera (real name: Pål Mathiesen),vocalist with Norwegian thrashers SUSPERIA, rejoined his band on stage at the Steinkjer Festival in Norway on Friday, June 26. The singer, who earlier this year suffered a heart attack which resulted in major open heart surgery, has made a rapid recovery and doctor...

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DUFF MCKAGAN: Inspiring And Painful

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his weeky column, which appears every Thursday on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com. An excerpt follows below. "So I have finally arrived back home in Seattle after being on the road for the last two months. Traveli...

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SUICIDE CITY: New Song Available For Free Download

"The Best Way", a brand new track from SUICIDE CITY — the band featuring BIOHAZARD guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei and former KITTIE bassist Jennifer Arroyo — is available for free download at this location. The song comes off the group's full-length debut, entitled "Frenzy", which is scheduled f...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM: 'Skeletons In The Closet' Details Revealed

Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will release a new album, titled "Skeletons In The Closet", in the fall through Spinefarm Records. The follow-up to last year's "Blooddrunk" is a selection of cover versions, some of them existing recordings, others specially laid down for this release. CHILDREN O...

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Former JOURNEY Singer Remembers MICHAEL JACKSON

According to Fan Asylum, former JOURNEY frontman Steve Perry was contacted by various media outlets for his thoughts on the untimely death of Michael Jackson. His comments follow below. Q: What are some of your memories of working with Michael Jackson on "We Are The World". Steve Perry: "I was origi...

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SWITCHBLADE KILLERS Signs With EULOGY RECORDINGS

Eulogy Recordings has announced the signing of SWITCHBLADE KILLERS. Vocalist/guitarist Zach Neil commented, "We're really interested in being the only rock and roll band on Eulogy. Part of the reason we went with Eulogy was because we're not a hardcore band at all. We think the contrast makes for an...

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JACKYL Frontman Develops New TV Show 'Full Throttle Saloon'

Following the success of the Emmy-nominated hit MTV show "Two-A-Days", executive producer (and JACKYL singer) Jesse James Dupree of Mighty Loud Entertainment has partnered with Arnold Rifkin of Cheyenne ("Die Hard", "Armageddon") and A. Smith & Co ("Hell's Kitchen", "I Survived A Japanese Gamesh...

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ANGUS YOUNG: 'I've Never Thought Of AC/DC As Being A No. 1 Band'

Billy Sloan of the California Chronicle conducted an interview with guitarist Angus Young of legendary Anglo-Australian hard rockers AC/DC on June 20, one day after the band's performance in Copenhagen, Denmark in front of 60,000 people at Parken. "This is our biggest tour yet. The longer you go, th...

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KEEL Frontman Issues New Album Update

Reactivated '80s hard rockers KEEL entered a North Hollywood, California studio on June 18 to begin recording their new album, "Streets Of Rock 'N' Roll", for a tentative late 2009 release. The CD is being co-produced and mixed by ace producer/engineer Pat Regan (RITCHIE BLACKMORE, WARRANT, BILLY SH...