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JAG PANZER Frontman Lays Down Vocals For BATTLE CRY EP: Audio Available

Colorado-based power metallers BATTLE CRY have finished recording a song called "The Battle Cry of Freedom" with a special guest appearance by JAG PANZER's Harry "The Tyrant" Conklin. Commented the band: "We have finished 'The Battle Cry of Freedom', which is a very cool civil war song that we 'meta...

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SHADOWS FALL Frontman On Upcoming Major-Label Debut: 'We Didn't Write A Safe Record'

SHADOWS FALL frontman Brian Fair recently spoke to Chris Harris of MTV.com about recording process for the band's forthcoming major-label debut, "Threads of Life", tentatively due in March via Atlantic Records. "We didn't write a safe record," Fair explained. "It's such a natural step that we're hea...

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Bassist JOEY VERA Explains Songwriting Process For New Solo Album

Bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING, ANTHRAX) has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "I get asked sometimes how I get ideas for songs. Where does it come from? For the inspiration part, who knows? Could be lots of places. Could be remembering a time in your youth when you...

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ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA's ROSSI Puts His Stamp On Group's Debut

Karen Bliss of JAM! Music recently conducted an interview with ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA vocalist Lukas Rossi and Rossi's publisher, president Mike McCarty of EMI Music Publishing Canada. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA's self-titled debut, due Nov. 21 on Burnett/Epic/Sony BMG...

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JASMINE ST. CLAIRE To Discusss 'Metal's Dark Side' DVD On KNAC.COM

Former adult film star Jasmine St. Claire will be interviewed on KNAC.COM from 4 to 5 p.m. PST today (Monday, Nov. 13) as a guest of the Junkman. She will be discussing her latest DVD, "Metal's Dark Side Volume 2 - The Deeply Disturbed", and a host of other very metal projects. On the second ...

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WHITESNAKE's New Live Album To Be Made Available In U.S. Via iTunes

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has commented on last week's Classic Rock Roll of Honour event, which took place on November 6 in London. WHITESNAKE was honored with the "Band of the Year" and "Best DVD" awards at the show, which was organized by Classic Rock magazine. Commented WHITESNAKE front...

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NORTHER Drummer Schedules Helsinki Clinic

NORTHER drummer Heikki Saari will hold a drum clinic in Helsinki, Finland on November 19 at the Drummers Association of Finland fair. The event will take place at the Tavastia Club starting at 11:00 a.m. As previously reported, a trailer for the upcoming Finnish movie "Vares 2", featuring music from...

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Bassist JOEY VERA To Launch Blog On Studio Methods And Techniques

Bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING, ANTHRAX) has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "I will be starting a blog series on the methods and techniques I used during the making of A CHINESE FIREDRILL 'Circles' [solo project]. "I frequently get questions about how I do things...

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THE FINAL SLEEP Completes New Demo

THE FINAL SLEEP, the Troy, NY-based band featuring members of DYING BREED, WITHSTAND, END OF LINE and OF OLD, has just finished recording its new demo. According to a press release, "the CD contains over 40 minutes of music covering a wide range of styles and dynamics" drawn from such influences as...

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VIOLENT STORM Announces New Guitarist

VIOLENT STORM, whose new album "Storm Warning" was released on October 23, has announced that Martin Mickels will be joining the band when they tour in 2007. Martin, currently the lead guitarist with Gary Barden's band STATETROOPER, will be playing the parts performed on the album by rock luminaries...

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The Dead Eye

What to make of this new HAUNTED album? It's hard to take it out of context and judge it on its own merits — on one hand, you have the band's formidable back catalog to measure it against, a smorgasbord of modern-day Swedish thrash that renders 95% of their colleagues obsolete. Tied to that is ...

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Psalm 9

Black sheets of raining doom rock cascade down, Old Testament prophecies come true in vengeful bursts of fire, and the bastards indeed pay! TROUBLE should have knocked the world on its ass in 1984 with this low-budget slab of creepy, ethereal metal, a distillation of the gloom of prime SABBATH, the...

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Bassist JOEY VERA: 'Being Your Own Record Company Is A Bitch!'

Bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING, ANTHRAX) has posted the following message on his official web site: "Being your own record company is a bitch! But who's complaining?! "I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you who've contacted me with regard to my new CD. The response has been ov...

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CRIMSON GLORY: Reissue Details Revealed

Metal Mind Productions will re-release two CRIMSON GLORY albums taken from Roadrunner Records' archives: "Astronomica" and "Strange and Beautiful". CRIMSON GLORY is one of the best and most influential prog-metal bands from the '80s and will appeal to fans of bands like QUEENSRŸCHE or FATES WARNING....

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Sirens

It's all a matter of preference and what some deem to be "totally rad" (or some shit like that) may be a steaming pile of dog poop to others. Fighting through mental block concerning bark 'n' croon metalcore and scraping the last remnants of objectivity from the barrel's bottom results in a relative...