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CANCER BATS: Performance Footage Of New Song Available
Video footage of Toronto, Canada's hardcore/metal band CANCER BATS performing a new song called "Darkness" on October 25, 2009 at Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland can be viewed below. CANCER BATS has set "Bears, Mayors, Scraps And Bones" as the title of its new album, tentatively due in early 2010...October 31, 2009
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D.O.A. Founder Comments On CHUCK BISCUITS Death Hoax
Nick Patch of The Canadian Press reports: The founder of Vancouver punk group D.O.A. says that his former drummer, Chuck Biscuits, is alive and well and Internet reports of his death are part of a "cruel hoax." Joe Keithley told The Canadian Press on Friday that the drummer's brother contacted him a...October 31, 2009
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Updated: Former DANZIG Drummer CHUCK BISCUITS Victim Of Death Hoax
(Story last updated on October 30 at 4:35 a.m. EST) Legendary hard rock drummer Chuck Biscuits (born Charles Montgomery),whose lengthy résumé includes stints in such flagship underground acts as BLACK FLAG and SOCIAL DISTORTION, appears to have been the victim of a death hoax involving a Facebook p...October 29, 2009
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PETER CRISS Discusses Battle With Breast Cancer On 'Fox & Friends'; Video Available
Former KISS drummer Peter Criss was a guest on this morning's (Wednesday, October 28) edition of the "Fox & Friends" show on the Fox News Channel to talk about the stigma of being a man battling breast cancer. Watch video of his appearance below. While some men feel embarrassed because of "this...October 28, 2009
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PETER CRISS On Stigma Of Being A Man Battling Breast Cancer
Former KISS drummer Peter Criss recently spoke to Elizabeth Cohen of CNN out about the stigma of being a man battling breast cancer. Watch excerpts from their chat below. Criss, who discovered a lump in his left nipple in December 2007, told Reuters.com men need to get over their perception that bre...October 21, 2009
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RUSH Drummer Remembers BLUE CHEER's DICKIE PETERSON
RUSH drummer and BLUE CHEER fan Neil Peart wrote the following piece for RollingStone.com in memory of singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, who died after a battle with liver cancer on October 12: "In the summer of 1968, I was going on 16, living in a small Canadian city (St. Catharines, Ontario),and ha...October 21, 2009
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PETER CRISS Discusses Battle With Breast Cancer; Audio Available
After keeping his battle with the disease quiet for more a year, original KISS drummer Peter Criss recently spoke to Jane Pratt on Sirius XM's Jane Radio about how his rock career actually helped him discover he had breast cancer and why he decided to come forward to raise awareness of the disease....October 21, 2009
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SLIPKNOT Frontman: 'I Definitely Think We've Got At Least One More Pivotal Album To Make'
Mike Devlin of The Vancouver Sun recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT forntman Corey Taylor. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. On the fact that SLIPKNOT, while still a commercial force, might come to an end sooner than most think: "I definitely think we've got at least one more piv...October 20, 2009
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MEGADETH Joined By LOUDNESS Guitarist At Osaka Concert; Audio Available
Akira Takasaki, guitarist for the Japanese heavy metal band LOUDNESS, joined MEGADETH on stage last night (Monday, October 19) to play "Symphony Of Destruction" for the group's encore song in Osaka, Japan. MEGADETH dedicated the track to LOUDNESS drummer Munetaka Higuchi, who died on November 30, 20...October 20, 2009
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PETER CRISS On Surviving Breast Cancer: I Am 'The Luckiest Man On The Planet'
Madison Park of CNN.com reports: A year after beating breast cancer, Peter Criss, a founding member of the rock band KISS, calls himself "the luckiest man on the planet." While some men feel embarrassed because of "this macho crap," Criss said surviving breast cancer — yes, men get it, too — was act...October 15, 2009
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ROBERT PLANT Campaigns For Cancer Treatment
LookToTheStars.org reports that former LED ZEPPELIN singer Robert Plant has given his support to a cancer charity campaigning for a new type of treatment to be made available in Britian. Killing Cancer is a charity that is aiming to raise £50m to fund further trials into Photodynamic Therapy, a trea...October 15, 2009
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EYEHATEGOD Frontman Interviewed On Baltimore's 98Rock
Kidd Christoff of Baltimore's 98Rock radio station recently conducted an interview with vocalist Mike Williams, vocalist for EYEHATEGOD, OUTLAW ORDER and ARSON ANTHEM and author of "Cancer as a Social Activity: Affirmations of World's End". The chat is now available for streaming below. Williams del...October 15, 2009
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BLUE CHEER's DICKIE PETERSON Remembered
Friends, fans and heavy metal rock and rollers around the world are mourning the death of BLUE CHEER bassist and lead singer Richard Allan "Dickie" Peterson (b. September 12, 1946) after a long fight against cancer. Peterson, age 63, died in Erkelenz, Germany, where he lived, on the morning of Octob...October 13, 2009
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STRYPER Frontman Has Found Love Again — A Gift From God
STRYPER singer Michael Sweet — whose wife Kyle Rae Sweet passed away on March 5, 2009 after a two-year battle with ovarian cancer — has announced that he is engaged to be married to a woman named Lisa. In a lengthy letter on his official web site, he writes, "Throughout the past twenty six years, .....October 12, 2009
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BLUE CHEER's DICKIE PETERSON Dead At 61
Dickie Peterson, the bassist/vocalist and founding member of BLUE CHEER, passed away this morning (Monday, October 12) at 5 a.m. in Germany. He was 61 years old. Peterson had reportedly been battling prostate and liver cancer, and according to BLUE CHEER's message board, had developed a fatal infect...October 12, 2009
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