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JASON BECKER: New 'Audio' Interview Posted Online

On the March 21 edition of "The Classic Metal Show", a special interview conducted with guitarist Jason Becker (DAVID LEE ROTH, CACOPHONY) was presented to fans. Becker submitted written replies to an e-mail interview, which was translated through a speech synthesizer by the guys from "The Classic M...

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IRON MAIDEN: 'Flight 666' Wins Major Award At SXSW Film Festival

"Iron Maiden: Flight 666" — the feature-length documentary film which follows the IRON MAIDEN bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 — has won the coveted "24 Beats Per Second" award for best music documentary at the annual South By So...

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BAI BANG To Release 'Are You Ready' In April

BAI BANG, one of the most powerful rock acts from Sweden, will release its sixth album, "Are You Ready", on April 24 via Metal Heaven. The record was produced and mixed by Pontus Assarsson, Jörgen Ringqvist and Uffe Larsson, Anders Ringman, at Platform Studios (four songs) and Rockisland Studios (si...

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CATTLE DECAPITATION: 'Regret & The Grave' Video Available

"Regret & the Grave", the new video from San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION, can be viewed below. (Note: Video stream may not be available to some non-U.S. residents.) The clip was shot earlier this year with director Gary Smithson (GOATWHORE, HIGH ON FIRE) at a butcher shop in Sant...

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SAXON: New Video Interview With BIFF BYFORD Available

Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with vocalist Biff Byford of legendary British heavy metallers SAXON. Watch the chat in four parts below. SAXON has been confirmed for the third annual Rocklahoma festival, set to take place July 9-12, 2009 on the Catch The Fever Festival Grounds...

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TESLA Confirmed For KANSAS STATE FAIR

According to KWCH.com, TESLA has been confirmed for this year's Kansas State Fair, which is scheduled to take place September 11-20 at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson, Kansas. TESLA is scheduled to perform on September 11. The largest single event in the State, the Fair annually attracts...

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TESLA Guitarist Fractures Radial Bone

TESLA guitarist Frank Hannon fell down last month in Atlanta, Georgia and fractured the radial bone in his elbow. He says, "Luckily, I have been able to do play guitar and do the TESLA shows with some pain. But the reason I was going to reschedule the Los Angeles FRANK HANNON BAND show [on March ...

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SKINDRED To Record New Mini-Album

Welsh ragga-metallers SKINDRED will record a new mini-album entitled "Jumping The Shark" for a late summer/early fall release via Bieler Bros. Records. More details will be made available soon. Musician Photo Journal conducted an interview with SKINDRED lead singer Benji Webbe on February 27, 2009 w...

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Karnarium

The band is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, but the sound on KARNARIUM's self-titled release is early '90s Stockholm death to the bone. And boy is this one ugly cuss! Take equal parts INCANTATION ("Onward to Golgotha"),ENTOMBED ("Left Hand Path"),and GRAVE ("Into the Grave") as performed in the headw...

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IRON MAIDEN's 'Flight 666' Rio Premiere: Video Report, Photos Available

"Iron Maiden: Flight 666" — the feature-length documentary film which follows the IRON MAIDEN bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 — had its world premiere on Saturday (March 14) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Cine Odeon in the cente...

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IRON MAIDEN's 'Flight 666' Takes Off At Rio Premiere

"Iron Maiden: Flight 666" — the feature-length documentary film which follows the IRON MAIDEN bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 — had its world premiere yesterday (March 14) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Cine Odeon in the center...

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Former BLACK SABBATH Drummer To Host New Radio Show

According to U.K.'s Sunday Mercury, English rock musician Bev Bevan, who served as the touring drummer for BLACK SABBATH from 1983 to 1984 and played percussion on "The Eternal Idol" album in 1987, will host a new two-hour show of music and chat on BBC Radio WM. Bev will start at WM on ...

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TESLA: 'Fallin' Apart' Video Available

"Fallin' Apart", the new video from California rockers TESLA, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's latest album, "Forever More", which sold more than 16,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 33 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD was relea...

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DEATHSTARS: Munich Video Footage, Photos Available

Video footage of DEATHSTARS' March 12, 2009 concert at Backstage in Munich, Germany can be viewed below (courtesy of "eblinternational"). Photos of the show can be found at shutterBLAST. As previously reported, DEATHSTARS has inked a North American deal with Bieler Bros. Records. The group's third a...

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JOE LYNN TURNER's SUNSTORM: New Album Details Revealed

Frontiers Records has set an April 17 European release date for the second album from legendary vocalist Joe Lynn Turner's (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) SUNSTORM project, entitled "House of Dreams". The first SUNSTORM album saw the light of day in 2006 when Turner followed Frontiers presi...