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WITHIN TEMPTATION: 'Mother Earth' Single To Include New Song

Holland's WITHIN TEMPTATION will release their new single, "Mother Earth", on Monday, October 13 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It will be available in the following formats: a 2-track version, a limited 5-track edition and as a special DVD-plus edition. In addition to a brand-new song, titled...

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Acclaimed Actor CHRISTOPHER LEE To Guest On New RHAPSODY Album

Acclaimed actor Christopher Lee ("Star Wars - Episode 2: Attack of the Clones", "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", "Gremlins II", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") will be joining Italian symphonic metal group RHAPSODY for the production of their next album, tentatively due in early 2...

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MOTÖRHEAD: 25th Anniversary Concert To Be Released On CD

MOTÖRHEAD will release a double-live CD, titled "Live At Brixton Academy", on November 17 through SPV Records. The set, which contains the group's complete 25th Anniversary concert from October 22, 2000 (previously, the concert had appeared only partly with the DVD "Boneshaker"),features the follow...

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DREAM THEATER Singer To Guest On FRAMEWORK Debut

FRAMESHIFT, the "exciting" new progressive rock project written and produced by Henning Pauly of CHAIN for James LaBrie, vocalist of the legendary prog-metal band DREAM THEATER, will release their debut album, "Unweaving The Rainbow", in early November through Progrock Records. "Composer Henning Pau...

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Review: The SEX PISTOLS Still Define Punk

Erik Pedersen of the Hollywood Reporter reports that "a spiky-haired 7-year-old standing on a chair down front looked bored for the first few songs by the late-fortysomething SEX PISTOLS [at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 6]. But when the grown-up next to him began offering...

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THE DARKNESS Tipped to Win U.K. Mercury Music Prize

British retro-rockers THE DARKNESS are favorites to eclipse COLDPLAY and RADIOHEAD to win one of Britain's most prestigious popular music awards, according to Reuters. The quartet are expected to grab the Mercury Music Prize on Tuesday (September 9) with their first album, "Permission To Land". The...

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EVANESCENCE Singer Weighs In On BRITNEY And CHRISTINA

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee weighed in on today's crop of pop divas during a recent guest appearance on 104 FM in Washington D.C. with Haber and Erin. "There are so many of these stupid pop divas that are really going down lately," Lee said. "They're going down, they really are. It's not the big thin...

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DIABLO Hard At Work On Third Album

Finnish aggro-metallers DIABLO are currently recording their third album, "Eternium", at Fantom studios. The follow-up to 2002's "Renaissance" will be mixed at Helsinki's Finnvox studios and is tentatively scheduled for a January 2004 release. "I can tell you that the new album will be the best DIAB...

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METALLICA, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, TURBONEGRO At KERRANG! AWARDS In London

Members of METALLICA, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, THE DARKNESS, and TURBONEGRO were among the artists on hand at Thursday's (August 21) Kerrang! Awards in London, England. Check out pictures from Getty Images: Page#1, Page#2, Page#3, Page#4. METALLICA were inducted into the Kerrang! Hall Of Fame at the ...

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MARILYN MANSON, JONATHAN DAVIS Attend DITA VON TEESE's NYC Performance

Marilyn Manson's girlfriend Dita Von Teese put on a special burlesque performance for the shock rocker Wednesday night (August 20) at Show in New York City. Also in attendance were KORN frontman Jonathan Davis and his wife Deven, a former porn actress. Check out pictures from Film Magic, LFI,

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SEX PISTOLS Kick Off North American Tour: Photos Available

SEX PISTOLS kicked off their North American tour Wednesday night (August 20) at FleetBoston Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts. Check put pictures from Wire Image. The band's original line-up — John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, vocals),Steve Jones (guitar),Paul Cook (drums) and Glen Matlock (bass)...

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ORGY: Collection Of Previously Unreleased Recordings To See Light Of Day

ORGY frontman Jay Gordon will release a collection of demos originally written and recorded for inclusion on the band's never-released third LP, tentatively titled "Punk Static Paranoia", through his own D1 Music label in January 2004. Among the tracks set to appear on the effort are the following:...

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JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Mammoth QUEEN Set Out On DVD

Former YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Jeff Scott Soto and his solo band — Howie Simon, Alex Papa and Gary Schutt — performed a set of QUEEN classics at the 2003 Queen Convention in the U.K. The performance, which was captured on video, has now been made available on DVD via Soto's official web site,

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LIMP BIZKIT Frontman Offers Update On New Album And Video

LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Hey people, wake the fuck up!!! It is now time to put this new LIMP BIZKIT CD in a package and ship it out!! We have put together sixteen tracks for your absorption. We have lots of songs that ...

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Newspaper Report: Australian Singer Asked To Join QUEEN

Australian singer John Farnham has reportedly been asked to join rock legends QUEEN. The Daily Telegraph reported Farnham had been offered "the gig of a lifetime" — to follow in the footsteps of the late Freddie Mercury as QUEEN's lead singer. Farnham "blew away" the band after recording a new versi...