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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Singer: We Are A 'Full-On Heavy Metal' Band

AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows has told MTV.com that his band wants to set the record straight so there's no confusion: they are a heavy metal band. "When you go to our live show, it's a full-on heavy metal show, and we don't need — I mean, no offense to 10-year-old and 11-year-old ...

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ENTHRALLMENT Confirmed For Bulgaria's MONSTERS OF ROCK Festival

Bulgarian brutal death metallers ENTHRALLMENT have been confirmed for the Monsters of Rock festival, set to take place August 3-7 at the Black Sea resort of Varna in Bulgaria. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABLEPSIA ANNIHILATOR ATROCITY AXEL RUDI PELL BRAZEN A...

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DANKO JONES, FLESHGORE Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

DANKO JONES and FLESHGORE have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ARCH ENEMY ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CALIBAN CELT...

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In Search Of GUNS N' ROSES' 'Chinese Democracy'

TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 55 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. This episode, entitled "Guns N' Roses Stakeout Part II", features an invasion of Sterling Sound studios in New York city where it is rumored that the long awaited GN'R album "Chinese Democracy" is being mastered. Hosts Mark Str...

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TOMMY LEE Announces Partnership With HANDS-ON MOBILE

Hands-On Mobile (formerly MFORMA),a leading global publisher of mobile lifestyle, games and personalization products, has announced a partnership with MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee at the CTIA conference. Under the agreement, Hands-On Mobile will be able to channel Tommy Lee's far-reaching brand pe...

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VELVET REVOLVER's DUFF MCKAGAN Shoots Down 'Rehab' Rumors

VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) has rejected as false recent rumors that he has entered a rehab center in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington near his home to "get clean." The Metal Sludge web site quoted an anonymous source last week as saying that Duff "went to...

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SPIN Magazine Comments On 'Fake' GUNS N' ROSES 'Chinese Democracy' Review

The following item was published in the "Page Six" column section of The New York Post: "Spin magazine got an early jump on April Fool's Day with Chuck Klosterman's deceptively straight-faced 'review' of 'Chinese Democracy', the infamously long-awaited GUNS N' ROSES album. While we may have glazed o...

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Adultery

Traveling from Spitfire to Artemis and finally finding a home on Rotten Records, Baltimore's DOG FASHION DISCO hits pay dirt on "Adultery", a concept album that continues to showcase the band's lunatic genre blend of strangely accessible hard rock, metal, punk, jazz, ska (you name it) and all-around...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer Says He Has No Issues With Other Members Of QUEENSRŸCHE

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has issued a follow-up statement regarding his previously published comments about QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate. When a DREAM THEATER fan suggested in a posting in "The Forum" section of Portnoy's web site that Tate was in New York City doing press for QUEENSRŸC...

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SLASH Says That He Has Hasn't Quit VELVET REVOLVER

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash spent time at a Los Angeles recording studio on Friday (March 31) laying down a guest guitar solo on an album from an up-and-coming female singer that is being produced by one-time GUNS N' ROSES producer Mike Clink, informed sources have told BLABBERM...

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GUNS N' ROSES: No Reunion With SLASH, DUFF

A representative for GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose has shot down persistent rumors that former GNR members Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan are in talks with Rose about taking part in a "reunion" tour this summer. The rumors gained strength a couple of days ago when unconfirmed reports surfac...

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ROSE TATTOO Guitarist Remembered As Loyal Mate At Sydney Funeral

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that musicians Angry Anderson, Jimmy Barnes and Jon Stevens were among the 150 friends and family who farewelled ROSE TATTOO guitarist Pete Wells at his Sydney funeral on Friday (March 31) Guests gathered at St Brendan's Church at Annandale, in Sydney's inner-w...

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ARCH ENEMY, HERMAN RAREBELL Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

ARCH ENEMY and HERMAN RAREBELL have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABORTED AMON AMARTH ARCH ENEMY ATHEIST BATTLELORE BLOODTHORN BORN FROM PAIN CALIBAN CELTIC F...

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ROSE TATTOO Guitarist's Funeral To Be Held On Friday

ROSE TATTOO guitarist Pete Wells' funeral will be held on Friday, March 31 in Annandale in Sydney, Australia. Services are scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. Wells passed away in Sydney on Monday (March 27) after a long fight with cancer. A close friend, ROSE TATTOO singer Angry Anderson said Wells's...

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AXL ROSE Sighted At THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Gig In New York

According to a posting at Splat, GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose was seen on Saturday night (March 25) at a THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND gig in New York. The concert at the Beacon Theater was the final night for the band after a recent run of gigs at the venue. Unfortunately, it ...