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JOE STUMP: Concert DVD Due Before End Of Year

Guitar virtuoso Joe Stump (HOLYHELL, REIGN OF TERROR) has issued the following update: "I've compiled quite a bit of high-quality concert video footage over the last several months, so some type of full-on concert DVD of my solo stuff will be released before the end of this year. It'll be a two-DVD...

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SKELETONWITCH: 'Submit To The Suffering' Video Released

"Submit To The Suffering", the new video from Athens, Ohio blackened thrash tyrants SKELETONWITCH, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Don Tyler (MASTODON, RINGWORM) before the band hit the road for the summer, which included a Canadian tour supporting HIGH ON FIRE, a stop at Heavy MTL fes...

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GODSMACK Frontman Discusses Solo Album In New Interview

ARTISTdirect.com editor Rick Florino recently conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna about Sully's forthcoming solo debut, "Avalon". An excerpt from the chat follows below. ARTISTdirect.com: Is there one common thread or theme to "Avalon"? Erna: What ties the record together so wel...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN Is A Japanese Comic-Strip Character

The front page of the current issue of Tokyo Sports, Japan's top nationwide sports newspaper, features a half-page photo as well as the transcript of a monumental conversation between former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman and legendary comic-strip artist Tenho Iwatani. Tenho Iwatani's daily comic...

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DEATH ANGEL: New Album Guitar-Lesson Videos To Be Made Available This Week

PlayThisRiff.com will feature new riff lessons focusing on the upcoming DEATH ANGEL album, "Relentless Retribution", due out on September 3 in Europe and September 14 in the U.S. via Nuclear Blast Records. On the dates below, you will get to hear an audio sample of the new DEATH ANGEL record, and th...

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OTEP: Audio Interview With EVIL J

On August 17, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with bassist Jason "Evil J" McGuire of California's OTEP at the Key Club in Hollywood. You can now listen to the chat in two parts below. OTEP is continuing to promote its fourth full-length studio album, "Smash The Contr...

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FORBIDDEN/Ex-NEVERMORE Guitarist STEVE SMYTH To Guest On AC/DZ Debut

Steve Smyth (FORBIDDEN, ex-NEVERMORE, TESTAMENT, VICIOUS RUMORS) has been added to the list of guitarists who will lay down guest solos on the forthcoming debut album from AC/DZ, the San Francisco Bay Area-based AC/DC tribute band formed by legendary thrash singer Steve "Zetro" Souza (TENET, DUBLIN...

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GIBSON To Reproduce Classic RANDY RHOADS Les Paul Guitar

According to Gibson.com, the 1974 Les Paul Custom guitar that Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads played on the classic albums "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman" has been one of the most requested reissues ever. Now the Gibson Custom Shop has announced the release of this legendary axe. More...

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The Final Frontier

Okay, so despite giving everyone shivers with the title, and invoking some goofy predestined band plan Steve Harris made up when he was a lad, this fifteenth effort is not intended to be the last IRON MAIDEN album. It's also not the mad leap into reinvention and experimentation some would have you b...

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SLASH Among Musicians Remembering LES PAUL In CNN's 'Icon'

Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES) is among the musicians who remember guitar legend and sound innovator Les Paul in a new three-and-a-half-minute report from CNN.com, which can be viewed below. Les Paul, known worldwide for his legendary performances and his incomparable innovations that shaped...

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Heaven's Venom

After a couple of decades of establishing itself as a Canadian death metal institution it is now a near certainty that you'll pretty much know exactly what's coming with each new KATAKLYSM release. Whereas 2006's "In the Arms of Devastation" showed the band at the top of its game with the tried and...

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Eparistera Daimones

Sickened, haughty, lurching, three weeks long and drenched in pretentious, glowering atmosphere, TRIPTYKON picks up right where CELTIC FROST's brilliant "Monotheist" left off. It's at once highbrow and lo-fi, art and brutality, and it places Tom Gabriel Fischer's "new" band immediately in the vangua...

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From Surface to Suffocation

I don't generally rag on bands for their production choices, but this record sounds like it was recorded behind a wall of wet cotton. The guitars are scooped out and gutless, the low end is weak, and all the vocals sound like they're being sung through a toilet paper tube. The production here is low...

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MY RUIN: New Song Available For Free Download

MY RUIN, the Los Angeles duo consisting of vocalist Tairrie B. and multi-instrumentalist Mick Murphy, will release its sixth full-length studio album, "Ghosts And Good Stories", on August 27 via Tiefdruck-Musik. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. Diggin' For Ghosts 02. Long Dark Night 0...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN To Take Part In Japanese Signing Sessions

Following the Japanese release of his tenth solo album, "Bad D.N.A." on August 25, former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman will take part in a series of promotional autograph sessions throughout Japan before taking the CD to the concert stage with his band later this year. The first signing session...