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GREAT WHITE: Portraits Emerge Of Lives Lost In Second Day Of Nightclub Hearing

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Robert Reisner, the school bus driver who lived with his mother and was known as "Mr. Rob" to the students on his route, went to the concert. So did Scott Griffith, a California-born man and self-taught musician who headed out with a group of off...

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ICED EARTH Mainman Wants To Make 'Our Most Epic, Dynamic, Most Melodic And Heaviest CD Ever'

ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer has posted the follwing message on the band's official web site: "I know I've been really lame with the updates and I'm sorry about that. We've let things get pretty lax here at IcedEarth.com and we're going to be making some changes in this in the not-too-distant fut...

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Killafornia

It is really quite simple: Most of you either dig this style of HATEBREED-by-way-of-TERROR metal-edged hardcore or you do not. Yes, the market is flooded, but quality acts still exist within it. The San Francisco Bay Area's FIRST BLOOD are an upper-tier, tough-guy hardcore band and debut album "Kill...

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BENEDICTION Drummer NICK BARKER Breaks Ankle; Band Activities Halted

Long-running U.K. extreme metallers BENEDICTION have sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "BENEDICTION have had to put all rehearsing/recording/playing live on hold for a few months due to drummer Nick Barker [ex-CRADLE OF FILTH, DIMMU BORGIR] breaking his ankle after an 'incident' in Esto...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN To Go On Lengthy Hiatus Following OZZFEST

SYSTEM OF A DOWN guitarist Daron Malakian has told MTV.com that the band's headlining stint on this summer's Ozzfest will be the last time in a "a few years" that they be appearing onstage together under the SYSTEM banner. "I'll always be a member of SYSTEM OF A DOWN," he said. "That will ...

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VINNIE PAUL: 'If PHILIP ANSELMO Really Wants To Place Any Blame, He Needs To Look In A Mirror'

Revolver magazine (web site) conducted an interview with former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott for its June 2006 issue. An excerpt from the chat follows: Revolver: Before Dime ["Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist] was killed, there were rumors about a PANTERA reunio...

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FIREWIND: New Album Details Revealed

Century Media Records has set a July 24 European release date for the new FIREWIND album, entitled "Allegiance". The album's first single, "Falling to Pieces", will be released June 19 in Greece. It will include an edited version of the title track, the non-album track "Demon Nights" and the BLACKFO...

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OBLITERATION Call It Quits

New York death metallers OBLITERATION have officially called it quits. In a statement announcing the split, founding member Thomas Pioli (guitar) wrote, "I disbanded OBLITERATION. After brushing a subject manifesting onto itself for an eternity, I learned the time to rise to the occassion and adress...

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SOLITAIRE To Release 'Invasion Metropolis' In May

Finnish speed metal act SOLITAIRE will release their third album, "Invasion Metropolis", on May 29 through Germany's Battle Cry Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Extremely Flammable" was recorded at Base X Studios and will contain "10 neck-breaking speed metal anthems in the '80s speed metal vein,"...

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ALLELE Cancel Tour Dates

Due to "unforeseen circumstances," ALLELE — the new project featuring former COLD guitarist Kelly Hayes and former OTEP guitarist Lane Maverick — have been forced to reschedule their previously announced Northwest dates. In addition, the band have dropped off the last few dates of the SWITCHED tour...

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COLD Is Not Dead After All

COLD frontman Scooter Ward appears to have had a change of heart and has now decided against breaking up the band, despite a previous announcement to the contrary. In addition, he has also revealed that he will carry on with THE WITCH, the project he had launched with COLD drummer Sam McCandless aft...

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HORNA To Release New Album In June

Finnish black metal legion HORNA will release their fifth album, "Ääniä Yössä", on June 6 via Debemur Morti Productions. The CD, containing four tracks clocking in at around 40 minutes, was created and recorded entirely by Shatraug and Corvus alone, and is based on a concept of the Yersinia Pestis c...

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CKY Part Ways With ISLAND RECORDS

CKY have officially parted ways with Island Records. The band's guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller has sent the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding the matter: "Today we were finally released from our contract with Island Records. We had been asking to be let go since 2003 when it was cle...

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Terror For Sale

The last time I interviewed SOILWORK vocalist "Speed" Strid, he hadn't recorded this new TERROR 2000 album yet. I asked him if it was gonna be stressful or taxing to make another album so soon after "Stabbing the Drama", and he replied, more or less, that "we just have to get drunk and go make ...

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GODSMACK Frontman Discusses 'Speak' Video

GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna recently told MTV.com that he wanted to keep things simple when it came to the video for "Speak" (audio, video),the first single from "IV", due April 25. No bank-breaking special-effects wizardry — not even a single explosion. He didn't want the clip to correlate ...