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Former KISS Guitarist BRUCE KULICK Proposes To Girlfriend

Former KISS and current GRAND FUNK RAILROAD guitarist has announced that he got engaged to his girlfriend, Lisa Lane, over the holidays. Bruce says: "I proposed on a London holiday on [Christmas] eve. It's been a great holiday season!" A photo of the happy couple couple can be found at this location...

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NEWSTED: Teaser For 'Soldierhead' Video

A teaser for "Soldierhead", the first video from NEWSTED, the new band led by former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted, can be seen below. The clip was filmed on December 15 in an abandoned factory in California. In a recent interview with Sonic Excess, Newsted stated ab...

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KING'S X, Ex-THE MARS VOLTA Members Unite In PINNICK GALES PRIDGEN

Magna Carta has set a February 12 release date for the self-titled debut album from PINNICK GALES PRIDGEN. It's often been said that three-piece bands are the most expressive and most balanced musical units known to the rock world. CREAM, THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, RUSH, THE POLICE, PRIMUS… These...

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SOIL Frontman: 'I've Never Once Made A Dollar On Any Of My Records'

Anthony Morgan of Metal Forces recently conducted an interview with SOIL vocalist Ryan McCombs. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On rejoining SOIL: Ryan: "Originally, the guys came to me and asked if I was interested in being a part of the tenth anniversary of the release of 'Scars',...

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SNOWY SHAW To Guest On New SORROWS PATH Album

Swedish multi-instrumentalist Snowy Shaw (KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, MEMENTO MORI, NOTRE DAME, DREAM EVIL, THERION, DIMMU BORGIR) will make a guest appearance on the sophomore album from Greek doom metallers SORROWS PATH. Snowy will sing a duet with SORROWS PATH frontman Angelos Ioannidis on a son...

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FATES WARNING Completes Writing Music For New Album

Guitarist Jim Matheos of U.S. progressive metal icons FATES WARNING has issued the following update: "I'm happy to say that all the music for [the new FATES WARNING album] is now written (finally!). Still some lyrics to do, but we're close. Looking forward to sharing this with you in 2013." FATES WA...

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SLAYER's 'Seasons In The Abyss' Like You've Never Heard It Before

Swedish multi-instrumentalist Snowy Shaw (THERION, KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL, DIMMU BORGIR) makes a guest appearance on several tracks on "Révisionnisme", the third studio album from THE CNK, the French martial industrial/electronic black metal which features in its ranks Nicolas Saint Morand (a.k.a....

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Keyboardist For GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE Suffers Heart Attack

Keyboardist Randy Gane (pictured below),who is a member of Geoff Tate's newly assembled version of QUEENSRŸCHE, suffered a heart attack Wednesday night (December 26),according to a posting on Geoff's Facebook page. The singer is asking fans to "please send [their] prayers and positive thoughts to...

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BELIEVER To Enter Studio Next Month

A 17-minute video clip in which guitarist/vocalist Kurt Bachman of Pennsylvania-based technical thrash metal veterans BELIEVER answers questions that were submitted by fans via Facebook can be seen below. BELIEVER is preparing to enter the studio to begin recording its fifth album, due next year via...

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RUDY SARZO: Why I Decided To Join GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE

Legendary bassist Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO) says that he decided to join Geoff Tate's newly assembled version of QUEENSRŸCHE because the the opportunity to work with a "world-class vocalist" like Tate was too good to pass up. "My motivation for joining the band is, you...

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JASON NEWSTED: New 30-Minute Audio Interview Posted Online

On December 18, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted. You can now listen to the entire 30-minute chat in the YouTube clip below. NEWSTED's first song, "Soldierhead...

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JORN: Audio Samples Of Entire 'Symphonic' Album

Audio samples of all the songs that will appear on "Symphonic", the very special album from Norwegian hard rock singer Jorn Lande, can be streamed at MelodicRock.com. The CD will be released on January 25 in Europe and January 22 in North America via Frontiers Records. "Symphonic" is not a proper ne...

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SOUNDGARDEN Offering Free Download Of 'Letterman' Performance

Reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN are offering a free download of the songs "Thousand Days Before" and "Rowing" from their recent performance on "Late Show With David Letterman" as a "thank you" to their fans for their support in 2012. Enter B33CMZ at this location to redeem the recording. SOUNDGA...

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SCALE THE SUMMIT To Enter Studio Next Week

Progressive instrumentalists SCALE THE SUMMIT will enter Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on January 2 with producer Jamie King (BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, HE IS LEGEND, FOR TODAY) to begin recording their new album, "The Migration", for a spring release via Prosthetic Records. A ne...

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JASON NEWSTED Talks To 107.7 THE BONE About His New Band (Audio)

Former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted was interviewed this past week by Nikki Blakk on the San Francisco, California radio station 107.7 The Bone. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. NEWSTED's first song, "Soldierhead...