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ARCHITECTS: New Song 'Broken Cross' Available For Streaming

British metallers ARCHITECTS will release their new album, "Lost Forever // Lost Together", in North America on March 11 via Epitaph Records. The CD will be made available in in Australia through UNFD and in Canada via New Damage Records. After writing demos on their successful run on Vans Warped To...

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SCORPION CHILD: 'Kings Highway' Video Released

Austin rockers SCORPION CHILD have released a video for the first track on their debut album, "Kings Highway". Opening with the sound of cicadas, the clip was directed by award-winning stop-motion animator Jess Cope (STEVEN WILSON, STORM CORROSION, DEVIN TOWNSEND) of Owlhouse Studios, whose talents...

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THE EXPLOITED Forced To Cancel Remainder Of Tour After Singer WATTIE Suffers Heart Attack

According to the Portuguese web site Blitz, singer Wattie Buchan of British punk legends THE EXPLOITED suffered a heart attack on stage during the band's concert last night (Thursday, February 13) in Lisbon, Portugal during the "Tour Of Chaos" with HATEBREED and NAPALM DEATH. A fan-filmed video clip...

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Video: STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER Performs 'Rock You To Hell' At Italy's 'Made In Hell Fest 4'

Fan-filmed video footage of STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER, the revamped version of the cult '80s British metal act GRIM REAPER led by singer Steve Grimmett, performing the song "Rock You To Hell" on February 8 at the Made In Hell Fest 4 at Exenzia Rock Club in Prato, Italy can be seen below. As previ...

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DEEP PURPLE: 'Wait For The Ricochet' Story Of 'In Rock' Album Now Available

"Wait For The Ricochet", a new book by Simon Robinson and Stephen Clare detailing the history of DEEP PURPLE's classic "In Rock" album, has been published by Simon's Easy On The Eye Books. This has been several years in the making, but the copies are finally printed, in stock and being shipped. You...

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QUEEN Eyeing Summer Tour With ADAM LAMBERT

According to The Pulse Of Radio, all signs are pointing to QUEEN hitting the road with "American Idol" finalist Adam Lambert once again fronting the band. Co-founding guitarist Brian May, who leads QUEEN with drummer Roger Taylor, stopped short of announcing the tour, telling NME, "We've been talkin...

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MAGNUM: Audio Sample Of New Song 'Too Many Clowns'

Influential British melodic hard rockers MAGNUM will release their 19th studio album, "Escape From The Shadow Garden", on March 25 (one day earlier internationally) via Steamhammer/SPV. The effort will be made available as a limited digipak edition with bonus material, as a double colored vinyl LP,...

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BLACK STONE CHERRY: Audio Sample Of New Single 'Me And Mary Jane'

Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY will release their fourth album, "Magic Mountain", on May 6 (one day earlier internationally) via Roadrunner Records. The CD's lead single, "Me And Mary Jane", is set to hit radio waves in mid-February to coincide with the band's sold-out series of intimate "fan-c...

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QUEEN's 'Greatest Hits' Becomes First Album Ever To Hit 6 Million Sales In U.K.

Legendary British band QUEEN has made chart history by becoming the first act ever to reach 6 million U.K. sales of an album. QUEEN broke chart records after surpassing the 6 million sales milestone with its 1981 "Greatest Hits" album. Britain's best-selling album of all time, a staggering one in th...

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RAINBOW: 'The Singles Box Set 1975-1986' To Arrive This Week

As one of the cornerstones of British rock, RAINBOW, led by the never-predictable-but-ever-astonishing guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, became synonymous with some of the most well regarded and popular charting rock songs of the Seventies and Eighties. From the mystic and quasi-religious "Man On A Silve...

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Woman Charged For Tweeting Death Threats To SOUNDGARDEN's CHRIS CORNELL

According to Seattle news station KIRO 7, a local woman has been charged for allegedly tweeting death threats to SOUNDGARDEN frontman Chris Cornell. The woman reportedly sent over 100 messages to Cornell from a total of nine different Twitter accounts. The postings also alluded to a rape of Cornell'...

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RISE TO REMAIN: 'Over And Over' Single Available For Free Download

RISE TO REMAIN, the London, England metalcore outfit fronted by Austin Dickinson — the son of IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson — is preparing the troops for its highly anticipated return to the live arena with a surprise present — a free download of the band's brand new single, "Over And Over". A...

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Original GRIM REAPER Members STEVE GRIMMETT And NICK BOWCOTT To Reunite At RAGNARÖKKR METAL APOCALYPSE

STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER, the revamped version of the cult '80s British metal act GRIM REAPER led by singer Steve Grimmett, will perform in the USA for the first time since 1987 on April 5 at the Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse festival at Reggies bar in Chicago, Illinois. The band's set will consis...

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HELLION To Release 'To Hellion And Back' 2-Disc Anthology In April

Los Angeles-based female-fronted metallers HELLION have inked a contract with London-based HNE/Cherry Red Records. The first of three HELLION albums set for release this year is a 2-disc anthology titled "To Hellion And Back", which will be released on April 1, and the first 1,000 copies will be aut...

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British Supergroup ASIA To Release 'Gravitas' In March

ASIA, the legendary British band, moves into the next phase of its extraordinary career with "Gravitas", a brave new album that explores different musical landscapes while embracing its familiar musical past. Produced and written by band members John Wetton and Geoff Downes, "Gravitas" is deeply int...