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KERI KELLI To Perform With SLASH On 'American Idol'

Keri Kelli (ALICE COOPER, VINCE NEIL, SLASH'S SNAKEPIT, SKID ROW, WARRANT, RATT) will join VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash for next week's "mentor" appearance on "Rock Week" on "American Idol". Slash wrote on his Twitter account, "I'm going to attempt to make 'Rock Week' on 'America...

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CAMP FREDDY: Swine Flu Forces Mexican Cancellation

CAMP FREDDY — the Los Angeles-based "jam" band featuring Dave Navarro (ex-JANE'S ADDICTION, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS),Billy Morrison (ex-THE CULT bassist, current CIRCUS DIABLO vocalist),Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES),Donovan Leitch (son of legendary folk singer Donovan),and Chris C...

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UNEARTH's 'Grave Of Opportunity' Added As 'Guitar Hero World Tour' Downloadable Track

Starting May 7, "Grave of Opportunity" from Massachusetts metallers UNEARTH will be available as a downloadable track on the Guitar Hero World Tour. The song is part of the Ferret Music/Metal Blade Track Pack, which also contains THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA's "Dez Moines" and CHIMAIRA's "On Broken Glass"....

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RAUNCHY: 'Warriors' Video Released

"Warriors", the new video from Danish modern metallers RAUNCHY, can be viewed below. The clip was shot in February with award-winning director Andreas Krohn and his crew. The band says, "Since we hadn't done any official music video since the 'Watch Out' video years ago [from 2004's 'Confusion Bay'...

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ROCK CAMP Begins In Los Angeles With STEVEN TYLER, DUFF MCKAGAN, Others

Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp kicks off on Wednesday (April 29) in Hollywood with a list of guest instructors that includes AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler, VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan, FOO FIGHTERS touring keyboardist Rami Jaffee, Todd Rundgren, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick and others....

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ALL THAT REMAINS' 'Overcome' Re-Enters BILLBOARD Chart

More than seven months after ALL THAT REMAINS' "Overcome" entered The Billboard Top 200 at position No. 16, the album re-entered the chart at No. 191 this week after it sold another 2,700 copies. To date, the album has shifted 151,000 units in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. ALL T...

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VELVET REVOLVER Drummer MATT SORUM: 'We Need A Singer Soon'

"We need a singer soon," VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum told MusicRadar in an exclusive interview. "We need the right guy in six months. We can't wait another year. Otherwise, it might not matter." Sorum told MusicRadar that the band was recently close to deciding on a singer, whose identity he...

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ATREYU Begins Recording New Album

Orange County quintet ATREYU has entered Henson Studios in Los Angeles with producer Bob Marlette (SALIVA, SEETHER, OZZY OSBOURNE) to begin work on the highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's "Lead Sails Paper Anchor". "We started as a heavy hardcore band," says lead vocalist Alex Varkatzas, "and I t...

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TESTAMENT Frontman Checks In

Vocalist Chuck Billy of San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans TESTAMENT has issued the following update: "TESTAMENT is about to embark on a killer North American tour and I am stoked!!! 'The Formation Of Damnation' took us all over the world playing 126 gigs so far since the release of [the a...

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SUICIDE SILENCE To Guest On MTV2's 'Headbangers Ball'

California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE will be the featured guests on this Friday's (May 1) episode of MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" at midnight EST as the group gets interviewed by Jose Mangin from Sirius / XM satellite radio's Liquid Metal. Liquid Metal will also world-premiere the brutal new SU...

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SIRENIA: 'The 13th Floor' First-Week U.S. Sales Revealed

"The 13th Floor", the new album from the Norwegian/Spanish female-fronted gothic metal band SIRENIA, sold around 500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 149 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the b...

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SLASH Approached For 'Rock Week' On 'American Idol'

According to The Pulse of Radio, Slash revealed on his Twitter account that he has been approached to mentor contestants during an upcoming "Rock Week" on "American Idol". The VELVET REVOLVER guitarist simply wrote, "'American Idol' has asked me to do the mentor bit for 'Rock Week'," with no mention...

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DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED: Interview, Performance From Huntington's THE PLANET Posted Online

VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan's side band, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED, took part in an acoustic performance and interview this past Friday, April 24 on 92.7 and 98.5 The Planet radio station in Huntington, West Virginia. Watch their appearance on the show below. "Sick", the new full-length album f...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman Interviewed In Atlanta; Video Available

Metal Mark of SkullsNBones.com conducted an interview with vocalist Peter Dolving of Swedish metallers THE HAUNTED before the band's April 24, 2009 concert at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. Watch the 10-minute chat below. THE HAUNTED kicked off its North American headlining tour on April 2 at T...

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ALL THAT REMAINS To Host Special Thursday Night 'Headbangers Ball'

Massachusetts quintet ALL THAT REMAINS, whose latest album "Overcome" has sold more than 150,000 copies since its September release, will appear on a special edition of MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" this Thursday (April 30) at 11 p.m. EST/PST. The program will feature videos and interviews with the band...