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DEGRADEAD: More Video Footage Posted Online

Stockholm, Sweden-based melodic death metallers DEGRADEAD recently entered Peter Tägtgren's (HYPOCRISY, PAIN) Abyss studios in Pärlby, outside Ludvika, Sweden with producer Jonas Kjellgren (SCAR SYMMETRY, CENTINEX, WORLD BELOW) to begin recording their third album for a late 2010 release. The second...

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PETER STEELE Remembered By Brooklyn Commissioner Of Parks

Before Peter Steele began touring the world as the frontman of the goth-metal act TYPE O NEGATIVE, he held a job with the New York City Parks Department driving garbage trucks and dump trucks and steamrollers. Julius Spiegel (pictured below),Brooklyn Commissioner of Parks, remembers Steele in the f...

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PETER STEELE Remembered By ROADRUNNER RECORDS' DOUG KEOGH

Doug Keogh, Executive VP Roadrunner Records, has released the following statement regarding the passing of TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele: "Of all the great artists that I've been blessed to work with, Peter Steele may have been the most important of them all. "While Peter was brilliant befor...

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PETER STEELE's TYPE O NEGATIVE Bandmates, Family Members Release Official Statements

TYPE O NEGATIVE members Josh Silver (keyboards),Kenny Hickey (guitar) and Johnny Kelly (drums) have released the following joint statement: "It is with great sadness that we inform you that TYPE O NEGATIVE front man, bassist, and our band mate, Peter Steele, passed away last night of what appears t...

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CLUTCH: More 'Live At The 9:30' DVD Details Revealed

2010 will prove to be the busiest calender year in the career of veteran rock band CLUTCH. Building on the Top 30 Billboard chart success of 2009's "Strange Cousins From the West" (Weathermaker Music),the Maryland-based quartet will internationally issue a brand new epic DVD set called "Live at the...

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NIGHTFALL Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Reformed Greek metallers NIGHTFALL — featuring frontman and lyricist Efthimis Karadimas alongside Evan Hensley on guitar, Stathis Kassios on keyboards and Jörg Uken on drums — have inked a deal with Metal Blade Records. The band's new album, "Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants", will be released la...

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'Twilight' Star Not Playing KURT COBAIN, Says COURTNEY LOVE's Manager

The Pulse of Radio reports that the manager of Courtney Love, widow of NIRVANA frontman Kurt Cobain, shot down a widely circulated report on Friday (April 9) that "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson would play Cobain in a film about the rocker's life that Love is executive producing. Love's manager, Jo...

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STEELWING: 'Lord Of The Wasteland' Teaser Available

A teaser for "Lord Of The Wasteland", the debut album from the Swedish metal act STEELWING (formerly SCAVENGER),can be viewed below. Due in Europe on April 30, 2010 via Noise Art Records, a division of Rock The Nation, the CD was recorded at Deep Blue Studios with producer Nicko DiMarino. The album...

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SKINLAB Confirmed For CALIFORNIA METALFEST IV

San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB have been confirmed for the California Metalfest IV, set to take place May 15-16 at The Fox Theatre and The Glasshouse in Pomona, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: May 15: FEAR FACTORY JOB FOR A COWBOY WHITECHAPEL DYING FETUS ARSIS DE...

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SEX PISTOLS' JOHNNY ROTTEN Comments On Former Manager's Passing

According to The Independent, Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the SEX PISTOLS and impresario, has died. He was 64. Despite early reports that he had died in New York, McLaren's girlfriend of many years, Young Kim, 37, confirmed the impresario died of mesothelioma at a hospital in Switzerland...

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BUCKCHERRY Members Talk About Next Album

A short video clip of BUCKCHERRY singer Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson talking about their forthcoming record can be viewed below. "It's definitely a rock 'n' roll record," says Nelson. "I think that we've grown, we've expanded, lyrically, musically, as songwriters and as musicians. I think it...

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DESPISED ICON: 'We Are NOT Cancelling A Single Show!'

Montreal, Quebec, Canada extreme metallers DESPISED ICON, who announced yesterday that they were splitting up after an eight-year run, have issued the following update: "If it wasn't clear enough, we want to assure everyone that we will be playing all the tours and all the shows that we've been anno...

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ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY Pulls Out Of CARNIFEX U.S. Tour

U.K. death metallers ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY have pulled out of their previously announced U.S. tour with CARNIFEX, SUFFOKATE and UPON A BURNING BODY, which kicked off earlier this week in Vineland, New Jersey. Commented ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY in a statement: "The reason we are not on the CARNI...

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CLUTCH: 'Live At The 9:30' Details Revealed

Maryland rockers CLUTCH will release a new two-DVD set, "Live At The 9:30", on May 11 through their own Weathermaker Music label. The first disc features a high-definition, seven-camera shoot of the band's December 28, 2009 concert at the 9:30 club in Washington, D.C. — including a performance of th...

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CIRCUS OF POWER Frontman Launches CAPTAIN ZAPPED

According to a posting on the official web site of reactivated late '80s/early '90s hard rockers CIRCUS OF POWER, the band's frontman, Alex Mitchell, and Billy Tsounis (UNCLE MAX, FAT NANCY) are collaborating on a new "space pop" project together called CAPTAIN ZAPPED. A song from the band will be p...