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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist Says His Band Has No Choice But To Defend Its Trademark

TWISTED SISTER guitarist and manager, J.J. French, says that he was forced to send a cease-and-desist letter to the owners of the Twisted Sister House Of Hunger food truck in Minneapolis, Minnesota asking the business to change its name because he and his bandmates are required by trademark law to e...

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FORCENTURY: 'Revelant' Teaser Available

A teaser for "Revelant", the forthcoming second album from Danish melodic metallers FORCENTURY, can be seen below. The CD will be released on December 3 via Mighty Music. FORCENTURY embraces music from power metal to progressive metal with an unmistakable classic rock twist that draw inspirations fr...

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KAMELOT Guitarist Interviewed On 'Rich Davenport's Rock Show' (Audio)

Guitarist Thomas Youngblood of American/German/Swedish symphonic metallers KAMELOT was interviewed on the latest edition of "Rich Davenport's Rock Show". The program can be streamed using the Mixcloud player below. (Note: The Youngblood interview begins around the one-hour, 22-minute mark.) KAMELOT'...

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SOULFLY: New Video Interview Posted Online

Rithan of KLTV's EC Inspirasi recently conducted an interview with SOULFLY. You can now watch the chat below. SOULFLY's eighth album, "Enslaved", sold 5,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 82 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Omen"...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION's Cover Of 'Apologize' Available For Streaming

WITHIN TEMPTATION's cover version of the ONE REPUBLIC track "Apologize", which was premiered on the Q-Music web site, can now be streamed below. Ahead of WITHIN TEMPTATON's 15th-anniversary concert on November 13 at Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium, the band is revealing a unique cover every week on...

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ANTHRAX Bassist: 'We're More Relevant Than Ever'

ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello was interviewed on the November 2-4 edition of Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. To see a full list of stations carrying the program and when it airs, go to FullMetalJackieRadio.com. Intervie...

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MIKE PORTNOY Trashes Drums, 'Raps' At Manila Concert; Video Available

The new supergroup featuring drummer Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD),bassist Billy Sheehan (STEVE VAI, DAVID LEE ROTH),guitarist Tony MacAlpine (STEVE VAI) and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, PLANET X, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION) is in the middle of a world tour during whi...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Reflects On 'Countdown To Extinction'

ARTISTdirect.com editor-in-chief Rick Florino recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. ARTISTdirect.com: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of "Countdown To Extinction" now? Mustaine: It was very fun....

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20 Injured Outside LINKIN PARK Concert In South Africa

20 people were injured, one of them fatally, after advertising scaffolding collapsed earlier tonight (Wednesday, November 7) before a LINKIN PARK concert at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Strong winds are believed to have caused the scaffolding to collapse outside the stadium just bef...

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KAMELOT's 'Silverthorn' Cracks U.S. Top 100

"Silverthorn", the new album from American/German/Swedish symphonic metallers KAMELOT, sold 5,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 79 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Poetry For The Poisoned", opened with around 6,100 units in Septe...

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MORBID ANGEL Frontman Says PETE SANDOVAL Still Has 'Challenges' To Overcome Following Surgery

Greece's Metalpaths recently conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist David Vincent of Florida-based death metal veterans MORBID ANGEL. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Asked how longtime MORBID ANGEL drummer Pedro "Pete" Sandoval is doing two years after undergoing s...

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Former AC/DC Bassist Interviewed On ABC Radio National's 'Breakfast' (Audio)

Respected radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent Fran Kelly, who hosts ABC Radio National's agenda-setting "Breakfast" program in Australia, recently conducted an interview with former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans, author of the new book "Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outs...

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TERÄSBETONI Mainman To Release Christmas Album

Jarkko Ahola (AHOLA, TERÄSBETONI, NORTHERN KINGS) will release a Christmas album, "Ave Maria - Joulun Klassikot" ("Ave Maria - Christmas Classics"),On November 9. Commented Ahola: "The idea was to do a Christmas album that would sound majestic and grand, but yet still delicate and dynamic. It was c...

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THE 69 EYES Films 'Borderline' Video In New Orleans

Finnish gothic metallers THE 69 EYES recently filmed a video for the song "Borderline" in New Orleans, Louisiana with Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, who has previously worked with DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE and KAMELOT, among others. Commented THE 69 EYES singer...

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STRYPER Frontman Releases Solo Track As Tribute To Those Affected By Hurricane Sandy

Vocalist/guitarist Michael Sweet of Christian hard rockers STRYPER has posted "an unmastered, full-length version" of the song "Strong" from his forthcoming solo album as a tribute to millions people on the East Coast of the United States still affected by Hurricane Sandy's wrath. Says Sweet: "I was...