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THREAT SIGNAL: 'Vigilance' Release Pushed Back To September

"Vigilance", the sophomore album from Canadian metallers THREAT SIGNAL, has had its European release date (via Nuclear Blast Records) pushed back to September 11 from the previously announced August 28. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. Afterlife 02. Through My Eyes 03. The Beginning O...

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JUDAS PRIEST, L.A. GUNS, LILLIAN AXE Members To Guest On 'The Classic Metal Show'

JUDAS PRIEST bassist Ian Hill, L.A. GUNS vocalist Jizzy Pearl, LILLIAN AXE guitarist Steve Blaze and FREAKSHOW/M!SS CRAZY vocalist Markus Allen Christopher will be the featured guests on this weekend's (June 20) edition of "The Classic Metal Show". "The Classic Metal Show" can be heard every Saturda...

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Former WARRANT Singer JANI LANE Arrested For DUI

TMZ.com reports that former WARRANT singer Jani Lane — who has claimed in recent interviews that he has been "sober" since last summer — was arrested last night (Wednesday, June 17) in Los Angeles for a misdemeanor DUI traffic accident. According to the police, Lane was involved in a small fender be...

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POISON Singer Has No Plans To Sue Over TONY AWARDS Incident

POISON singer Bret Michaels has told People.com that he has no plans to file a lawsuit over the incident this month's Tony Awards when he got clocked in the head by a descending set piece during his band's performance. "I want to make very clear to everybody that — first and foremost — ...

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SKINLAB Cancels South American Tour

Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of of veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update: "We've been holding on the sideline for a week now and feel time to finally announce our cancelling of our participation in the Project Independent tour of South America with ILL N...

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THE ANSWER: Video Interviews With CORMAC NEESON Posted Online

Two separate interviews with Cormac Neeson, lead singer with the Irish rock band THE ANSWER, conducted at the Download festival, which was held June 12-14 at Donington Park, United Kingdom, can be viewed below. THE ANSWER was recently forced to cancel its previously announced U.S. club shows due to...

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Waking into Nightmares

For one reason or another California's WARBRINGER gets mentioned in virtually every discussion of thrash metal's resurgence these last few years. In this case, the hoopla is warranted, as the youngsters play it like they mean it and bring genuineness to the proceedings, a trait that is frequently la...

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Report: Tongues Were Wagging As GENE SIMMONS Visited Memphis

Michael Lollar of Commercial Appeal reports: Gene Simmons paid his respects to Memphis music last fall with a visit to the home of rock and roll for tonight's episode of his A&E reality show, "Gene Simmons Family Jewels". The tongue-wagging singer and bassist for KISS, Simmons visited Graceland,...

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THE AGONIST: Allentown Footage Posted Online

Video footage of THE AGONIST's June 7, 2009 performance in Allentown, Pennsylvania can be viewed below (courtesy of "BizREntertainment"). "Lullabies For A Dormant Mind", the sophomore album from THE AGONIST, sold around 600 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Niels...

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SUICIDE SILENCE Interviewed At U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival; Video Available

California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE were interviewed yesterday (Saturday, June 13) at the Download festival, which is being held June 12-14 at Donington Park, United Kingdom. Watch the chat below. "No Time To Bleed", the new album from SUICIDE SILENCE, will be made available on June 30 in a...

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PAUL STANLEY Flips Off FOX Charlotte

KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley was a guest this morning (Friday, June 12) on the "Fox News Rising" program on WCCB Charlotte. In addition to discussing his art exhibit at the Wentworth Gallery at SouthPark Mall, Stanley helped the station executives shut off their analog transmitter and offici...

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BRET MICHAELS Says Prop 'Should Have Been Stopped' Until He Cleared The Stage

POISON singer Bret Michaels has released the following statement regarding the incident at Sunday's (June 7) Tony Awards when he got clocked in the head by a descending set piece during his band's performance. "I am trying to remain very positive and somewhat humorous about the whole situation. "I a...

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BRET MICHAELS Injury Photos Released

Photos of Bret Michaels' nose fracture and busted lip, which he suffered after getting hit in the head by a set piece during Sunday's (June 7) Tony Awards, can be viewed below. The POISON singer and reality TV star's publicist Joann Mignano said that Michaels received three stitches in his lip and h...

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Former CELTIC FROST Mainman Interviewed For New TV Documentary

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his blog: "In the course of the production of a new documentary series about the evolution of music in the 1980s, German/French TV station Arte contacted me some time ago to arrange an intervie...

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BLACK SABBATH's BILL WARD Featured In 'Shockwaves Skull Sessions' Podcast

The 24th installment of the "Shockwaves Skull Sessions" podcast features a four-way discussion with legendary BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward, Roadrunner Records VP of A&R Monte Conner, and metal enthusiast David Tedds as they join "Skull Sessions" host Bob Nalbandian in this mesmerizing and his...