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NORTHERN KINGS Featuring NIGHTWISH, SONATA ARCTICA Members: Video Posted Online

NORTHERN KINGS, the new Finnish band consisting of four well-known metal musicians — J. Ahola (TERÄSBETONI),Marco Hietala (TAROT, NIGHTWISH),Tony Kakko (SONATA ARCTICA),J-P Leppäluoto (CHARON) — has released the video for its cover of TINA TURNER's "We Don't Need Another Hero". Watch the clip bel...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: 'I'm The Best Frontman In The World, I'm The Best At What I F**king Do'

In the second installment of Headbanger's Blog's week-long series with DOWN/ex-PANTERA vocalist Philip Anselmo, the pugnacious fighter steps into the ring and talks about why he's the undisputed heavyweight champion of heavy metal and how he’s working with the best band playing today. Watch the two...

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DOWN: 'On March The Saints' To Premiere On 'Headbanger's Ball' This Weekend

DOWN's video for the song "On March The Saints" will make its "Headbanger's Ball" debut this Saturday, November 17 at 11:00 p.m. on MTV2 (re-air at 4:00 a.m.). This episode will also feature a piece with Phil Anselmo in which he compares the world of boxing to playing music. A quick spot for the fea...

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PHILIP ANSELMO Discusses Similarities Between Boxing And Music

Since he was young, former PANTERA and current DOWN frontman Phil Anselmo has been obsessed with boxing. A microcosm of the battles between mankind over the ages, a reflection of the principles of social Darwinism and a display of agility, stamina and strength, boxing is considered by some — includi...

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IRON MAIDEN Mania In Sweden, Finland And Colombia

When tickets went on sale yesterday morning for IRON MAIDEN's three stadium shows in Sweden and Finland the box offices were inundated and all 123,500 tickets were quickly sold out — over nine months in advance of the concert dates. The two Swedish shows, July 16 at Stockholm Stadium and July 26 at...

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JIMMY PAGE Says LED ZEPPELIN Concert Will Overshadow Poorly Performed Reunions

The Pulse of Radio reports that Jimmy Page is confident that next month's LED ZEPPELIN reunion concert will finally give fans the same quality show that they performed during the band's heyday. Page told Mojo that the band's inferior sets at Live Aid in 1985 and 1988's Atlantic Records 40th annivers...

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TAPROOT: New Album Title Announced

Bassist Phil Lipscomb of the Ann Arbor, Michigan hard rock band TAPROOT has issued the following update: "As you are all aware, we have been working extremely hard and are in the final stages of finishing up our new album. All of the recording is finished, the album is getting mixed as we speak, and...

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THIN LIZZY To Perform Entire 'Live & Dangerous' Album On UK Tour

To celebrate 30 years since the recording of the classic live album "Live And Dangerous", THIN LIZZY has announce that they will be playing the full album sequentially and in its entirety during their forthcoming November/December 2007 UK tour. Now, for the first time since its original live recordi...

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DOWN Guitarist: 'We Don't Agree On Everything, But In The Long Run, That Makes For Great Songs'

Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle recently conducted an interview with DOWN guitarist Kirk Windstein. Houston Chronicle: Did you find it difficult to get everybody together? Kirk: No, it's something we've discussed. We wanted DOWN to be a type of band that we could grow old with. And we really...

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DAATH: Video Interview With EYAL LEVI Available

VampireFreaks.com conducted an interview with DAATH gutarist Eyal Levi on October 22, 2007 at Bluebird Theatre in Denver, Colorado. Watch the eight-minute chat below. DAATH is curently seeking a new vocalist following the recent exit of Sean Farber. The band is looking for a distinctive voice to aug...

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THIN LIZZY: Irish Dates Added

THIN LIZZY will perform all dates on the band's previously announced UK tour without co-headliner QUEENSRŸCHE which was forced to cancel its participation in the trek "due to a personal emergency." THIN LIZZY's itinerary is now as follows: Nov. 22 - Leicester, UK - De Montfort Hall Nov. 23 - Cambrid...

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KISS Confirms New Zealand Festival Appearance

According to The Dominion Post, KISS will play Wellington's Westpac Stadium in New Zealand as part of a giant two-day rock festival. At least three other big-name overseas acts — yet to be announced — will also perform in the Rock2Wgtn festival in the stadium next Easter, March 22 and 23. It will .....

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Former DAATH Vocalist Slams BLABBERMOUTH.NET 'Naysayers'

Vocalist Sean Farber has issued the following statement regarding his recent departure from the Atlanta-based extreme metal outfit DAATH: "I am posting this blog not to be impersonal, but because I've received many questions lately about what happened with DAATH and me and it is much easier to type...

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DOWN Bassist Says He Was 'Going Through Hell' Following DIMEBAG's Death, Hurricane Katrina

Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times recently conducted an interview with DOWN/ex-PANTERA bassist Rex Brown. "I was going through hell," Brown said of the period from late 2004 until initial rehearsals for the new album commenced in 2006. "Everybody in the band was. The tragedy of...

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DUBLIN DEATH PATROL: Arizona, California Dates Announced

DUBLIN DEATH PATROL (DDP) — the new band featuring TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy and former EXODUS vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza — has scheduled two U.S. dates in December. The group's schedule is now shaping up as follows: Dec. 01 - Pima County Fairgrounds, Tuscon, AZ Dec. 31 - Mixes, Concord, CA Jan...