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WIDOW: 'Nightlife' Full-Album Preview Available

Since the release of their first album "Midnight Strikes", Raleigh, North Carolina-based melodic metallers WIDOW represented a sort of melting-pot of the '80s hard rock / heavy metal culture and the modernity of melodic death metal mainly expressed by their fast guitar-riffing and vocals. Lyric-wise...

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KITTIE: 'Rockline' Appearance Available For Streaming

Canadian all-girl metal band KITTIE were the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" on Monday, June 18. The program is now available for streaming at this location. A video of KITTIE performing the song "What I Always Wanted" at Northern Lights in Clifton Park, New York d...

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SAMMY HAGAR: 'VAN HALEN Always Did Everything Wrong And Backwards'

Kevin C. Johnson of STLtoday.com recently conducted an interview with Sammy Hagar. A few excerpts follow: STLtoday.com: What's it like having "Hall of Famer" in front of your name? Hagar: It's really exciting, being there and standing next to Keith Richards and people I looked up to my entire career...

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UNION: Rare Audio Recordings, Video Footage Posted Online

UNION, the now-defunct late '90s group formed by Bruce Kulick (GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, ex-KISS) and John Corabi (RATT, ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE) along with Brent Fitz and Jamie Hunting, has posted several rare recordings on its MySpace page, including covers of EDGAR WINTER GROUP's "Free Ride" and DEEP PURPLE's...

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LINKIN PARK Frontman To Guest On KROQ Tomorrow

LINKIN PARK frontman Chester Bennington will call into the "Kevin & Bean" show on the Los Angeles radio station KROQ at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow (Friday, June 15). Tune in to KROQ 106.7 FM or listen live at www.kroq.com. LINKIN PARK will headline its fourth Projekt Revolution tour, beginning on July 2...

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Collateral Defect

Recalling my review of 2005's "(N)utopia" by Italy's GRAVEWORM, the album was a decent effort that combined the band's patented dark, gothic-tinged even, and keyboard-laced black/death metal, but seemed to lack a certain something. The resulting 6.5/10 was an indication of an album that contained so...

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SILENT CIVILIAN: Tour Dates Announced

SILENT CIVILIAN, the new band featuring former SPINESHANK vocalist Jonny Santos, will team up with KITTIE, IT DIES TODAY, BRING ME THE HORIZON and BLESSED BY A BROKEN HEART for a full U.S. tour this summer. The trek will begin August 11 in New York, NY and make its way west. Additionally, the band h...

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IRON MAIDEN: DOWNLOAD Concert To Air On British TV

According to a posting on producer Kevin Shirley's web site, he is currently in the studio doing some "quick mixes" of IRON MAIDEN's performance at this past weekend's Download festival for an upcoming British TV broadcast. More information will be made available soon. IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dic...

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ADAGIO To Team Up With KORPIKLAANI For Japanese Tour

French progressive metallers ADAGIO will team up with Finland's KORPIKLAANI for a short tour of Japan in September. Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 12 - Tokyo, JPN - Club Quattro Sep. 13 - Nagoya, JPN - Club Quattro Sep. 14 - Osaka, JPN - Club Quattro ADAGIO has also confirmed several headlinin...

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RAVEN To Return To Studio In July

Legendary British/American heavy metal trio RAVEN will return to the studio in July to resume recording material for its new album, tentatively due late 2007/early July 2008. The band last year recorded four new tracks — "Against The Grain", "Running Around In Circles", "Breaking You Down" and "Nece...

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CHRIS CORNELL Talks About Covering MICHAEL JACKSON's 'Billie Jean'

Former AUDIOSLAVE/SOUNDGARDEN vocalist Chris Cornell recently spoke to the Artisan News Service about his cover of MICHAEL JACKSON's "Billie Jean". Watch the report, which includes footage of Cornell performing the song, at YouTube. According to Hits Daily Double, Chris Cornell's new solo album, "Ca...

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KITTIE: New Tour Dates Announced

Canadian all-girl metal band KITTIE has scheduled the following dates: Jul. 07 - Mississippi Coast Coliseum - Biloxi, Mississippi Jul. 15 - Q94.5 The Rock Bandtango (Edinburg Baseball Stadium) - McAllen, Texas Jul. 21 - Z93 FM Altered Skin Revolution - Saginaw, Michigan Aug. 05 - 94.1 WJJO Band Camp...

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NAPALM DEATH: South American, Mexican Tour Dates Announced

British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH have issued the following update: "Just a quick note as we busy ourselves preparing for our show at the Download festival this coming Sunday to tell you that we will be heading down to South America in October as the final part of the 'Smear Campaign' world to...

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MARILYN MANSON, CHRIS CORNELL First-Week Sales Predicted

According to Hits Daily Double, MARILYN MANSON's "Eat Me, Drink Me" is poised to sell between 90,000 and 100,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release to debut in the Top 10 of next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is slightly less than the 118,000 first-week tally registe...

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Former ANTHRAX Guitarist DAN SPITZ Working On Solo Album

Former ANTHRAX guitarist Dan Spitz has issued the following update: "Announcing the arrival of twin identical healthy Spitz boys. We have Brendan Alan Spitz at 7.1 pounds 19 1/2 inches and Jaden Michael Spitz at 6.2 pounds 19 1/2 inches. They arrived two minutes apart on May 29th and Candi, my honey...