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QUEENSRŸCHE Comments On New Record Deal

Seattle-based progressive metallers QUEENSRŸCHE have signed a multi-album, worldwide deal with Loud & Proud Records, a Roadrunner Records imprint focusing on established artists. The band's label debut — their twelfth studio album overall — is tentatively scheduled for a spring 2011 release. Sin...

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VINNIE PAUL Talks HELLYEAH, DIMEBAG And PANTERA In New Video Interview

On Tuesday, August 24, MusikUniverse.net conducted an interview with HELLYEAH/ex-PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott at Club Soda in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. "Stampede", the sophomore album from the metal juggernaut known as HELLYEAH — featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott,...

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SERENITY Bassist Quits

Bassist Simon Holzknecht has left Austrian symphonic melodic metallers SERENITY due to personal reasons. Commented the band: "Within the last couple of years Simon was a constant and important part within the band and his bass playing completed our releases (2007's 'Words Untold & Dreams Unlived...

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TRIPTYKON Frontman Sings ANGEL WITCH's Praises

TRIPTYKON/ex-CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "I had waited 30 years for this. "It is not a coincidence that TRIPTYKON practices in a rehearsal room decorated with ANGEL WITCH photos and record sleeves. The importance of ANGEL WITCH's mu...

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SOLUTION .45's 'Gravitational Lensing' Video To Premiere This Friday

SOLUTION .45, the Swedish/Finnish progressive metal "supergroup" which features in its ranks former SCAR SYMMETRY vocalist Christian Älvestam, recently filmed videos for the songs "Gravitational Lensing" and "Lethean Tears". This Friday (August 27),MySpace Germany will exclusively premiere the "Gra...

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METALLICA Song Headed Into Space?

The Pulse of Radio reports that METALLICA's "Enter Sandman" could be one of the songs heard by the crew on the final flight of space shuttle Discovery this November, according to Gibson.com. NASA has launched a new "Wake-up Song Contest" that will allow the public to choose which songs the crew will...

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HEATHEN: 'Dying Season' Video Released

"Dying Season", the new video from San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed in early April in Sacramento, California with Darin Wood, Christy Savage and Amy Slockbower of Trash Film Orgy Productions, a company that specializes in B-horror films. This is Tras...

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SODOM Mainman's DIE KNAPPEN To Release Debut Album In October

Bassist/vocalist Thomas "Angelripper" Such of veteran German thrashers SODOM has joined forces with longtime friend Detlef "Magic" Lauster in a brand new project called DIE KNAPPEN (old German word for "miner"). The group's debut album, "Auf Kohle Geboren", will be released at the end of October. DI...

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Guitarist Says There Are No Plans For Band To Record New Album

On August 20, Crash and LT of the Orlando, Florida radio station 101.1 WJRR conducted an interview with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello. You can now listen to the 12-minute chat below. When asked about a recent quote from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE frontman Zack De la Rocha where the si...

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DAVE MUSTAINE: One Of The Devil's Greatest Tricks Is Convincing People He Doesn't Exist

Pat Prince of Goldmine magazine recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Goldmine: How did it feel getting [bassist] Dave Ellefson back in the band? Mustaine: Yeah, it felt pretty good. He's a good guy. We had our falling o...

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PRIMAL FEAR, Ex-BLACK SABBATH, RIOT Members Featured On New PHENOMENA Album

Escape Music has set a September 24 release date for the much-anticipated new album from Tom Galley, the creator of PHENOMENA, titled "Blind Faith". The effort features guest contributions from countless renowned musicians such as: * Mike DeMeo (RIOT, MASTERPLAN) * Rob Moratti and Ian Crichton (SAGA...

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Eparistera Daimones

Sickened, haughty, lurching, three weeks long and drenched in pretentious, glowering atmosphere, TRIPTYKON picks up right where CELTIC FROST's brilliant "Monotheist" left off. It's at once highbrow and lo-fi, art and brutality, and it places Tom Gabriel Fischer's "new" band immediately in the vangua...

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Opinion: STEVEN TYLER Is 'Terrible Choice' For 'Idol'

According to The Pulse of Radio, entertainment industry web site The Wrap published an article on Thursday (August 19) making the case that AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler would be a "terrible choice" for a new judge on "American Idol". Writer Dominic Patten says in the piece that Tyler, who's rumor...

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STEVEN TYLER Accidentally Clocks JOE PERRY In The Head With Mic Stand; Video Available

Video footage of AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler accidentally hitting guitarist Joe Perry with his mic stand at the end of the band's performance of the song "Sweet Emotion" on August 12, 2010 at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York can be viewed below. As previously reported, there's c...

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AEROSMITH Bassist Says STEVEN TYLER Is Doing 'American Idol'

AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton has confirmed to The Star-Ledger that the band's frontman, Steven Tyler, will be a judge in the next season of "American Idol". "Steven is doing 'American Idol'. The ink is dry on that," said Hamilton. "So, we'll have to work around his schedule for a new record. "I ho...