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Former PANTERA Manager: PHILIP ANSELMO 'Was Beyond Anybody's Control'

In the February 2006 issue of Revolver magazine (web site),several of PANTERA's former business associates recount the band's amazing rise to the status of the biggest extreme metal act in the world and the circumstances that led to their eventual break-up. Though it would be unfair to blame PANTER...

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SAXON To Get Into 'Serious Writing Mode' After Christmas Break

SAXON drummer Nigel Glockler has posted the following message on his official web site: "Just a quickie! We're back out for a short pre-Christmas tour starting this Saturday 3rd December in Stockholm. Due to the U.S. tour being postponed, we didn't waste anytime and spent a couple of weeks trying a...

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MORTAL SIN: New Single Posted Online

Reactivated Australian thrashers MORTAL SIN have posted a new track, entitled "Out of the Darkness", at www.myspace.com/chewysinner. The song was recorded on October 29-30, 2005 at Megaphon Studios with producer Phil McKellar and will be released as a CD single, also containing a recently shot video...

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GENE SIMMONS Dishing Out On Marriage In New Book

According to the Daily Press, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons is one of the celebrities talking about marriage — what constitutes a happy one and an unhappy one — in the new book "What Were You Thinking $600-per-hour Legal Advice on Relationships, Marriage and Divorce" (Phoenix Books, $25.95) by...

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SLIPKNOT, MACHINE HEAD, DANZIG Video Interviews Posted Online

San Antonio's longest-standing metal institution, "Robb's Metalworks", has just posted its two-hour September episode online. You can access it directly at this location. The episode, which is broken into four parts for either streaming or downloading, highlights the following material: Part 1: * Vi...

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L.A. GUNS Frontman To Appear On GUNS N' ROSES Tribute Album

L.A. GUNS frontman Phil Lewis has replaced Joe Leste (BANG TANGO, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES) as the lead vocalist on a cover version of GUNS N' ROSES' "Nightrain", to be included on an upcoming GN'R tribute album, tentatively due in April 2006. Other musicians featured on the track include Keri Kelli (SLA...

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UFO Singer Says PAUL RAYMOND Is 'Banned' From Japan For Three Years

In an interview with Rockdetector.com's Garry Sharpe-Young, UFO singer Phil Mogg revealed that the band, despite having a number of hit albums and songs, only paid back monies owed to Chrysalis Records in 2002. The last UFO product released by Chrysalis was 1985's "Misdemeanour". UFO are currently p...

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Y&T: 'Black Tiger' And 'Mean Streak' To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks

Legendary California hard rockers Y&T will be re-releasing their classic "Black Tiger" (1982) and "Mean Streak" (1983) albums with bonus tracks in January. "These CDs were carefully digitally re-mastered at a high sampling rate directly from the 1/2" analog master tape," reads a posting on mainm...

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Former DAMAGEPLAN Frontman Reports On THE MERCY CLINIC's Live Debut

Former DAMAGEPLAN and current THE MERCY CLINIC frontman Patrick Lachman has issued the following report from THE MERCY CLINIC's shows over the weekend as the support act for BLACK LABEL SOCIETY and BRAND NEW SIN: "Well, we fuckin did it. We got out of the garage and made it official. What a way to s...

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Shots Fired At POISON Singer BRET MICHAELS

The Associated Press is reporting that POISON singer Bret Michaels escaped serious injury after shots were fired at his tour bus last night (Nov. 21) in Chicopee, Massachusetts, his publicist confirmed. Michaels was in town to perform a rare, invitation-only acoustic show, when, prior to the show, s...

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Upstairs

You just don't hear a lot about bands from Trinidad and Tobago. These guys are out to change that, and they've got friends in their corner as diverse as KANSAS frontman Phil Ehart and BLACK SABBATH producer Jeff Glixman. They're also touring the U.S. right now with YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, an odd but inter...

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QUIET RIOT Bassist, VELVET REVOLVER Drummer Record Music For TV Show

QUIET RIOT bassist Chuck Wright was recently in the studio with VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum and Lanny Cordola recording music for a new show called "Steel Dreams" (web site). "We created 43 minutes of music that day," says Wright. "It was very inspiring... No holds barred, musically... everyt...

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PHIL VARONE Talks About 'Waking Up Dead' Movie, Playing With SKID ROW

Dave Iozzia of Rock Is Life recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW/SAIGON KICK drummer Phil Varone. A few excerpts from the question-and-session follow: Rock Is Life: Let's start off in 2005, where you are featured in the new documentary film "Waking Up Dead". In your words, give us a...

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Showtime

Put out a landmark recording like 1978's "Strangers in the Night" — considered by many to be one of the greatest live rock albums of all time — and you can pretty well kiss goodbye any chance of ever matching it with a future live album. Fortunately, a revamped UFO lineup that features long-timers P...

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Former WRATHCHILD Members Join Forces In New Project

Three members of '80s U.K. glam rock band WRATHCHILD are working on a new band, it was revealed in an interview conducted by Rockdetector.com with former singer Rocky Shades. It appears that bassist Marc Angel, drummer Eddie Starr and guitarist Phil Volkins have assembled a new, as-yet-unnamed band...