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TRIVIUM Frontman Explains Why He Likes Wearing Girls' Jeans

Writer/author Joel McIver recently interviewed TRIVIUM in California for the cover of Total Guitar magazine, Europe's biggest-selling guitar title. Guitarists Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu took the opportunity to clear up some rumors surrounding the band in the magazine (out on March 28). With unpre...

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SONATA ARCTICA To Host 'Unia' Listening Party In New York City

SONATA ARCTICA lead vocalist Tony Kakko and keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg will host a listening party for their new album, "Unia", at Lit Lounge (93 Second Avenue - between 5th & 6th Streets) in New York City on Monday, April 2. Scheduled for North American release on May 22, "Unia" will be pla...

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LINKIN PARK Singer Launching Sneaker Line

Launch Radio Networks reports: LINKIN PARK singer Chester Bennington and Etnies sneakers are collaborating on a new line of shoes called Club Tattoo. The line, named after Bennington's string of tattoo shops, will arrive in stores this June in both men's and women's styles. Bennington said in a stat...

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The Inner Sanctum

Terrible PR stunts be damned, you can't kill SAXON. Words like "venerable" and "stalwart" get used a lot when talking about these U.K. rockers, who've been bashing it out to uneven returns for three decades now. When they're not embarrassing themselves with ill-conceived promotional ideas far beneat...

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'Metal: A Headbanger's Companion': New EARACHE Collection Due In April

Earache Records will release a six-CD collection, entitled "Metal: A Headbanger's Companion", on April 23. Headbang away to over 100 all-out blistering tracks on six separate discs, featuring Earache's own genre-defining, groundbreaking artists. The set will be priced only £9.99 (U.K.) or $15.98 (U....

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TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK: 'Our Current President Has Created A Disaster For The Country'

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO/TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: In hindsight, what was the final catalyst that prompted you to step away from the heavy metal genre? Alex: "Well, there were a few things...

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BRAD DELP's Ex-Wife And Others Blame BOSTON Turmoil For Suicide

Launch Radio Networks reports: The ex-wife of late BOSTON singer Brad Delp blames long-standing issues within the band for Delp's suicide. Micki Delp told The Boston Herald that Brad has always been stuck in the middle of fights between bandleader Tom Scholz and former members of the group, and that...

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BENEDICTION Enlists New Touring Drummer

Long-running British metallers BENEDICTION have issued the following update: "As many of you know by now, Nick Barker [drums] has been doing a stint with TESTAMENT, and since the band have been locked away in this cellar, no tour dates were planed for 2007, leaving Nick time to play on the new TESTA...

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DAVE MUSTAINE Says 'Sleepwalker' Was Inspired By Internet Snipes On 'One Particular News Site'

KNAC.COM's Gnarly Charlie recently spoke to MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine about the inspiration for the band's new song "Sleepwalker" (see lyrics below),which appears on MEGADETH's upcoming CD, "United Abominations", due May 15 via Roadrunner Records. "I was kind of getting bored with people takin...

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Blood of the Black Owl

Describing BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL's self-titled debut as "blackened doom" is not inaccurate but does not tell the whole story. With plenty of the suffocating heaviness of funeral doom, yet not reaching the muddy bottom of an act like CATABOMBS, and mining some of the same accents and majestic sliver...

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'Phallusifer' Director Responds To 'Hollywood Character' Behind 'Club Satan' Movie

The director of "Phallusifer – The Immoral Code", which bills itself as "the world's first black metal porn movie," has responded to a press release issued by Shane Bugbee, an actual priest in the Church Of Satan who wrote and directed "Club Satan: The Witches' Sabbath" (which is being touted as "th...

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Ex-FUEL Singer Replaces IAN ASTBURY In RIDERS ON THE STORM

THE DOORS founding members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger have chosen ex-FUEL lead singer Brett Scallions to front their project RIDERS ON THE STORM, filling the void created when THE CULT's Ian Astbury departed the group last month. "Brett is on board and we are glad to have him, he has a great voi...

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VAN HALEN, DEFTONES, KISS, RUSH Memorabilia Auction To Benefit Children Of Murder Victim

It might not seem immediately evident how a bandana worn by VAN HALEN drummer Alex Van Halen and a guitar signed by DEFTONES guitarist Stephen Carpenter relate to a terrible tragedy, the murder of Pittsburgh resident Paula (Lockhart) Lanz, 39. But for Mark Petrocelli, national salesman for Houston-b...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman Says Music Inspires Him To Stay Sober

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "Last weekend we played in a city called Malmö in Sweden. It kicked ass. Big time. Facing 500 people in a packed club, blood pumping, a sense of spiritual clarity, everything is simple, clean and as the music ki...

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'Metallica And Philosophy' Book Editor Interviewed; Audio Available

Jim Bone of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA's WBSX-97.9X conducted an interview this week with William Irwin, the editor of "Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery", which is said to be "a provocative study of the 'thinking man's' metal band." Listen to the interview at this location. A...