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SHARON OSBOURNE Says Last Year's OZZFEST 'Nearly Destroyed Us'

Brad Kava of The Mercury News spoke to Ozzfest promoter Sharon Osbourne by phone on Tuesday (February 6) about the organizers' announcement that admission to the 25-city heavy metal tour will be free this summer. Sponsors will pick up the tab for the tickets, bands will not be paid to perform and ex...

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GUNS N' ROSES Frontman Says It Will Be 'A Dream Come True' To Play South Africa

GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose has commented on the band's upcoming first-ever performance in South Africa at the My Coke Fest 2007. The event is scheduled for April 27 in Johannesburg and May 1 in Cape Town, with EVANESCENCE and HOOBASTANK also confirmed on the bill. The show is a sort of sequel t...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION: 2005 Live Footage Posted Online

A 36-minute video of Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal band WITHIN TEMPTATION performing at the Megapop festival on June 17, 2005 in Emmen, the Netherlands has been poisote online at Metal Videos. As previously reported, WITHIN TEMPTATION's video for its new single, "What Have You Done", has been...

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VELVET REVOLVER's 'Libertad' Pushed Back To June?

VELVET REVOLVER's second album, "Libertad", has been given a new tentative U.S. release date of Tuesday, June 5. A posting at the web site of Sony BMG Norway has listed a new European arrival date of Monday, June 4, with the North American release slated for the following day. VELVET REVOLVER is sig...

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Original LOVE/HATE To Reunite For Hollywood Gig

The original LOVE/HATE lineup — vocalist Jizzy Pearl, guitarist Jon E. Love, bassist Skid Rose and drummer Joey Gold — will reunite for the first time in ten years. On February 24 at Club Vodka in Hollywood, California, they will perform their classic record "Black out in the Red Room" in its entire...

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Report: Four Teens To Stand Trial For Manslaughter In METALLICA-Related Fan Death

Duncan Thorne of the Edmonton Journal reports that four youths accused of manslaughter in the beating death of a bus passenger in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada following a dispute over METALLICA must stand trial even though the man started the fight. Youth court Judge Jack Easton ruled yesterday (Friday...

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VIOLENT DIVINE Back In The Studio

Sweden's VIOLENT DIVINE is currently busy in the studio recording two tracks for a forthcoming single in celebration of the upcoming anniversary of the band's debut album. Commented singer Michael Ahlstrom: "We decided to re-record an energetic version of the album track 'Levitate' the way the song...

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STATIC-X: New Album Cover Posted Online

The cover artwork for STATIC-X's new album, "Cannibal", has been posted online at this location. Due on April 3, the CD will feature the following track listing: 01. Cannibal 02. No Submission 03. Behemoth 04. Chemical Logic 05. Destroyer 06. Forty Ways 07. Chroma-matic 08. Cuts You Up 09. Reptile 1...

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AXL ROSE Sighting In New York City; Video Available

GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose was videotaped Monday night (Jan. 29) entering the New York City club Butter with his girlfriend. Watch the footage from TMZ.com. Axl posted an open letter at the group's web site last month in which he set March 6 as a tentative release date for GUNS N' ...

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GUNS N' ROSES To Play Brazil In April?

According to an online posting by journalist Roger Lerina of the Brazilian newspaper Zero Hora, GUNS N' ROSES will perform at the 15,000-capacity Gigantinho stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil in April. Coincidentally, VELVET REVOLVER — the band featuring three former GUNS N' ROSES members — is also sch...

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Finnish EUROVISION Entry Investigated For WITHIN TEMPTATION Plagiarism

ESCToday.com reports: YLE will decide today, with the help of several music professionals and composers, if "Tietäjä", KATRA's qualified entry for the Finnish final, is a copy of "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)" by WITHIN TEMPTATION, released in 2004. The case was in the air already before Saturday's s...

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Report: Heavy Metal Is Evolving, Not Dying

Austin Porter of The Daily O'Collegian reports: Heavy metal may have been the greatest thing to happen in the history of music. In the form of dropped D ballads that make listeners want to cry or double bass drum pedals that force listeners to head bang until their necks hurt, heavy metal has ...

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HATECORE, INC. Parts Ways With Bassist, Seeks Replacement

Akron, OH-based hardcore metal band HATECORE, INC. has parted ways with bassist Mike Rose and is currently seeking a replacement. You can contact the group through their MySpace page to set up an audition. HATECORE, INC. recently posted a new song, entitled "Blame", on its MySpace page. The track co...

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DIMENTIANON Signs With NON COMPOS MENTIS RECORDS

New York black/death combo DIMENTIANON have signed with Non Compos Mentis Records for the band's long-delayed follow-up to 2003's "Seven Suicides" album, entitled "Hossanas Novus Ordo Seclurum". The CD is said to far surpass DIMENTIANON's previous output in terms of chaotic intensity, while also sho...

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TWISTED SISTER In Talks To Record 'A Twisted Christmas, Too'

As an epilogue to his 2006 Bananiversary Celebration, rock 'n' roll comic C.C. Banana has interviewed all five members of TWISTED SISTER. In the last of this series of holiday-themed interviews, C.C. Banana speaks with TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider about their current album "A Twisted Christmas...