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MINSK Completes Recording New Album

Chicago/Peoria, Illinois quartet MINSK has issued the following update: "We just wrapped up the recording of a brand new full length album at Volume Studios in Chicago. Circumstances would have it that we chose the two coldest weeks of the year to record the new album. Seventeen degrees below zero o...

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VENOM Drummer's DEF-CON-ONE Parts Ways With Singer, Seeks Replacement

Due to "personal commitments," vocalist Grant has left DEF-CON-ONE, the Newcastle, United Kingdom-based metal band featuring VENOM drummer Antony "Antton" Lant (brother of VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant). According to the group, "Grant will still be singing at the two gigs we have booked [in Ap...

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STAIND: New Video Interview Available

Austria's Mulatschag.TV has posted a four-minute interview with STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis and drummer Jon Wysocki conducted during the band's most recent European tour. Watch the footage below. STAIND is continuing to support its latest album, "The Illusion of Progress". The band has posted a vide...

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Ex-DIO, ARMORED SAINT Guitarists Shred It Up At NAMM; Video Available

Video footage of DC4 guitarists Rowan Robertson (ex-DIO) and Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) shredding it up at the Krank booth during this year's winter NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show on January 17, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California can be viewed be...

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Guitarist IRA BLACK Quits LIZZY BORDEN

Guitarist Ira Black has left the California-based metal band LIZZY BORDEN. The axeman, who has previously played with METAL CHURCH, VICIOUS RUMORS and HEATHEN, recently joined PROPHESY, the new U.S./German group featuring vocalist Brian O'Connor (ex-VICIOUS RUMORS) and guitarist Fabian Schwarz (PARA...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Audio Interview Posted Online

A seven-minute audio interview with legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen conducted in September 2008 by Norway's Metal Express Radio has been posted online at this location. "Perpetual Flame", the new album from Malmsteen, sold around 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of re...

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FALLOUT MOON Schedules Finnish Dates

FALLOUT MOON, the new band led by former ALTARIA mastermind Marko Pukkila, has scheduled the following dates: May 27 - Kuopio, Henrys Pub May 28 - Tampere, Music Bar Sputnik May 29 - Seinäjoki, [to be announced] May 30 - Pietarsaari, Music Club Jeppis FALLOUT MOON will enter the studio this summer t...

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DEVILDRIVER Frontman: 'We Have Managed To Craft And Record Something Very Special'

Santa Barbara, California's DEVILDRIVER, the group fronted by former COAL CHAMBER singer Dez Fafara, recently entered Edge of the Earth studios in Los Angeles to begin recording the band's as-yet untitled fourth album with producer Logan Mader (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, GOJIRA, DIVINE HERESY). Commen...

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TOMBS Announces Radio Appearances

Brooklyn, New York's TOMBS will perform live on WKDU 91.7's "Dawn of the Apocalypse" show tomorrow (Wednesday February 11) at 11:00 a.m. EST. The program, which is hosted by Kim Kelly, can also be heard online at WKDU.org. TOMBS will also perform live on WFMU 91.1 on Thursday, February 12 as part of...

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TWISTED SISTER Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK Festival

TWISTED SISTER has been confirmed for this year's Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 3-6, 2009 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: HEAVEN AND HELL (UK) IN FLAMES (S) ZZ TOP (USA) TWISTED SISTER (USA) DREAM THEATER (USA) EUROPE (S) FOREIGNER (USA) HAMMERFAL...

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STEVEN ADLER Interviewed By Chicago's Q101.1 FM; Video Available

Original GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler spoke with Ryan Manno of Chicago's Q101.1 FM from the Staples Center in Los Angeles ahead of this past Sunday's (February 8) Grammy Awards. Watch the four-minute chat below. According to TMZ.com, Adler was in court on Friday (February 6) where the judge or...

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THE AGONIST Announces U.S. Dates

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based female-fronted band THE AGONIST will team up with DANCE CLUB MASSACRE for the following U.S. dates in March: March 13 - Doug's Rockhouse - Aurora, Michigan March 14 - Static Age - Romeo, Michigan March 15 - Gamer’s Paradise - Flint, Michigan March 16 - The Juke Box - R...

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POWERMAN 5000: New Audio Interview With SPIDER Available

POWERMAN 5000 frontman Spider was interviewed on the February 7 edition of "The Classic Metal Show". You can now listen to the chat in three parts below. POWERMAN 5000 has posted a three-track preview of some of the band's new material on the group's MySpace page. Go to this location to check out .....

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STEVEN ADLER: AXL ROSE Is 'A Wonderful, Loving Guy'

Original GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler was recently interviewed on "The Woody Show" on San Francisco, California's KITS Live 105. Watch the six-minute chat below. According to TMZ.com, Adler was in court on Friday (February 6) where the judge ordered Adler to check himself into Cri-Help treatme...

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RAM: New Album Details Revealed

RAM, the traditional Gothenburg, Sweden-based heavy metal band featuring Morgan Pettersson (ex-B-THONG),has completed work on its second album, "Lightbringer". The follow-up to 2005's "Forced Entry" was produced by Johan Reivén and was mixed at Studio Bongo in the group's hometown. "Lightbringer" t...