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ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA: 'Headspin' Video Posted Online

ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA's video for the song "Headspin" has been posted online at YouTube.com. The track comes off the group's self-titled debut album, which has sold 49,000 copies in the United States since its November 21, 2006 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "Headspin" — about ROCK STAR SUPE...

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NEVERLAND Signs With ESCAPE MUSIC

Escape Music has announced the signing of NEVERLAND, a progressive power metal band from Switzerland. According to the label, "These dedicated guys have found a perfect mix of classical riffs and melodies and fused them with progressive elements. The result is a very classy album that traces element...

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ACCEPT, DOKKEN, POISON, QUEENSRŸCHE Featured On 'Metal Mania Stripped Volume 3' CD

Metal fans have spoken, so get ready to turn the volume up to "11" as Sidewinder Music and VH1 Classic Records will be releasing "VH1 Classic Metal Mania Stripped Volume 3" on Tuesday, March 6. The new CD release will once again feature rare and never-before-heard acoustic versions of some of metal'...

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OCTAVIA SPERATI To Film 'Moonlit' Video In March

Norwegian metal band OCTAVIA SPERATI will film the video for its new song "Moonlit" on March 9-11 with director Tommy Næss, who has previously worked with SAHG, AUDREY HORNE, I and GORGOROTH, among others. OCTAVIA SPERATI's new album is tentatively due in May via Candlelight Records. "Two of the son...

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Drummer ERIC SINGER Back Home For 'Some Family, Friends, Basketball And KISS'

Drummer Eric Singer (KISS, ALICE COOPER) has issued the following update: "This past weekend I made it back to my hometown of Cleveland for some family, friends, basketball and KISS! I started the weekend off by watching the Cavs [Cleveland Cavaliers] destroy the Miami Heat! Saturday I arrived at th...

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UFO Drummer Forced To Sit Out Tour; DIO's SIMON WRIGHT Steps In

Legendary hard rockers UFO have issued the following update: "We are very sorry to announce that last Wednesday Andy Parker [drums] broke his ankle by slipping on a wet floor. After two hospital appointments Andy had surgery today and now has a plate and some screws in his ankle. Needless to say, he...

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FREEDOM CALL Completes Work On 'Dimensions'

German melodic speed metallers FREEDOM CALL have issued the following update: "Yesterday we finished the last workings in Tommy Newton's Area 51 Studios in Celle, Germany and arrived our hometown, Nuremberg, with the master tape in the bag. The new album, 'Dimensions', is READY! "After more than sev...

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ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Reports On NAMM, South American Tour

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Myself and Daniel Erlandsson [drums] traveled to sunny California last month and spent a few days at the NAMM convention. We had a wail of time hanging out and doing the NAMM thing! "So I met a lot...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE Frontman Working On New Reality-TV Show; Band To Hit Europe In June

MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil is working on the pilot for a new A&E reality-TV show. According to Vince, the program will follow the singer and his family after his parents have moved in with him. Neil told Eddie Trunk of the "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM last night (...

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GUNS N' ROSES Performs At RODEO DRIVE'S WALK OF STYLE; Photos Available

GUNS N' ROSES brought down the house at the Rodeo Drive's Walk of Style ceremony on Thursday night in Beverly Hills, Calif. The event was a star-studded gala honoring Donatella and the late Gianni Versace. A wall-to-wall A-List, including Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford, Ashton Kutcher, Sharon Stone,...

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SAXON's BIFF BYFORD To Publish Autobiography

"We knew we'd recorded a good album; we just didn't know it was that good …" recalls SAXON frontman Biff Byford of 1980's breakthrough album "Wheels Of Steel". For over thirty years, SAXON has been led from the front by charismatic and larger-than-life vocalist Biff Byford. In "Never Surrender", he...

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VINNIE MOORE: European Clinics Announced

UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore has scheduled the following ENGL clinics during the band's European tour: Mar. 01 - Just Guitar & Basses - Hamburg, Germany – 5:30pm Mar. 07 - Klier Musikhalle - Nürnberg, Germany - 5:30pm Mar. 14 - Musikbörsen - Malmö, Sweden - 5:30pm Mar. 16 - Musik Utan Gränser - Go...

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THE ACCUSED: New Songs Available For Free Download

Seattle's reigning kings of "splatter rock" THE ACCUSED have posted two songs from their latest studio session — "Fuck Sorry" and "Scotty Came Back" — at their official web site, www.splatterrock.com. The session that yielded the "Why Even Try?" EP was helmed by Randall Dunn at a recording facility...

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ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA Guitarist: LUKAS ROSSI 'Made Us Sound Like A Band'

Christina Fuoco of The Flint Journal recently conducted an interview with former GUNS N' ROSES and current ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA guitarist Gilby Clarke. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On selecting Canadian Lukas Rossi to front ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA over South African-born Dilana Robichaux: "They w...

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The Shadow Cabinet

I've not heard an album from Denmark's WUTHERING HEIGHTS since 2002's "To Travel for Evermore" and barely remember that one, outside recalling it being a progressive metal release. What a mistake that's been, as I've been thoroughly impressed with "The Shadow Cabinet", and find more to like about it...