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DEATH ANGEL Guitarist Checks In From Studio

Long-running San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL entered a Los Angeles studio on September 16 with producer Nick Raskulinecz (FOO FIGHTERS, RUSH, VELVET REVOLVER, SHADOWS FALL, STONE SOUR) to begin recording their new album for an early 2008 release via Nuclear Blast Records. The group's gu...

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DIO Drummer SIMON WRIGHT Reveals His Musical Heroes

Get Ready To Roll! recently conducted an interview with DIO/ex-AC/DC drummer Simon Wright. An excerpt from the chat follows: Get Ready To Roll!: In the '90s you toured with UFO for the "Walk On Water" tour, and earlier this year you stood in for Andy Parker yet again, after Andy tried to walk ...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Frontman Offers Tour Of Home Studio; Video Available

RollingStone.com recently got a tour of SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian's home studio as he discussed the differences between recording solo and with SYSTEM, the joys of writing whenever the mood struck him and his new LP, "Elect the Dead". Watch the three-minute clip below. Serj Tankian rece...

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HELIX Frontman To Guest-Host Tomorrow's 'The Classic Metal Show'

HELIX vocalist Brian Vollmer will guest-host "The Classic Metal Show" on Saturday, September 22. Vollmer will debut a large portion of HELIX's latest release, "The Power of Rock and Roll", as well as play classic HELIX cuts and songs that have influenced his 30-plus-year career. To listen to the sho...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: New Video Interview With ADAM DUTKIEWICZ Available

WatchMojo.com conducted a short interview with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz on this summer's Vans Warped Tour. Watch the two-minute clip below. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's video for the cover of the DIO classic "Holy Diver" has been posted on MySpace. The clip was shot in the Calistoga, Calif...

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SERJ TANKIAN Names Touring Band The FCC

The Pulse of Radio (formerly Launch Radio Networks) reports: SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has named his new solo touring band the FCC, according to HardDrive Radio. The letters do not stand for the dreaded Federal Communications Commission, but for something that they'll fine you for if yo...

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SHADOWS FALL: New Audio Interview With BRIAN FAIR Available

A new audio interview with vocalist Brian Fair of SHADOWS FALL has been posted at SmartassRadio.com. A picture gallery from LocoFest: Locobazooka! 2007 is also available. According to Amazon.com, SHADOWS FALL will release a "greatest-hits" collection entitled "Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits" on...

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SERJ TANKIAN Says Making Album By Himself Was A Challenge

The Pulse of Radio (formerly Launch Radio Networks) reports: Since he played almost every instrument on his debut solo album by himself, SYSTEM OF A DOWN singer Serj Tankian told The Pulse of Radio that his biggest challenge was making the record, titled "Elect The Dead", sound like there was a band...

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Bulgarian Author Pens Book About Late QUEEN Frontman

According to the Focus News Agency, Bulgarian philologist Vera Evtimova from Veliko Tarnovo has penned a book about QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury. Entitled "Freddie Mercury – More Alive Than Ever", book was written over a three-month period and is dedicated to the thousands of innocent victims of A...

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TESLA Schedules Sacramento In-Store

TESLA guitarist Frank Hannon has issued the following update: "As this USA tour winds up, we are headed home on Sunday and getting ready for some new events. First of all we are finally releasing 'Real to Reel 2' to retail stores September 25th, and will be at Dimple Records in Sacramento for an in-...

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Report: METAL BLADE Celebrates 25 Years Of Metallic Massacres

Eden Munro of Vue Weekly reports: In 1982, a young man named Brian Slagel decided to put together a compilation album out of his mother's house in Woodland Hills, CA. The album's title was "Metal Massacre", and it marked the beginning of Metal Blade Records. Twenty-five years on, Slagel is still at...

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SHADOWS FALL To Release 'Greatest Hits' Collection

According to Amazon.com, SHADOWS FALL will release a "greatest-hits" collection entitled "Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits" on October 23 through Century Media Records. The cover artwork can be found at this location. No further details are currently available. The inaugural edition of the White N...

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Former KORN Guitarist Talks About Drug Abuse, Finding God; Video Available

Former KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch was a guest on the Christian program "The Harvest Show" recently to talk about his past drug abuse and his new memoir, "Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story". Watch the interview in three parts below. For m...

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LIZZY BORDEN Discusses 'Appointment With Death'

Mark Carras of RockMyMonkey.com recently conducted an interview with Lizzy Borden. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rock My Monkey: Cool. Now, how much of a challenge was it to do a concept record about death without going for the overly morbid clichés that so many metal bands today use? L...

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Former MANOWAR, JAG PANZER Members Featured On FORGOTTEN REALM Debut

Woodbridge, Virginia-based power metal band FORGOTTEN REALM has finished tracking its debut album, "Power and Glory", at Saltmine Studios in Mesa, Arizona for a late 2007 release via Sonic Age Records. FORGOTTEN REALM's lineup consists of David Fefolt (VALHALLA, HAWK, MASI) on vocals, Matthew Mills...