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IRON MAIDEN Mania In Sweden, Finland And Colombia

When tickets went on sale yesterday morning for IRON MAIDEN's three stadium shows in Sweden and Finland the box offices were inundated and all 123,500 tickets were quickly sold out — over nine months in advance of the concert dates. The two Swedish shows, July 16 at Stockholm Stadium and July 26 at...

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LAMB OF GOD Bassist On Touring, Groupies And Band's Lyrics

SunJournal.com recently conducted the following interview with LAMB OF GOD bassist John Campbell: SunJournal.com: Full name, age: Campbell: I'm John Campbell, and I just turned 35 in September. SunJournal.com: How did you get involved with the band? Campbell: We met in college. I started playing bas...

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JIMMY PAGE Says LED ZEPPELIN Concert Will Overshadow Poorly Performed Reunions

The Pulse of Radio reports that Jimmy Page is confident that next month's LED ZEPPELIN reunion concert will finally give fans the same quality show that they performed during the band's heyday. Page told Mojo that the band's inferior sets at Live Aid in 1985 and 1988's Atlantic Records 40th annivers...

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TAPROOT: New Album Title Announced

Bassist Phil Lipscomb of the Ann Arbor, Michigan hard rock band TAPROOT has issued the following update: "As you are all aware, we have been working extremely hard and are in the final stages of finishing up our new album. All of the recording is finished, the album is getting mixed as we speak, and...

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THIN LIZZY To Perform Entire 'Live & Dangerous' Album On UK Tour

To celebrate 30 years since the recording of the classic live album "Live And Dangerous", THIN LIZZY has announce that they will be playing the full album sequentially and in its entirety during their forthcoming November/December 2007 UK tour. Now, for the first time since its original live recordi...

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DOWN Guitarist: 'We Don't Agree On Everything, But In The Long Run, That Makes For Great Songs'

Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle recently conducted an interview with DOWN guitarist Kirk Windstein. Houston Chronicle: Did you find it difficult to get everybody together? Kirk: No, it's something we've discussed. We wanted DOWN to be a type of band that we could grow old with. And we really...

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DAATH: Video Interview With EYAL LEVI Available

VampireFreaks.com conducted an interview with DAATH gutarist Eyal Levi on October 22, 2007 at Bluebird Theatre in Denver, Colorado. Watch the eight-minute chat below. DAATH is curently seeking a new vocalist following the recent exit of Sean Farber. The band is looking for a distinctive voice to aug...

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THIN LIZZY: Irish Dates Added

THIN LIZZY will perform all dates on the band's previously announced UK tour without co-headliner QUEENSRŸCHE which was forced to cancel its participation in the trek "due to a personal emergency." THIN LIZZY's itinerary is now as follows: Nov. 22 - Leicester, UK - De Montfort Hall Nov. 23 - Cambrid...

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KISS Confirms New Zealand Festival Appearance

According to The Dominion Post, KISS will play Wellington's Westpac Stadium in New Zealand as part of a giant two-day rock festival. At least three other big-name overseas acts — yet to be announced — will also perform in the Rock2Wgtn festival in the stadium next Easter, March 22 and 23. It will .....

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Former DAATH Vocalist Slams BLABBERMOUTH.NET 'Naysayers'

Vocalist Sean Farber has issued the following statement regarding his recent departure from the Atlanta-based extreme metal outfit DAATH: "I am posting this blog not to be impersonal, but because I've received many questions lately about what happened with DAATH and me and it is much easier to type...

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DOWN Bassist Says He Was 'Going Through Hell' Following DIMEBAG's Death, Hurricane Katrina

Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times recently conducted an interview with DOWN/ex-PANTERA bassist Rex Brown. "I was going through hell," Brown said of the period from late 2004 until initial rehearsals for the new album commenced in 2006. "Everybody in the band was. The tragedy of...

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DUBLIN DEATH PATROL: Arizona, California Dates Announced

DUBLIN DEATH PATROL (DDP) — the new band featuring TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy and former EXODUS vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza — has scheduled two U.S. dates in December. The group's schedule is now shaping up as follows: Dec. 01 - Pima County Fairgrounds, Tuscon, AZ Dec. 31 - Mixes, Concord, CA Jan...

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JIMMY PAGE, STEVEN TYLER, ALICE COOPER At CLASSIC ROCK ROLL OF HONOUR; Video Available

UK-based music journalist Dave Ling has posted the following report from last night's Classic Rock Roll of Honour event, which was held at the Landmark Hotel in London, England: "Astonishingly, given that last night Classic Rock's third annual awards ceremony took place, I awake in a blissfully hang...

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STORMZONE Confirmed For UK's Z ROCK 08 Festival

Irish band STORMZONE has been confirmed for the Z Rock 08 festival, set to take place April 20, 2008 at Maximes, Wigan, England. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BONFIRE VON GROOVE STORMZONE BURN Z Rock 08 tickets are currently on sale at a special early bird discounted rate of £40 (pl...

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PHILIP ANSELMO: Previously Unseen 2003 Interview Footage Posted Online

San Antonio's long-standing metal institution and STUF-TV cable show "Robb's MetalWorks" has just released the second installment of its special "Archival Series". This installment is a three-part edition dedicated to an interview with vocalist Philip Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT RITUAL). The...