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BILLY SHEEHAN: New Video Interview Available

A four-minute interview with legendary bassist Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH, TALAS) conducted by Spirit of Metal can be viewed below. DEVIL'S SLINGSHOT, the new band featuring Sheehan, Tony MacAlpine and Virgil Donati, released its new album, "Clinophobia", on October 22 via Mascot Records...

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M.A.N Begins Recording New Album; Video Available

M.A.N, the band formed out of the ashes of Sweden's TRANSPORT LEAGUE (featuring former MNEMIC frontman Tony Jelencovich),entered Grand Recordings in Gothenburg, Sweden with producer/engineer Svein Jensen on October 19 to begin recording its new album, entitled "Swastika Sweetheart". Songtitles set...

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Report: Iraqi Heavy Metal Band Seeks New Home

Mike Collett-White of Reuters reports: ACRASSICAUDA, which claims to be Baghdad's only heavy metal band, fled to Syria and on to Turkey to avoid the violence in Iraq and specific death threats from insurgent groups, but now the four young musicians may be forced to return home. "We're stuck, we're l...

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VOODOO GODS To Release 'Shrunken Head' EP In January

VOODOO GODS, the project featuring current and former members of such bands as MORBID ANGEL, MANOWAR and BEHEMOTH, will release its debut EP, "Shrunken Head", in January 2008 via Musicaz Records. A rough-mix version of the track "Warfare" is available on the band's MySpace page. According to the gro...

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SKYCLAD Issues 2007 Recap

British "folk metal" act SKYCLAD has issued the following update: "Seeing as the site has been quiet for a while, we thought we should post a little note here to keep everyone informed as to all things SKYCLAD as we head towards the end of 2007. It has been, when all is said and done, ...

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ENUFF Z'NUFF Drummer Dies After Long Battle With Cancer

ENUFF Z'NUFF drummer Ricky Parent passed away yesterday (Saturday, October 27) after a long battle with cancer. According to antiMUSIC, Ricky Parent was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His spent his childhood in New Jersey and New York before he headed to Los Angeles to follow his rock n' roll dream. R...

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DIMMU BORGIR: More Footage From NRK P3 Invite-Only Gig Posted Online

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR played a special invite-only gig in front of an audience of 80 people at the NRK P3 studios on September 18, 2007. The concert was broadcast live via the Internet. Footage of DIMMU BORGIR performing the songs "Spellbound", "The Serpentine Offering" an...

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GODSMACK Reveals Track Listing For 'Greatest Hits' Collection

GODSMACK will release its "greatest hits" album, "Good Times Bad Times....Ten Years of Godsmack" on December 4 via Universal Republic. The 16-track collection is loaded with career-defining milestones and seminal GODSMACK classics. Among the songs included are the band's clarion call "Whatever", the...

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HEAVEN AND HELL To Record New Album In 2008

HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler, singer Ronnie James Dio, and drummer Vinny Appice (BLACK SABBATH, DIO) — is currently in discussions with various record labels about recording a brand new studio album in 2008, Butler has confirmed to...

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DIMMU BORGIR: Oslo Concert To Be Filmed For Upcoming DVD

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have issued the following update: "The final show of the European Invaluable Darkness Tour 2007 taking place at Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway will be filmed for an upcoming DVD release! The band is looking forward to a very special evening with all th...

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DIVINE HERESY Announces Week-Long Headlining Run

DIVINE HERESY — the new Los Angeles-based band featuring former FEAR FACTORY/current ASESINO guitarist Dino Cazares alongside drummer Tim Yeung (ex-VITAL REMAINS, HATE ETERNAL),vocalist Tommy Cummings (VEXT) and bassist Joe Payne (ex-NILE, DOMINATION THROUGH IMPURITY, LUST OF DECAY) — will follow u...

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NEEDLEMOUTH Calls It Quits

Huntington Beach, California-based industrial/metal band NEEDLEMOUTH has called it quits. The group, which was formed in 2004 by James Shomo with surviving members of VYNEGAR, released its only six-song recording on Perversion Records, "Rituals and Consequences", in October 2006. The group quickly f...

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DIMMU BORGIR: Tour Diary Updated

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have posted Part 3 of the tour diary from The Invaluable Darkness European tour (also featuring AMON AMARTH and ENGEL) on their MySpace blog. DIMMU BORGIR played a special invite-only gig in front of an audience of 80 people at the NRK P3 studios on S...

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DESPISED ICON Featured On Vice Magazine's VBS.TV

Vice Magazine's VBS.TV recently met up with DESPISED ICON in the band's hometown of Montreal for a tour of the group's practice space. The guys ended up jamming a few tracks while new guitarist Al Glassman explained how he ruined a special vacation with his girlfriend in order to try out for the ban...

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DESPISED ICON Frontman Comments On Upcoming European Tour With MISERY INDEX

DESPISED ICON vocalist Alex Erian has commented on the band's upcoming European tour with MISERY INDEX as well as BENEATH THE MASSACRE, MAN MUST DIE (mainland Europe only),and ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY (UK only). "After months of planning, this tour is finally coming together!" he said. We can’t wa...