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NICKO MCBRAIN, CARMINE APPICE To Be Inducted Into Guitar Center’s Drum-Legends Hall Of Fame

After months of local and regional competitions held at each of Guitar Center's 214 stores across the country, the top six undiscovered drummers in the nation have been selected from a field of nearly 5,000 competitors. The six finalists will go head to head on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at Guitar C...

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Guitarist MARIO PARGA To Be Joined By GRAHAM BONNET For NAMM Performance

UK guitarist Mario Parga will appear at the 2009 NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show, which will be held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. He will perform an all-acoustic set on January 17 at the Fishman Transducers Inc. booth alongside his friend...

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LED ZEPPELIN: 'The Real Jimmy Page' Featured In UNCUT Magazine

According to Achilles Last Stand, the January 2009 issue of UK's Uncut magazine features LED ZEPPELIN guitar legend Jimmy Page on the cover. "The Real Jimmy Page" is a celebration of the life and music LED ZEPPELIN's great guitar wizard, with insights from Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jeff Beck, P...

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ALL THAT REMAINS: Video Interview Available

Shockhound.com has posted a video interview with Phil Labonte (vocals),Jeanne Sagan (bass) and Jason Costa (drums) of the Massachusetts metal band ALL THAT REMAINS conducted this past summer. They discuss "alcohol, perseverance, and getting 'pwn3d' at Halo by a seven-year-old kid." Watch the four-m...

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'METAL' MIKE CHLASCIAK Talks About New HALFORD Music, Status Of PAINMUSEUM

Jason Price of Live-Metal.Net recently conducted an interview with guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak (HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM, SEBASTIAN BACH). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Live-Metal.Net: What is the current status of your band PAINMUSEUM? Chlasciak: Well, it was interesting because...

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ALTER BRIDGE Frontman: 'I Am Not Singing For LED ZEPPELIN'

Austrian heavy 'zine Stormbringer.at conducted an interview with vocalist Myles Kennedy and guitarist Mark Tremonti of ALTER BRIDGE prior to the band's November 27, 2008 concert in Vienna, Austria. Watch the 13-minute chat below. Mark Tremonti recently spoke with Music Radar about the possibility of...

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Guitarist Quits; Band To Tour As Four-Piece

Vocalist Trevor Strnad of the Michigan-based melodic death metal band THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER has issued the following update: "On the eve of our December tour with friends MISERY INDEX and SOILENT GREEN, we in THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER are faced with a heartbreaking dilemma: John [Kempainen; guitar]...

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Guitarist JASON BECKER Continues To Produce Music While Living With ALS; Video Available

Dan Ashley of San Francisco's KGO-TV (ABC7) reports: It's been 12 years since ABC7 first introduced you to Jason Becker, a former rock star who has continued a brilliant music career against all odds. Doctors were ready to give up on him many years ago, but he's still going strong. ABC7's Dan Ashley...

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DEVIL'S GIFT Frontwoman Injures Knee In Stage Fall, Completes Show

According to the Italian news blog Musica Metal, DEVIL'S GIFT frontwoman Lennon Murphy slipped on stage during the band's November 22, 2008 performance in Milan, Italy and hurt her right knee, forcing her to complete the set while seated (and visibly in pain). Photos of the show can be found at

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RHINO BUCKET Frontman Discusses Upcoming Album

Sleaze Roxx recently conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Georg Dolivo of the Bon Scott-era AC/DC soundalike act RHINO BUCKET. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Sleaze Roxx: So you guys are working on a new album? Dolivo: Yeah, absolutely. We're in the final mixing stages right now....

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ROBERT PLANT Comments On Proposed LED ZEPPELIN Tour Without Him

According to the Robert Plant Newswire, former LED ZEPPELIN singer Robert Plant confirmed to the Birmingham Evening Mail on November 6 that he would not be joining guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham on the road for the proposed ZEPPELIN reunion tour. He said it wa...

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GODHEAD: New Video Interview Available

A new four-part interview with GODHEAD members Jason C. Miller (vocals, guitar) and Ullrich "Method" Hepperlin (bass, programming) conducted by Vlazemetal.com can be viewed below. GODHEAD released its sixth studio album, "At The Edge Of The World", on October 7 on Driven Music Group (distribution by...

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ANTHRAX Drummer To Judge Guitar Center Drum-Off Regional Finals In Chicago

ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante will be one of the special guest judges for the Chicago-area regional finals of the Guitar Center Drum-Off, set to take place December 2 in Chicago, Illinois at 7:00 p.m. More information can be found on the poster below. The Drum-Off '08 grand finals will be held on...

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16: New Song Posted Online

Legendary sludge misanthropes 16 have posted a new track, "Skin and Bones", on their MySpace page. The song comes off the group's new album, "Bridges To Burn", which is scheduled for release on January 20, 2009 (January 26 internationally) through Relapse Records. 16, which has reformed with the ori...

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DAATH Drummer Discusses Songwriting Process For New Album

Video footage of DAATH drummer Kevin Talley — who has previously recorded and/or toured with DYING FETUS, CHIMAIRA, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, THE RED CHORD, HATE ETERNAL, M.O.D., MISERY INDEX and SUFFOCATION — laying down tracks for DAATH's new album, "The Concealers", can be viewed below. "The Conce...