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RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER Announces New Lineup

Philadelphia's self-proclaimed "criminal thrash band" RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER has restructured its lineup following the departure of vocalist Eli Shaika. The vocalist slot will be shared by current RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER guitarist Matt Moore and bassist Shawn Riley. Rounding out the quartet are gui...

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MASTERPLAN/Ex-RAGE Drummer Lays Down Tracks For New RAZORBACK CD

German guitarist Rolf Munkes (RAZORBACK, ex-MAJESTY, VANIZE) has tapped drummer Mike Terrana (MASTERPLAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, AXEL RUDI PELL, METALIUM, RAGE) to play on the third RAZORBACK album, tentatively due in April via the Munich, Germany-based label Metal Heaven. "I just came back from the drum...

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Report: Argument Over METALLICA Ended In Death

Florence Loyie of the Edmonton Journal reports: Stefan Conley (photo) died after he got into a heated discussion with four teenagers on an Edmonton [Alberta, Canada] city transit bus about the rock band METALLICA, telling them they had no taste in heavy metal music, court was told today. A witness t...

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Judge OKs Release Of Grand Jury Testimony In GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire Case

The Associated Press reports: A judge on Thursday approved the release of grand jury testimony in The Station nightclub fire case, granting the attorney general's request to provide the public with information about the investigation into the deadly blaze. Though grand jury testimony is normally sec...

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GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire: Attorney General Seeks Release Of Grand Jury Testimony

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Public confidence in the criminal justice system, shaken after three men charged in a deadly nightclub fire reached plea deals rather than stand trial, could be improved by the full disclosure of secret grand jury testimony in the case, lawyers s...

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UNEXPECT Parts Ways With Violinist, Seeks Replacement

Montreal's rambunctious and truly unique act UNEXPECT — which released its debut album for The End Records, titled "In A Flesh Aquarium", this summer — has parted ways violinist Charles and is currently seeking a replacement. Interested parties should: * absolutely be devoid of any criminal records...

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Report: Documents In GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire Probe Released

The Associated Press reports: The fire marshal who inspected a nightclub a few months before a fire [at a GREAT WHITE concert] killed 100 people there said he failed to notice flammable foam around the stage because after he saw an exit door that swung the wrong way, "I really didn't look anywhere"...

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IAN GILLAN's Touring Bassist Shot In Jaw

According to The Buffalo News, Rodney Appleby — the bassist for DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan on his North American tour in support of his new album, called "Gillan's Inn" — was shot in the jaw after he accepted an invitation to visit a neighbor's house, Buffalo police said Saturday (Nov. 25). App...

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Report: LINKIN PARK Singer Stalked By Albuquerque Woman

Sue Vorenberg of The Albuquerque Tribune reports: Sandia National Laboratories has fired an employee accused of using a computer owned by the labs to hack into phone and computer accounts owned by Chester Bennington, the lead singer of the band LINKIN PARK, a labs spokesman said. Devon Lynn Townsend...

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Report: No Charges Yet For Hardcore Band SET IT STRAIGHT

Lauren Brooks of Redding.com reports that Shasta County District Attorney Jerry Benito declined Monday (Nov. 20) to issue a complaint against seven people arrested at Caldwell Park in Redding, California five weeks ago — including members of the Redding, California hardcore band SET IT STRAIGHT — af...

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KORN Frontman Sued For Breach Of Contract Over Crime Museum

KORN lead singer Jonathan Davis was reportedly sued in Los Angeles Superior Court two weeks ago by a former business associate alleging fraud and breach of contract. The lawsuit is demanding damages of $250,000, costs of the lawsuit, attorney's fees, and punitive damages "in an amount equal to nine...

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Finished With the Dogs

If you ever salivated over Noise Records catalogs in the 1980s, or agonized over whether to spend the last of your beer money on a DETENTE LP, chances are you're already familiar with German thrashers HOLY MOSES. Inexplicably never afforded the worldwide distribution and notoriety of their peers, th...

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GREAT WHITE: Judge Considers Request In Nightclub Fire Case

Eric Tucker of The Associated Press reports: A judge on Friday ordered a closed hearing for December to consider the state attorney general's request to make public secret grand jury testimony in The Station nightclub fire case. Attorney General Patrick Lynch filed a petition this week asking for pe...

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Driver Who Hit Pedestrians After BLACK CROWES Concert Indicted On Manslaughter Charge

KGBT 4-TV in Harlingen, TX reports that a 61-year-old woman accused of driving her car into pedestrians after a BLACK CROWES concert in Austin has been indicted on an intoxication manslaughter charge. Mary Dodgen is charged in the death of 32-year-old Austin criminal defense lawyer Jeff Wilson. He s...

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DEICIDE Drummer STEVE ASHEIM On Satanism, America's Gun Laws And DAVE LOMBARDO

Journalist Joel McIver recently interviewed DEICIDE drummer Steve Asheim for the U.K.'s premier drummer magazine, Rhythm. Excerpts from the conversation appear below. On Satanism: Rhythm: Are you a Satanist, like DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton? Steve: No. I support DEICIDE and their stance — I mean, i...