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BRUCE DICKINSON's Video Message For IRON MAIDEN's Peruvian Fans

A one-and-a-half-minute video message from IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson to the band's Peruvian fans can be viewed below. IRON MAIDEN is scheduled to perform at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru on March 26, 2009. Bruce says in the clip, "The thing that we're really looking forward to is tryin...

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HOSTILE CELL Parts Ways With Bassist, Seeks Replacement

HOSTILE CELL, the new Gothenburg, Sweden-based metal/rock band featuring members of ROACH and VEGAS V.I.P, has parted ways with bassist Per Romvall "for personal reasons." The group is now looking for a permanent replacement. If you are interested and you live in the Gothenburg area, contact the ban...

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NINE INCH NAILS' ALESSANDRO CORTINI Quits; Band To Resume Touring As Four-Piece

Alessandro Cortini, keyboard player for NINE INCH NAILS, has announced that he is leaving the band to concentrate on his own projects. He said in a statement, "It's been exactly four years since I joined NINE INCH NAILS and the time has come for me to move onto new things. I feel a need to ...

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One with Filth

Easy on the ears this is not. The music of Sweden's CROWPATH has never been confused with "Sounds of the Rain Forest". The band's nerve wracking ways continue on new full-length, "One with Filth", ensuring that followers will still experience befuddlement over attempts to accurately describe the ext...

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Planetary Duality

Now this is technical/progressive death metal with flair, uniqueness, and accessibility. Whereas a capable band like DECREPIT BIRTH — whose latest is impressive as well — is filled to the brim with chops and better than average song structuring, THE FACELESS never, ever sacrifices the central essenc...

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IRON MAIDEN: Promotional Video For Lima Concert Available

A four-minute promotional video for IRON MAIDEN's March 26, 2009 concert at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru can be viewed below. The clip includes a brief message from MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson for the band's Peruvian fans. He says, "To play in Peru is a bit of a result for us. We are really...

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PRAYING MANTIS: New Album Update

British melodic hard rock veterans PRAYING MANTIS have commenced the recording sessions for their new album, "Threshold of a Dream", for a tentative early 2009 release via Frontiers Records. The CD is being tracked in Atlanta, Georgia with producer/engineer Andy Reilly and it will "once again presen...

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IRON MAIDEN Confirmed For Argentina's QUILMES ROCK Festival

British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN will return to Argentina to headline the Quilmes Rock festival at River Plate Stadium on Saturday, March 28, 2009. The other headliners announced so far on the four-day festival are RADIOHEAD and LOS PIOJOS, a hugely popular Argentine band. A full supporting b...

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DREAM EVIL Working On New Material

Guitarist/producer Fredrik Nordström of Swedish melodic metallers DREAM EVIL has issued the following update: "We are right now writing songs for the next album with the working title 'In The Night'. I believe that the release date will be before summer of next year. As usual, will we prepare approx...

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AXL ROSE Breaks Silence On 'Chinese Democracy', Original GN'R Reunion, DR PEPPER And BRIAN MAY

Reclusive GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose broke his silence last night (Thursday, December 11) by answering fan questions on the message boards of two of the most popular GUNS N' ROSES fan sites on the Web — MyGNR.com and Here Today… Gone To Hell! BLABBERMOUTH.NET has collected some of the ...

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JORN Hard At Work On New Album

Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande — who performs under the name JORN — entered the studio in November to begin recording his new solo album, tentatively due in June 2009 via Frontiers Records. The follow-up to this year's "Lonely Are The Brave" CD — which entered the national chart in Norway...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE's NIKKI SIXX Hits 50

The Pulse of Radio reports: MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx turns 50 on Thursday (December 11),and probably no one is more surprised than Sixx himself that he made it. The California native was a major drug abuser during much of the band's first decade, and was once even declared dead for two minute...

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JUDAS PRIEST Is 'Absolutely Committed' To Performing Entire 'Nostradamus' Album

JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford has told FMQB.com that the band is "absolutely committed" to doing an elaborate stage show where it will play its new concept album, "Nostradamus", in its entirety, but it likely won't happen until later in 2009. "We talk about it constantly, and that's what we’re goi...

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Former ATTACKER Singer, SYMPHONY X Bassist Release DEEP PURPLE Cover

Hard rock/heavy metal vocalist Bob Mitchell (ex-ATTACKER) has announced plans to release an album of remakes of classic-rock tracks from such artists as THE WHO, DEEP PURPLE and KROKUS, just to name a few. Joining Mitchell in the project is Mike LePond (SYMPHONY X) along with guitarist Frank Oquendo...

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BEHEMOTH Frontman Suing Head Of Polish Anti-Sect Committee For Libel, Slander

According to Metal Portal, BEHEMOTH mainman Adam "Nergal" Darski has filed a libel lawsuit against the head of the All-Polish Committee for Defence against Sects, Ryszard Nowak. Nergal claims that Nowak slandered him in an interview with Gazeta Swietojanska (watch interview in two parts below),repe...