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DOWN Guitarist: 'We're Going To Go Backwards Even More Towards The Feeling Of The First Album'

ARTISTdirect.com editor Rick Florino recently conducted an interview with DOWN guitarist Pepper Keenan. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. ARTISTdirect.com: It's been some time since "Over the Under" dropped. How have those songs changed on the road? Keenan: They've evolved a little bi...

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VAN HALEN, AEROSMITH, GUNS N' ROSES, KISS Members Pay Tribute To LES PAUL

Former and current members of GUNS N' ROSES, VAN HALEN, AEROSMITH,KISS, SKID ROW, TESTAMENT, ZZ TOP and BLACKFOOT have paid tribute to music icon Les Paul, just hours after news broke that the electric-guitar pioneer had died at age 94 of complications from pneumonia. Ace Frehley (KISS): "The music...

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EXTREME: Boston Show Filmed For Forthcoming DVD

Fan-filmed video footage of reunited Massachusetts hard rockers EXTREME performing a cover of VAN HALEN's "Mean Street" on August 8, 2009 at the House of Blues in Boston can be viewed below. The entire concert was professionally filmed for a DVD which is tentatively due before the end of the year. "...

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UFO's VINNIE MOORE: Video Lesson Posted Online

GuitarWorld.com has posted an eight-part video lesson UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore. Check it out at this location Vinnie Moore released his new solo album, "To The Core", in North America on May 26 via Holland's Mascot Records. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. Fly (4:51) 02. Panic Attac...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION To Release 'An Acoustic Night At The Theatre' In October

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers WITHIN TEMPTATION will release a new live album, "An Acoustic Night At The Theatre", on October 30 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and November 2 in the rest of Europe. According to the band, the CD "contains acoustic live tracks that were recorded during...

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NEVERMORE Guitarist Says New Material Is 'A Little Bit More Wide Open Musically'

The German edition of Metal Hammer magazine conducted an interview with NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The chat can now be viewed at this location. When asked if his instrumental solo album, "Zero O...

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Death... The Brutal Way

Anyone who came up in the early 1990s death metal scene and was paying attention knows the place of honor that ASPHYX hold. "The Rack" stands alongside "Left Hand Path", "Cause of Death" and a select few other indisputably classic band- and genre-defining albums. These groups took what was thought t...

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The Fire Within

Give Ronny Munroe credit for equal parts work ethic and brass balls -- stepping in as METAL CHURCH's third vocalist, he joined a franchise in tatters and went a long way toward restoring it to its classic metal glory, if not its record sales. The gruffness in his vocal belies his impressive range, a...

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NEVERMORE: First Footage From The Studio Posted Online

NEVERMORE's Van Williams entered a studio on August 7 in the band's hometown of Seattle with producer (and SOILWORK guitarist) Peter Wichers (who previously worked with NEVERMORE vocalist Warrel Dane on Dane's solo debut, "Praises to the War Machine") to begin recording the drums for the band's new...

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KEITH CAPUTO Talks About His New EP, Poetry Debut

Video footage of LIFE OF AGONY frontman Keith Caputo at the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, Holland talking about the most recent developments in his musical career can be viewed below. Keith talks about his solo record, "A Fondness for Hometown Scars", and the videos made for that album — "Crawling" and t...

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'Guitar Hero: Van Halen' Official Trailer Available

The official trailer for Guitar Hero: Van Halen can be viewed below. The fourth (and probably) Guitar Hero game of 2009 will hit shelves just in time for Christmas on December 22. David Lee Roth will be at the mic. According to IGN, Activision (via MTV) has unveiled the complete song lineup for ...

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KORN Frontman Featured In INFECTED MUSHROOM Video

KORN's Jonathan Davis is featured in the new video, "Smashing the Opponent" (see below),from the Israeli-bred, Los Angeles-based electronic duo INFECTED MUSHROOM. The song is the first single from the eighth studio album from INFECTED MUSHROOM, "Legend Of The Black Shawarma", which is due on Septem...

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Former AFTER FOREVER Singer To Perform With RED LIMO STRING QUARTET

Former AFTER FOREVER singer Floor Jansen has issued the following update: "On Sunday the 9th of August, I will do an exclusive live show with the RED LIMO STRING QUARTET [at the Summer Darkness festival in Utrecht, Holland]! Last year we did a similar show, and after many positive reactions, we will...

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CLAWFINGER To Re-Record 'Deaf Dumb Blind' For 20th Anniversary

Nasso Ruskov of Bulgaria's Tangra Mega Rock recently conducted an interview with vocalist Zak Tell of the Swedish rap/metal combo CLAWFINGER. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Tangra Mega Rock: What's new in the CLAWFINGER camp then? Zak: Hmm…. That's a hard question to answer, but I'...

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KEITH CAPUTO: New Rehearsal Footage Posted Online

Video footage of LIFE OF AGONY singer Keith Caputo and his solo band rehearsing for their upcoming tour can be viewed below. Caputo's latest video, "Bleed For Something Beautiful", was directed by William Rot and was shot in Malibu and in Silverlake, California with Julie Becker, "the brilliant and...