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MCBRAIN DAMAGE Scrap West Coast Tour Plans

MCBRAIN DAMAGE, the Florida-based band featuring IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain and ex-BLACK SABBATH/GREAT WHITE bassist Dave "The Beast" Spitz, along with members of DEEPSET and FAILSAFE, have posted the following message on their web site: "Unfortunately, due to continued schedule conflicts and...

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DEVILDRIVER Name New Album

DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara (ex-COAL CHAMBER) has answered a number of fan questions about the group's upcoming album and touring activities via the group's official web site. A couple of excerpts from the Q&A sessions follow: Q: After you get your CD finished you said you may start touring...

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GUITAR WORLD Magazine To Pay Tribute To DIMEBAG DARRELL

According to the Washington Post, the staff of Guitar World magazine is currently working on its next issue, a tribute to "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the former guitarist for the heavy metal band PANTERA who was shot and killed by a crazed fan in Ohio last month while playing with his new band, DAMAGE...

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IMPALED, CAPHARNAUM Confirmed For MARYLAND DEATH FEST 2005

IMPALED, CAPHARNAUM, GHOUL, VOMIT REMNANTS, ION DISSONANCE, PROPHECY, WARSCARS and SCREAMING AFTERBIRTH are the latest bands confirmed for Maryland Death Fest 2005, a two-day festival set to take place May 28-29 at the Thunderdome in Baltimore, MD. The complete list of acts scheduled to perform at t...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: Remembering DIMEBAG DARRELL

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has issued the following statement in memory of DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott: "My relationship to this sick series of events goes way back, some 18 years. I joined a band from Detroit called MADAM X back in 1986 and the very first p...

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DAMAGEPLAN Frontman Comments On DIMEBAG's Murder: Video Available

DAMAGEPLAN frontman Patrick Lachman has spoken exclusively to Fuse "Uranium" host Juliya about the shooting incident earlier this month in Columbus, Ohio that left five people dead, including DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. In a brief interview conducted on the day (Dec. 14...

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TED NUGENT To Make Texas His Official Home In 2005

Ted Nugent has told The Jackson Citizen Patriot in a phone interview Wednesday (Dec. 22) that he officially will become a Texas resident in 2005, after moving his family to Crawford, Texas, about a year and a half ago. The rock guitarist is at his Concord residence during the holidays to prepare for...

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DEVOURMENT Reform, Begin Work On New Material

Texas-based underground death metallers DEVOURMENT have reformed and are currently writing material for their second full-length album, entitled "Butcher the Weak". DEVOURMENT originally split up in 1999 when their then-vocalist Ruben Rosas was arrested as a fugitive from justice at the Colorado Dea...

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GEORGE LYNCH: 'DIMEBAG's Playing Was Imaginative, Soulful And Technical'

Former DOKKEN guitarist George Lynch has posted the following message on his official web site: "I remember the first time I met Dime was back in the mid-'80s. "PANTERA played with DOKKEN a lot in Texas. There was a chain of hard rock venues called Cardi's and we would frequently share the stage wit...

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SOULFLY Guitarist Launches COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN Side Project

SOULFLY/ex-ILL NINO guitarist Marc Rizzo recently released the debut album from his side band COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN. The CD, which was issued Nov. 23 via Phlamencore Records, features all the songs originally intended for Rizzo's CORETEZ project that featured Roger Vasquez (ex-ILL NINO) on vocals. W...

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MACHINE HEAD's ROBERT FLYNN: 'Long Live DIMEBAG DARRELL In The Hearts Of Us All'

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn has posted the following message in the "Forum" section of the band's official web site: "I still can't believe it. "To say that MACHINE HEAD were devastated... there aren't even words. We found out about this unbelievable event while in Zagreb, Serbia [sic]. The s...

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TED NUGENT Calls BONO's Politics 'Embarrassing'

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent recently told Launch Radio Networks that he disagrees with U2 singer Bono about the Irish singer's campaign for Third World debt relief, as well as his support for total civilian disarmament. Asked what he would say to Bono in a conversation, Nugent replied, "I'm sure...

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JUDAS PRIEST's GLENN TIPTON Says He Is 'Still In Shock' Over DIMEBAG's Death

Thoughts and tributes to DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott continue to come in from a stunned musical community following his tragic death last week at a Columbus nightclub. JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton, in New York to promote the band's upcoming new album, shared his t...

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SHADOWS FALL Drummer Reports From DIMEBAG's Funeral

SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner has issued the following report from the funeral services and public memorial for slain DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, which were held on Tuesday (Dec. 14) in Arlington, Texas: "I have just gotten to my computer today after returning home...

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ROBERT PLANT To Give Keynote Speech, Perform At SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST

Former LED ZEPPELIN frontman Robert Plant will be the keynote speaker at the 2005 South by Southwest Music Festival set for March 11-20 in Austin, Texas. Plant will also treat attendees to his first U.S. performance in three years. Registration for SXSW 2005 is available on the festival's official w...