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AMORPHIS: 'House Of Sleep' Video Posted Online
AMORPHIS' video for their new single, "House of Sleep", has been posted online at NuclearBlast.de (Real Media). The single, which recently entered the Finnish single chart at position No. 1, comes off the group's new album, "Eclipse", due on February 17 via Nuclear Blast Records. A pre-release liste...January 20, 2006
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BATTLELORE To Release New Album Before End Of The Year
Guitarist Jyri Vahvanen of the Finnish "fantasy metal" band BATTLELORE has posted the following message at the band's web site: "We are currently working with the new material and you are allowed to expect longer and more majestic songs than ever before. There's a lot of material where to choose the...January 19, 2006
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ULI JON ROTH To Lead Guitar Seminar In Los Angeles
According to a posting on guitar legend Uli Jon Roth's (ex-SCORPIONS) official web site, the first-ever Sky Academy Seminar & Sky Music Festival is going to take place in Los Angeles, California on May 24-28, 2006. Uli Jon Roth will personally lead the guitar and music seminar, which is coupled...January 18, 2006
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KYUSS 'Reunion': Audio, Video Footage Posted Online
Audio and video footage taken at the Dec. 21, 2005 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE gig at the Wiltern LG in Los Angeles, where John Garcia, singer of QOTSA frontman Josh Homme's previous troupe KYUSS, joined QUEENS on stage for three songs from their influential hard-rock band's catalog, has been posted onl...January 17, 2006
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PAGE, VAN HALEN, SLASH, HAMMETT, RHOADS Named Top Guitar Soloists Of All Time
LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page of has been voted the top guitar soloist of all time for the song "Stairway to Heaven". According to The Sun Online, Page's performance topped the survey held by the web site AboutGuitars.com and beat out the likes of Eddie Van Halen for the track "Eruption". The th...January 17, 2006
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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Doesn't Rule Out ALCATRAZZ Reunion
Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with legendary guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: What type of set list have you been using? Have you been focusing on a specific era of your career? Yngwie: "We write a set list, but we never stick...January 16, 2006
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AMORPHIS: 'House Of Sleep' Single Tops Finnish Chart
AMORPHIS' new single, "House of Sleep", has entered the Finnish single chart at position No. 1. View the whole chart at this location. The song comes off the group's new album, "Eclipse", due on February 17 via Nuclear Blast Records. A pre-release listening session for "Eclipse" will be held at Nigh...January 16, 2006
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Tunnelvision Brilliance
Don't buy this expecting heavy-lidded riff rock along the lines of Scott Reeder's former bands, KYUSS and THE OBSESSED. Reeder may have auditioned for METALLICA, and you may see him pop up onstage with TOOL once in a while, but he's also a mellow, laid back guy who lives on a ranch out in the ...January 16, 2006
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Withering To Death
They dress up like MARILYN MANSON rejects and sing in Japanese. Ya gotta hand it to anyone crazy enough to take a chance on this band, supposedly one of the biggest in the Land of the Rising Sun — I can't picture hordes of English-speaking kids flocking to this scattershot mixed bag of twisted, melo...January 16, 2006
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KISS' STANLEY, SIMMONS To Attend Grand Opening Of KISS Coffeehouse
Dawn Bryant of South Carolina's Myrtle Beach Sun News has issued the following report: The band KISS is adding one more ingredient to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: coffee. The rockers, known for slapping their brand on everything from coffins to coasters since their heyday in the 1970s, will show a...January 15, 2006
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EYEHATEGOD Frontman: 'PHILIP ANSELMO Helped Me Get Out Of Jail'
Five days after Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans, EYEHATEGOD frontman Mike Williams and his girlfriend Alicia Morgan barely escaped the city alive. Within hours of arriving in Morgan City, Louisiana hotel room, the pair were locked up on drug charges. Williams spent 91 days in the Morgan Cit...January 14, 2006
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LIFE OF AGONY Frontman Launches New Web Site, Begins Work On New Solo Album
LIFE OF AGONY frontman Keith Caputo has launched a brand new web site designed by LIFE OF AGONY bassist, Alan Robert, through his graphics company Vision Den. Vision Den (web site) has created web sites, CD/DVD packaging and print collateral for high-profile entertainment clients such as 20th Centur...January 13, 2006
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DANKO JONES Part Ways With Drummer, Announce Replacement
Canada's powerhouse rock trio and Razor & Tie recording artists DANKO JONES have parted ways with drummer Damon Richardson. "The separation is an amicable one and Damon cites fatigue as his reason for parting," the band write in a statement. "Five years banging skins for DANKO JONES takes its to...January 12, 2006
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SOUNDGARDEN Tribute Album Due In February
Midwest Movement/Tribute Sounds has set a February 21 release date for the SOUNDGARDEN tribute album, entitled "Black Days: Midwest Movement Tribute to Soundgarden". The CD will receive nationwide distribution through Navarre. "Black Days..." will feature 10 classic SOUNDGARDEN songs performed by so...January 12, 2006
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CRUACHAN Prepare To Record New Album
Irish folk metal band CRUACHAN will enter the studio on January 17 to begin recording their fifth album, tentatively due later in the year via Greece's Black Lotus Records. "We are returning to Sun Studios in Dublin, where we recorded 'Tuatha Na Gael', 'The Middle Kingdom' and 'Folklore'," the band...January 10, 2006
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