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SCORPIONS Guitarist: 'We Wanted To Make An Outstanding Rock Album'

Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with SCORPIONS guitarist Rudolf Schenker. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metalshrine: The new album. What was it like working with [producer] Desmond Child? Rudolf: A new experience. We had already worked with some good producers like...

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Former SKID ROW/SAIGON KICK Drummer Talks About His New Career In Comedy

Sleaze Roxx recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW/SAIGON KICK drummer Phil Varone. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Sleaze Roxx: You had left SKID ROW in 2004 to take care of personal issues that were documented in "Waking Up Dead" but later returned, what lead to your retur...

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Dismember

This is one of those ideas tailor-made for the Internet. Swedish songwriter Tony Naima got up at a DISMEMBER CD release party and did some acoustic, poppy versions of the death metal band's best-loved songs, and everyone thought it was a hoot. He got a band together and did arrangements of a few oth...

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THE CULT, ILL NINO, MONDO GENERATOR: New Concert Footage From Romania Available

Video footage of THE CULT, ILL NINO and MONDO GENERATOR's performances at the Coke Live Festival, which took place June 22-24 in Bucharest, Romania, has been posted at Metalhead.ro: THE CULT (Video) ILL NINO (Video) MONDO GENERATOR (Video) THE CULT has set "Born Into This" as the title of ...

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Drummer JOHN MACALUSO To Guest On 'Maximum Threshold'

Drummer John Macaluso (ARK, TNT, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, STARBREAKER) will guest on the "Maximum Threshold" show on Saturday, June 30 at 8:00 p.m. EST. "Maximum Threshold" is an Internet radio show dedicated to presenting up-and-coming hard rock bands and successful bands as well as interviews, news and m...

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TESTAMENT Signs With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT have inked a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The group will enter the studio late summer/early fall to record its long-awaited new album for a March 2008 release. Original TESTAMENT members Alex Skolnick (guitar),Chuck Billy (vocals),Greg Chris...

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TESTAMENT Frontman: 'The Timing Is Right For This Band Again'

Jeffrey Easton of Metal Exiles recently conducted an interview with TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Exiles: So who is in the band now? Is it the complete original line up? Chuck: Alex [Skolnick, guitar], of course, is in along with Eric [Peterson, guitar] a...

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CRASHDIET Drummer Discusses Band's Collaboration With MÖTLEY CRÜE's MICK MARS

Bring Back Glam! recently conducted an interview with CRASHDIET drummer Eric Young. A couple of excerpts follow: Bring Back Glam!: Let's talk about your new album. How is it coming along? Eric Young: It's coming along great actually. Next week we'll work to complete five new songs, for a total of ei...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS Begin Residency With First U.S. Show Since 2000

Launch Radio Networks reports: SMASHING PUMPKINS kicked off their nine-show residency at Asheville, North Carolina's Orange Peel on Saturday night (June 23) with a three-hour performance that also marked the band's first U.S. show since late 2000. According to Harp magazine, the group included a lar...

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SOULFLY Bassist To Guest On Tonight's 'All Knowing Force'

SOULFLY bassist and frontman of the newly resurrected PRIMER 55 Bobby Burns will be the featured guest on the "All Knowing Force" web-based interview show tonight (Tuesday, June 26) at 10:00 p.m. EST. Bobby will be talking about SOULFLY as well as the reformation of PRIMER 55, which has just signed...

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FULL BLOWN CHAOS: New Song Posted Online

A new FULL BLOWN CHAOS track, entitled "Halos for Heroes", has been posted on the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the New York hardcore group's new full-length CD, "Heavy Lies the Crown", due on August 21 via Ferret Music. "Heavy Lies the Crown" was produced by the band with Billy Graziadei...

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IRON MAIDEN Singer's ALEISTER CROWLEY Film To Go Into Production

According to U.K.-based music journalist Dave Ling, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson's film about occult legend Aleister Crowley (infamous as "the wickedest man in the world") will shortly go into production, with Simon Callow (IMDb) — of "Amadeus", "Shakespeare in Love" and, appropriately, "The P...

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TESTAMENT To Debut New Material At Germany's EARTHSHAKER FEST

According to the organizers of the Earthshaker Fest, which is being July 19-21 in Kreuth, Germany, veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT will perform a special show at this year's event that will include an exclusive world premiere of brand new tracks from the band's forthcoming album....

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TESTAMENT Frontman Says New Material Is 'Very Heavy' And 'Catchy'

Jesse Capps of RockConfidential.com recently conducted an interview with TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy. A few excerpts from the chat follow: RockConfidential.com: What's touring looking like this year? Chuck: We've got a few shows in July. We're gonna finish writing. We've got a few shows scattered...

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STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH To Release 'Rise Of The Infidels'

Megaforce Records and metal/hardcore pioneers S.O.D. will release "Rise of the Infidels" on August 21, 2007. It is an extended EP (perhaps the longest in the music biz) with four unreleased S.O.D. songs, plus a live concert from Seattle is included. One of the crucial bands in the musical chain link...