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THE CULT Frontman: We Made This Album For Ourselves

The web site of the German branch of Roadrunner Records has been updated with the following interview with THE CULT frontman Ian Astbury: Q: When you wrote this album, was there a spark? Ian: THE CULT has been on ice so there was no point going through the motions of touring and recording if there ....

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What's In Your Head?

Do you suppose guitarist and DIAMOND HEAD founder Brian Tatler still has Lars Ulrich and Dave Mustaine's phone numbers, and calls them to "you know, just chat, and see if you've got the new CD I sent ya?" Or does he has to go through their managers, who conveniently lose all his messages? I'd hate ....

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The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey

You would assume by now I would have stopped thinking "I am really not a big fan of gothic metal" before I begin checking out a new Napalm Records release clearly marked as being of that musical style. More often than not I end up finding said releases to be more than tolerable, and often ...

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NIKKI SIXX: 'Addicts Are The Most Witty, Clever People There Are'

Canada's Macleans.ca recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx. An excerpt from the chat follows: Macleans.ca: You chose a racy title for a mainstream book. Sixx: Part of this is about me standing up and saying, "Read this book. I do not look pretty. This is as ugly as it ....

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'METAL' MIKE Scores Theme For FUSE TV's 'Talking Metal On Fuse' Show

Guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak, who is known for his work with HALFORD, SEBASTIAN BACH, TESTAMENT and his own outfit PAINMUSEUM, has scored and recorded the music theme for the "Talking Metal on Fuse" show, which is set to debut Friday, November 9 at 12:30 a.m. ET on Fuse. "Talking Metal on Fuse",...

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M.ILL.ION Signs With METAL HEAVEN

Swedish rockers M.ILL.ION have inked a deal with Germany's Metal Heaven Records. "After fulfilling the deal with the former label the band wanted to move on," the group writes on its web site. "Several albums' worth of new material have been written and some of it has been demoed for presentation. M...

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SHADOWS FALL Singer Issues 'Another Hero Lost' Video Update

SHADOWS FALL singer Brian Fair has issued the following update: "Back in September we asked all of you to send in photos of a personal hero for inclusion in our video for 'Another Hero Lost'. That video ended up not working out so we are shooting a new one shortly. In the meantime we wanted ...

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OBITUARY Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

Legendary Florida death metallers OBITUARY have been confirmed for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 27-28, 2008 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AGE OF EVIL AGENT STEEL BREAKER CONTRACRASH ENSIFERUM FORBIDDEN GRAVE DIG...

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SLAYER, CANNIBAL CORPSE, MALEVOLENT CREATION Make 'Goriest Album Covers' List

SLAYER, CANNIBAL CORPSE, MALEVOLENT CREATION, CRADLE OF FILTH and SUFFOCATION are among the artists whose album covers have made the Dallas Observer's slideshow of "20 of the Goriest Album Covers." To view the slideshow, click here. "20 of the Goriest Album Covers," according to the Dallas Observer:...

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THE CULT Frontman: 'The Most Important Thing For Us Was To Be As Truthful As Possible'

Keith Ryan Cartwright of The Post and Courier's Preview recently conducted an interview with THE CULT frontman Ian Astbury. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Preview: What is it about now that lent itself to making this record ["Born into This"]? Astbury: Oh, maybe experience. I think having gone...

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Swedish Black Metallers PEST Sign With SEASON OF MIST

Swedish black metallers PEST have inked a deal with Season of Mist for the release of their new album, "Rest in Morbid Darkness". Due in Europe on January 21 (February 5 in the U.S.),the CD contains "nine tracks of violent sickness, lurking horror and triumphant bloodshed, all in the true spirit of...

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SERJ TANKIAN, ROB ZOMBIE, SOILWORK, EXODUS, SKINDRED First-Week Sales Revealed

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending October 28, 2007, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest hundred [except numbers over 20,000, which are rounded to the nearest thousand]; The Billboard 200 chart position includ...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Guitarist: 'We Made A Flawless Album'

The Pulse of Radio reports: AVENGED SEVENFOLD releases its self-titled fourth album on Tuesday (October 30),following up the band's breakthrough 2005 effort, "City Of Evil". This time out, the band not only wanted to produce the record on their own, but outdo themselves as a musical act. Guitarist...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, FORBIDDEN Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE and the reunited San Francisco Bay Area thrashers FORBIDDEN have been confirmed for next year's Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 27-28, 2008 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: SAXON TRAMP'S WHITE LION...

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DAVE MUSTAINE, RONNIE JAMES DIO On Marriage And Life Philosophy

MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine and HEAVEN AND HELL's Ronnie James Dio recently told Christopher Toh of TodayOnline.com that they are just two ordinary guys who'd have been a teacher and an author, respectively, if they weren't rockers. Dio spends time in his studio, where he "can write music and stuff." "...