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EXODUS: 'Riot Act' Video To Debut On 'Headbanger's Ball' This Weekend

Deemed one of metal's most important heritage bands for the lasting — and ongoing — contributions they've made to the creation and sustenance of the thrash metal genre, it is only apt that the first EXODUS video in support of their recently released, Billboard Heatseekers-charting album, "The Atroci...

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ALICE IN CHAINS Parts Ways With Management

ALICE IN CHAINS has parted ways with its management company, Core Entertainment. According to a press release issued by Core, the split was caused by "the changing nature of the music business and the increasing demand for [Core's] consulting and entertainment-related services. . . Core co-founder B...

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TESLA, STRYPER, AARON LEWIS To Perform At Benefit Concert For Victims Of GREAT WHITE Fire

TESLA, STRYPER (with a special guest appearance by Tom Scholz of BOSTON),Aaron Lewis (STAIND),Eric Martin (MR. BIG) and Carmine Appice's SLAM (a drum thing) are among the confirmed performers at a benefit concert for the victims of the February 20, 2003 nightclub fire, which claimed 100 lives, ser...

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AEROSMITH Bassist Honored With Personal Achievement Award at BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS

AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton accepted the Personal Achievement Award from Christopher Guest at the 2007 Boston Music Awards (BMAs),with two of the evening's best jokes. "Turn that crap down," he said of his entrance music of "Sweet Emotion", and later, "I feel like I'm at home. This place is like...

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GAAHL: We Kicked INFERNUS Out Of The Band, So We Therefore Are GORGOROTH

René Ackermann of Contraband Candy conducted an interview with King Ov Hell (real name: Tom Cato Visnes) and Gaahl (real name: Kristian Eivind Espedal) from the mighty Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH during the UK leg of the group's just-completed European tour. Topics include new drummers, the...

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AYREON: New Song Posted Online

A new AYREON track, entitled "The Fifth Extinction", has been posted online at this location. The song is divided in two parts due to MySpace limitations (the track is just over 10 minutes long). "The Fifth Extinction" comes off AYREON's new album, entitled "01011001", which is scheduled for release...

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LITTLE CAESAR To Release New Music, DVD

Longtime rockers LITTLE CAESAR have signed a worldwide management agreement with Jeff Keller Management LLC (management home for RATT's Stephen Pearcy and WHITE LION). The band — which features Ron Young (vocals),Loren Molinare (guitar),Tom Morris (drums),and Fidel Paniagua (bass) — is prepared t...

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SLAYER: Video Footage Of 1988 'Seat Cushion Riot' In NYC Posted Online

MetalKult.com has just posted the entire live clip of SLAYER's legendary 1988 "seat cushion riot' and "Angel of Death" performance. It was the summer of 1988, and SLAYER were in the midst of their "South of Heaven" tour. On August 31, the tour came to New York City's Felt Forum, the small theater ad...

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ROBERT PLANT, ALISON KRAUSS: 'Gone, Gone, Gone' Video To Receive VH1 Premiere

According to Tennessean.com, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' video for "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)", the first single off the duo's gold-selling joint project "Raising Sand", will premiere on VH1 on Monday, December 3. Plant, Krauss and producer T Bone Burnett recently completed work on the cl...

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AYREON: '01011001' Video Teaser Available

A video teaser for the forthcoming AYREON album, entitled "01011001", can be viewed below. AYREON is the brainchild of Dutch guitarist/composer Arjen Lucassen. The group will make its new rock opera, entitled "01011001", available in three editions: * a regular two-CD edition with a 28 page booklet....

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Justus Ex Fide Vivit

Israel's TANGORODRIM prove that true black metal bands hail from all corners of the planet, wherever disdain for religion and a love of all things filthy and inebriated are warmly embraced. And I do mean filthy. The sound of "Justus Ex Fide Vivit" is raw and dirty as hell, which has nothing to do wi...

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ROADRUNNER RECORDS To Launch Venture Label

Roadrunner Records today announced an exclusive worldwide agreement with music industry veteran Tom Lipsky to launch a to-be-named joint venture label. The primary goal of the label will involve new recordings by established classic and heritage rock artists to augment the already formidable Roadrun...

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EXODUS Guitarist Talks About The Making Of 'The Atrocity Exhibition'

Jackie Smit of Chronicles of Chaos recently conducted an interview with EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Chronicles of Chaos: What were the circumstances surrounding Tom's [Hunting, drums] return to EXODUS? Holt: If you had to put it in one word: time. He just n...

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ROBERT PLANT To Tour With ALISON KRAUSS In Early 2008

LED ZEPPELIN frontman Robert Plant has told Rolling Stone magazine that he plans to hit the road in early 2008 with bluegrass star Alison Krauss to promote the pair's collaborative CD, "Raising Sand". In addition to the "Raising Sand" material, they'll perform songs from their catalogs — including L...

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DEMOLITION To Release 'Relict IV' In January

Austrian thrashers DEMOLITION will release their fourth album, "Relict IV", on January 25, 2008 via Twilight Zone Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Existence" will feature the following track listing: 01. Relict IV 02. Reborn-Refailed 03. Splattered Innocence 04. The Fortress 05. Over Nails 06. Bloo...