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'American Hair Metal' Author Offers His Picks For Best Manes In Hard-Rock History

Mark Yarm of The Associated Press reports: Watch VH1 Classic for any length of time and you're bound to catch your fair share of videos by '80s hair-metal superstars such as POISON, CINDERELLA, MÖTLEY CRÜE and WARRANT alongside clips by also-rans such as BULLETBOYS, TRIXTER and KIX. If you're lookin...

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NAPALM DEATH: Long Island Concert Cancellation Explained

British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH have posted the following message on their official web site: "Many, many apologies to all our fans that turned up to [Friday night's, Nov. 24] show [at Club Ritual in Levittown, New York]. The club did not have a working PA/sound system. We tried to resolve t...

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GUANO APES To Release 'The Lost (T)Apes' Collection

Germany's GUANO APES will release a posthumous collection of early recordings, entitled "The Lost (T)Apes", on December 1 via G.U.N. Records. Commented the band: "For all of you, it's definitely the final chapter; for us, it's a new beginning in different constellations. We've dug around in our arch...

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'Headbanger's Journey' Director: 'Metal Comes From Places That People Want To Forget About'

Australia's The Courier Mail recently conducted an interview with Sam Dunn, one of the directors behind the critically acclaimed "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" documentary that focuses on the history of heavy metal music. With a masters degree in social anthropology and as a regular contributor to...

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Finnish EUROVISION Winners LORDI Mull Presidential Invitation

According to MonstersAndCritics.com, Finnish heavy-metal rockers LORDI, surprise winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, have yet to confirm if they will attend the annual President's Independence Day reception, reports said Monday. The December 6 reception — one of the main features on the cou...

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DIMEBAG Apparel Coming Soon To HOT TOPIC Store Near You

Coffin Case has teamed up with Dime Hardware to offer exclusive "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott apparel — coming soon to select Hot Topic stores. Three exclusive Dimebag Darrell designs are scheduled at this time. Also, Guitar Center is now carrying the first of a series of blood-curdling effects pedals by...

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Rock Star Supernova

So let's take a poll: how much do you think Jason Newsted paid someone to have that bass head dropped on his arm (if that well-timed incident actually happened, that is)? Whatever the price was, it couldn't have been too high to extricate the former METALLICA bassist from the debacle known by the ch...

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DIMMU BORGIR: New Album Title Revealed

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have finished mixing their new album at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with producers Fredrik Nordström and Patrik J. Sten for an early 2007 release via Nuclear Blast Records. The group's guitarist, Silenoz, has issued the following update on th...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Singer Speaks Out On Turkish Repression

Launch Radio Networks reports: SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has sent out a message asking fans to write letters to the Turkish government protesting a law in Turkey called Article 301, which makes it a crime to say or write anything deemed to be "un-Turkish." Tankian wrote, "Journalists, w...

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NAPALM DEATH Bassist Checks In From The Road

NAPALM DEATH bassist Shane Embury has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Just played a blinding, sweaty hot show in Belfort, France... Hot and sweaty is the word — what a crazy show! Kids diving everywhere; very cool. It was so hot I even had to take my shirt off so ...

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NAPALM DEATH Frontman Discusses American Politics

Josh Thorne of the FourteenG e-zine recently conducted an interview with NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: FourteenG: Now, as far as songwriting goes, it really seems like religion is the main lyrical focus with "Smear Campaign". Barney: Yes, th...

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NAPALM DEATH Frontman Comments On 'When All Is Said And Done' Video

NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway has commented on the band's video for the song "When All is Said and Done", the first clip from the their "Smear Campaign' album. The video was shot during the band's hectic touring schedule by the young, upcoming director and photographer Kevin Wildt. Sa...

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RADICAL NERVE DISTORTION: Album Samples Available

Dutch hardcore outfit RADICAL NERVE DISTORTION has finished recording its first full-length CD, "Old Style Scare Tactics", at Excess studios in Rotterdam. Four tracks from the album — "Congress of Lies", "Patient Zero", "Dive Bomber" and "Precision Shot" — can be found on the band's MySpace page. RA...

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DIMMU BORGIR Finishes Recording New Album

Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR have finished recording their new album at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with producers Fredrik Nordström and Patrik J. Sten for an early 2007 release via Nuclear Blast Records. The group's guitarist, Silenoz, has issued the following update on...

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DIMEBAG: Video Of Dallas Hard Rock Café Walk Of Fame Induction Available

Raw video footage of last night's (Nov. 9) induction of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott to the Dallas Hard Rock Café walk of fame has been posted online at cbs11tv.com. Accepting the honor on behalf and in memory of Dimebag was his brother, Vinnie Paul, and lifelong partner, Rita Haney. Immediately followi...