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QUEENSRŸCHE, POISON, LACUNA COIL Land In BILLBOARD's Top 30

QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" has sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 14 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is more than half of the total sales tally registered by the band's last studio album, 2003's "Tribe", which sold 20,000 co...

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OPETH Mainman: We Don't Know If Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ Is Ever Coming Back

Helen Barradell of Australia's X-Press Online recently conducted an interview with OPETH mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's early years: "I guess it gets more romantic in retrospect, almost like we actually had a good time. Of course we did have a good...

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QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Operation: Mindcrime II' Will Be Band's Best-Selling Album In Years

According to Hits Daily Double, first-day reports from retailers across the United States indicate that QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" album will sell between 40,000 and 50,000 copies in its first week of release, which could very well put them in the teens or low twenties in next week's Th...

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Vocalist JIZZY PEARL Announces RATT Spring Tour Dates

According to frontman Jizzy Pearl, RATT will be playing at least two shows this spring/summer, including a May 13 date at Win River Casino in Redding, California (on a bill also featuring WARRANT, GREAT WHITE and FIREHOUSE) and a June 17 concert at Kewadin Casino in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Polls...

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NEURAXIS Add Touring Guitarist

Montreal-based NEURAXIS have announced the addition of live guitarist Will Seghers (ex-QUO VADIS) to the group's ranks. The band commented: "NEURAXIS wishes to thank everyone who showed interest in auditioning for the guitar position. It feels good to now have a guitarist that meets our standard of...

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SOUNDSCAN Report: ROB ZOMBIE, ATREYU, RAMMSTEIN, GUNS N' ROSES, AC/DC

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending April 2, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 1,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, whe...

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VELVET REVOLVER's DUFF MCKAGAN Shoots Down 'Rehab' Rumors

VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) has rejected as false recent rumors that he has entered a rehab center in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington near his home to "get clean." The Metal Sludge web site quoted an anonymous source last week as saying that Duff "went to...

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BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Founder Selling One-Of-A-Kind Guitars

Eric Bloom, a founding member of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, has announced the opening of www.EricBloomGuitars.com, through which he is offering one-of-a-kind guitars, each interpreting a different BÖC song. What makes these guitars unique is Eric's vision of "playable art." Working with master airbrush artis...

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SLASH Says That He Has Hasn't Quit VELVET REVOLVER

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash spent time at a Los Angeles recording studio on Friday (March 31) laying down a guest guitar solo on an album from an up-and-coming female singer that is being produced by one-time GUNS N' ROSES producer Mike Clink, informed sources have told BLABBERM...

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Bassist DIGIORGIO, Drummer MICKELSON 'Dropped' From VINTERSORG Recording Sessions

Despite previous reports to the contrary, bassist Steve DiGiorgio (SADUS, SEBASTIAN BACH, TESTAMENT, DEATH) and drummer Asgeir Mickelson (SPIRAL ARCHITECT, BORKNAGAR) have not been asked to participate in the recording process for VINTERSORG's new album, which is tentatively due later in the year. W...

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Sodom

Tom Angelripper is pissed off, and love him or hate him, the man has a point. Denim-bedecked scenesters (some of whom little more than zygotes when thrash began) are loudly cheering the return of VENOM and CELTIC FROST to active status, yet SODOM ─ a band that stuck it out and never left ─ gears ...

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TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS Talks About BEYOND FEAR's Debut CD, Touring With ANTHRAX

PiercingMetal.com recently conducted an interview with former JUDAS PRIEST and current ICED EARTH/BEYOND FEAR frontman Tim "Ripper" Owens. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On BEYOND FEAR's self-titled debut album: Ripper: "I am as happy with this as anything I have ever done, and I have done thi...

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DISMEMBER Drummer Discusses New Album

Chris Kee of Live 4 Metal recently conducted an interview with DISMEMBER drummer Fred Estby. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Live 4 Metal: How was the whole recording experience this time [on "The God that Never Was"], compared to your previous studio work? Estby: "The difference was that this...

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WAYLANDER Confirm PAGAN NIGHT Appearance, Seek Label Home

Long-running Irish folk metal act WAYLANDER have confirmed their first-ever German gig at the Pagan Night Festival in Bavaria, Germany on June 10. "We are obviously thrilled to have finally achieved a long-sought-after and overdue milestone and without a shadow of a doubt this performance will be me...

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Australia's MANDRAKE To Join DEEP PURPLE / STATUS QUO Oz Tour

Australian power trio MANDRAKE will join the DEEP PURPLE/STATUS QUO tour in Melbourne on April 29-30, and Canberra on May 14. MANDRAKE will also be releasing their new self-titled EP in time for the tour and will soon be announcing EP launch dates in Sydney to coincide with the release. Asked how an...