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CRYPTOPSY Seek New Management

Quebec-based death metallers CRYPTOPSY are currently looking for serious management. Interested parties can contact the band at [email protected]. CRYPTOPSY were forced to cancel their spring East Coast mini-tour due to immigration problems. The trek, which was scheduled to kick of...

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IRON MAIDEN Manager Answers Fan Questions

The IMOC (Iron Maiden Fan Club) has managed to gather up some pretty interesting questions from the IRON MAIDEN fanbase around the world for manager Rod Smallwood. After some time, Rod has finally found the time to answer the first five out of a massive 20 questions. Question: What do you think abou...

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JEFF SCOTT SOTO Tapped By JOURNEY To Replace Ailing Singer

According to MelodicRock.com, legendary hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TALISMAN, SOUL SIRKUS) will assume the lead singer duties for JOURNEY starting with the July 7 show in Bristow, VA. He replaces the band's regular frontman Steve Augeri, who has been forced to leave the ban...

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DRAGONLORD Guitarist GIAN PYRES Is 'Ready To Lay Waste To Your Lives Once More'

Former CRADLE OF FILTH and current DRAGONLORD guitarist Gian Pyres has fully recovered from the tendonitis in his left hand which forced DRAGONLORD to cancel their summer U.S. tour. Says Pyres: What fucking tendonitis?? I tried picking the axe up after this time of resting... and I didnt seem to fee...

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HOLY MOSES Bassist Forced To Sit Out Upcoming Dates

Bassist Robert "Ozzy" Frese of the long-running German thrashers HOLY MOSES is reportedly very ill and will be unable to perform with the band for the foreseeable future. As a result, the group — which has been forced to cancel its July 8 appearance at Italy's Badia Rocks festival — will enlist "old...

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Ex-BLIND GUARDIAN Drummer Forced To Sit Out SAVAGE CIRCUS Tour Dates

Former BLIND GUARDIAN drummer Thomen Stauch will be unable to perform any shows this year with his new band, SAVAGE CIRCUS, due to an unspecified medical/psychological condition. The following is Stauch's official statement on the matter: "Due to ongoing serious private problems in the past months m...

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SLASH, ROB ZOMBIE To Serve As Guest Judges On 'Rock Star: Supernova'

As an executive producer and host of the CBS reality-TV hit "Rock Star", former JANE'S ADDICTION guitarist Dave Navarro says that he has enlisted a few of his friends to help pick this year's winner. "We are going to have a weekly guest judge that I'm bringing from my own personal Rolodex — Macy Gra...

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Portugal's GOD To Release 'Hell & Heaven' EP

Portuguese viking/pagan metal combo GOD, which was formed by the Romanian brothers Gelu and Costel Lapusneanu, has inked a deal with Khæotica Productions. The group's new EP, "Hell & Heaven", contains five songs that are described in a press release as containing "a smooth gothic sound embraced...

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KORN's JONATHAN DAVIS Says Illness 'Scared The Hell Out Of Me'

Launch Radio Networks reports: KORN frontman Jonathan Davis is currently recovering at home in Los Angeles from a blood infection that forced the band to cancel its European tour earlier this month. The rare disorder could have proven fatal if not caught, and Davis told Launch that the incident made...

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LED ZEPPELIN's JIMMY PAGE Pulls Out Of MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL Tribute Concert

LED ZEPPELIN legend Jimmy Page has been forced to cancel his participation in the June 30 concert in honor of Atlantic Records at this year's Montreux Jazz Festival due to medical reasons (a "surgery", according to a press release). On June 30 — the opening night of the festival — the Montreux Jazz...

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KORN Frontman Says He's Recovering In 'Record Time'

Launch Radio Networks reports: KORN frontman Jonathan Davis posted a message in the "Journal" section of the band's official website on Tuesday (June 27). Davis, who is recovering from a blood infection that could have been fatal, wrote, "What's up everybody? I'm feeling great, all the emails, blogs...

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MASTERY Forced To Postpone Touring Plans While Drummer Recovers From Surgery

Toronto "instrumetal' thrash band MASTERY have been forced to postpone their U.S. touring debut while drummer Kevan Roy recovers from a non-threatening surgery. "It's too bad that we had to postpone the U.S. tour 'till later this year. Kevan is recovering quickly though and so we're planning to get...

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SHAMRAIN Cancel TUSKA OPEN AIR Festival Appearance

SHAMRAIN, the Finnish quartet who feature in their ranks ENTWINE frontman Mika Tauriainen, have been forced to cancel their June 30 appearance at the Tuska Open Air Metal Festival. "This cancellation is due to unspecified medical condition of the singer Mika Tauriainen," the band write on their web...

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SEVENDUST To Begin Recording New Album Next Week

SEVENDUST will enter an Atlanta-area studio on July 5 to begin recording the follow-up to last year's "Next", tentatively due late 2006/early 2007 through an as-yet-undetermined label. The band have completed about 15 songs musically and are currently working on vocal melodies and lyrics, the group...

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The Anatomy Of

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME has had quite a run of phenomenal albums. This time the band decided to have a little fun with "The Anatomy Of", an album of 14 cover songs from a varied group of acts. Rather than rendering the originals unrecognizable, the quintet took songs from groups like MÖTLEY CRÜE,...