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Former AMERICAN HEARTBREAK Guitarist CURTIS GRANT Passes Away At Age 39

San Francisco rock musician Curtis Grant passed away last week at age 39. The immensely popular ex-guitarist for such notable bands as BLACK CHERRY, AMERICAN HEARTBREAK and TOUCH ME HOOKER lost his battle with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma on Tuesday, March 20. He is survived by his wife, two children and...

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NINE, CULT OF LUNA, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR Confirmed For Sweden's METALTOWN Festival

NINE, CULT OF LUNA, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR and STURM UND DRANG have been confirmed for the Metaltown festival, set to take place June 30 at Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: SLAYER MACHINE HEAD MASTODON STONE SOUR MESHUGGAH NINE CULT OF LUNA HARDCORE SUPERST...

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From Beale Street to Oblivion

Blame it on a steady diet of old blues and classic rock records, or on their friendship with jammy blues-rockers FIVE HORSE JOHNSON, but don't say you didn't see it coming. CLUTCH, the band who once came off like an off-kilter hardcore or noise-rock band, is now officially drenched in funky groove,...

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Evil In the Night

Okay, I admit it. I can't resist this shit. I'm Pavlov's dog and the gods of thrash just rang the fucking dinner bell. You can be as sick of retro throwback bands as you want, you can say we don't need a band like MERCILESS DEATH around when we have the original 80's classics to ...

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'Metal: A Headbanger's Companion': New EARACHE Collection Due In April

Earache Records will release a six-CD collection, entitled "Metal: A Headbanger's Companion", on April 23. Headbang away to over 100 all-out blistering tracks on six separate discs, featuring Earache's own genre-defining, groundbreaking artists. The set will be priced only £9.99 (U.K.) or $15.98 (U....

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WINDS OF PLAGUE Signs With CENTURY MEDIA

WINDS OF PLAGUE has inked a worldwide deal with Century Media Records. Hailing from Los Angeles, WINDS OF PLAGUE has its share of Southern California hardcore roots running in their backyard, though the atmospheric sounds of Scandinavian black metal and classic American metal reign supreme in the ba...

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LES ÉKORCHÉS Featuring VOIVOD, B.A.R.F., GHOULUNATICS Members: Live Video Available

LES ÉKORCHÉS, the new Montréal, Québec, Canada-based project featuring vocalist Marc Vaillancourt from B.A.R.F., drummer Michel "Away" Langevin from VOIVOD, guitarist Pat Gordon from GHOULUNATICS and cellist Philippe Mius d'Entremont from MARUKA, played a CD-release show for its self-titled debut al...

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THIN LIZZY, DEATH ANGEL, NAGLFAR Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARD Festival

DEATH ANGEL, THIN LIZZY, CRUCIFIED BARBARA and NAGLFAR have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Rock Hard Festival, set to take place May 25-27 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMON AMARTH ARMORED SAINT AXEL RUDI PELL BULLET...

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MARILYN MANSON On New CD: 'It's Not A Record About Me Crying, Or Songs About My Woes'

MARILYN MANSON spoke to Revolver magazine (web site) about his forthcoming album "Eat Me, Drink Me". "This is the record I've worked all my life to get to," Manson said. "You always have to transform, or you can't continue as an artist, and this record has been the biggest transformation for me." "E...

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DARK TRANQUILLITY, QUIREBOYS, TALISMAN Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

DARK TRANQUILLITY, QUIREBOYS, TALISMAN, BLACK DEBBATH, HELLFUELED, BLUESTONE COMPANY, BLOODBOUND and GODA GRANNAR / GOOD NEIGHBOURS have been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 6-9 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (i...

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NEVERMORE Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

NEVERMORE has been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABSOLUTE AFTER FOREVER AMON AMARTH BLACK MESSIAH BOLT THROWER CALIBAN COMMUN...

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'Get Thrashed' Thrash Metal Documentary: East Coast Premiere Announced

"Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, will have its East Coast premiere in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday, April 1 at 6:00 p.m. as part of the Backseat Film Festival....

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Taps Former ALL THAT REMAINS Drummer

Detroit-based extreme metallers THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have issued the following update: "Well, after 4.5 months of grueling searching, we are extremely happy to announce that Shannon Lucas [ex-ALL THAT REMAINS] has joined THE BLACK DAHLIA fold. He is an extremely sick player, as many of you alread...

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AT ALL COST Signs With CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

The variety of artists on Century Media Records throughout the last decade prompted the label to coin the phrase "Diversity In Extremes," and this is more evident than ever before upon welcoming AT ALL COST to its worldwide family. This group encompasses the definition of diversity, imposing no limi...

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Report: Death/Thrash Metal Is The Soundtrack Of Child Prodigies

Jonathan Brown of U.K.'s The Independent reports: Heavy metal has long been saddled with a reputation for attracting admirers more interested in decibels than Descartes. New research, however, promises to rescue the genre from the mosh pit of intellectual obscurity. A study has revealed that death m...