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ROADRUNNER UNITED: First Track Available For Download

The first track from the upcoming ROADRUNNER UNITED "The All-Star Sessions" CD, entitled "The Dagger", has been made available for download at Roadrun.com. This full-length release, in stores on October 11, 2005, is a "master class" in hard rock/metal. Boasting 57 artists from 45 of Roadrunner's pas...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer To Take Part In Online Chat

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy will take part in an online chat at the Gigantour.com forums on Friday, September 2 at 5:30 p.m. EST. You must be a registered member of the Gigantour.com forums in order to view and/or participate in the chat. As previously reported, tonight's (Sept. 2) DREAM THEA...

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Guitarist MARCO SFOGLI In Pre-Production For DREAM THEATER Singer's New Solo CD

Italian guitarist Marco Sfogli, who is featured on the new solo album from DREAM THEATER vocalist James LaBrie, "Elements of Persuasion", has just completed a week of pre-production for LaBrie's next solo CD, according to a posting on Sfogli's web site. "It was a blast with Matt Guillory again and B...

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Former MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON: 'Life's Too Short To Play Music You Don't Like'

Denmark's Antenna webzine recently conducted an interview with former MEGADETH and current F5/TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY bassist David Ellefson. A couple of excerpts from the Q&A session follow: Antenna: Music-wise F5 lies far away from what you did in MEGADETH. Was it important to kind of distance you...

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SOULFLY Bassist Says Every Note On 'Dark Ages' Is 'Very Natural'

SOULFLY fan site SoulflyWeb.com recently conducted an interview with SOULFLY bassist Bobby Burns. An excerpt from the chat follows: SoulflyWeb.com: When you began to record "Dark Ages", what was the band's goal and your own personal goal? Bobby: "Well, when we went in to record this record, we prett...

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GOD FORBID Guitarist Talks About New CD

GOD FORBID guitarist Doc Coyle recently spoke to MTV.com about the group's third album, the socially and politically charged "IV: Constitution of Treason", due September 20 via Century Media Records. "The concept was written to the material, as opposed to the other way around — having a story serve...

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40 BELOW SUMMER To Play 'Farewell' Show Next Month

40 BELOW SUMMER will play their "farewell" show on September 17 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. The concert twill be filmed for an upcoming DVD, which will be sold through the band's official web site. 40 BELOW SUMMER members Max Illidge (vocals),Joe D'Amico (guitar) and Hector Graziani...

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Awaken the Guardian (reissue)

While their eternal doppelgangers QUEENSRŸCHE did more to popularize "thinking man's metal", and onetime disciples DREAM THEATER turned prog-metal into a cottage industry, FATES WARNING are no less deserving of their place in progressive metal history. Their 1986 set, "Awaken the Guardian", hit a pi...

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RHAPSODY To Tour Germany Next Spring

Italian epic metal band RHAPSODY have announced the following German dates in April 2006: Apr. 04, 2006 - Frankfurt, GER - Festhalle Apr. 06, 2006 - Munich, GER - Olympiahalle Apr. 07, 2006 - Stuttgart, GER - Schleyerhalle Apr. 08, 2006 - Nuremberg, GER - Frankenhalle Apr. 10, 2006 - Berlin, GER - M...

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SOULFLY Select First Single From 'Dark Ages' CD

According to a posting on the SOULFLY fan site SoulflyWeb.com, SOULFLY have selected the track "Carved Inside" as the first single from their upcoming "Dark Ages" CD. A video for the song, described as "dark" and full of "fire," was filmed at a 700-year-old fortress on the shores of the Danube river...

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Gigs To Rise From HELLFEST's Ashes

Scott Frost of The Trentonian is reporting that the organizers of the canceled Hellfest three-day metal and hardcore festival said 6,000 tickets, including 500 from overseas fans as far as Japan, were sold for the event, but those numbers might have been exaggerated. Max Cruise Entertainment's Chris...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer: GIGANTOUR Concert In Montreal To Be Taped For Upcoming CD/DVD

According to DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, the Montreal Gigantour concert on September 2 will be filmed and recorded for an upcoming Gigantour DVD and Gigantour CD. "If you would like to be a part of this experience, be sure to get your tickets for the show now!" says Portnoy. "Montreal is alm...

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Dark Ages

It's been a while since I dove headfirst into a SOULFLY album. After the self-titled debut and "Primitive", I stopped paying attention and missed out on "3" and "Prophecy". I half-expected album number five to be a watered down, more commercially oriented, "nu" type of album. To say I was "shocked"...

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DREAM THEATER Keyboardist: 'We Want To Maintain The Integrity Of Who We've Been'

Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times recently conducted an interview with DREAM THEATER keyboardist Jordan Rudess. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the group's distinctive mix of heavy-metal intensity and progressive-rock virtuosity: "The thing I like about that whole movement is that you c...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer To Perform With RUSH Tribute Band At Anniversary Concert

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy will perform with CYGNUS & THE SEA MONSTERS (a tribute to RUSH — featuring RACER X/ex-MR. BIG guitarist Paul Gilbert, ex-CYNIC bassist Sean Malone and WATCHTWOWER/DANGEROUS TOYS singer Jason McMaster) at a special drumming event to commemorate the The Drum Pad'...