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RHAPSODY OF FIRE Guitarist Opens Personal Studio

Luca Turilli, guitar player of the Italian symphonic metal masters RHAPSODY OF FIRE, has issued the following update: "I want to tell you that I finally set up my new personal studio, located between the hills and the sea of my Italian hometown, the beautiful Trieste. This studio is based on the won...

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STRATOVARIUS Keyboardist To Guest On STYGIA Debut

STRATOVARIUS keyboardist Jens Johansson has recorded a guest solo for "Divine Allegiance", the debut album from STYGIA, the project led by Boston, Massachusetts-based up-and-coming "shred" guitarist Todd Seitz. Todd says, "The song ['The Hunter'] is partially inspired by one of my favorite video gam...

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GUNS N' ROSES: 'Chinese Democracy' Mania Hits Germany, Japan; Video Available

German TV station Pro7 aired a two-minute report on the release of GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy", which included interviews with the band's fans and a short chat with Sven Kilthau-Lander, senior director of promotion at Universal Music Germany (international division). W...

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DARK FUNERAL: Legal Battle With MNW/NO FASHION RECORDS Finally Over

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have obtained the rights to their back catalogue (including the publishing rights) — "The Secrets Of The Black Arts" (1996),"Vobiscum Satanas" (1998),"Teach Children To Worship Satan" (2000) and "Diabolis Interium" (2001) — following a lengthy legal battle with...

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AXL ROSE Biographer: 'Democracy' Is 'An Over-Reaching, Self-Pitying Piece Of Inspired Lunacy'

British rock journalist Mick Wall, who released a biography of GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose, "W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose", in February 2008, has posted the following message on his blog: "Seeing as people keep asking: yeah, I think [GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new albu...

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CYNIC: Interview With PAUL MASVIDAL

By: Scott Alisoglu Paul Masvidal had an epiphany that it was time to unleash CYNIC and blow minds all over again. For the last 15 years, "Focus" has served as the bench mark for the heavy end of progressive metal (some might say progressive "death" metal, but more on that later) and here we are ...

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GUNS N' ROSES: 'Chinese Democracy' First-Day Sales In Australia 'Lukewarm'

Paul Cashmere of Undercover News reports that GUNS N' ROSES' new album, "Chinese Democracy", had a relatively lukewarm first day of sales in Australia with stores registering 3,454 sales on Friday, the day before the album's official release. The release date for music in Australia is Saturday (the...

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ODIN To Release CD Collection In January

ODIN, the classic Los Angeles band featuring Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, DC4),Shawn Duncan (DC4),Aaron Samson and Randy O, will release a new 18-song compilation in January 2009. Much of the material on the collection has never been available on CD before and ALL of it has been remastered by Roy Z...

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AUDREY HORNE: Deventer Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of AUDREY HORNE's November 16, 2008 concert at Burgerweeshuis in Deventer, Holland can be viewed below (clips uploaded by Erhan Düzey). The band was performing at the venue as part of a European tour with ENSLAVED and KRAKOW. AUDREY HORNE is the Norwegian hard rock/post-grun...

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SEPULTURA Guitarist ANDREAS KISSER: Video Footage Of Santarém Workshop Available

Video footage of SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser's November 4, 2008 workshop in Santarém, Pará, Brazil can be viewed below. Kisser's first solo album, "Hubris I & II", is scheduled for release in 2009 via Holland's Mascot Records. A two-disc set, the self-produced effort was recorded in part...

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GUNS N' ROSES: Inside The 'Chinese Democracy' Album Booklet

Spinner.com has posted 10 photos from inside the booklet for GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy". Check them out at this location (all pictures by George Chin). "Chinese Democracy" is now being streamed in its entirety on the GUNS N' ROSES official MySpace page. The stream wil...

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ROB ZOMBIE Shoots Down 'Weird Rumor' About WHITE ZOMBIE Box Set

WHITE ZOMBIE's 4-CD/1-DVD box set, "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie", will release its long-awaited release on November 25 via (Geffen/UMe). The CDs bring together for the first time all 64 original studio recordings released by the band led by Rob Zombie during its 1985-1996 career. The DVD offers nine mu...

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GODSIZED To Release 'Brothers In Arms' EP

London, U.K.-based hard rock band GODSIZED will release new five-song EP, entitled "Brothers in Arms", on December 19 via the group's official web site. The CD was produced by former KILL II THIS guitarist Mark Mynett and is currently being mastered in Los Angeles by Brian Gardner (LAMB OF GOD, ALTE...

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ARCH ENEMY: New Three-Minute 'Tyrants Of The Rising Sun' Trailer Available

A new three-minute trailer for "Tyrants Of The Rising Sun: Live In Japan", the forthcoming DVD+CD set from Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY, can be viewed below. An e-card for the set, which streets on November 24 in Europe and November 25 in North America, is available at this location....

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SEPULTURA Guitarist Explains New Album Concept

Brazil's SEPULTURA is a prime example of an intelligent thrash metal act whose powerful compositions continue to tackle exciting and ingenious subjects. 1996 saw the band devote its landmark release "Roots" to the fate of the Xavante Indians on the border of Brazil and Bolivia; in spring 2006 the mu...