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MACHINE HEAD Guitarist To Guest On AC/DZ Album

MACHINE HEAD/ex-VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel has been added to the list of musicians who will lay down guest solos on the forthcoming debut album from AC/DZ, the San Francisco Bay Area-based AC/DC tribute band formed by legendary thrash singer Steve "Zetro" Souza (TENET, DUBLIN DEATH PATROL, EXOD...

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ONSLAUGHT Allied Forces In Afghanistan

Supporters can often be found in the strangest of places but an e-mail to drummer Steve Grice of U.K. thrashers ONSLAUGHT this week wishing the band luck and enclosing the photograph below certainly rated amongst the more bizarre fan mail the band had ever received. From Lieutenant Huw Jones of 176...

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LIVING LOUD Working On New Material

LIVING LOUD , which features legendary bassist Bob Daisley — of OZZY OSBOURNE, URIAH HEEP, GARY MOORE, BLACK SABBATH and RAINBOW fame — alongside Australian superstar Jimmy Barnes, the DEEP PURPLE duo of guitarist Steve Morse and keyboard player Don Airey plus URIAH HEEP drummer Lee Kerslake, is wor...

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SLASH Honored At SUNSET STRIP MUSIC FESTIVAL; Photos, Video Footage Available

The Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) kicked off Thursday, August 26 with a special tribute to the 2010 SSMF festival honoree Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) at the House Of Blues. MÖTLEY CRÜE's Nikki Sixx, MOTÖRHEAD's Lemmy Kilmister and ALICE IN CHAINS' Jerry Cantrell spoke at the event...

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L.A. GUNS In Montreal: Interview, Performance Footage Available

HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with L.A. GUNS frontman Jizzy Pearl when the band played at Petit Cafe Campus on August 3, 2010 with John Corabi and FASTER PUSSYCAT. Watch the chat below. Also available is footage of the L.A. GUNS performance. The Tracii Guns-led version of L.A. GUNS recently in...

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LILLIAN AXE Interviewed By ROCK EDITION (Video)

Rock Edition recently conducted an interview with Louisiana rockers LILLIAN AXE. You can now watch the chat below. Former METAL CHURCH vocalist Ronny Munroe joined LILLIAN AXE in July as a full-time member, replacing departing singer Derrick LeFevre. LILLIAN AXE's tenth album, "Deep Red Shadows", wa...

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ARCHITECTS: New Single To Premiere On BBC RADIO 1's 'Rock Show'

"Day In Day Out", the new single from the British quintet ARCHITECTS, wil be premiered on next Monday night's (August 30) edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show With Daniel P Carter" between 12 midnight GMT (7:00 p.m. EST) and 2:00 a.m. GMT (9:00 p.m. EST). The program will also be available for seven...

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Former METAL CHURCH Bassist Arrested For Allegedly Running Pot-Growing Operation

According to The News Tribune, Stephen Wesley Ungerbuehler — who was known as Steve Unger (MySpace page) when he played bass for METAL CHURCH from 2004 to 2009 — was arrested Monday (August 23) for allegedly leading a three-county marijuana-growing operation in the Washington state. He was charged W...

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EXPERIENCE HENDRIX Tour Returns For Second 2010 Run

For the first time in its history, Experience Hendrix, the concert tour that has wowed audiences revisiting the music and inspiration of Jimi Hendrix featuring an all-star lineup of music greats will be re-launched within a single calendar year. The Experience Hendrix tour crisscrossed the country t...

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IRON MAIDEN's 'The Final Frontier' Tops Charts In 21 Countries

EMI Records is proud of its 30-year, career-long involvement with IRON MAIDEN and the astonishing first-week global chart success of the band's fifteenth studio album, "The Final Frontier", which was released on EMI Records worldwide on August 16 (excluding USA, released by UMe on August 17). IRON M...

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MISERY INDEX To Team Up With GRAVE For European Tour

Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX and Sweden's GRAVE will team up for a four-week European co-headlining tour starting on November 1 in the Netherlands. Support on the trek will come from ARSIS, THE LAST FELONY and THE ROTTED. These European dates immediately follow MISERY INDEX's North American to...

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SEX PISTOLS Interviewed At JOHNNY RAMONE Tribute Event

SEX PISTOLS guitarist Steve Jones was interviewed by Eric Blair of "The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show" at the sixth annual Johnny Ramone tribute on July 25, 2010 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Watch the chat below. The annual Johnny Ramone tribute is attended by thousa...

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TONY MACALPINE, VIRGIL DONATI, MARK BOALS Join Forces In SEVEN THE HARDWAY

SEVEN THE HARDWAY, the new Southern California-based progressive rock/metal band featuring guitar virtuoso Tony MacAlpine (STEVE VAI, PLANET X, CAB),legendary drummer Virgil Donati (PLANET X, STEVE VAI, SOUL SIRKUS),renowned vocalist Mark Boals (ULI JON ROTH, ROYAL HUNT, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN),bass pl...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN Is A Japanese Comic-Strip Character

The front page of the current issue of Tokyo Sports, Japan's top nationwide sports newspaper, features a half-page photo as well as the transcript of a monumental conversation between former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman and legendary comic-strip artist Tenho Iwatani. Tenho Iwatani's daily comic...

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DEEP PURPLE, FOREIGNER, GOTTHARD, NAZARETH Members To Take Part In 'Rock Meets Classic'

Ian Gillan (DEEP PURPLE),Lou Gramm (FOREIGNER),Steve Lee (GOTTHARD) and Dan McCafferty (NAZARETH) will take part in the 2011 edition of the "Rock Meets Classic" tour. They will be supported by a band, directed by Mat Sinner (PRIMAL FEAR, SINNER) and including American singer-songwriter Amanda Some...